Letters From The People

Editor Courier:- As reference is often made to Kansas in the pivhibition eunpalpn now oingon in Mtehlfftn, perbapt n few Unes from an Hiiti-thinl-partyprohlbUtoutat-Jayhawker, naajr aotbe entirely out of place. He who claims that prohibilion n Kansas, is an entire and complete success, is certainly mistaken; whlle the statement that it is a failure is equally untrue. Tliere are those in this, as in every other state, who wül have liquor at any cost, and sucli will enerally devise some way to evade the law. But the rrand success of proliibltlon U apparent in tliis, it is Mving our boys from the curse of the drink habit. A boy will seldom go into a (luk ailey, or celalr to get his ilrst drink of whisky. It saves those who are tryinfi to reform from the necessity oí passinjr open suloon, on their way to 'ind from thoir places of business. As to license, we hold that the business ofdrunkard making isa criminal one, and beinso onght not to be legalizod That In fact the ttmiing of five dollars from a young man's pocket is not near so mean an act as the exchanglng of whiskv tlierefor and that it would 'je as uiuch rllrtlt to kralize (license) the one, as the othi-r ,.,, ----w "in , ua lili" (JLIHJl Ihe great objection to prohibition, especially by the resklents of large cilies j8 the necessity of ruising by n direct tax the inoney neOMUfy for city expenses and improveineiits. Expenses tbat uiicler the llcense systera are largely ollset hy the tax on saloons. How any trne temper anee man can see validity in tliis „i,i(.(.. tion we can not sae. Tiike the case of Ann Albor for Instunce. Forty salon,,, to ten thoimnd residents. Kvery two hundred and fifty persons support one saloon keeper and hUfamlly.and throuxb bun pay city expenses. Now the question anses, is U for the best intiTcsts of the people of Ann Aihor tlmt this money sliould hrst go over the counter in ex' change for drink We for one certainiv tlunk not. Huspcctfully yourg.