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Show I Prohibition and Kansas j The following from the Saturday ! Evening Post is a very pertinent argument argu-ment on the prevailing question, prohibition pro-hibition vs. the open saloon. The opinion of as prominent a newspaper as the Post ahould carry some weight on the subject: "So far as we have been able to observe, ob-serve, statewide prohibition is enforced in Kansas rather better than in any other commonwealth. A recent cursory cur-sory investigation discloses the fact that whiskey is still sold and drunk in the state. Even in the capital city, the bootlegger and speak-easy are said to be discoverable. Drunken men are seen. Evidently statewide prohibition has not snip; the use and abuse of alcohol. Yet in the opinion of experienced expe-rienced observers, a movement to repeal re-peal prohibition would be decisively defeated. A fine, ruddy-faced, upstanding, up-standing, deep chested farmer, of Teutonic decent, and consequently could hardly have inherited a bigoted view of the subject, put it this way: "Yes, a man can get whiskey and get drunk in Kansas if he's bound to. It may be true that some men who are bound to will drink more out of a bottle than they would over a bar. But you see, when a man reaches a stage where he is bound to have whiskey or bust you can't do much for him anyway. And if you ask that man he'll probably tell you that he j.ot the whiskey habit from visiting saloons for sociability. It's the boys we are thinking about. We believe a normal boy isn't very apt to get a whiskey habit cut (fa bootlegger's bootleg-ger's bottle. Nine limes out of ten, if he gets the habit at all it will be by dropping into a saloon with his friends I for a social glass. Su far as the hard-j hard-j ened soak is comer ud, maybe our law is a failure. We don't want to bring up a fresh crop. Out my way resubmission would be defeated two to one." |