Show KANSAS JC AND ND TILE THE JAG HOSPITAL In his message to tho the Kansas KanUI Je legislature legis- legis s- s lature January S 8 1907 page pao 22 23 n Governor Go Hock Bach says sas I believe it would l ho bo o wl io Io o to c ea- ea h a n t t. t JIO Iio for Inebriates for tho treatment of alcoholism tho now Jow ios dep department of tho the State mf might ht bo be wisely i JJ enlarged in H Its scope COiC to 0 Include treatment treat trent ment of tills thIs cJu claw of or unfortunates There Thero Is a a. curious testimony to the efficacy of a prohibition law v. Kansas Kan Kan- sits sas sas adopted prohibition as a a. constitutional const coast amendment in Twenty- Twenty eight years afterward the tho governor of oC the tho state asks for a Jag hospital for tor forthe tho the care caro of or Kansas mado inebriates Not another elate state In tho Union not even en familiar prohibition Maine has needed such an Institution for tor tho care caro of ot the tho product of ol Its own ineffective InoC- InoC laws The Tho truth Is Kansas never nover was and andis is not now a prohibition state They have havo the law but the tho people do not enforce the law It Is 18 not obeyed I There Thero aro are moro more than three thousand retail rotan liquor stores In Kansas today There have rarely been less The people wore were very sincere and very pure In their motives when they mado made prohibition a part of or their organic or or- gaffe ganic law lat But tho the public sentiment which forced tho measure through h subsided subsided subsided sub sub- sided Immediately after atter and there thore was nothing In tho the more populous counties to back up the tho officers in their efforts to enforce the law Tho The prohibitionist advocates nl there did what the they do wherever the matter is agitated They were o acU and In Intense In- In tense tense and and a shade shado intolerant until Intolerant until the tho law went on tho the statute books And then the they aban abandoned all effort effort t and the law Jaw was left lett to enforce Itself Itsel Which It did not do Drinking was as common as over er and because o of the tho secrecy attaching to It It drunkards were more rapidly developed An And twenty-eight twenty years after atter prohibition was WIS adopted the governor go of or that great state publicly and of ot record a advocated the establishment establishment establishment establish establish- ment at state expense of or a n. hospital for lor the treatment of ot tho the besotted victims vie vic Urns titus of alc alcoholism holism In prohibition Kansas It is a commentary which the tho legislature legis legis- lature laturo of or Utah should consider when they aro are called on to 10 yot vote |