Taxpayers Attention!

AhK Abbor, Mar. 0, '87. Mb. Editor : In high licensa Illinois the people pay $7.00 per capita per aunum taxe?; in prohibition Iowa, less than 30 cents; in prohibition Kansas, 20 centf; in prohibition Mame, 10 cents; in prohibitbn Vermont, 10 cents. These lattir gtat8 know a good thing and keep it. Maine has had prohibition over 30 yenrs, nd it ia the universal testimony oi' her governors, United States senators, representatives ia congrega, presidenta of college, and other prominent men, that it 's a Bucce8s, and her people could not be induced to repeal it. The Kansas prohibition amendment went into effect in 133.1, and Kansas today would vote down a proposition to repeal it by from 70,000 to 100,000 majority. As an illustration of the effect of the prohibition lawg in Kansa, ther was a monthly celebration July 4tb, of last year, at Topeka, the capitol, with ft population of ,i0,000. Thousands of strangera were there, and a big circus was running; and the next morning there were only two drunkt before the courts. They eaid in the license days of Kansas that prohibition would injure the property of the state so that the Germans would not come to it. What are the facts? The assessed value of the state was'theny170,000,000, now it is $500,000,000, and it has gained 500,000 in populatioD. Ann Arbor, the greatest literary center of the west, should ponder these thing. She bas started out to grow, to advertise her educational advantages, and the biggest kind of an advertisement would be to publish to the world that she has no saloons to corrupt the youth. Parentg hesitate to move here or end their children here. The writer hears this on every hand. Taxpayers should arise and work heartily to carry the amendment, and rid Ann Arbor of the ereatest hindrance to her prosperity.