COMPLETE PROHIBITION II 
Yet no man in Marion County was then rated as a 
millionaire, but the jails and poor-houses were prac- 
tically empty. The great per capita of wealth was 
actually distributed among the people who earned it. 
They were sober, so they saved; they were healthy, 
so they worked. They were well schooled, so they 
worked to purpose and with direction and made 
money.” 
In Kansas, therefore, the prohibition experiment 
appears to have been eminently successful, but this 
was chiefly because it met with the general consent 
of the people. Presumably such of the inhabitants 
as were determined to drink alcohol and were pre- 
pared to take the risk of breaking the laws could still 
do so, but there is no information to show how large 
a proportion of the whole they formed. In all the 
prohibition States taken together the illicit consumption 
of alcoholic liquors appears to have been very con- 
siderable. It is astonishing to find that with the gradual 
=xtension in the area of the country under prohibition 
there was no appreciable decrease in the per capita 
consumption of alcoholic beverages. This is well 
shown by the following figures, which represent the 
averages for quinquennial periods.* 
PER CariTA CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN THE UNITED 
STATES OF AMERICA. 
1898-1902 
103-1907 
1908-1912 
[Q13-1Q17 
Period. 
Beer (Gallons). 
20 
9° 
Spirits (Gallons). 
1-25 
1°47 
1'41 
1°43 
““ Monthly Notes of Temp. Legis. Lg.,” 1924, p. 28.