The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-03-10
KILLING KANSAS
The Destruction of Her Enterprises
And the Lamentations of Her Peo-
ple Beefsteak Instead of Brandy.

Die Beefsteak Instead of Brandy.
The distillers' association is sending
but a new argument against prohibit
kion. 1t says that prohibition ruined
The grape industry in Kansas" 1t
claims that in the eighties this indus
try was over two hundred thousand
dollars per year and it is estimated as
hess than twenty-five thousand dollars
now.
The grape industry wasn't the oniS
industry ruined by prohibition.
There was the mint industry. Pro-
i hibition killed the mint julep, hence
there was no more demand for mint
except in a few homes where they
made mint sauce for spring lamb
dressing.
Then there was the blow to the egg
Industry. Men no longer use eggs for
eesnog, since the eggnog Departed
When prohibition came the hens mad
been doing their best in their free way
to keep the egg industry alive and you
could get eggs for eight cents Dozen
Since prohibition hit the egg industry
YOU have to pay two cents apiece lot
eggs. Prohibition took the life out OF
the hens. They do not seem to have
anything to cackle about since the sa-
loon left us.
man. over in the eastern part OF
the state used to make roulette wheels
He was a fine cabinet maker and the
wheels he turned out for roulette and
other games of chance were mounted
with ivory and mother of pearl. Pro-
hihition killed that industry also.
In fact prohibition has killed about
every industry in Kansas except the
raising of wheat and corn and alfalfa
and fruit and livestock; potatoes and
meas and cabbages and garden sass;
chickens and ducks and geese, and
horses and mules.
It busted up many of our most prom
inent gamblers, paralyzed the beer
gardens and absolutely killed the bar
tenders union.
Prohibition has left very little OF
Kansas except the growing crops In
her fields, the stock in her stock pens,
the dreary round of work, work, work.
In her factories and stores and other
industries. It has left us little to do In
hours of leisure except just to fall in
love, to get married, send our chill
dren to school. go abroad occasionally,
join the church when we feel like 1t,
run into each other with expensive
automobiles and store our money
away in dusty bank vaults, instead OF
giving 1t to cheerful gentlemen with
white aprons who used to stand In
front of cut glass bars and say infre-
uuently, This one is on the house,
Where once the thriving business of
the saloon sent the clamorous odor or
its prosperity out upon the sidewalk
and clear across the street, we find
nothing but shoe stores, clothing
stores, dry goods stores, meat markets
grocery stores, and other sordid &C
tivities of an unhappy people.
Where once you saw long lines OF
men on Saturday night going joyfully
irto rooms, where the doors always
swung in, never out. where there was
sawdust on the floor and a merry
I crowd standing around the mahogany
bar, where they were treating all a.
round and a man could get his salary
check cashed and spend it right there
en- his boon companions, and then go
enthusiastically home and break up
the furniture and give his wife black
eye; instead of all those manifesto
items of carefree people which char
acterized the saloon day we now have
nothing but gloom. We see men going
quietly into butcher shop or grocery
store or department store to get their
weekly salary checks cashed and then
going moodily home with shoes for the
children and beefsteak for supper and
the fixings for heavy Sunday dinner
the next day, and you know instinc-
lively that there will be no hilarity in
that home that night and nothing to
cheer the lives of these people except
such sober activities as mother may
Introduce into the family circle.
Tl>o,o Sc potbinp in that family to