The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1915-06-25
An Interesting Paper.

In. .. BY Mrs. w. NJ. Metzler. form
erly Miss Doy Lowry
Mrs. MetEler Was Tor numheI
|ot years q resident Of Kansas, there.
fore making the article that much
more interesting, becanae OF Il
coming from one who has been up.
on the grounds, The paper as read
u as iollowa;
Kansas, after SO years oi pro.
|hibition, has demonstrated 10 its
entire satisfaction. and has proven
10 the world. that prohibition does
prohibit. Kansas was experiment.
AL ground; we had no other State TO
point the way. or TO guide US 10
our fight. Prohibition prohibits in
Kansas; we have penalties and we
invoke them. The second time a
man IL convicted OF selling hQuor,
he 10 sentenced 10 tss penilennary.
and strange ss IL may seem, II has
q most depressing effect upon the
chronic boot-leegss, yea hasa but
to come to nansas to see the cheer
ING effect of prohibition. No sa.
looms. but happy homes and con.
tented people; no sweat shops nor
child labor: but fine schools, church.
es and good roads. practically no
state Indebtedness. and visible
increase Of state wealth every year
that runs into the millions. We
boast Of no millionaires. though we
have billions Of wealth, but a clean
ly earned wealth more equally dis
uibuted than the wealth OF any
other state. Our roads are built
by a general tax upon al! the prop
critics OF the counties, and in nd.
dition to this general tax. most OF
our counties impos. an additional
special road tax for the improvement
u designated county highways.
while Missouri imposes a dram
shop tax for the betterment oil her
highways, and the contrast between
their roads and Kansas roads is ~
great ne the difference between their
method OF raising a good roads
tund and the method employed by
Kansas for the same purpose What
has 80 years Of prohibition done for
us in Kansas? In book. making
something. The geography Of years
ago pictured Kansas a. the great
American desert. Hardly desert
now, with "a millions Of acres in
cultivation. Very little indulgence
in Kansas. with an average Of 1882
90 deposit in our banks Tor every
person in the state. Our agricul.
turists use the best for their own
table. and a plentiful supply at
that, but after using all the butter,
eggs and chickens they needed, they
only sold % million dollars worth
Of bu ter, eggs and poultry last year.
The men who own 6 million head
OF live stock. think hane the less
Of their carriage teams and saddle
horses because they now own 45
thousand automobiles.
The death rate in Kansas is only
: to every 1000 inhabitants. and
we feel assured the abstinence from
liquor gives that low rate, while
the abstinence contributes 10 about
35 thousand healthy. newly-born
Kansans every IL months.
In Cuba. and the invasion OF
Santiago. by the American Army,
when the final charge was ordered.
Colonel Roosevelt placed the Kan.
sas boys in the front, on the ground
that they were physically stronger.
snd more athletic than the other
soldiers. Don't you think pro-
hibilion in Kansas had something
to do with this when over in the
Philippines, in the long marches
for the capture Of Aguinaldo. the
accounts ) showed that no other
troops could endure the enforced
marches and fatiguins trips over
swamps and mountains like the
Kansas boys7 Company after com.
pany dropped out until only the
Kansas boys had the honor OF cap
turing Aguinaldo. Don't you think
that 80 years OF prohibition In Kan
lid have something TO do with pro-
lucing the young manhood, physi-
cally capable Of enduring more
than the young manhood OF the
shiskey states?
am inclined TO think that pro
hibition had something to do IN
producing a situation. where IN
1907, Kaasas sent so million dol
lars 10 New York City, 70 stay thu
panic, while Missouri did not scnt
dollar.
Only $l.25 vas spent on an aver
are by each person Tor Intoxicating
llicuors during the year, while on
81 our sister states spends $2s- O