PROHIBITION IN KANSAS.

Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 30, 30 October 1897, Page 11

PROHIBITION IN KANSAS.

Sir, — Prohibition out here in Kansas is as firmly established as the Rock of Ages. It is now over ten years since prohibition was adopted. Has it ruined the state by placing a Chinese wall of “ forced morality ’* around it ? Kansas was the thirtyfourth State admitted into the Union. It now ranks as nineteenth, in population and as eighteenth in wealth. Its population in 1880 was 996,000, and in 1890 it had increased to 1,427,000. Its railroads have increased from a little over 3,000 miles in 1880 to about 9,000 miles in 1890. The State of Kansas has more miles of railroad than any other state in the Union except Illinois. In 1880 there were 5,242 school-houses in the State, and in 1890 they had increased to over 9,000. The population of the State is the best representation of the intelligent, honest, law-abiding, and loyal American citizen. Eightyfour per cent of the population c£ the State is American born. Prohibition has very largely tended to keep out of Kansas all the worst classes of the foreign immigration to the United States. The assessed valuation of the property in the State in 1880 was 160,000,000 dols., and in 1890 was 347,000,000d015.—m0re than 100 per cent in ten years.—l am, etc. Osborne, Kansas. Chas. R. Woolet. [The above was addressed to the Temperance Witness of Kewcastle-upon-Tyne. — Ed. P.F.]