The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-08-04
PROHIBITION IN KANSAS.
A Brewer,. view Of the sabicst ms 10 stnnd-.--
Ever Before.
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From the St. Louis Globe Democrat
The following letter has been received by Mr..
Ellis Wainwright, of this city, The writer Is \
prominent brewer and wealthy citizen of Lawrence,
Kansas:
alp cut from the Globe Deno,at reporting inter
view with ST. John. will simply say that il is e ar
acteristie Of the man. and usual, il made up Of
Measurements. st. John is looked upon ss the most
unreliable public mnn Kansas ever had, which IA
saving a good deal. He procured the support of the
Prohibitionsts when first nominated by supporting
prohibition. After nominated he pledged himself
privately the saloon that if elected. he would
not interfere with their traffic, etc, and his hrst
message to the Legislature did not recommend
prohibition, but license
He Is reported in the Globe Democrat ne saying that
'the law is accomplishing its purpose for it is doing
what every prohibitory law should do-stopping an
evil not entirely of course, but to such extent
make the final extinction of the liquor traffic
question of q very short time Nothing could be
further from the truth IL is patent TO all who will
open their eyes that after trial of about sixty days
fsince Nav l. when the law went into ehfectl, that
there are more saloons in Kansas to-day than before
the law enacted They have now no license to
pay, and they are sprnging up like magic in all our
large towns. of this have personal knowledge.
furnish many of them beer, and know whereof l
state. have many more calls for that artcle than
ever before, and more than can I'LL. ! brewed
twice on last Saturday. thing never done before
since have been in the business and vet obliged to
decline many orders. st. John said before the law
there thirty saloons in Topeka; there are that
many, if not more. now, and they selling with
out obstruction. II il the current testimony of
drinking and drunkenness in Topeka now than
before can substantate this fact by more than
100 Of the best in the town. In other cities is
the same; instead Of securing prohibition by means
ofths law thas opened up unlicensed and unresrict
ed saloons all over the state where iiseense was
had before. and in many places where liquor was
never licensed and never sold.
In this town U.awrenceI, the headquarters of all
the State temperance organizations, and which give
1000 majority for the prohihitory amendment, there
are now, 1 think, twenty five Government liquor
licenses aud liquor is sold free and open a. ever
il was. In Topeka aud Atehison the saloons are
paying tax of so month-not ostenslbly, but
really-as n license, and one molests them. In
LeaVenvoFth it's eatircly unrestricted and sold as
openly as ever In other towns the lqnor traffic Is
as general and no tax is paid lquote a statement
fruIa the Atehison CAalpioA, whose editor is the
member of the National Republican Committee rom
Kansas, and is universally respected as truth
full Corroborative statements might be quoted
without limit. but this is sufficient TO give You cor
rect view of the situation The saloons of Topeka,
and probably Atchison. are licensed to sell soda
water lemonade and other drinks, not naming intoN-
cating liquors hence ii is claimed that no law is
violated by such license.
from tho Atchison Champion.l
~ great deal of silly and unjust abuse has been
haaped upon Topeka, AtchisOn and leavcnworth,
aud few other cities in the State, upon the theory
that they have in eontrayenton of the Constitution
and laws of the state, licensed saloons The fact ~
not one Of these cities, are informed. has done
any such thing-certanly Atchison has not. The
saloons Of this city, il they sell liquor, do 50 with
the full knowledge OF the law, and of the possible
I'VE venture 10 assert too-and We have taken
some pains to impure of men who travel over the
State and know what they are talking about-that
the law is violated just much in one or two hun
lred of the smaller towns of Kansas considering
their respective populations, rs in Atehison, Topeka
or Leavenworth,"
The Governor l. quoted saying; The people
are coming in ut the rate of $50 900 year. nOtwith-
standing the grasshoppers, the drought, the high
winds and the liquor people" That statement was
a deliberate falsehood rs he know or should have
| known, when il Is n notorious fact, known by at
| least everybody in Topeka that Mr.. W. +. White,
the General Passenger and Ticket Agent OF the
| Atehison, Topeka aud Santa Fe Railroad Company
who is in p, ton to know, as more than half the
emirrants coming heretofore into the State came
/ over his road has repeatedly made the statement
| that emigration into this State has almost entirely
/ ceased The same complaint IL heard rom the
| officials Of the Union Pachc Railroad Company.
But it is on a par with all his statements, as the
| prediction which he makes, THAT the time will
come when YOU cannot find In this country one man
| opposed to prohibition" lie certainly dose not
mean that prediction for Kansas. ms the majority O
| those who voted for the prOhibtury amendment LAS
| fall would if they had the opportunity, Overwhelm
edge give the names of over 80 persons who voted
for the amendment last November in this, ono OF th'
banner prohibitory counties Of the state, who have
! 40 expressed themselves to me.
Am afraid that the reporter of the GIobe Denioerd
W ms same " hat taken in by the Governor, just n
| describing him as having u black mustaehe, whei
| in truth it's red. and only freshly painted ever,
| morning hut that's one of the many receptions b
has praeticed on the people here, and after all cal
not blame the interviewer of the Giooe- DeDoerai
| Your friend, JOHN WALEuff'