ABOLISHING POVERTY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 284, 15 June 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

ABOLISHING POVERTY.

At li'.'ist one county in tho I'nite'l States, hits found the end of the lane hi us publ c charity expenditures. .Montgomery County, -M i-souri, recently took account of stx-I; and found that it had but three aged or demented persons who are incapable of earning a living. Having no poor, or class of citizens without means of livelihood, among a population of 15,1)00 people, it had no need of a Poor Farm, and sold tiie i.srm at public auction. The proceeds are to i.e expended in building county road l '. Montgomery Co inty ascribes its ideal condition to the fact that it has not now, nor !i,i.s had for many jcais. a s.iioon or "blind pig" wit'rn its borders. Its citizens have lived s> long in arid conditions that they have been weaiu d from mtox'cating liquor, and from any dtsirc for it. A "blind pig" <o::Kl not thine in Montgomery County, because there is no demand for its stock in trade. Kansas, as one of tin l oldest Prohibition States, [assesses Millie interest for States just entering into a season of bone-dryings. ()! tlie I''o counties in the State, So h;.ve iio paupers, no.- is money in any substantia' M;in expended for poor relief. It would I- inaccurate to say that intoxicating liquor is responsible lor al! poverty. jhere sre many human beings who voujd bo poo;- whatever the circumstance < of !tie around them. Mot tlu Seattle "Post IntcJiigcnc.pi" declares it to b.i beyond all question that "tho abol ton of !i(|iior ba.s made for better condition- of human life, and increas, .] the earning and saving capacity of the average citizen.'"