Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-07
GOVERNOR STUBS
\ OF KANSAS IS HERE
Makes Two Speeches for Drys
Sunday, Telling About Pro-
hibition in Kansas.
GIVES FIGURES OF STATE

Ex-Governor Stubs of Kansas, who
is campaigning in Kansas, came
to Omaha Sunday to make two
speeches, the first during the after
noon on the north side Of the postof-
flee, where Bryan had spoken the
( night before, and the other in the
evening at the First Methodist
church. His talks had to deal large
\ ly with the prosperity Of Kansas un-
der its dry regime.
kansas has more students attend
4 ing the institutions of higher learn
ing Gin proportion to its population)
than any other state" said Governor
Stubs.
kansas has the largest per capita
wealth in the nation, on the basis
of property assessed for taxation
$1,000.
"Kansas is one of the two states in
1.-THE union having the smallest num-
Der of persons who cannot read or
write-less than 2 per cent of its pop
ulation.
without dissenting voice, in 1915,
the Kansas state senate and house Of
representatives adopted a resolution,
approved by the governor of Kansas,
declaring that prohibition is a COM
plete success, and denouncing the
widely circulated statements of the
LIQUOR interests to the contrary. That
resolution was senate concurrent
resolution No. Ex-senator Kinkel.
Gives Some Figures.
According to the tables Of the
Kansas state temperance union, based
on the federal census of 1910, the
number of persons committed to state
insane hospitals averaged lis per
100000 population in the prohibition
states; $50 in the near prohibition
states; 242 in the partially licensed
states, and 276 in the license states.
when the saloon was abolished in
Wichita, now a city of 10000, the
weekly bank clearances increased
within three years from 81 100000 to
$3,2OO,00O. .
"Kansas has forty counties out of
los which did not send prisoner to
the state penitentiary last year. This
fiscal year, but 223 persons were COM
mitted to the penitentiary-the small
est number in ten years--and this in
the face of the fact that in Kansas a
man is sent to the penitentiary for
wife and child desertion, for violation
of the liquor laws, and kindred crimes
which are but Jail offenses in most
other states.
kansas has no bonded indebted
ness.
kansas had loss of but $lS8,000
from business failures during 1915,
which is less than any state in the
Missouri valley.
Increased Valuation.
"Kansas has approximately $3,00o,-
100000 worth of property, an IN
crease of $79,000000 in 1915, and the
increase of 1916 will be more than
double that amount.
kansas, under prohibition, has in
creased its bank deposits more than
100 per cent in ten years. We have
$240,000,000 Of surplus wealth in our
banks and savings institutions today,
and this has more than doubled under
prohibition.
kansas has an automobile for
every fourth family-a record equalled
by only two other states.
kansas has a permanent school
fund of $10,4S5,2 99. and has invested
in its school property more than $2s,-
0OO00O-an increase of $1,500,000 this
year. We spent last year $l2,2lO,OOO
for educational purposes, an increase
of 100000.
1--WE have enrolled on our colleges
$4,000 students, the largest college at
tendance in proportion to the popula-
lies, Il, 4ha IInited StatesN