The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-06-22
SIGNIFICANT FIGURES.

! The oak does not mature in a season,
but year by year sends it's roots
deeper, taking firmer hold upon the
soil, while its trunk increases in girth
and it's branches go higher and spread
farther.
So are the results of prohibition.
They are not immediate, nor are they
obtained by spasmodic enforcement al
ternated with laxity. Steady pressure
kept up through years obtains results
worth while.
Such enforcement as Governor
Manning is giving, especially if the
dispensaries be wiped out, means real
results, but it must be kept up by his
successors.
All political parties in Kansas IA
vor enforcement of that States pro-
hibition laws and the pressure against
violation thereof has been kept up year
after year. The results are set forth
in letter from the governor of Kan
sas to E. B. Hook of Augusta, and
published in The Chronicle of that city
as follows, all statements being for
1914:
we had % counties in Kansas tat
did not have a person in jail during
1914.
"Forty-eigat counties did not send
prisoner to the State prison.
Twenty counties did not have a
prisoner in the penitentiary.
"seventy-eight counties did not send
an insane person to any one of our
insane institutions.
Twelve counties have not called a
jury in ten years to try a criminal
case.
1--WE recently had 740 men in the
penitentiary. Forty per cent. of this
number were not residents of Kansas,
merely foaters.
"The bank deposits have increased
from s10O,0O0OoO to practically $780,
100000 in the last ten years.
"Our death rate is 1912 to the Uhous-
and.
"only per cent. of our insane are
alcoholic insane.
eve have only 2 per cent. illiteracy.
'fWe have $3,OOO,OO0,OO0 worth of
property on the tax roll, all Of these
assessed at IS per cent Of the actual
cash value of the property.
"Our population is 100000.
eve have $159,OOO bonded indebt-
edness. This is due January l, 1916,
and over half of it is collected in the
state treasury to meet this obliga-
ton.
I'VE Tad but IA children in Kan
sas who were indigents and taken care
of in the poor farms.
eve have only A insane in the
State taat are not taken care of by
the State.
"Our State tax rate is IL mills.
eve have 500 inmates in our feeble
minded institution at Winfield.
zone hundred and forty-fve feeble
minded in our poor farms.
"The total paupers, including the
feeble-minded in the poor houses and
the fourteen children in the poor
houses are less than 900.
"Thirty-two counties did not have an
inmate in their poorhouses last year.
"TYenty-nine counties do not have
poor farms
Can South Carolina make such a
showing? South Carolina is naturally
richer State tnan Kansas, with a bet
ter climate and more favorable agri-
cultural conditions. Why the differ
ence?; Is not the obvious answer, tie
Kansas prohibition law and its rigid
enforcement ?-Greenville Piedmont.
We have taken the above from the
Piedmont with the introduction and
comment of that paper. We did not
see the article or letter in the Angus
ia Chronicle to Mr.. E. B. Hook. If
the facts and figures given by the gov
ernor of Kansas are correct, and we
have no right to doubt the correct
ness Of them, this is the strongest
argument in favor of prohibition that
We have ever seen or read. Provided,
of course, that the conditions are due
and traceable to the prohibition-not
of the legal sale-but to the use and
sale and manufacture of the stuff.
Were these results brought about