Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-01-30
iriven out OF Missouri.

driven out OF Missouri.
With So per cent of the United
States under prohibition, with TWEEN
ty-three dry states, with SO per cent
of the population living where The
saloon has been made an outlaw, Its
hour of doom has struck. Either
congress will be compelled to submit
constitutional amendment to all the
state. or nationwide prohibition
will be the great over-shadowing pop
ular issue in the presidential cam
paign of 1920.
Then the last saloon will disap
pear from this land OF liberty and
light. The drink traffic now is cor
nered in half dozen great cities
where it has intrenched itself by
usurping political power. There It
will continue to prey on defenseless
millions until dislodged and ami
hilated by sweeping federal law.
This is the age of conservation. A
conservation policy that does not con-
health, thrift and happiness OF the
American home-the source of all our
strength and vigor as a nation-is
blind folly and an unspeakable sham.
The saloon is the source OF nearly
all our human wreckage. Yet the
nation licenses and permits the in
stitution to exist which makes the
creation of drunken fathers and the
debauchery of its young men and
women a business, and which is the
recognized source of nine-tenths of
all its misery and Indebtedness. The
people are demanding of congress
that the government of the United
States shall end its monstrous part
nership with this beast and shall Join
with them in its determination.
II Is intolerable that the federal
government should continue to over
ride the sovereignty of the many COM
monwealths which have prohibition
laws. that for a consideration il
should connive with bootleggers in
defeating the will of the people by
licensing these outlaws to sell booze
In this forbidden territory.
The last defense of the saloon Is
that liquor revenue helps pay the
taxes. The truth Is that the saloor
is our greatest public debt.maker ant
our greatest public burden.
After the saloons were driven out O
Kansas City, Kansas "a city of 100. OOI
people just acros sthe line from tn,
larger city fthe same name in Mis-
souri,, which recently voted dry. tina
municipality for the first time II
twenty years made no debt for cur
rent expenses.
| When the saloon was abolished il
Wichita, Kansas, a city of more thai
10000 people, the weekly clearance
Increased within three years iron
S1,4O0,OOO to $3,2OO,OOO.
So far as | am able to discover. TIC
peka the capital city of Kansas. doe
n bigger retail business, has NOR
homecoming citizens and smalle
police force than any other city G
its size in the United States.
Kansas challenges defenders of tn
saloon to show twenty-five cities /
any wet" commonwealth in the I'm
ON where the percentage of HON,
owners is greater, where business
more prosperous, where real estat
values have increased more RAPIDLY
where men, women and children ar
better educated, better clothed an
better fed, than in the twenty-riv
largest cities of Kansas.
Every governor of Kansas for twer
ty years, every state official and ever
political party in Kansas, has d.
clared prohibition tremendously SUI
cesstul state policy and 700 Kanse
, editors and virtually all the Kansi
bank presidents agree with this vie,
, During the last session, the legisIatu
l by unanimous vote in both hous,
> emphatically approved of prohibitic
In series of strong resolutions te
ing what 1t has done for Kansa
Thousands OF Kansas boys and cir
never have seen saloon.
The desire of the Kansas people
that citizens of other states sha
: Know what constant blessing pr
$ hibition is to Kansas, and that II
h federal government ebau ,,,ot,o ,>,,,
bition nationwide. They belle,
: nothing else Kansas has done. n
; even the heroic part IL played in Il
l. great struggle of the COS. has add,
SO much TO the sum of human hapr
ness, and they invite the fullest inye
igation of these benefits.
So
WILD ANIMALS I HAVE MET