VOTE 329 x NO
342 x YES
344 x YES
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WITHOUT provocation, without the slightest
foundation for their assertions, the oppo
nents of prohibition have sought to single out
Kansas City, Kas., and demonstrate her to be a "fright
ful example" of the business evils which, they claim,
follow prohibition. Every informed person is well
aware that Kansas City, Kas., since the enforcement of
the prohibitory law, has made greater increase in busi
ness, in population, and a more splendid development
in civic affairs, than at any similar period in her his
tory. The Mercantile Club of Kansas City, Kas., feels
that, as a business proposition, it owes it to the people
and the business men of the city to present to the gen
eral public the actual situation in their city, since the
enforcement of the prohibitory law. We trust that the
simple facts as they now exist in Kansas City, Kas.,
will be sufficient to convince the opponents of prohibi
tion that in the future it will be just as well for the
liquor interests to let Kansas City, Kas., alone and to
go on about their own business of making paupers and
drunkards, if they so desire, while Kansas City, Kas.,
goes about her business of making happy homes, hope
ful children, contented wives and good citizens and
continuing to improve and develop her resources.
The Truth About
"The Search Clause
The manager of the Home Rule Association has the
effrontery to try to scare Oregon men with a laughable
crusade about the search clause. Every intelligent
man knows that it is all a fake. The "SEARCH
CLAUSE" is in the Local Option law and ottier crimi
nal laws of Oregon. The defeat of prohibition will not
destroy that clause. The adoption of the vicious Home
Rule Amendment will not destroy that clause.. . The
adoption of prohibition will not make it possible to
enter a man's home merely ' 'on suspicion." Not a case
of such a kind was ever heard of anywhere.
The Truth About
Home Rule
- The Home Rule Amendment is the most vicious
legislation ever proposed by a body of men heretofore
known as reputable citizens. It makes every incorpor
ated town and village a law unto itself so far as the
saloon business is concerned. The amendment gives
the "exclusive" power to regulate saloons to munici
palities. No Chicago lawyer, no ex-Mayor, no "Rector"
can explain away the force or the words of tha amend
ments. Not even the "opinion" of law firms can de
stroy the force of the words, "exclusive power," which
are in the amendment and which would become a part
of the constitution of the state. That amendment de
stroys all possibility of any effective regulation. Every
decent town will have a "hell-hole," incorporated so
as to get from under state laws, just outside the gate.
Honorable W. R. Stubbs,
Governor of Kansas, Says:
"I will guarantee that you will
not find a business man of standing
in the state who will not testify
that prohibition is the best -business
asset-of Kansas."
There are no saloons, no joints
in Kansas City, Kansas. The law
is enforced as well as any law. If
anybody can find a joint I will see
that it is closed, and stays closed.
Signed, J. E. PORTER;
October 29, 1910 Mayor
Kansas City, Kan., Mercantile Club Gives Facts and Figures
on the Kansas Metropolis
Has Prohibition Hurt Kansas City, Kan.? The Tax Rate Is Less Than 2 Per Cent!
Population
1906 Federal Census. Kansas City, Kas ""555
1910 Federal Census B-S1
Taxable Property
March 1, 190G, actual valuation... $ol'oo'?m
March 1, 1910, actual value 84,226,170.00
Bank Deposits
Julv 1 1906 $10,500,000.00
January i, 1910 17,235,531.00
Schools
Julv 1, 1906, value of property $ 9,942.50
July 1, 1910, value of property l,d4U,MJ.DU
Value of buildings erected during four years of '
law enforcement 590,o00.00
Schools, 40; teachers, 366; enrollment, 14,000.
Streets
Amount expended for improvements, actually
completed, since April 1, 1906. . : $96S,021.00
Parks and Boulevards
Under the management of the Park Board, which began
at the close of 1907, this city has inaugurated parks and
boulevards and has expended on her parks and boulevards
$295,713.00.
This city, has fourteen public parks, with a combined
area of 214 acres.
The Postoffice
In doubling the size and facilities of the Kansas City.
Kas., postoffice the Government is now expending $165,000.
SonrnVr. 1907. cash receipts $17,865.61
September. 1910, cash receipts 28,442.76
The Levee
This city owns its own levee, having about four thousand
feet of water front on the Missouri and the Kaw.
No other city in the United States is as well prepared,
from a municipal standpoint, for water traffic as Kansas
City, Kas. . . ,.x 1 -
Locate your factories here! The municipality can pro
vide proper facilities for you.
Homes
Building permits issued in the last seventeen months v -2,236
Value of improvements as shown by permits. . .$1,665,529.00
WIIY DON'T YOU COME HERE AND LIVE WHERE
YOUR BOY CAN GO TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY IN THE
YEAR AND NEVER PASS BY A SALOON f
The Water Works
July 1, 1906, the Kansas City, Kas., waterworks were
owned by outsiders, under the worst system inthe country
bar none and now Kansas City, Kas., owns and operates her
own waterworks at a profit.
