The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-06-02

By PARDEE BUTLER.
NUMBER III.

the lnuucncc Oh JnlS Society "Dar-
win will once govern the world, az
the gospel now does" In this in.
stitution the gatherings at the
Turners' Hall Club, the dance.
house and the beer-garden, take
the place of the Lords day, the
church and the Sunday school.
This is the right arm of the
strength of the German liquor
dealers. Through the machenery
of this secret, oath-bouad and for
eIgn organization, they are able
silently to strike down a politician
who n as become obnoxious to
their displeasure. There is no
public accusation, no hearing, no
appeal. The sentence is pronoun-
ced by a secret tribunal, the blow
falls, and the man is politically
dead. No word is spoken but
others note the fact and take
warning. When serpent has
shown the dead venom or it's bite,
men will keep clear of its fangs.
Roman Catholic priests and
German Turner's are the breadth
of the heavens apart oD all quest
IONS but this OF lagerbeer and
whisky. In all else they hate
each other with sweet and cordial
hatred; but when It comes to the
question OF free lager and free
whisky, their souls are knit to-
gether as the souls OF David and
Jonathan.
We will numerically arrange the
principal facts that bear on this
question.
1st, Americans have gone ont
of the business OF keeping sa-
looms, not because it is unprofita-
BILE, for it is emlneDtly profitable,
but because of the public Odium
that attaches to it. Even foreign
born saloon keepers, callous as
they are, and wish to be, to Amer
lean opinion, seek, by: stained
windows and lattIced doors, to bar
out that terrible infamy which
they can not shake of, and to pro-
vide a hiding place for the self.
condemned men that patronize
their shops.
I'd. The world does move.
This public opinion is the growth
of the last fifty years. Fifty years
ago the business was as respecta-
BILE as any other; and Intoxicating
drinks were freely used by all
classes, without any conscience of
wrong.
Sd. Those who are now the
hard cases, and whose inveterate
strong drink serves as the text OF
the oft-repeated sermon, that men
will drink, and that prohibitory
laws do not do any good, are large
ly the product of this old and bad
order of things.
4th. Outside of the cities, the
people OF large territories of the
country have not only abandoned
the use Of strong drink, but have
prohibited the sale of it. This
pertains to many States where it
is yet licensed in the cities. The
ladies OF New York did not furn-
ish wine to the gentlemen making
calls on last New Years day.
9th. The children grow up with
no craving for strong drinks; and
mothers, taking warning from the
fate of other motherS children,
are seeing to it that this craving
shall never be created in their own
children. A mother whose three
boys were all drunkards, and these
were all the children she had, said
to the writer: 81 just want to vote
once, and then I would try to put
liduor so far away that it never
would come back again."
9th. The temperance laws that
have been hitherto passed have
been largely made by half-hearted
legislators, and have been exccu
ted by half-hearted executive Off
GERS, whose aim has been to keep
friends at one and the same time
with liquor dealers and temper
ence men. These laws have been
executed no more sincerely than 1
were the revenue laws by the men
engaged in making crooked whis-
ky; and, because of this failure, e
clamor has been raised against
prohibitory laws as being impossi
bic of execution.
7th' Liquor license laws mean
just this and nothing more-that
those that hold in their hands the
price of blood are willing to share
this wages Of unrighteousness
with officers of justice, whose du-I
~ it would be to punish them if
each man had his deserts.
8th. The storm of popular in
dignation that has been tor fifty
years gathering against this wan
ton and causeless destruction OF
human hfe-thIs bootless waste
of money-this wreck of all prec-
ious thlngs-this Wholesale bank
ruptcy, pauperism and crime,
brought on The nation by strong
drink-this devilish and internal
torture of sinless and unsinningI
women and children-will yet
sweep away, like chaff before the
wind, those Janus-faced and in
cincere politicians whose purpose
has been at one and the same time
TO serve God and the devil. Men
will be put in office who will haye
an honest purpose to make practi-
cable laws. and see them faithful
ly executed; and, failing in this,
they win be as relentlessly and as
often changed as Lincoln, in the
war, changed his generals.
9th. The chief good of prohib
tory laws, while imperfectly exc
cuted, is that they prevent those
who have not yet been entrapped
in the tolls of the liauor-dealer
from being caught in his snare.
In such case this chief good is
therefore future aHd prospective.
This is the ground of the mistake
made by both the friends and the
foes of prohibition. They see no
immediate good result and ex-
claim against the law. "Thc hus-
bandmen waiteth for the precious
fruit of the earth; and hath long