Prohibition Does Not Prohibit
The Iowa Messenger says:— "The prohibitory law of Kansas does not prohibit. Of course it does not. Nobody expects it to. But, somehow or other, the liquor sellers despise it. Two of the don't-prohibit kind were fined $300 each and sent to jail for ninety days, recently, at Leavenworth. They told the judge they would quit the business entirely if he would let up. The judge mildly informed them that they would pay the fine and go to jail for ninety days, and then they might quit or go to jail another ninety. At present they are in jail meditating on 'Prohibition doesn't prohibit.'" If prohibition is a humbug, how does it happen that the Bay State liquor tax is $1.05 to each person, and Maine's tax is only four cents to each person?—The Issue.