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Pullman, Wash., Friday, September if, 1914
STRONG TESTIMONY
The favorite argument of the op
ponents of state-wide prohibition is
that, the law will not materially re
duce drinking in the state, but will
cause the liquor to be distributed by
blind pigs operating unlawfully, In
stead of by legally licensed saloons,
and that the money now spent for
liquor manufactured in the state will
be sent to manufacturers outside the
state, thereby draining money from
the commonwealth and seriously im
pairing its prosperity.
The easiest way to refute this ar
gument is by the testimony of wit
nesses who have seen what the effect
Of prohibition has been in states
where it is in operation. Let Gover
nor George H. 1 lodges of Kansas,
where prohibition has been in force
for many years, take the witness
stand and tell what the effect of the
system has been on the consumption
of liquor and the prosperity of the
people. He says:
"The death rate in Kansas is only
10 to every 1000 inhabitants, and we
feel assured the abstinence from
liquor gives that low rate of mortal
ity. Every year our state creates a
new wealth; last year a wealth of
$2,000,000 a day was the record.
Only $1.25 was spent on an average
by each person for intoxicating
liquors during the year, while one of
our sister states spends 128 for the
same purpose.
"We have an enactment that re
quires the deliveries of liquor into
Kansas to record the shipment and
amount with our county clerk, and
the statement 1 make as to the per
capita consumption is authentic and
based upon the compilation-, of these
reports. This difference of $26.75
went into new homes, schools and
churches.
"We spent $1.1.500,000 last year
on 15,000 scholars: that kept i;,,
--000 teachers busy for about nine
months. The salaries of the men
teachers in our public schools have
increased from $44 to $80.50 a
month in the past 10 years, while
the salary of the women teachers has
doubled. All of the weak school dis
tricts have state aid, and we have no
schools which have less than a seven
v months' term. That little sum of
$26. referred to a while ago that
■we save on liquor consumption we
spend on education, so that our Mi
grates are less than any state in the
Union.
"We had only 62" paupers In the
state last year, and they were taken
care of in the poorhouses of 76 coun
ties. Our state has a total bonded
indebtedness of $370,000, held by
the permanent school fund. We have
$169,000 of that Indebtedness in cold
cash already acumulated. and will
have the balance ready to meet the
obligations long before the obliga
tions are due."
Call Governor H. D. Hatfield ol
West Virginia, where state-wide pro
hibition has been in force about twe
months, to the witness stand and let
him tell what the effect of the new
law has been in that state. He says:
"West Virginia Is now in the sec
ond month of real state-wide prohibi
tion, and the more we see of prohi
bition and its wonderful results, the
better We like it.
"1 have had numbers of men who
were really opposed to prohibition
and who voted against its adoption,
to state to me that they were con
vinced that the people were right in
adopting a prohibition clause to the
; state constitution, eliminating the
manufacture and sale of whisky and
all other kinds of intoxicants, and
should the opportunity afford itself
that they would unhesitatingly reg
ister their influence and support in
behalf of the dry cause.
"The results have been marvelous
to everybody and we find that oven,
among the element that opposed the
state being voted dry. a disposition
manifested to give their support to
seeing the law carried out in force
and effect. We have experienced no
berious obstacle to the strict enforce
ment of the law. and I believe thai
this in a large measure is due to the
excellent campaign of education
waged among the people of the state
during the interim that marked the
ratification of the- prohibition amend
ment in November, 1912, and the
passage of the legislative enactment
February, 1813, to the first day of
July. 1014. when the law became ef
fective. .
"West Virginia's prohibition law
Is the strictest found on any of the
statute hooks in the Union, and for
this reason l believe it to be the best.
No effort was spared to inform the
people that its provisions were strict
and that the law was backed up by
severe penalties, and every effort
would be made to fully and complete
ly enforce the law.
"Our organization for the enforce
ment of the prohibition law is small.
inexpensive, yet complete and effect
ual. We are accomplishing satisfac
tory results, and it can not be said
that West Virginia's prohibition law
is not indeed a complete success.
"While West Virginia loses about
1700.000 a year in revenue from the
saloons, within the next few years we
expect to reduce our state expenses
for the handling of criminal charges
and the maintenance of state asy
lums that will offset the loss from
revenues paid for legalizing the sa
loon traffic.
"We also feel that our standard of
citizenship will be higher, and that
the generations to come in West Vir
ginia will be better from a standard
of strength. Intelligence, education
and other environments which means
so much to the success of a great and
growing state, unlimited In natural
wealth such as ours, and upon which
depends our standard of citizenship
as to what the future of our state
and its achievements may be.
j "Our anticipations have bean more
than realized and West Virginians
p expect to make their state the Ideal
' prohibition state of the Union. Le
, gitimate business enterprise has not
suffered, but thousands of families
have been made happier, and grocery
bills, rentals and other necessary
items of expenditure are being paid
promptly by hundreds of men who
formerly drank and gambled away
their earnings while wives and chil
dren were left by these husbands and
fathers without subsistence."
These men are competent and reli
able witnesses whose testimony
ought to outweigh thai of brewers
and saloonkeepers whose testimony
is biased by self Interest. If you
were serving on a jury, trying a man
for bis life, you know that yon
would give more credence to the evi
dence of men of the character and
si, Hiding of Governors Hodges »'.A
Hatfield than you would to the evi
dence of Brewer Schmidt and Saloon
keeper Pogarty. Rut you are serv
ing on a jury trying the case of the
State of Washington vs. the Liquor
Traffic, and the case involves the
lives and happiness of thousands of
your fellow citizens. Your verdict
will be rendered November 3rd, and
it is your bounder) duly to weigh the
evidence presented fairly and im
partially.
WM. GOODYEAR.
GOVERNOR LISTER AND THE
STATE COLLEGE
The authorized interview . given
out by Governor Lister during his
visit to Pullman last week in refer
ence to the State College of Wash
ington should go a long way toward
clearing Up the doubt which has ex
isted regarding his attitude to that
institution. it had been frequently
asserted and quite generally believed
that the governor's delay in filling
the two existing vacancies on the
board of regents was part of a plan
to create a single board to direct
the management of both the State
College and the State University.
This plan, it was feared, would be
very detrimental to the college, and
therefore the report had aroused
serious forebodings among its
friends. The governor's statement
proves that these forebodings were
without foundation. There is noth
ing equivocal in his statement: "I
have never said that I favored a sin
gle board of regents to manage both
the State College and the State Uni
versity and I am opposed to it and
can not see how it would result in
any benefit, although there are
many advocates of the plan. Had I
contemplated such a move the op
portunity was presented when the
change in the regents of the State
University was made." "!"'
The whole interview indicated
the governor is deeply interested
in the welfare of the college and is
well satisfied with its progress under
the administration of President
Bryan. (lis statement should be ac
cepted as a candid and sincere ex
pression of bis real sentiments.
There is doubtless a whole lot of
truth in his assertion that his atti
tude toward the college has fre
quently been misrepresented by per
sons who are not real friends of the
institution, but are trying to make
political capital by arousing local
jealousy.
I had a long talk with him, in
which he amplified the statements
made in his Interview, and discussed
other matters connected with the
college, in a spirit which convinced
me that the rumors of his hostility
to the institution and the adminis
tration of President Rryan are un
rounded and should be denied. He
was perfectly willing that his state
ments should be made public and
showed no desire to maintain any
secrecy regarding bis policy toward
the educational institutions of the
state. He is to be commended for
taking the people into his confidence
and clearing away the misapprehen
sion which has existed. The gov
ernor should be judged by his acts,
not by what other persons surmise
and say that he intends to do.
WM. GOODYEAR.
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