Show Other Strong Arguments on We Present as Before Both Sides of the Prohibition Question I Aside from all the wrangling and personal references indulged in by the advocates and opponents of the pending measures on the following are per haps the things that have been squarely put before the public since our last The occasion was a sort of debate between the opposing forces before a legislative The most of the arguments were the For E. E. Shepherd made an which stirred the entire She to the census statistics it requires invested in liquor manufacturing to employ one In ten leading industries representing the same a capital of pearly it required only to give employment to one See what could be done with this It is claimed that diverting money from liquor manufacturing into other channels' would lead to over This the speaker claiming it is underproduction because of the money wasted in dissipation and From another 18 per cent of the product of the 10 leading industries of the United States is paid to labor in while only 10 per cent of the product of the liquor traffic goes to The liquor business helps indirectly to foster a monopoly Put the money invested in the liquor traffic into legitimate Land nearly twice as much of the income will go to The value of liquor product compared with the capital invested in a given while the product of the 10 leading industries compared with the investment was per so it is easy to see that if you invest the liquor money in other the result will be a proportionate increase in the wealth produced of 71 per of which nearly as much goes- to and whatever benefits labor is of the greatest possible benefit to business at for after all the laborer is the greatest consumer of the As to Shepherd said she had a few documents also on that She quoted Hoch's published statements as to the immensely reduced jail increased educational facilities and church population since Kansas adopted increased savings and lessened She also quoted from Georgia and Alabama in support of the claims of improved Shepherd said fallen women laid their ruin to 80 per cent of crime came from Regulation does not as may be proved by the police with crime increasing at an alarming The traffic is a menace to Against Heber J. Grant read an order from the B. O. railroad prohibiting drinking on or off duty by Prohibition prohibited in other places in the and it will are a weak lot if we can't enforce the The governor of Kansas says it is and the general manager of the Santa Pe road has proven of immense value to the Judge Colborn produced a telegram from A. ex-presiding judge of the Kansas court of appeals and prohibition law of Kansas is- fearfully and wonderfully The long-haired men and the short-haired women have got all the prohibition they and the of the population all the liquor it It is merely a political worked by all candidates from governor to road before work both for and as the locality and ignored the day after No attempt is made to enforce the law except by and ther has large army of sneaks and has brought the sanctity of the oath into and disrespect for the other It is simply the plaything of dema has been v j crime of a class which t vitals of government evil attempted to be t by it It has made dumping ground of the Ji death-dealing decoctions either in the still or J chemical and I seriJ doubt if it has reduced the dj L habit at It certainly has i creased private the army of hypocrites Wf God and mortality and drink j r their is beyond is no protection to the rising J On the it is its It has fastened fir upon us a gang of snitch-law 1 who cannot make a living- by practice of their V 1 who throughout the stall bring actions in the name of goo morals and for the p there is in enjoining t upon the w k stirring up strife in all I He produced the following tel gram from George Peck of as my personal invest of prohibition in b Kansas and oth- er I am satisfied that does not Men I have been there has been drunkenness than where sale are Perjury is and hypocrisy is general The la is constantly crime to children are f of W aged to laugh at violations and temperance is not result of prohibition f Our readers have now J of l placed before them the best arguments yet produced on Our own which J not accord with that of the t j on either b j j wise been stated f fully and without hesitation- whole question should now be i ed upon by the legislature i j ing to the best judgment 01 f members of that the the people approve J the matter for rest If the people prove what the legislature they can elect an years hence to do |