Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1918 — WHAT THE GOVERNORS OF DRY STATES SAY [ARTICLE]

WHAT THE GOVERNORS OF DRY STATES SAY

GOVERNOR RYE, Tennessee: “We have lost the liquor traffic and we are glad. Crime reduced; streets free from drunkards; bank deposits enormously increased; property more valuable; life safer; people more prosperous and happier; ’ public morals on a high plane.” GOVERNOR KERR, North Carolina: • ... “Twenty-one per cent more children attending school; bank deposits increased 100 per cent; building and loan association stock increased 250 per , cent; benefits great and continually increasing.” GOVERNOR CARLSON, Colorado: “Two thousand new savings accounts opened in one month; collections in department stores broke all records; credit men report many over-due accounts; deemed uncollectible, paid up; crime reduced HUNT, Arizona: “Marked decrease in commitments to prison and insane hospital; needy families perceptibly decreased; no adverse effect upon legitimate business.” GOVERNOR HANNA, North Dakota: “Both from moral and financial standpoint prohibition has been a success in North Dakota.” GOVERNOR CAPPER, Kansas: • “Wealth per capita greater than any other state; death rate lowest per capita; bank deposits largest of any state; fewest tenants, most home-owners of any state; no open bar-rooms and auto to every fifth family; two million people who never saw a saloon.” GOVERNOR ALEXANDER, Idaho: “Never such beneficial results from any measure in so short a time; Boise chief of police and four policemen dismissed because no longer needed; police courts deserted; city and county jails empty; savings banks deposits increased; accidents decreased.” GOVERNOR HATFIELD, West Virginia: “Business has improved; arrests decreased; insane commitments less; savings banks deposits swelled; prohibition a great success.” GOVERNOR CLARK, Iowa: “Arrests reduced forty to fortyfive per cent; commitments to state hospitals greatly decreased; demands on poor fund much reduced; practically all merchants say collection much improved; importation of intoxicants reduced nine-tenths.” GOVERNOR HAYS, Arkansas: “Ninety per cent fewer arrests for drunkenness; prohibition decided success.”