The Wichita city eagle., 1880-03-04

10 skEESase u ~ kssk -
In the issue Of the 18th hear scream
fFom she EAGLE IN ne following words. ''St.
job . Couue 9Does Hurt" May ask
where the pam Is! Rut think am right
when nay Il Is In its besk Instead Of its
taiens: thas BOT only st. Johns course, but
the course u every true snd loyal citizen OF
this county would hurt il they would choose
to do - certain Of our citizens have done.
l can assure you that were It mot for some
county news every good citizens Of the coun-
~ would refuse to take amy paper printed in
wichita from the possofhce. do NOT wish
TO enter into any argument. nor do wish to
defend st. Johu-gor believe be is fully able
to defend himself il he thinks it necessary
but do protest against such insults ~ sp-
pesr IN that article. thi ruch articles are
more dAmniny than any ''Presbyteria doc
trine" ever was Or ever will be to any COM
munity. Since We have no paper in this
county that 10 willing to advocate the pro-
posed constitutional amendment -aud be-
liese ere are at least two-thirds Of the in
tellgent reading pOpulatio Of this county In
favor OF prohibitio Il think We ought to
have = society started whose duty 1t should
be to see that every school district In the
county has = auxiliary in working order,
no ~ to make Sedywick county the banner
county by casti its vote in favor Of the con
stitutional amendment. will some earnest
| temperance advocate make Il call for such
,onve ton, to be held in Wichita at II early
datey Viola township has An orga lied tenn
persnce society working order, and pro-
poses to work up its interests in the neigh
borhood. I hope that the amendme { VIII
carry, and IL the FAGLE is afraid Of bel de.
prived of some of its rxtions IL the State OF
Kansas I suppose it will have its wi gs left
and can get 1t somewhere else. The EAGLE
makes mentio" OF an undcrcurrent already
existing. s,mply ak the. EAGLE and its
adhere Il to look around among those who
are at the bead Of such movement. aud the
peruse the first part Of the second chapter Of
Job q i see il tacrr is not more truth than
poetry. Respectfully. CSGAR.
four corrcspoude tkicks before he is prick
ed The editor Of the EAGLE is not lighting
temperance, aud said othing against St.Joh
a. temperance ma nor does the que-tio
,aye any bearing o. loyalty. We did not
discuss ,najorities, nor are We run by them.
We have no objection to the formation Of
temperance societies in every tow shipiu the
State. l fact. We believe that to he the true
plan. The EAGLE don't get its rations from
either tempera ce or snti-tcinperance organ
cations. Evidently ~ gar don't know
what he Is talking about. The EAGLE depre-
Gated st Johns course in that the Republic
ca Governor Of Kansas is evidently Using
the position given him by the Republican
party to force it through the next conve
ION to adopt course that would. If success
ui. not only disrupt the organization. but
turn the state over to the Democracy. We
believe In temperance. but ''Cnsar" is any
thi but temperate in his language. The
reason We do I advocate the proposed
amendment l. simply because We are satisfied
that il j. worse than sham, that 1t direct
v warra Is the sale, manufacture and impor-
latio OF liquor. and ut the same time take.
the power to CO troll away from municipal
Cover ments. But this is \ matter purely OF
opinion about which good me differ. II
..Ungar' knew more he probably would say
less. The EAGLE has always been consist
e { advocate OF temperance. but il thinks too
much OF the great underlying Pri ciples oI
the Republican party to calmly sit by and see
any move made that promises to jeopardizr
its existe &c without entering aprotest.-ED]