New-York tribune., 1918-05-07
Why Kipling Is
For Prohibition

The saloon is vice trap of the
worst description. All the other vices
cling to the skirts of the drink evil.
Rudyard KiDling saw two young men
get two girls drunk and then lead them
reeling down a dark street. Mr.. Kip
lng says:
Then, recanting previous opinions,
became prohibltionist. Better it is
hat man should go without his beer
N public places and content himself
sith swearing at the narrow minded
fsss Of the majority. better it is to
poison the inside with vile temperance
drlnks and to buy lager furtively at
hack doors, than to bring temptation
. the lips OF young fools such as the
ieur had seen. | unders tand now
shy preachers rage against drink;
nave said there is no harm in it taken
Moderately, and yet my own demand
Tor beer helped directly to send these
xo girls reelirg down the dark street
10 God alone knows what end. 1t is
not good to let liquor lie before the
yes of children, and ! have been a
1ol in writing TO the contrary"
but the liquor trade simply spends
Us energies to inveigIe into it's mesh
ae young men of our nation. At the
Meeting of the Liquor League of Ohio
year or two ago, one Of the leaders
made this speech:
1t Will appear from these facts, gen
iemen, that the success of our busi-
asss depends largely upon the crea-
aon OF an appetite for drink. Men who
sFnk liquors, like others, will die, and
mere Is no new appetite created our
s0ansers will be empty as will be our
VOTERS. Our children will go hungry or
se must change our business to that of
soMe ether more remunerative The
apeh heid for the creation OF this appe-
we Is among the boys. After men are
sso@n and their habits are formed,
aey rarely ever change in this regard.
sWiii ii be needful, therefore, that this
customary work be done among the
gg0ys, and | make the suggestion, gem
sssmen, that nickels expended in treats
y eoys now will return in dollars to
ssas tll!s after the appetite has been
,.,'u .s.aea above all things create appe-
The last Legislature of Kansas, on
sssolaafy 10, 1917, passed this resolu-
That the State of Kansas is cleaner,
sw1. more advanced in mental cult
AVtAEti lIf llOjdl HDTC ana
,,sssss'ction; that her homes are happier
aa more comfortable. her children bet.
IL. eaueated than ever before in her
ss.sssory; that crime is less prevalent
~ poverty less general; that all this
we sae largely to the fact that the sa-
~ - such an outlaw that none of her
aaeoi aas children have ever seen a sa-
a.se sa ahe are unacquainted with the ap-
sss'ahce OF Salonnkaeper
ass re zen years, Kansas banks have in
ssna ssonossa asa from 500 100000 to nearly
ds,s s,,ss'svVooo. wv Prohibition worked won
H. on credits. Grocers say deadbeats
sssu, Nv" debtors of reliability and bad
.'ss .sn's are rarity. Fifty-four coun-
ssvss are without an idiot, and eighty
,2,la. counties without one insane
'ssn, 'ssss.I Kansas has one tenth of the
d 10y IN proportion to its population
rtst r.tast in New York.
d ~ testimony is overwhelming as
ssosa sae tremendous uplift in all social,
c,oss..aaiic and moral conditions due to
s.,ss.oit,on. and this, mind you. in
ioIn;sa~ iIis ~nere, from the influence of ad-
III 5tsss Wet states, prohibition has not
u. aao Its perfect work. Can any
k!ds '.aos Tor moment that nation
ass prohibition would bring bless
ssnn,,M's, q, untold upon our whole
II ~ you'd make abject poverty a thing
NJ past Il would do more to lift
iii nsoh aaioh that our fondest dreams
i'll lsns. II would help to solve the
B sstld n' OF dangerous discomfort;
fllef ~. many an epensive penal and
llSsfa ansItntion out Of business !:
sshdla RE Iammany Hall. whose
n0ia II In the saloons. out of
~ would decrease crime Of ali
Es9 81 to 20 per cent. and spread