Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-03-30
Peoples Column
KANSAS AND PROHIBITION.

hANtAD AND lhUHlDlIAONs
To the Editor Wilmington JOURNAL,
Wilmington, Delaware.
Sir-In your issue of March IL you
give space to a resolution adopted by
the Senate and by the House of the
State of Kansas declaring that that
State has less crime, has less poverty
and exoels In many directions as a
result of Prohibition Legislation. IL
is also said further that none of Kan
sas' school children have ever seen
saloon" and also that they are "un-
acquainted with the appearance of a
saloonkeeper." The charge is further
made that false reports about Kan
sas have been circulated by the liquor
interests of the country.
Inasmuch as you have given public
ity to these resolutions, / would re-
quest that you also call attention to
| the fact that the executive committee
of the National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers Association Of America. at its
session in this city recently, adopt
I ed resolutions taking cognizance of
this declaration by the Kansas Legis-
lature, and declared that while no
controversy in the papers of the coun-
try was desired, all charges about
Kansas made by this organization, or
its employees, were based upon the
United States census reports, the re-
port of the comptroller of the curren-
cy and report Of the State Of KAN
sas itself
If any of your readers who has faith
in the declaration OF the Kansas Leg
islature will take the trouble to 60 to
the nearest public library and call for
these official documents, he will find
that notwithstanding this legislative
! declaration about the merits of Kan
sas
Kansas had higher rate of prison.
ers confined for grave or lesser homi-
eide in 1910 than had "a States then
in the license column;
Kansas had higher rate Of prison
ers for all Offenses in 1910 than had
8 States then license:
Kansas had a greater number of
paupers in almshouses in 1910 (per
100000 of population than did 10
license States;
Kansas had higher average annual
divorce rate in the last period tabulat-
ed by Uncle Sam than had 81 license
States;
Kansas had a higher rate of divorce
TO wives on account OF drunkenness
than had Is license States, and ranked
even with two others;
Kansas had a lower rate of church
membership in 1906 than had Al States
then license (Kansas per cent OF
population enrolled as church mem
bers was 2S.4, while Delaware's was
1861 Kansas had more insane in
hospitals (per 100000 population) in
1910 than did IL States than license;
Kansas for several years has not
had room in her State hospitals
for insane and feeble-minded and has
had TO keep some Of THEM in the
counties. (The recently-issued report
Of the State Board of Control con-
tains frequent reports like this: John
Smith turned out of --- hospital TO
make room for Jim JonesO;
Kansas had in 1910 more juvenile
delinquents per 100000 population
than had 10 States then license;
Kansas, by the 1913 report of the
United States comptroller of the cur
rency had less savings depositors per
100000 of population than did 80
States then III the license column:
I hducdn mas lOnA iofoto DbDQldliOn
since the 1910 federal census accord
ing to a Kansas State census, but Kan
sas is more than 1888 shy in the way
of population, the 1914 total being 49,
791 less than the federal census bu-
reau figures il should have been, had
population increased since 1910 at the
[ same rate it-did from 1900 TO 1910.
As to the children in Kansas who
have never seen a saloon, let me in
troduce this special to the st. Joseph
/ MOI Gazette issue OF Feb. :, 1915.
which throws some light on that sub
/ Jet:
scARoUsAL IN Z. 5.
"FRATS IN TOPEKA
/ "Drunken Revels Carried on Behind
Locked Doors, Says Police
Woman.
Especial To The Gazette.l
Topeka, kas.. February 6.-Sensa-
tional charges of drunkenness and
carousal Of students in the Topeka
High School az alleged frats behind
closed doors are made by Policewo-
man Eva Corning i'm a report TO Mayor
r. l.. COfran
The policeWcman insists that on
numerous occasions bows have gone 70