The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-04
SORRTFTY PAYS IN KANSAS
Interview With Governor Capper in the Kansas City
Weekly Star.

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the residents of our state beneficial,
right and resulting in great good to
! the people and to the state. The men
and women of Kansas certainly know
1 what is happening around them better
/ than the partisans of the liquor traf-
| ffc which is not allowed to cross the
| state line of Kansas"
| Has Better Manners and Better Morals
Chief Justice w. A. Johnston of the
| Kansas supreme court, while not will
| ing to be interviewed on the subject,
recently made this statement in con-
versation with friend:
kansas certainly has had better
morals and better manners since we
kicked the Wholesale Liquor Dealers
association out of the state"
Sends Children to Sunday School.
Justice John Marshall of the SUI
preme court: "The brewers make the
strange complaint that Kansas is not
a church state. Church statistics are
not available, but what will they say
to this fact which is capable of exact
figures: J H. Engle. secretary Of the
Kansas State Sunday School associa-
ton. declares that Kansas has the
largest Sunday school attendance of
anv state in the union, according to
population.
"FIfty-two percent of the population
of the state, in the last census, are
native born Kansans. OF the prison
ers sent to the state prison last year
less than 25 percent were native born.
The illiteracy of Kansas is % per-
cent and it is Oh the decrease. Ten
years ago 1t was 20.
"The greatest argument in favor OF
prohibition is that Kansas has had it
for thirty years and still has it. This
legislature now in session has passed
two measures that will make law vio-.
lation more improbable than ever"
Ten to One for Prohibition.
James A. Troutman, member of the
Kansas state senate: "In thirty years
prohibition in Kansas has resulted In
a greater diffusion of general educa-
ton and a smaller percentage of 1llit-
eracy and crime than any other organ
lied community on the globe. At the
last election the republican, demo
cratic and progressive candidates for
forms and advocated prohibition with
out evasion or apology. The candidate
who represented the anti-prohib1tion
sentiment polled only one-tenth of the
combined vote given the other three
candidates-one vote in ten against
prohibition
Decreases Prison Population.
Warden J. D. Botkin of the state
prison at Lansing: 1--WE have small
err number of prisoners in the state
prison now than. at any time in the
last ten years. The prison population
is steadily declining On March 1,
1910. we had S62 prisoners. On March
1. 1915. we had 768. and twenty-six
Of this number are federal prisoners.
Forty percent Of this number We're
not residents of Kansas. but were
.foaters' who were captured for crime
within the state.
Eighty percent of the number
brought to the prison give liquor as
the cause of their downfall.
Prohibition Decreases Taxes.
Not a higher percentage OF pris-
oners. think. are sent to the Kansas
nrison for homicide, as charged by
the liquor dealers. The figures show
that there is constantly decreasing
percentage. however, for that crime IN
the state. In 19o5-1906 we received
ninety-four for homicide; In 19O6-S we
received .sixty-six for the same crime;
eishty-eight in 19O9-10; fifty-three in
1911-l2. forty-seven in 1914.
Associate Justice John Dawson. for
mer attorney general of Kansas:
THAT prohibition is best for the
cities is shown in the fact that the
Kansas cities that have rece1vd no
revenue whatever from vice have
lower tax rate than the cities which
stuck to the license-fning system to
tho last ditch. Conditions in lIeaVen-
worth at the close of many years OF
illicit revenues from fines is a most
striking example in support OF TINS
proposition. Leavenworth has no city
buildings of any kind. It's many years
Of fines and saloon domination are
inst now being overcome. The city
of Ieavenworth during th., last three
or four years, deprived of its revenue
from crime. has made its most re-
markable commercial growth