KANSAS VIEWS ON PROHIBITION AFTER 45 YEARS EXPERIENCE.

White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 382, 18 May 1927, Page 4

KANSAS VIEWS ON PROHIBITION AFTER 45 YEARS EXPERIENCE.

1. No repeal or modification is needed, wanted or considered. 2. Ease of enforcement grows with enforcement. 3. Officials and private citizens are agreed that prohibition is the State's best business asset. 4. Many crimes that are common in communities that tolerate liquor are absent from Kansas. 5. Kansas children grow to maturity without the taint of intoxicating liquors.

6. Accruing benefits of prohibition havi made law enforcement easier from year to year. 7. An awakened public conscience lias aided Kansas in reducing tin number ol prohibitory violations each year. H. Convictions of violators arc easier now than at any time in the past, due to tile years of proof that intoxicating liquor is a commercial and social detriment to any community. 9. Many undesirable intluenc* that attend liquor were banishea from the State when liquor was banished. 10. Liquor sales are not even permitted in Kansas on doctors' prescriptions. Liquor is an outlaw in Kansas. 11. Kansas is 4 4 years removed from the thought of ever returning to the days of the saloon. 12. Kansas children of to-day never saw and never will see a saloon in Kansas. With the passing of tin* saloon has •mine another blessing. New appetites for liquor are not created. No traditional acceptance of the use of liquor survives. The social and even the medical uses of liquor an passing out of the Kansas conscious ness. It is going out of the life of the people as completely t s the how and arrow and the belief hi witches have gone out. “The Victory Message.”