The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-07
KANSAS AND PROHIBITION
Ninety Per Cent of the People Favor
Present Law, Gov. Capuer Saws


In the Outlook of January 10 Artb,,
Capper, governor of Kansas. renlias -
derogatory statements reoarding Ro,N
Sas, which are being circulated Inv Tho
lIquor interests and foes of prohibition
Inc Following is a part of Governor
Capper s article:
Inc success of prohibition in Kansas
mas been so complete and consnicuons
mat the organized liquor interests Of
the country seem to feel II ahsolutalv
necessary TO befoul the reputation nj
the State.
presume that it will be conceded
that the people of Kansas are of aver.
age intelligence, that thew are onits
capable of judging for themselves tho
efteet of State policy, and that +bev
mold the welfare or their state in
sufficient esteem to reject policies that
are harmful. If prohibition is not
success, veritable blessing to the
business interests and official life Of
the State, why 10 90 per cent of i.e
leople favor it?
The governor of Kansas saws probi
bltlon is a great success.
Every State Official who has spoken
out says prohibition succeeds.
More than 700 editors and news.
ton, unanimously indorsed prohibition
Every political party in Kansas
favors the prohibition law.
No minister has ever opened his
mouth in favor of return to license;
neither has any school teacher.
The president of Kansas retailers
says prohibition pays.
The president of the State Bankers
association believes that prohibition is
a tremendous asset to Kansas
One hundred and sixty bankers
have fled their testimony in favor OF
the law with the Temperance society
of the Methodist Episcopal church, and
only six could be found in all the state
who doubted the wisdom of this legis
lation.
The president of the Kansas Medi
cal society believes in prohibition
The President of the Commercial
clubs of Kansas has said that prohibi-
ton has added real value to every
acre of Kansas land.
The supreme court has testified in
the following strong language to the
benefits of the prohibitory law:
The prohibitory law is we'll en-
forced throughout the state. 1t is as
generally well enforced as any other
criminal law. The enforcement of the
law distinctly promotes social welfare
and reduces to q minimum economic
waste consequent upon the liquor traf
tie and allied evils. The saloon keep
er and his comrades have been ex-
Guided from effective participation in
the politics Of the state
And to completely settle the CUES
ton for all time, the legislature of
Kansas, not by majority, but unani-
mously passed a concurrent resolution
at the last session from which / quote
the following:
Whereas, the liquor interests
throughout the country, and those
allied with them in their nefarious
business, are publishing abroad, in form
OF paid advertisements in the news.
papers, certain false and defamatory
statements to the effect that prohibi
ton in Kansas has caused increase in
crime, death rate, homicide, suicides.
divorces, and juvenile delinquents:
Resolved, that we, as representatives
of the people of Kansas, hereby de
clare our allegiance to the cause of
temperance, sobriety and right living
as exemplifed by the ultimate result
of constitutional prohibition, and its
enforcement in our midst, and that we
are opposed to any return to the domi-
nation of Intoxicating liquors, and that
no proposition looking to a re-submis-
sion of the prohibitory amendment
and that no law which has for its OBJ
Jeet the re-establishment of places for
the sale of liquor anywhere i'll Kansas,
will be given serious consideration.
either by the Legislature or by its
committees.