PROHIBITION: Unwilling Fathers

For 56 years the constitution of Kansas has forbidden the sale of intoxicating beverages. Since Federal Repeal, however, Kansas has had no law defining what constitutes an intoxicating beverage. For three years juries have with a few exceptions held that alcoholic beer and ale, widely sold in Kansas, were in fact soft drinks. For three years outraged Drys have loudly demanded a law to make their prohibition constitution work. Last week a prohibition law was finally put upon the statute books of Kansas.

Two members of the Legislature, Representatives George W. Plummer and...

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