SUCCESS OF PROHIBITION IN KANSAS.

Waikato Times, Volume 2632, Issue 2632, 25 May 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

SUCCESS OF PROHIBITION IN KANSAS.

an earthly paradise. In the inaugural address of tho Governor ot 11k; State of Kausas last month, ho stated lh.it fully nine-tenths of the drinking Mini drunkenness prevalent iu Kansas eight years ago have been abolished, and In; afUnned with earnestness and emphasis that tho Slate was to diy tho mosttemperate. orderly, sober community of people in the civilized world. The abolition of the saloons had not only promoted the personal happiness and general prospority of the eitizensbnt it had enormously diminished crime, filled thousands of homes —where vice, and want, and wretehedness once prevailed—with peace, plenty and contentment, and hail materially increased the trade and business engaged in the sale of useful and wholesome articles of merchandise. Notwithstanding the fact that the population of tho State was steadily increasing, the number of criminals confined in Penitentiary was steadily decreasing. Many of the gaols were empty, and all showed a marked falling oli'in the number of prisoners confined. The dockets of the Courts were no longer burdened with long lists of criminal cases. In the capital district, containing a population of nearly (50,000. not a single criminal case was on the docket when the present term began. The business of the police courts of the larger cities had dwindled to one fourth of its former proportions, while in cities of tin.second and third class the occupation of police authorities was practically gone. These suggestive and convincing facts appealed alike to the. reason and the conscience of the people, 'i'licy had reconciled those who doubted the success, and silenced those who opposed the policy of prohibiting the liquor traflic. (Some readers cm this side of the Atlanticmay not know that this does not apply to the City of Kansas, which is not in the State of Kansas, but on its border, and in the State of Missouri. !