The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-07
A TOWN WITH A LID

tors Of the Brewers Year Book made
fun of nrohibition IN Kansas. They
had splendid opportunities for satire,
and made the most of them. Their
venerable and favorite argument that
| prohibition increases the sale of Ii
| quor was hard to combat, the way
Kansas was behaving herself.
Then Stubs was elected Governor
| Stubs Is a man with red hair and a
/ backbone and lot OF cranky notions
, One Of these cranky notions is that
laws should be enforced When he
was a candidate he announced that he
would close the saloons and joints II
| he had to call out the militia 10 do
| II Other candidates had talked In
the same way many times and old
John Barleycorn merely winked his
starboard eye. while his fat paunch
qutvered with merriment And the
able editors of the Brewers Year
Book were greatly amused, and look
ed unon Stubs as the great American
! humorist.
! The Popular Sport Of Hunting
| Bootleggers.
| Stubs was elected. and with him
an attorney general who was fond Of
exercise. and the two Of them got
busy without wasting an hour. Also,
ture. and they began passing the most
drastic laws against booze sellers ever
heard of in any civilized country. All
! branches of the State government
worked together in harmony to the
same end, and the pursuit OF bootleg
gers and tointists became as popular
In Kansas as fox hunting is in Eng
land. Selling booze became the UNI
perdonable crime. and there was no
! reEnita rfhn Fn hn 20
Of It. He was chevted across country
with a tallyho and hoopla The
! first offense meant a county Jail sen
tence and big fine. The second
meant a term In the penitentiary.
/ The saloon doors were closed with
such A slam that the hinges broke, and
! the tointists consulted their family
physicians and found that a change Of
air wa necessary to their health.
County attorneys and other officials
who were inclined to he negligent IN
moned to Topeka. and when they re-
turned TO their Offices they were COW
cred with a cold sweat, and they OF.
Tended no more. Never before was
there such campaign against booze.
and in few weeks the Id was down
From that day 20 this Kansas has
been discoura GENE ut to the cultured
e-aILOTs OI Inc Brewers ear BOOK
That annual volume no longer sparkles
with jests. concerning prohibition In
Kansas, The work appears to have
lost the spirit OF optimism that once
made II fsvortte Preside com panion.
There !s no place In Kansas where
liquor "a openly sold: and Il there Is
an coca sIonal secret Joint. the owner liz
doing business in fear and trem bling.
and he WILL 60 10 the penitertiary
sooner or later.
1 The laws governing drug stores are
drastic rs they could be made, and
the learn ed pharmacist has the fear
Of God In his heart He no longer
sells Peruna or Hostetters Btttars az
a beverage. and he has no tonic OF his
own compromising that causes the
consumer to go forth and try to whip
policeman
Now and then a oootle~ser ernoarks
before he has succeeded In buil6ing
I up good family trade the officers
get him. r takes 50 much time and
trouble 80 re. a spirituous drink IN
Kansas that even the most enthusiastic
booze fan win drink from a garden
hose rather than make the effort
! Emporia Is a town Of ten thousa nd
people Including William Allen White.
There hasn't been an open aioon in
the place in more than twenty years
It is a town OF schools and churches.
and the sentirnen against Barleycorn
always has been so strong that even
in the free-and- easy days before the
advent Of Stubs n never occurred 70
anybody TO open grog parlor. No
booze fs sold in Emporta. and even
the corkscrew has become obsolete II
a man appears on the main street
With a bad breath. II 's safe 70 as
sumo that he is q stranger and that he
will be run IN before he is An hour
Older Bootleggers now and then at
tempt 70 ests Slish an infant industry,
but they're always rounded I'D before
they have cold enough TO pay the
freight on their shipment from Kan
gas..snsssss.MsHa..~san.