The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-13

She has prohibited the sale of liquor
altogether, and is carrying out the law.
Good Lord, who would want to live in
such a country? Saloon keepers are
shutting up shops and going into other
business. What few remain at their
old stands are turning them into lem
onade, soda water, and pop-beer con-
Germs. Picture that once pompous
traficker in ardent spirits, that fur
nisher of goodly cheer, dealing out pop
beer, lemonade and soda water at sc. a
glass. How have not the old and time
honored customs of our fathers fallen
The temperance people have not been
without good and wholesome advice
in every stage of their work. The
liquor element has repeatedly offered
suggestions, and eYinced a willingness
to take the whole burden of the consid-
GRAFTON of this question upon them
selves. No measure has been brought
forward for the furtherance of the
temperance cause but that they have
taken as much interest in it as if it
were their own. In legislative bodies
they are profuse with amendments
and other kindly indications of their
desire to make every thing harmoni-
Gus, and when, from time to time, laws
have been passed, they have been free
to call attention to their various de-
fects, and to render them null when
they have been of a character that
would antagonize their brethren and
co-workers. Were it not for the ex-
IRENE elements in both parties recon
Citation would long ago hove been
effected. There is shading all along the
line on the temperance question that
tends to draw off and neutralize the
two elements, which is very enc0urag-
ing. We have first an extreme tenn
perance center. This is the radical
element. Then there is a standard
temperance aoi'lg that walks in temper
ance and talks temperance, when it
says anything. Then comes the tenn
peTa'ace aohisky aoiaag, which talks tenn
perance, but takes whisky on the sly.
Here the color changes and we have
the a0hisky temperance a0iag of the
other side, which is personally temper
ate, but talks whisky. A little farther
on comes the s0hisky a0ing, which talks
whisky ard drinks whisky. Last, but
not least, is the radical eOhisky center,
which talks whisky, drinks whisky,
and sells whisky. Here lies the
strength of the liquor element. 1t is
this that comes out strong at election.
Ably abetted by its powerful wing, the
whisky element in general, and even
more powerfully by its unarmed, but
influential left, it charges irresistibly,
bayonets to the front, upon the polls.
Opposed to it is the radical temperance
center, which stands firm; its strong
right wing, powerful but not wishing
to make temperance the issue; it's
doubtful left, with butts to the front
and bayonets to the rear. Outfanked
it loses the day. This is about the con-
dition of affairs in most of the states.
The temperance people, unable to win
in the open field, harrass the good peo-
pie over the way by a continual
cross-fre of unique legislative acts,
which subjects them to all sorts of in
conveniences and serves only to arouse
their ire. Such an one is the anti
treating law of this state and the one
lately referred to Of Massachusetts.
In Kansas the victory of the temper
ance people must have been night
attack and a surprise, strange as such
a suppoSition must seem. Whatever
the facts may be, We may look for live
ly times at the next converting of their
Legislature, unless, indeed, the law be
circumyented by the wisdom O. of
some learned judge before that time.