Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-11-18
Thir:y-six Out of Forty-two.

Few people have better opportunity
to observe the results of prohibition in
all its aspects than travelling statesmen.
Quite irrespective of their personal
habits or predictions with regard to
drinking, they frequently give the
strongest testimony to the effect that
the place to sell the most and the best
goods is saloonless territory. Recently
a passenger on Pullman sleeper from
ST. Louis to Chicago overheard COM
pany OF drummers discussing the liquor
question, and as he listened enc began
telling of straw vote that had been
taken few days before when a COM
pany of forty-two Of the fraternity
happened to be together. The subject
under discussion was whether or not
they would, if given the opportunity
TO vote the saloons out of the city of
Chicago. Of the forty two, thirty-six,
largely for economic reasons, declared
they would cast their ballots to outlaw
the places for the sale of liquor in the
windy city.-Union Signal.
''4af Million People Have Never Seen
a Saloon"
Language can hardly express the
benefit prohibition has been to Kansas
1t has made new civilization here.
To tell the simple facts about it is to
tax belief and challenge ones CREDIBLE
ity abroad. One must travel and see
the contrast, as | have done eX tensive-
! ly for four or five years, to really
appreciate the difference between
saloonless Kansas and states where
saloons flourish. I believe it is not
eXtraVagant to say that we have half
a million of young people who have
grown up here and have never seen a
saloon Or saloon sign. My wife and
I have reared four children to manhood
and Womanhood and they had to go out
OF the state to see saloon or a saloon
sign. And the financial benefits paraI-
lei the moral benefits. How could it
be otherwise? When a state quits
patronizing the saloon and turns its
attention to productive instead of
destructive things and follows that
policy for third of century. great
good must inevitably result to every
/ Legitimate interest. To me it is amaz-
ing that business men everywhere
cannot see that the saloon is the
enemy of every legitimate business,
and that OF every five dollars that go
into the till of the saIoon-keeper four
at least are kept out of their own.
| Not only that, but the saloon enor-
mously decreases the earning power of
its patrons and thus again robs the
legitimate merchant of patronage he
would otherwise get. In Kansas we
have tried prohibition for a third of g
century, and it has been great moral
educational and financial success
such success that there is hardly {
politician, of any political persuasion.
who now opposes the prohibitory
! policy. We have whipped the politi
clans as we'll as the saloonkeepers anc
the former was a bigger job than the
latter. Our assessed valuation of prop
erty exceeds the per capita valuation
of any other state. One-third of ou1
counties are without prisoners in thei1
jails and without paupers in their poor
houses. More than one-half of our 10E
counties have no prisoners in the peni
tertiary. Eighty seven counties have
no insane. In dozens Of counties there
have been no murder trials inw ter
years. Only three states exceed Kan
sas in total value of assessed property
| New York. Pennsylvania and Massachu
sets More high school graduates gt
to higher institutions of learning
relative to population. in Kansas thar
in any other state. EX-Gov. E. w
Hoch of Kansas.
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