The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-08-26


dented heat and drought in the
West, the governor of Kansas
issued a public statement say
ing he hoped no one would waste
pity on the people of his Stale.
With over 5000, 600, 900 on
deposit in our State and nation
al banks, we could weather a
worse storm than this without
hardship This money, equal
ly divided among the men,
women, children, and babies of
Kansas, would give each Of
them Sis in cash. not to men
ton the tidy sum of $16S4 each
is credited with as his or her
share of the States assessed
wealth. Kansas last year pro-
duced 1925, 100000 worth of
farm products.
In eighty seven Of her one
hundred and five counties there
are no insane. In tiftyfOur Of
this number there are no feeble
minded. Ninety-siX counties
have no inebriates, and in the
other nine they're as scarce as
hens teeth. Thirty eight coun-
ty poorhouses are as empty as
a last years locust shell, and
most Of these have been SO for
the past decade.
N The pauper population Of the
Stapr falls u little short Of 600.
Thati> one pauper for each 5000
of the kind making a living,
and a good one-the kind that
now own 1855, 100000 worth of
live stock and in the last twelve
months have added more than
S45, ,O0O,0OO to their taxable
personal property. Her own
people this year hold more
than SGT 900 900 in this form OF
wealth, an increase Of over SOC
per cent in five years.
! At one time not long ago the
iails in fifty-three counties We're
empty and siXty-five counties
We're on the roll as having 10
prisoners serving sentences in
Cne p0nltGntlarY
Instead Of being hampered bv
a large mass Of illiterates-th thir-
/ tv years ago 40 per cent of her
population came under this head
= her present ratio of 2 per cent
is next to the lowest in the land
and two-thirds lower than Mas
sachussetts. including Boston.
1t is the combination Of
sense and solid muscle that has
kept her growing stronger and
richer through extremes Of eli
mate which soon would deci-
mate a less fit lot.
These people have made good |
in zone once declared to be un-
questionably nnproductive. In
the last twenty wears they We
made this unprOductivc' soil
WELD corn and wheat worth
50, ,5l7, 902. $40.
so something would seem to
be the matter with Kansas.
Something the matter with |
he". That something. we be- |
lieve. can be boiled down into
these fourteen words constitute
ing an amendment made TO
her constitution in 1881:
The manufacture and sale of
intoXicatinu liquor shall be for.
ever prohibited in this State
1t is this fundamental provi-
sion. fought and cvaded in some
localities as it was for a quarter
century, and strictly eniored in
all parts Of the State only with
in the last five years. that has
helped Kansas to haunt a two
hundred million bank account
in the face of a partial crop fail
ure; that relieves her of spend. !
ing much time. strength. and !
money on paupers, criminals, !
insane and fccblc-mine1; that
gives her people the best of /
chances for living and the few
est excuses for dying
For even while the liquor in
terests succeeded in cyading the
law in many instances and
boastcd that prohibition was a
failure in Kansas, government
statistics showed that the annu-
al consumption Of Intoxicating
liquors in that State was $l.4S
per capita, while in the neigh
boring state Of Missouri, where