The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-04

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Kansas, there it stands; first II
wealth, first in health and first II edu
cation.
That IS the answer of Kansas to tbs
statement issued recently by the Ma
tionaI Wholesale Liquor Dealers as
sociation, that prohibition had brough
the state below the average license
state In morals, health and economic
standards
Kansas has more wealth per capita
more young men and women In col
Ieges and the university, in proportion
to population: more children in the
Sunday schools; a lower death rate;
a lower percentage of illiteracy: fifty
three counties without a jail prisoner
last year; forty-eight counties that die
not send a prisoner to state prison;
eighty-seyen that did not have an In.
sane patient last year.
All of this credited to thirty years
of prohibition.
Blasting Away at Kansas.
"The liquor interests of the country
are centering their attacks on Kan
sas," declared Arthur Capper, COVER.
nor of the state. to representative
of The Weekly Star.
THE country is being flooded with
literature containing ridiculous and
manufactured stories regarding the
failure of prohibition in Kansas. With
that monument to prohibition out OF
the way, they feel they would have
removed their greatest obstacle.
kansas people are stronger for
prohibition today than ever before,
nor is the reason for this approval far
TO seek.
.As a result of prohibition the an
.lual expenditure for liquor has been
reduced from s21 per capita, the aver
age in the United States, to SIPS in
Kansas.
.Illiteracy among Kansas people
has been reduced to 2 percent-the
lowest in the United States.
"Forty-eight Kansas counties in the
state did not send prisoner to the
and eighty-seven Kansas
counties did not send a patient to an
asylum last year.
Criminal Cases Decreasing.
More than a dozen counties have
not called jury in ten years to try
a criminal case.
"F'ifty-three counties were without
prisoners in their county jails all last
year; twenty-eight counties are with
out paurers in their alnshouses.
THE Kansas death rate is the low
,st in the world-seven and one-half
or each one thousand persons.
kansas sends more students to its
and university than any 9TH
or state in the union in proportion to
population.
Wealth Doubled in Ten Years.
kansas bank deposits have In
creased il ten years from 100 million
% 200 million dollars.
"The per capita wealth of Kansas
S greater than of any state In the
OVERWHELMINGLY $1,700 for every
nan. woman and child in the state
INSTEAD of having one of the high
asst percentages Of insanity, Kansas
mas about the lowest. Every insane
person in tn. state, practically, is In
,ne of the state hospitals. Only forty
four insane in all the state were re-
ported by the counties last year as
heinz outside the asylums. In many
states the iacurables are sent BACK
to their home counties for care. Many
states have more insane patients in
the county asylums than in the state
asylums. Kansas does not permit its
insane to be returned to the counties.
1t keeps them in the hospitals where
they can be cared for scientifically
Kansas Knows What's Happening.
But. anyway. who but wholesale
LIQUOR dealer would ever think to Of
fer as an argument that temperance
induced insanity, or that intemper-
ance made up for greater degree OF
sanity"
w. Y. Morgan. lieutenant governor
and editor of the Hutchinson News;
"The only people who criticize pro
hibition in Kansas All, those VINO i've
outside the state. know nothing ABOUT
the subject and are Interested IN the
sale or manufacture of liquor. In
every way possible, by constitutional
provision, by statuatory law. by reso.
luton, by every political party and
by the vote of the legislature repre-
senting the people Of Kansas, the
policy of prohibition is declared by