Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1889 — Senator Ingallsion Prohibition in Kansas. [ARTICLE]

Senator Ingallsion Prohibition in Kansas.

[The .Forum for August.] Kansas has abolished the saloon The open dram shop traffic is as extinct as the sale of indulgences. A drunkard is a phenomenon. The bar keeper has joined the troubadqur, the crusader, and the mound-builder. The brewery, the distillery, and the bonded warehouse are known only to the archaeologist. It seems incredible that among a population of 1,700, 000 people, extending from the Missouri river to Colorado, aac from Nebraska to Oklahoma, there is not a place where the thirsty or hilarious wayfarer can enter, and lay down a coin and demand a glass of beer. This does not imply that abolute drought prevails everywhere, or that “social irrigation” has entirely disappeared. But the habit of drinking is dyips out Temptation being removed from the young and the infirm, they have been fortified and redeemed. The liquor seller being proscribed, is an outlaw, and his vocation disreputable Drinking being stigmatized, is out of fashion, and the consumption of intoxicants has enormously decreased. Intelligent and conservative observers estimate the redaction at ninety per ceut; it cannot be less than seventy-five. Prohibition prohibits. The prediction of its opponents has not been verified; imigration has not been repelled, nor has capital been diverted from the State. The period has been one of unexampled growth and development.

There seenis to be a good deal of “bonne© 1 * in the talk of Canadain papers concerning the Black Diamond affairs. They can make faces and talk big because Canada has no responsibility. That rests with the imperial government. Canadians are like a little boy who swells and blusters, bat depends on his big brother to do the fighting. In this case the big brother will not be in a hurry to fight— rIndianapolis Journal.