The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-15
Brewers Have Dug Up an Artl'
ticIe by Hubbard.
Make 1t Weapon to Fight Pro-
hibitiOn in California.
CALL IT BLEEDING KANSAS
Pamphlet Is Being Sent Broad
east Over State.
II Declares Common HOrse
Sense Has Taken Wings.

r-ho,,ssnds of dollars are being
snent nv interests fighting the prom
hition wave in California in cicculae-
ino nanphlets thru the state in winch
~. cole tonic is Kansas and me al
Ioc,ad effect of prohibition in KANSAS
Ths favorite piece of literature Is
0ar,nblet in red, headed, Bleecine
Konsas,, which copies an criticize
e-nro "The Fra" of East Aurora, ~
publication edited by Eloer'
Hubbard prior to his death
7 win Kelley, secretary OF the ~
10 commercial club. was perspi
81 his desk this morning preparing
us ansxver TO the charges mace "a Ia
rarsnhIet mailed to him by a LLd v
n California. His reply VIII NC
tomorrow. -,
saws Prohibition Fails
AFTER thirty-five years VI ,,i-b all
roade the article, "prohloltloh VIZ on
~ trimmings has given Kansas "a
-,o1s rate of divorces, sraIi -
1-iyes for cruelty and drunkenh.7t If
unusually high and increaslhE arEing
pauperism. school systems an in
p,,1v tvyenty-ninth in ef1lcleilcS, - al
oIia ;ng high rate of insanity anu a..
49, ~ Lowest church populatl.H -,
NJ I-oion Kansas closed 2OO 5che oiS
during 1915. The 1918 cens uoA since
a population decrease
i.I;-;or to six years ago. taxes Tele
aa,ad on one-third valuation bT
of revenue and popuiatioi' go in
1.ith increasing de mands by -
s4it,,+;ons forced a change III the - -.
- Item The law was nasHis
aHended. taxing property on 1ull Va
,,.tiCn As the demands mt -,
.assesse6 valuations likewise "eI a.
fIated. Decreasing populaLsoh aansas
or. asinG taxc.; createc. ,itb
brand of high per capita Meai'"-
Thirty-second, Not First.
,,,-.,., has "A per cent of farms
"a "a ner cent If INomes nortSageo.
" horne-owning citizens she ram NJ
thirty-second-and not Iirs''
claimed eso ooo 400
during the 1907 panic because she
Parsons Bible Glass.
..,rbere were 661 arrests in Topeka
d,,-irq 1914 for drunkenness; IN lSl0'
74g. In 1915 exclusive OF noli1aS
trade. one express company oelINei ~
10000 quarts of whisky dnere.
Wichita. 1850 out of $751; arrests
we're for drunkenness in 1914, ana
1925 out of 1870 were for drunken
osss in 1915. The same ratio apphes
everywhere.
.HThe reform mayor of Parsons re-
discovered
sbinnnents into his fair city, most OF IL
went Il, members of his own Bible
class.
The chief of police of wichita oc-
cupies a unique niche in the Kansas
Hall of Fame alongside Carrie Nation.
He was thrown out of office and into
Jail last July for running a wholesale
blind Zig in the city hall ITSELF Whlle
Governor Capper was Dragging about
clean Wichita out in California.
A Noisy Government.
kansas people are never permitted
to forget the governing power. A
noisy government is a nuisance gov
eminent Driven by despotic bigotry
it strangles progress, murders pros
perity.
IF given a chance. the people would
register an overwhelming preference
for a sane and regulated system of
handling the liquor industry. Not that
they desire saloons because they pre-
fer drunkenness to sobriety, but be-
cause they prefer constructive state
craft to political demagoguery.
kansas is drunk now-drunk on
prohibition. bunc and piffle. She is
suffering from an over-production of
wild-eyed reformers, zap statesmen
and political tyrants. Common horse
sense has taken wings; intolerance is
king"