The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-10-03

that prohibits. His facts, interesting
ly told, carry conviction, and the fol-
lowing extracts will be found whole
some reading. Here in Cecil, after II
years of uninterrupted prohibition, we
can bear testimony to its benefits, and
the temperance forces are planning
for the campaign this fall, when the
question of license or no-license will
again be voted on, determined that the
majority for prohibitions snail be lar
ger than ever before.
"In 100 of the los counties, Kansas
is as dry as bone. The life of the
boot-legger is of few days and full of
trouble. He is as negligible as the
chicken thief or the man who FORCES
$500 check and has about the same
status as a professional criminal. He
has no standing in the profession. No
organization works for his release.
No lawyer unasked, comes to plead
his case. The path to the Jail and rock
pile is creased. Arrest means con-
viction.
"In three counties there are spora-
die commissions of the rum fiend that
seem to indicate vitality; but it is
only alcoholic reaction in the dead
muscles. These were the last coun-
ties to surrender their inalienable
right to whisky. In the small mining
towns in the two counties of Crawford
and Cherokee some liquor is sold, but
in the larger towns even these coun-
ties enforce the law. No vestige IF
property right remains in the Kansas
liquor traffic. The brewery has been
crumbling ruin for twenty years.
The wholesale liquor house has van
ished. The store owner who rented to
the saloon long since found another
tenant. The financial disease of the
saloons with its waste and folly and
crime has been cured in Kansas and
the body of the state knows its pangs
and tortures no more.
kansas consumes per capita per
annum S1.25 worth OF liquor for all
purposes as against the average
American consumption of liquor of
S2100 a head.
kansas has fewer murderers, few
er homicides, and fewer accidental
deaths than any other State, and this
is one of the lowest rates in the world
40 for each 100000 annually.
Remember there are 105 counties
in Kansas, forty-eight of which did
not send prisoner to the penitentiary
last year, and 81 counties did not send
an insane person to the asylum. In
IA counties no jury has been called in
ten years to try criminal case. Fifty
eight counties have empty poor houses
and the second lowest death rate in
America is the Kansas death rate of
seven and one-half a thousand.
Moreover the bank deposits in
Kansas have increased in ten years
from S100,000,000 to 100000. and
it should be remembered that these
bank deposits are in the hands of the
MANY and not of the few.
kansas is among the first six of
the states with low percentage Of
illiteracy. In population of a mil
lion and three-quarters, we have over
5000 students in or state educational
institutions of higher learning above
high school grade, and in these higher
institutions and other col
leges. Kansas has more students in
college according to population than
any other state in the nation.
"Thus, we find the state having the
largest number of students in colleges
according to population. having the
largest assessed valuation, having
next to the lowest death rate and hav-
ing the smallest state debt in proper
ton to its population, is the state in
which the smallest average expendi.
ture is made for liyuor. We have
saved about $4,000 a head from our
liquor bill to spend on things worth
while"