The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-04-02
SOBRIETY PAYS IN KANSAS
State Makes Answer to the Whole
sale Liquor Dealers

education.
That is the answer of Kansas to the
statement issued recently by the Ma
tional Wholesale Liquor Dealers AS
sociation, that prohibition had
brought 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
leges and the university, in proper
ton to population; more children in
the Sunday schools; lower death
rate; lower percentage of illiteracy,
fifty-three counties without a Jail
prisoner last year; forty-eight coun-
ties that did not send a prisoner to
state prison; eighty-seven that did
not have an insane patient last year.
All of this credited to thirty years
of prohibition.
Blasting Away at Kansas
"The liquor interests of the coun-
try are centering their attacks on
Kansas" declared Arthur Cappe.
governor of the state, to a represen-
tative 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.
Gas result of prohibition the an
nual expenditure for liquor has been
reduced S21 per capita, the average
in the United States. to $125 in Kan
saS.
"Illiteracy among Kansas people
has been reduced to 2 per cent-the
lowest in the United States.
Forty eight Kansas counties in the
state did not send a prisoner to the
penitentiary, and eighty-seven Kan
sas counties did not send patient
to an asylum last year.
Criminal Cases Decreasing
"More than dozen counties have
not called jury in ten years to try
a criminal case.
"Fifty-three counties were without
prisoners in their county jail all last
year; twenty-eight counties are with
out paupers in their almshouses.
"The Kansas death rate is the low
est in the world-seven and one-half
for each one thousand persons.
"Kansas sends more students to its
colleges and university than anv 9TH
er state in the Union in proportion
to population.
Wealth Doubled in Ten Years
"kansas bank deposits have in
creased in ten years from 100 million
to 200 million dollars.
"The per capita wealth of Kansas
is greater than any state in the I'm
ion-approximately $1.700 for every
man, woman and child in the state.
Instead of having one of the high
est percentages of insanity, Kansas
has about the lowest. Every insane
person in the state, practically, is in
one of the state hospitals. Only
forty-four insane in all the state were
reported by the counties last year as
being outside the asylums In many
states the incurables 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 a wholesale
liquor dealer would ever think to Of
fer as an argument that temperance
induced insanity, or that intemper-
ance made up for a greater degree
of sanity?"
w. Y. Morgan, lieutenant governor
and editor of the Hutchinson News:
"The only people who criticize pro-
hibition in Kansas are those who live
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 rcSo-
luton, be every political party and by
the vote of the Legislature represent
ing the people of Kansas, the policy
of prohibition is declared by the resi-
dents 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
what is happening around them bet
ter than the partisans of the liouor
traffic which is not allowed to cross
the state line Of Kansas"
Has Better Manners and Morals
Chief Justice w. A. Johnston of the
Kansas Supreme Court. while not
willing to be interviewed on the SUBJ
ject, recently made this statement in
conversation 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 Marchall of the SUI
preme court: "The brewers maxi the
strange complaint that Kansas is not