Result of Prohibition

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 5, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 10.

Result of Prohibition.

IN Kansas City the proprietors of an immense wholesale and retail liquor trade recently went into bankruptcy. Their liabilities were over $500,000. They made a statement to their creditors, and this is a part of it:—

“Perhaps the firm would have survived even these disasters, if others had not struck it at almost the same time. A large, valuable, and remunerative trade had been built up at great expense in the neighboring States of Iowa and Kansas.

“The constitutional amendments prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in those States did not only almost destroy that trade in the latter part of 1881 and the early part of 1882, but merchants, taking advantage of the popular feeling and temper of the courts, became remiss in their remittances for goods previously bought, and collections by process of law became almost impossible.”

And yet a certain D. D. persists in affirming that prohibition in Kansas—one of the States mentioned above—is a “screaming farce.” These liquor-men, on the contrary, seem to lament it as a pretty serious tragedy.—Home Gazette.