Alcohol, hygiene, and legislation / by Edward Huntington Williams.

  • Williams, Edward Huntington, 1868-1944.
Date:
1915
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Credit: Alcohol, hygiene, and legislation / by Edward Huntington Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dealer for each one hundred families in the state. Kansas, the pride of every ardent prohibi- tion enthusiast, presents evidence of intem- perance as referred to in a preceding chapter. But the Mahin law of Kansas makes it pos- sible to secure direct evidence as to actual amounts of liquor purchased through legiti- mate channels. This law requires that rail- roads and express companies must file reports of all intoxicants carried with the county clerk of the county in which liquor is re- ceived. The record of the city of Topeka for one month, as recorded by the county clerk, is illustrative. Assuming as correct the Kan- sans' own assertion that Topeka is the most temperate of any of the large places in the state (as indeed it appears to be) it is inter- esting to note the records of liquor receipts for a single month in this city. Thus the files in the office of the county clerk of the county in which Topeka is located show that in the month of September, 1913, the ship- ment of liquor officially recorded amounted to 95,561 quarts, of which 90,062 quarts were received in Topeka, a city of 45,000