The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-10-25
KNOWN EFFECTS
OF PROHIBITION
lin the State OF Kansas Are
Recounted.
FIGURES AND FACTS RECALLED
Former Governor Of the Sun.
flower State Gives Interest.
ing Observations.
A GOOD SECTION TO LIVE IN

At the recent State meeting of the
w. c. T. U. in Lexington, the Hon.
George H. Hodges. former Governor
of Kansas, gave the following inter-
est.ng observations concerning the
effect of Prohibition in that State:
I'VE have not had licensed sa-
Icon in Kansas in thirty-four years,
hut I come not to defend prohibit
tion. 1t needs no defense. Our free
dom from crimes. imbecility, pau
perism, degeneracy, feeblemindednes
and the attendant evils that follow
the use Of liquor, bespeak in no un-
bition.
= 1.-THE death rate throughout the
United States is about 10 to 1G0,-
600. In Kansas it is $40.
''The average land tax, exclusive
of Improvements, is less than four
cents ar acre. Kansas has no State
tfreIy free from the consumption Of
liquor. Kansas spends $1.59 per
capita for liquor: throughout the
United States it costs $2S per carl
ia. If our people drank the same
amount of liquor that the same num-
Der of people do in other States, We
a
more for liquor than we do.
I'VE spend five times as much
money, on our school system as we
spend for liquor, and that is the So
luton to the statement that we have
only 2 por cent of illiteracy.
when / retired as Governor q
year ago. We had a prison popula-
ton of 700. We have $50 on de-
post in the banks for each man,
woman and child in the State.
"Twenty-eight counties did not
have a Jail prisoner during all of
1914. Forty counties did not send
a prisoner to the penitentiary that
year. Twenty counties did not have
a prisoner in the penitentiary that
year, nor have they had for years.
A dozen counties have not called a
jury together in years to try a GRIM
inal case, and in fact they would not
know the meaning of the word
grand jury" Nineteen counties
have no poor farms. Thirty-two
! counties have no indigents. Our
State has the remarkable showing
of only one millionaire and only ten
children taken care of at the poor
farm last year. 1t has a greater per
Aeapita of wealth and a much more
evenly distributed wealth than any
State in the nation.
We only have one feebleminded for
every 5000 self-possessed citizens.
One insane for every 576 sane. Less
than per cent of our insanity is
due to alcoholism.
"A State should be judged by
what it does in an emergency, and
during the financial panic of 1907
we made an immediate response to
their request for money and sent
them s5O.OOO,OOO in gold. Within
four months after an appeal was
made to farmers and business men.
We sent to Belgium $4,000 barrels Of
our best Kansas -four.
"Of the school population of 600,-
900. four-fifths of the number We're
enrolled in school last year.
Zone half of the population of
Kansas never saw an open saloon
and dare to say that one-fourth or
more of our young men and women
never saw a drunken man in Kansas.
Our State has less degeneracy.
imbecility. pauperism. crime. insan-
ity, feeble-mindedness. in proportion
to our population, than any other
State in the nation. A greater per
capita wealth. a greater circulating
medium, more contentment and less
death rate than any other State.
You will have to agree that We are a
superior class of people, or that