Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1915 — Never Saw Saloon. [ARTICLE]

Never Saw Saloon.

San Francisco. —In the course of an address at the exposition Governor Capper remarked that there are 500,000 boys and girls in Kansas who never saw a saloon. His speech was delivered at the Kansas building in celebration of Kansas day. “If it is a good thing to live in Kansas it is because the people of Kansas lave made it so,” said Governor Capper. “Kansas people have never dodged a difficulty or refused to face an issue. Kansas is now a good place in which to live, largely because thirty years ago we dared to make the open saloon an outlaw, because we were not afraid to attacx a curse as ancient as human history and put it from us forever. I am immensely proud of the fact that Kansas has 500,000 boys and girls who never saw an open saloon. And now that national prohibition and world wide prohintion are coming just as surely as tomorrow’s sunrise. Kansas has done, is doing and will do more to bring this great blessing about than any other state.”