NEBRASKA
PROSPERITY LEAGUE
A Statewide, Nonpartisan
Organization of Tax
payers
VICE-PRESIDENTS
WESLEY P ADKINS
SOUTH OMAHA
JOHN ALBERTSON
MERCHANT. PENDER
DR. C. C. ALLISON
SURGEON
GEORGE ANTIL
INVESTMENTS. BLAIR
Z. M. BAIRD
H ARTINGTON
J. L. BAKER
MANUFACTURER
J. W. BENDER
FARMER. HUMPHREY
ALFRED BRATT
INVESTMENTS. GENOA
CMAS. H. BROWN
RIAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS
VV. J. BURGESS
INVESTMENTS
HARRY V. BURKLEY
PRINTER
W. M. BUSHMAN
STORAGE
ALBERT CAHN
MANUFACTURER
LOUIS S. DEETS
STOCKMAN.KEARNEY
E. M. FAIRFIELD
REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS
JOHN N. FREN7CR
REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS
DR R. GILMOPE
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
T. V. GOLDEN
CAPITALIST. O'NEILL
FERDINAND HAARMANN
MANUFACTURER
J. J. HANIGHEN
CONTRACTOR
FRED D. HUNKl R
ATTORNEY, WEST POINT
FRANK B JOHNSON
OMAHA PRINTING CO.
C. J. KARBACH
INVESTMENTS
HON. J. T. KEELEY
VALENTINE
P. J. KELLY
MERCHANT. NIOBRARA
FRANK B. KENNARD
CAPITALIST
JACOB KLEIN
MERCHANT. BEATRICE
BUD LATTA
RANCH OWNER. TEKAMAH
E. M. F. LEFLANG
CAPITALIST
G. W. MEGEATH
COAL OPERATOR
JOHN A. MOHRBACHER
INVESTMENTS. WYMORE
SOPHUS F. NEBLE
PUBLISHER
FRANK A. NIMS
RETIRED FARMED FALLS CITY
J. J. NOVAK
BANKER. WILBER
J. J. O'CONNOR
ATTORNEY
GEORGE PARR
MERCHANT. NEBRASKA CITY
HON. WATSON L PURDY
LAND OWNER. MADISON
THEODORE REIMERS
STOCKMAN. FULLERTON
CARL ROHDE
RETIRED FARMER. COLUMRUS
JOHN G. ROSICKY
PUBLISHER
J. C. ROTH
INVESTOR. FREMONT
JOHN SCHINDLER
STANTON
W. H. SCHMOLLER
JOBBER
THEODORE H. SERK
STOCKMAN. NELIGH
a. E. SHUKERT
MANUFACTURER
HARRY E. SIMAN
WINBIDE
PAUL F. SKINNER
MANUFACTURER
A. F. SMITH
JOBBER
N, A. SPIESBERGER
WHOLESALER
HON. P. F. STAFFORD
NORFOLK
WILLIAM 6TORK
INVESTMENTS. ARLINGTON
ROBERT C. STREHLOW
CONTRACTOR
GEORGE B TYLER
INVESTMENTS. HASTINGS
A. J. VIERLING
PRES. PAXTON A VIERLING
IRON WORKS
THEODORE WIDAMAN
STOCK BUYER. AURORA
C. B. WILLEY
ATTORNEY, RANDOLPH
S. N. WOLBACH
MERCHANT. GRAND ISLAND
R. M. WOLCOTT
MERCHANT. CENTRAL CITY
HON. OTTO ZUELOW
MAYOR. 6CHUYLER
Does Prohibition
Reduce Crime?
The Promise
Advocates of State PROHIBITION predict there will be
fewer criminals in the penitentiary and fewer boys and g' Is
in industrial schools and reformatories, in case the people of
Nebraska wipe out their Local Option, High License Law and
adopt State PROHIBITION.
Let us see what are the results in Kansas under 35 years of
State PROHIBITION, and what the results are under 35
years of Local Option in Nebraska.
The Actual Result
SENTENCED INMATES OCTOBER 1, 1915
KANSAS NEBRASKA
Penitentiary. 830 326
Reformatory. 330 None
Boys’ Industrial School. 264 199
Girls’ Industrie 1 School. 154 99
' Total.1,578 624
(The foregoing In a complete liet of State Penal and Correctional I unfitu<ioiiM in the
two The fignrea are official. Nebraaka hna no Reformatory. Imuatea in
the Red era 1 Prison are not included in the Knnaaa total.)
The Cost to the Taxpayers
FionrpaKeSr^M“4raend°,iSod. KANSAS, expenses of above institu
Bo^d oe<ncil^fon” s,a,<; tionsfcr fiscal year 1914.$457,899.78
F7ouurnd o«rp£ecl7L BtenSH NEBRASKA, expenses of above insii-_
.toilersof stateinst!iut?ons tutions for fiscal year 1)14.$279,418.80
The Alley Joint in Kansas
Warden J. K. Codding of the Kansas penitentiary says that the
“LITTLE ALLEY JOINT” in the cities of Kansas makes criminals.
“After being in the penitentiary for three years and nine months (the
average sentence served) the KANSAS BOY who has gone wrong walks
out of the institution under parole * * * Cleaned, disciplined, re
formed, he leaves the penitentiary walls behind him to return to his
native city—the city that permitted him to become schooled in crime
* * * He finds that * * * his native city, the city that spoiled
him, hasn’t reformed any. IT HAS THE SAME LITTLE ALLEY
JOINT, the same rendezvous w’here some of the men and boys slip down
after night to play poker and shoot craps * * * He resists it for a
while, but the pull of the destructive fight of his native city is too much
for him. He slips a little and keeps slipping, and some morning he wakes
up after a debauch to find he has broken his parole * * *”
(See Official Report of the Kenaoe Conference of Charitiea and Correotiona
held November, ID 15, page 43.)
These are the conditions surrounding the men and boys of Kan
sas. Is it any wonder that the penal and correctional institutions
in Kansas contain two and a half times as many inmates as do sim
ilar institutions in Nebraska?
The Nebraska Prosperity League
OPPOSED TO STATE PROHIBITION. IN FAVOR OF LOCAL OPTION. HIGH LICENSE
President, L. F. CROFOOT Treasurer, W. J. COAD Secretary, J. B. HAYNES
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