WHAT S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 245, 18 November 1915, Page 8

WHAT S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS.

Kansas has been a prohibition state for over 30 years. Kansas women have voted on all municipal affairs sin<c 1887, and have had full suffrage since iqi2. Kansas h.is only 2 per cent, of illiteracy. Kansas has a death rate of only 10 to 1000. Kansas has a prison population of only 740 of whom 40 per cent, were non-residents of the state. Kansas’ bank deposits have increased in the last ten years from 100 to 230 million dollars. Kansas’ State tax three years ago amounted to less than .036 an acre on the average. The bonded indebtedness of Kansas is less than ten cents for every person in the State. Twenty-eight counties did not have a jail prisoner during 1(314. Forty-eight counties did not send a person to the penitentiary that year. Seventy-eight counties did not have an insane patient last year. Twelve counties have not called a jury to try a criminal case in many years. Twenty counties do not have a prisoner in the penitentiary. Kighteen counties have no poor farm. Thirty-five counties have no u>e for poor farms because they di dnot have a single indigent in their counties List year. Kansas had hut 14 children paupers cared for by the State in i<> 14.