Under the license system the saloon is playing ten-pins with
temperance associations, ten-pins with the church and ten-pins with
society. I have faith to believe the time is drawing near when the
balls will be confiscated and the pins can stand when we do set them
up.

I know many have not this faith because they believe prohibitory laws
are failures. They base their belief on the violation of the law. By
that rule everything is a failure. Married life is a failure; its laws
are grossly violated. Home life is a failure; there are many miserable
homes. The school is a failure; many a father has put thousands of
dollars into the education of his son and found it wasted in riotous
living. The church is a failure; many of its members are Christians
only in name and not a few are hypocrites. But we know by the loyal,
loving husbands and wives of every community that married life is not
a failure. We know by the happy homes about us, with sweetest of
household ties binding the family circle, that home life is not a
failure. We know by the education that has refined our civilization,
that the school is not a failure. We know by the redeemed of earth and
saved in heaven the church is not a failure, and we are convinced by
the organized opposition to prohibitory laws by distillers, brewers,
saloon keepers, gamblers and harlots that prohibition is not a
failure.

If prohibition is a failure in Kansas as license advocates charge,
then governors, ex-governors, attorney generals, jailers, mayors and
judges of Kansas are falsifiers. If prohibition is a failure in Kansas
why has the state grown to be the richest per capita in the Union, why
are so many jails empty, so many counties without a pauper and why,
according to the brewers' year book of 1910, was the consumption of
liquor in Kansas one dollar and sixty cent per capita and in a
neighbor license state twenty-two dollars per capita?

Along with the absurd statement that prohibition is a failure, comes
the warning of the president of the Model License League to the
business men of the country, that unless the tide of prohibition is
arrested it will "kill our cities." "Blessed are the dead that die in
the Lord."

In a local option contest a prominent business man said to me: "I do
not use liquor but I am in doubt about how I should vote on the
question." When I asked; "What's your trouble?" he answered: "We have
six saloons in this little city and the license fee is one thou