Amount expended during the last eighteen
months, purchasing waterworks by city .$1,100,000.00
Amount appropriated for improvement and
enlargement of waterworks , 900,000.00
Amount appropriated for workhouse 30,000.00
Amount appropriated for fire stations , 60,000.00
Amount expended for river improvement. . 75,000.00
Amount voted for further river improvements in
the next 15 months. 1,750,000.00
IS KANSAS CITY, KAS., BROKE? HAVE IMPROVE
MENTS STOPPED?
Rents
During the last four years rents in Kansas City, Kas.,
have increased approximately 50 per cent. There is not now
a building for rent on the principal business street that is not
already spoken for.
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, IS THE ONLY CITY OF ITS
" SIZE IN CHRISTENDOM THAT HAS NO SALOONS.
THAT HAS NO GAMBLING HOUSE.
THAT HAS NO BROTHEL.
MORE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE INVESTED IN
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, IN MANUFACTURING
ESTABLISHMENTS THAN IN THOSE OF ANY
OTHER CITY OF ITS SIZE IN THE WORLD.
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, HAS AN ANNUAL MANU
FACTURED OUTPUT OF ABOUT $100,000,000.
Come and live with us in the wealthiest manufacturing city
of its sizean earth!
Come and make your home in the cleanest city, morally, of its
size in the world!
Within the last year the modern Commission Government has
succeeded the obsolete system of ward politics and is
gradually eliminating our floating indebtedness.
The enemies of Kansas City, Kansas, are simply the enemies of human
process This city is a milestone on the road that leads, faintly yet, towards
therealization of the best hopes of the human race. Those enemies seek to
maintain on American soil the vices and the ignorance that assisted the tyrants
of foreign lands to enslave their people there. The people of the metropolis
of Kansas after four years of enforcement of the laws made by that state have
learned that it would be to their financial disadvantage to take a step back
ward, that their highest success has been achieved in that epoch, and that it
is to their interest to subscribe to and maintain the progressive laws of their
ereat commonwealth whose citizens they are proud to be.
The foregoing statement of facts is correct: t
G C. Smith President People's National Bank. -
D. N. Prouty." Cashier Exchange State Bank.
C L. Brokaw Cashier Commercial National Bank.
a W Bedell . . - .Secretary Banking Trust Company. J 1
J.'E. Wagner Supt. the Cudahy Packing Company. ;
Wm. B. Sutton, Jr... Suttton & Sutton, Attorneys.
E C. Little..... Pollock & Little, Attorneys.!
James Stewart Stewart & Co., Grocers. .
Wm. Kelly, Jr Kansas City, Kansas, Office of The Star.
T V Weinhold Weinhold Hardware Company. j
Willard Merriam .Merriam, Ellis & Benton, Real Estate.
Directors of the Mercantile Club.
Catholic Sentinel Shows
Up the Proposed
Model License Law
The editor in the issue of November 3 says:
"The liquor people now come forward with
'model license law which, they say, would
elean up the saloon business permanently. But
the public has begun to notice that it id only
t election ime, when threatened with prohibi
tion, that the liquor interests bother them
telvts about reforming the saloon. When the
danger is over the 'model license law' is sent
back to cold storage."
A Liquor Lie Now Being Peddled About Portland
"Misrepresentation and lies having failed them, the Prohibitionists are now attempting to
confuse the voters.
"Don't let them fool you."
PROHIBITION MEANS
Xo Sunday Theaters, No Harmless Dances, Xo Card Parties, Xo Sunday Base Ball, Xo Inno
cent Amusement of Any Kind. All the Old Discredited Blue Laws Revived.
Citizens: How Do You Like the Prospect ?
Xobody except a Fool or a Knave would tell such a "cock and bull" story. Mr. Voter, are you
caught in such a silly snare!
VOTE 329 X NO AND 342 X YES AND 344 X YES
Missouri Is Going
DRY
(Associated. Press Dispatch.)
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 6. Led by R. A.
Long, a millionaire lumber man, a parade of
Prohibition advocates estimated to be eight
miles long; marched through the streets of this
city today to the music of a dozen bands and
under thousands of flags and banners.
It was the greatest temperance demonstration
ever seen in Missouri.
Mr. Long, who acted as grand marshal, wore
a flowing white silken sash, the gift of the
W. C. T. U. of Kansas City, and was mounted on
a white horse. Behind him followed miles of
-dry" enthusiasts, some mounted, some on foot,
some In motor cars, delivery wagons and
buggies, all with something to wave. If not a
banner, a flag. There were 12 divisions, the last
being made up of negro temperance workers.
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