The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-28
IN FAVOR OF LAW AND ORDER.

The Commonwealth of this morning
contains q report of an immense out
door gathering held at Topeka last even.
ing by the Temperance people ofthat
city, the immediate cause of the demon.
straiion being the citizens meeting
which was held ia the interest of the liq.
| our traffic at the same place Monday
evening. The vast assemblage embraced
many of the most prominent and influ.
entail citizens of the capital who ayailed
themselves of the opportunity thus ex
tended 10 record their serious protest
against the communIstic proceedings OF
Monday evening, and to array themselves
on the side of law and order as against
| q revolutionary element which advocates
an open and sweeping violation of the
constitution and law of the state, and q
forcIble appeal from questions that have
been settled at the ballot box by the will
of the majority.
The meeting was addressed by Cover
nor st. John, Judge Webb, Col. John
Richie, Joab Mulvanc, A. L. Williams
and others, and at the conclusion the fol
lowing sound resolutions were adopted
WHEREAS, The liquor power, in addi
| ton to its long list OF atrOcious offences
against society. has now reached the eli
max of crime by attempting 10 strike
| down the law of the state, and 10 place
in its stead the will of a handful of per
sons who recognize no rule of action but
their own mercenary interests; and,
| WHEREAS, The right 10 violate and
| nullify one law, at the pleasure of the
law breaker, logically implies the right
to violate and nulliiy any law, and all
and 10 the breaking down of all safe
| guards that surround the property and
| persons and lives of our citizens; and,
| WHEREAS, All citizens, irrespective oI
/ party or creed or opinion as TO the merits
| of q particular law, are interested equal
/ ly and alike in maintaining constituted
authority, which Is the common protect
or of all, and in resisting anarchy, which
| is the common enemy and robber of all
therefore,
ResOIUed, That we, citizens of Topeka
accept without hesitation the issue
forced upon us, viz: the sovereignty O
the people, as against the sovereignty o
the liquor dealers and their accOmplicei
In crime
Second-That in our opinion the tenn
perance law stands, as does every Othel
regularly enacted statute, as the expires
sion OF the will of the people-and tina
the effort to override and defy this law i
q deliberate outrage upon the 1unda
mental principle of our free government
Third-That the effort to violate thi
law, and To defy its penalties, will be re
sisted by US with an earnestness and
vigOr proportional TO our conviction o
the importance of the interests involved
| FOurth-That current events plainl,
show that the great body of our citizen
are in favor of the just and impartial en-
forcement of law. and that they join will
US in assuring all officers charged will
the administration of law that we will
sustain them, and that, in all proper AM
honorable ways, VIC will assist them il
upholding the supremacy of the law q
the land.
Fifth-That we brand with indignan
denial the calumnY that the people c
the capital city propose to set an exam
pie of rebellion against the Legislative
i judicial and executive authority of iii
state, and that we hereby declare TO GU
fellOw-citizeus in all portions of tn
state that in our maintenance OF law W
} are governed by regard for selfinteres
anu SOuuu pOllCy-Dy u ueSiTc IO Tclai
the confidence and respect of those VIII
have treated US so generously in the pas
and especially by solemn convictio
r of the obligation of loyalty to the con
monwealth of Kansas, of which we al
q part, and whose seat of government
located here.
: Sixth-That in this prosperous con
munity, where the poor and the ricl
r the laborer and the capitalist, dwell sid
10y side in peace and mutual rcspec
and Intelligent cooperation, we do, wit
:. one sentiment abhor and reject the II
cent utterances that contain the essenC
of communism and arnachy-the do
trine that property is robbery being til
natural ally of the doctrine that govern
ment is tyranny.
A Seventh-That, impelled by our r
8 gard for the peace and prosperity, an
the fair name of our city; by our int
est in the material, intellectual and mo
; al growth of our community; by loy
Q for our homes and those who dwell
4 them; by patriotic devotion to our r
publican government, the corner stoE
. of which is the will of the people C
9 pressed IN the form of law, il is our in
:. movable purpose that law shall be e
p forced, and to the execution of tn
purpose we pledge tour lives, our fo
tunes and our sacred honor"