The Parker post., 1914-04-25
STATE WIDE
PROHIBITION
CORRESPONDENT CALLS ATTEN
TION TO IDEAL CONDITIONS EX
ISTING IN KANSAS AS Result
OF PROHIBITION.
0By G.. F. RINEHART.) }

OBy G. F. RlNEHARTD
Kansas is the most conspicuous
success of all the states that have
adopted prohibitory amendments be
cause she not only has a good law
but she enforces it. Arizona has an
opportunity this fall to enact as good
law or better and she has the citi-
Zenship that is civilized enough to
! enforce it. She can begin just where
! Kansas is now in the scale of law
enforcement. She has already shown
in her anti-gambling law that she
has the moral fiber to enforce her
legal enactments. Arizona, the young
est state in the union, is at the
same time the most progressive, and
has a type Of citizenship not ex-
celled anywhere in the world.
| The temperance advocate need
have no hesitation in basing his ar
gument on Kansas. The results
there are so marked, so pronounced,
so magnificent that Kansas is not
only proud of herself, but the whole
| country envies her splendid condi-
ton due to her prohibition law. Here
are a few of her many accomplish
ments.
There is not a brewer nor saloon
| ~, of
| liquor, even in medicine, is fast dis
appearing No political party dares
to serve wine at it's banquets. There
are 1856 newspapers in the state and
not one of them prints a liquor ad-
yertisement. Kansas has the largest
per capita wealth OF any state in
the union, about $500 more than
the average over the United States.
There is an average of 1892 on de-
tposit for every man, woman and
child in the state More people own
child in the state. More people own
their own homes than in any other
state. Half of her county jails are
empty. She has but one convicted
prisoner for each 1000 popuation, and
rs per cent of these are in jail for
violation of the liquor law. In more
than half of her counties there is
not an idiot, and only eighteen Of
her 1O5 counties furnish insane to
her asylums. Only nine counties of
the 1O5 have inebriates. Kansas has
an enrolment of over 5000 in her
state university and agricultural col
lege, while Missouri, with open sa-
looms and more than twice her popu-
lation, has less than $500 enrolled
in the same schools in that state.
While the average annual con-
sumption of liquor in the United
States amounts to about $50 per cap
ita, in Kansas it amounts to less
than $1.25 per capita per year. This
saving educates all the boys and
girls in the state, buys their text
books and a dress for the girls, and
suit of clothes for the boys. Ger
tainly this is a remarkable record
when we consider that Kansas has
suffered from drouth last year and
is yet a comparatively new state.
Why should anyone in Arizona fear
to follow in the footsteps of Kansas?
Eighty per cent of her population
believes implicitly in prohibition in
the face of the fact that on three
sides of her are license states, brew
cries and saloons.
To let the saloon live anywhere, on
any condition, at any price, is wrong
in morals and financially disastrous.
The structure of vice and crime, of
murder, insanity, pauperism and ma
tional degeneracy that is built upon
the liquor traffic is enough to con-
denim it forever. The great scheme
of conservation that has been under
taken by the nation with the approx
al of nearly all our people is a delu-
sion and a snare if it does not take
into account first of all the cOnserva-
tion Of the human race. If it is
right for the United States govern
ment to attach so much Importance
to the sale Of liquor to it's Indian
wards as to enforce the severest pen
alties, then why is it not at least as
important to protect it's white citi-
zens from the ruin that liquor brings
to them?
If prohibitory laws are to afford
they not invoked to save the white
man? Certainly the remedy in the
one case would prove EQUALLY eff