WHAT GOVERNORS OF DRY STATES SAY.

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 236, 18 February 1915, Page 8

WHAT GOVERNORS OF DRY STATES SAY.

Governor Haines, of Maine, says that Maine has 742,000 people, and assets 111 savings banks, trust companies, and loan building associations of 1(15,7X4,000d01., or an average of about j_’4dol. for every inhabitant. lh.it 233,159 people have deposits in savings banks averaging 401 dol. This is in face of the tact that Maine in natural resources is the poorest State m the Cnion. Governor George 11. Hodges, of Kansas, says: “We balance 2900 self-supporting citizens against every one pauper. Kvery year our State creates a new wealth. Last year a wealth of 2,000,000d01. a day was the record. You have but to tome to Kansas to see the cheering effects of Prohibition; no saloons, but happy homes, contented people; no sweatshops, no child labour, but tine schools, churches, and good roads; practically no State indebtedness, and a visible increase of State wealth every twelve months that runs into millions. Governor L. L). Hanna, of North Dakota, says that they have in their penitentiaries only one man to every 3500 population, and that one half of these are non-residents. One-half of the inmates of the penitentiaries are there for the infraction of the Prohibition law or for crimes committed while under the influence of liquor. He says that with absolute National Prohibition, they should have but one inmate in their State prison tor every 14,000 population. That they have only six poor houses out of 50 counties, and some of these are really county hospitals for the < are of old people. Governor Locke Craig, of North Carolina, say- that during 190 S, the last year of License in that State, the revenues from all sources were 2,8()b,43y.02d01., and that during the year 1913, under Prohibition, with practically the same hedules of tax rate, the receipts from all sources were 4>2Q7,000d01.