The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15


xfe3nc. I ask no quarter and
-. have drawn the sword IN
y q God. home, wife, children
1--we land, and / Will never
y n until the undertaken pumps
J u errsbafning fiuiid. and II my
j alive, / think / shall call her 70
aide and say: Nell, when
v. send for the butcher and skin
"a have my hide tanned ana
INTO drum heads. and hire men
- and down the land and peat
RUNS and Say. My husband
IDsuday still lives and gives the
~ gang a run for it's money.
A4 Emit a man IN America they
1890 than me, or lie about ana
Nnd SANDER and do everything
shoawsa. my friends, that IN
for the saloon hasn't a descent
the viii hire IN eScs-
- can The Get aside a hun
- fifty Thousand dollars just U
ANYTHING me all Up and down
and have put my ftst under
- for twenty years, and
1p keap On doing it RI long as
nfxsr al is saao that can be
IN the open licensed saloon
4 degrading influence upon
education, morals and
% for the salon hasn't a decent
|21nnd on to bind 1t to q decent
woman On the face of this
M "a hasn't one argument that
advanced In its favor-not one!
;11mA has long since gone oy
Anro Is any room or grouncG
nfng The ill-effect upon husi-
~ commerce and politics and
Tor that is admitted by all.
IT lust one prime reason why
I'm hasn't been knocked into
- Aeo. and whiske% Is all right
SG3nco. but its place is IN hell
Quick as you can get il there
kAotng all in my power TO put
~ the place from which IT
%3 its infamous carcass, and
~ itself around patient people
K argument in favor Of the sa-
that the taxes from the saloon
|nded.
Nulhow me communities where
I've none, where the taxation,
&naa, In higher than in com
|1o where they have. Everybody
OF decency and brains
That 1t LIS the saloon that raises
|o Of taxation In the country all
oRnsr Parents Begca Idiots,
might've per cent of our idiots
f0m Incorporate parents and
- more insane people in the
1GAtoe. made insane by drink
IRE are students in the universe
~ colleges. One out of evers
Pennsylvania in 1911 were
I'M the insane asylum or the
3oF feeble-mjnded. and New
Sew Jersey, Pennsylvania and
, are the worst whiskey-don'
. Hhisks damned and whiskey.
He'd states In the Union; ane
n no state in the Union, where
ED0f interests are more strongly
md ntrenched than they are
state OF New York
zAnsas (and they haven't hat
i for nearly forty years.. there
14ghty-one counties out of hun
md five. that did not have ar
man or woman in the county
here arc fifty-four counties ina
o4 have q feebie-minded boy oil
the county. ! have these figures
Cappcr. who sent them
Eighty per cent of our pauperi
n1nkey-made paupers. In kansal
~ one pauper for every 5000
and there are thirty
&ouuties in Kansas that have
med their poor-farms, and theirs
! Inmates. ....-.
- are only sos in the entrv
hat are supported by the people
Il state. Etghty-two per cent ot
Wines committed are by mer
q under the influence OF drink
\ per cent OF our adult criminals
Making men
Ennsas there are sixty five coun-
ut OF q los counties that dit
- q prisoner In the county jail
1x. and one out OF ninety five
Amaylvania in 1911, was in prison
ne during the year. There are
ounttes In Kansas. where they
M called a grand jury TO try {
~ case in ten years and there
counties In the stat
II m inehriate In the counties
~ has 324e. 100000 on deposit ii
INnka. and during the f1nancia
when old New York Was on th'
I'll rocks, old backwoods. prohi
Kansas. sent $4,000. Geo dowr
I'D keep them out Of the poor
nns sends more boys and girl!
Y0ol, proportional 10 the popu
than any other state in thu
and Less than per cent OF thu
|44kOu cannot read or write Ther'
&Y counties IN the state tina
0ond q prisoner 10 the peni'
~ hast year. Logan county jail
&& years, has been empty OF pris-
I'D Last year they used II for q
~. And there is An autornobiit
IS0SY fourth family In the entire
Kansns' Prison Rate.
rate H. Kansas is one
0 thousand Of the population
Fer cent OF the prisoners in the
Mary do not belong in the state
- They came from other
nd committed their crimes and
They were not
! Kansas, and they are not Kan
m Dakota is "a prohibition state.
- .iuto the Union sober and
y population OF 100000, sae
ITS men in her penitentiary
nna, with $4,000 population,
#oe men in her penitcntiary
v~UoAked Montana, although
- voted 1t dry out there. ia
nct In, 1918.
Ansachusctts for ten years, the
Iverage number OF criminals
1o9. and IS per cent, or 81
them coTnmittad the crime
4 nder the influence Of liquor.
htcAEo Tribune kept track ot
SDer Of murders committed in
n this Country in ten years
- we're 534,e3s.
RI not religious question arr,
~ TO you. this is not q poll
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