The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-11-18
rur NEW AxrNpnENr TROUBLES.

The Prohibition Amendment just adopted
by the people of Kansas by six or seven
thousand majority, promises 10 be the source
| of innumerabc troubles and strifes. AL
ready have prominent members OF the bar
arr.igned themselves upon either side of the
question. Unquestionably the amendment
does away with the existing laws upon the
| subject OF liquor selling. licenses. protection
aud penalties but what have we In the
stead of said laws. is wnere the differences
Of opinion comes in. Revenues of cities are
about to be cut off, which is another source
Of anxiety, and free whisky is threatened in
many localities. Some are advocating the
| organizati OF the next Legislature upon
high pressure principles, making the liquor
question the one supreme test for everything,
and the organization of a State constabulary
to patrol every town. precinct and ward. In
addition to these perpeNities. in all the cities
! and towns of importance. private clubs are,
it il said, being organized, and rooms rented
and fixed up for meetings. This is the worst
phaze of the whole business, and one which
the EAGLE expressed itself AS dreading when
the question was first discussed. such club
rooms and organizations will ruin ten young
men where the saloons wouldn't catch one.
Down with the club rooms. Give us law
that will imprison every man caught in sa-
loon drug store. or even with bottle OF
whisky in his pocket, rather than these So
cial gatherings. where spiri;uous liquors are
TO he covertiy furnished. Better are open
saloons upon every corner. with license and
III election. 80 far as the youth Of Kansas are
concerned. than those tcmpiin. helis, called
club rooms.
Upon the subject, q. W. Martin, State
Printer. who spent election day at his Old
home at Junction City. writes As follows:
Other mems whisky. during my few years
| in Junction City. cost me directly 5000.
and Owl Clubs, not doggeries, was the way
it happened.
Iwant 10 say TO the boys Of junction City,
under the age of twenty for Gods sake
don't follow your seniors into Owl Clubs.
The sociabiiity and conyiviality they furnish
is fraud; the club weakens Most any 9TH
er form of sociability strengthens. The dog
gerry will never make ,irunkard Of you.
Young man. because there is something re-
pusiyc about it; but the Owl Club and sim
liar social" and glittering institutions will.
Following this the editor OF the Common
usaith saws it ident that Mr.. Martin don't
contemplate any gains TO the temperance
| cause by the substitution of ''ciub,' FOR
| .doggcries," as is inevitable under the ope-
rations of the amended constitution. But
we Join our words of advice To those Of his,
| to YOU, me to beware Of ''social clubs
where liquor is kept If You must have
whisky. buy it 10y the bottle and take it 10
| YOUR rooms or places of business, rather than
| to become a member of club. We have
conscien,ously opposed the adoption Of the
| amendment. believing il would result in evil
and nothing hut evil, but it has boon adopt
ed and we shall do our best TO see that the
| least evil grows out of il. The "sociai
clubs" in every block is what is be dreaded
| worse than pcstilcnce and fire. Better FAR
that. MS we stated above, YOU take your
| liquor to your homes. or sneak into back
doors of drug stores and saloons than to join
..soeial club" We confess that We have
but little hope of staying the great tide of
drinking and law breaking which We fear is
just before us. growing out of the adoption
Of the amendment. We give our note Of
warning nevertheless"
And 80 say We. And further. IL prohib-
ton is "A bona fds part of our State organic
law. let its spirit well as its letter be rig
orously and completely enforced. No back
doors. no drug store shams and no private
rooms under the head Of '.iterary" or
..sociai'' clubs. We want no humbug Maine
prohibition in Kansas.