Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1914 — Some Good Reasons Why State of Kansas is "Dry." [ARTICLE]

Some Good Reasons Why State of Kansas is "Dry."

Asked why Kansas stays dry, Attorney General Dawson pulled the following statistics from a pigeonhole, saying he always used them to answer that question: More than one-half of the county jails are empty. Sixty-fixe of the 105 counties of the state have no inmates in the state penal institutions. Many counties have not had a jury case in ten years. Eighty-seven counties have no insane. Fifty-four counties have no inebriates. Twentynne counties have not a single nmate in their poor farms. Kansas is the richest state in the union; its average wealth per capita is $1,700. Less than ten of the 785 newspapers n the state accept liquor advertisements.