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done by way of prevention of a character-destroying 

 habit in time of youth, the Kansas prohibitory law is 

 cited. The longer this statute remains, the more 

 effective its work and the more unanimous the public 

 sentiment supporting it. So popular has this meas- 

 ure become that no political party and no faction of 

 any other class has been able to take any effective 

 stand against it. It can be shown to any fair-minded 

 investigator that the great majority of the citizens 

 of Kansas are total abstainers from the use of in- 

 toxicants ; also that the state has brought up a new 

 generation of tens of thousands of men, now mostly 

 voters, who have no personal knowledge of the use 

 and abuse of alcoholic drinks and who have become 

 confirmed as total abstainers for life. 



Another unique Kansas measure ignored and 

 derided at first only less than was the prohibitory 

 liquor law when new is the statute forbidding the 

 use of tobacco in any form on the part of minors. 

 The wisdom of this statute is supported by the con- 

 clusions of scientific study of the effects of tobacco 

 on the young. The general purpose of the law is to 

 prevent the youth from taking up the tobacco-using 

 habit before reaching full maturity of years and 

 judgment. The general result will be the gradual 

 development of a generation of total abstainers from 

 the use of tobacco. 



