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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 71

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Alleeged Disease. No. of Affidavit.
Dysentery 1
Constipation 1
Cold 66
Malaria 6
Nervousness 2
Indigestion 48
Billiousness 6
La Grippe 4
Debility 12
Bowel Complaint 4
Headache 5
Dyspepsia 49
Chill 11
Rheumation 5
Asthma 3
Diarrhœa 4
Gripes 2
Lung Complaint 4
Kidney Disease 7
Neuralgia 3
Painter's Colic 1
Ague 2
Sunstroke 1
Weakness 3
Colic 1
Fistula (for a horse) 1
Used in Practice 2
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Statement of Major S. J. Anderson, an ex-member of the State Legislature, and present Assistant-General Ticket Agent of the Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, living at Topeka:—My opinion regarding Prohibition is that it is an impossibility to enforce the law should public sentiment be opposed to it, as is the case in many of our large cities. I think the opposition to the law largely arises from change of population. Of course, the hardened drinker you will hardly ever succeed in converting to the viewing of the law with favour, and then the stranger page 23 coming in from other parts feel the restraint. One of its advantages is that the open saloon has disappeared, and this, I hope, will have a beneficial advantage on the young men. The law undoubtedly prejudicially affects settlement, for it keeps away many desirable settlers, who, as in the case of the Germans, must have their beer, and who, whilst they drink in moderation, are certainly an example to some others of our settlers who do not admit that they themselves do so. I have no doubt, in my own mind, that the man accustomed to drinking, even if a moderate, would not attach much weight to the affidavit required under the Act, although, as you point out, it Would decidedly be perjury. This, of course, applies only in general, and not in individual cases.