Kansas Liquor Traffic Reimbursement
By Censer
A PROPOSITION was made by some interested or tender-hearted persons in Kansas to reimburse the liquor sellers for the damage sustained by them in the passage of the prohibition amendment. Governor St. John was accordingly waited on by a committee and asked if he would sign a bill making such provisions for a committee to investigate and report the sums that should be paid. He replied that he would do so if the bill also contained the provision that the same committee should also investigate how many paupers, orphans, and maniacs, had been made, how many homes ruined, how many waifs, and tramps, are cast upon the world by the traffic in Kansas. "If," he said, "in balancing the account, you find that the State owes the traffic anything, it shall be paid to the last cent." Nothing further was done with the reimbursement measure—Censer.