The Benefits of Prohibition
KANSAS has had a prohibitory liquor law for years, and a great deal has been said in regard to being able to buy liquors anywhere in the state; and therefore the conclusion some reach, that prohibition is of no avail. Nevertheless the report is that there are half a million boys in Kansas over school age who never saw a saloon. Eighty of the 105 counties of the state have not a single inmate in the poorhouses. There are sixty-one counties without any one in jail. There are seventeen counties without any jails at all; and eighty-seven counties last year did not send an inmate to the insane asylum. The state has about nine hundred newspapers that will not take a liquor advertisement, and the ratio of illiteracy is the lowest of any state in the Union. Facts of this character ought to overthrow readily all the statements that are made in regard to the failure of prohibition. If prohibition could be enforced throughout the United States, and for that matter, throughout the world, it would be only a question of a little time before insanity and crime would be reduced to the minimum.