PROHIBITION IN AMERICA
TO THE EDITOR.
Sin,—-In confirmation of the remarks of your American correspondent respecting the general well-being through the adoption of Prohibition in various Slates of America, oblige by publishing the following from the ‘ Kansas Christian Advocate ’ of Jauuaiy 28. It said: “However much there may be lacking in the enforcement of the prohibitory law in Kansas, there is-an abundance of statistics to prove the great benefit of Prohibition. One of these significant facts is that, notwithstanding the wonderful increase in the population of the State since adoption of Prohibition in 1880, our penitentiary population has fallen off 60 per cent.” Facts of this kind weigh with us when we see the drink shops thrust upon us at our very doors to tempt our young men. This is of no importance to our Committee, who live in snug homes in our suburbs. Their rates are saved, the interest of the publicans are served—wdth which they seem content. No wonder we people that arc not ratepayers, but only householders, want a vote on the question, and why are we not as much entitled to it as the Committee ’—l am, etc., Mac. Dunedin, June 5.
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Evening Star, Issue 9155, 9 June 1893, Page 4
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196PROHIBITION IN AMERICA Evening Star, Issue 9155, 9 June 1893, Page 4
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