WHY DO LIQUOR-SELLERS OPPOSE PROHIBITION?

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 236, 18 February 1915, Page 10

WHY DO LIQUOR-SELLERS OPPOSE PROHIBITION?

decause it is a failure? Certainly not. If Prohibition were a failure the liquor-sellers would not trouble to oppose it, because they know that when people found out its failure they would go bark to the licensed bar. No! Brewers and their train oppose Prohi bition because they know it is >uch a success, where enforced, that there is never any chance of the drink shop being' reopened. Congressman John Connelly, of Kansas, says that Kansas is not ashamed of her prohibitory law because “she has only half the population of Missouri and twice the numocr of students in her university; she has 29 counties without an inmate in a poorhouse, and 18 counties without a poorhouse. Her entire State debt is less than jo cents tor each man, woman, and child, and she has half that amount laid away in her vault waiting for the debt to < omc due. She spent less than 1} dollars last year on liquor per capita, but she spent over 15 million dollars to educate 400,000 boys and girls. On November 3rd, 528,(XX) citizens went to the poll to vote for Governor, and only one in every eleven voted for the candidate who was in favour of resubmitting the liquor question to the people, it is not an unknown thing in Kansas to-day to see towns of 2000 people, where once three police officers were thought to be necessary, now getting along with one, and this one finds his duties limited largely to supervising street improvements, moving the garbage from the bark alleys, and prohibiting chickens and pins from running at large.”