Smyrna times., 1882-04-26
The Next Waterloo.
BY BISHOP WARREN.

The first concerned and affected all |
Europe; the next concerns and affects all |
America. The ideas and principles that |
minated the first embodied themselves in |
Instruments of war, and meant death;
those that inspire the second embody
themselves in that grander instrument OF
freemen, the ballot, and mean life The
irst contended against the dominance of
outward force; the second against the
,lavery of inward appetites. The first
had been preceded by minor victories in
f;lr-otf Spain, Leipsic, and Moscow; the
second by minor victories in far-Of Maine
and Massachusetts, and skirmishes i'll
South Carolina and Arkansas; but in
each case the grand gathering of forces
for iiaal struggle is to one place. The
first was q war to prevent war, universal
and runous: the second is against the
lin of every interest. present and to
come.
Kansas first struck a sufficient blow
against intemperance by prohibiting the
manufacture of alcoholic drinks, and put
| ing that prohibition into the Constitution
| of the STATE. That law has been in force
en- months. How does it work? The
| Conferences of Methodist preachers devot-
g an hour TO the consideration Of this
| question. 1t was agreed that, outside of
fur or five cities, the law was better en-
forced than the law of prohibition against
any other kind Of crime. A stranger
would ride 1000 miles on the railway and
aot find over three places where he could
set drink OF liquor. The commitments
t. the State PeniteMtary in 1880 were 290 ;
in 1881, only 1888; an the prOhibitory law
WIS in force only eight months of the
ar. Only three or four Republican
newspapers in the State oppose the law.
The best political paper advertises itself as
"a fearless champion of temperance"
Kansas is now receiving an unprecedented
Immigration of the best classes of people:
The A. r. {: S. F. r. r. earned $685.
rs "a in 1880. In 1881 it earned $12, ,484 :
1881. A conductor on eight miles OF
that road between Emporia and Howard
jity said: II have had but one man
nder the influence of liquor on my train
ince the law went into operation" The
Increase of taxable property Of 1881 over
1880 is SO. 342 2,611.59. If this BE- ruin may
spread all over the Union.
There is but one distilery in the State
IN that very small one. Illinois pay,
Government tax on distilled liquors, pei
capita, $3.50; Ohio, $3.50; Kansas l:
cents.
Because prohibition prohibits, the run
power is determined to make its most des
perate fight in Kansas next fall. Money
is already pouring into the State by thu
BARREL" Little country sheets, always oil
slle, are changing principles or locations
Signs of the conflict everywhere thicken
Rum knows that to lose this battle is t.
lose Iowa next, then Michigan, and so on
i'll constitutional prohibition shall be th
aw of the whole Federal Union.
Meanwhile, the friends of law and Orde
ire not dismayed. They have no fear o
ribes on a population that has been sobe
year. People that were at first indiffer
,nt or hostile have enlisted, moved there
). o by the good effects everywhere visible
:. ,r by their disgust at men steadily tryin
L O break Down one law Of the State, whic
would soon lead to breaking down a.
,lher laws. Leavenworth county, tina
Y voted 3,4OO against the prohibitOr
1 1,.y al nA
tempe rance ticket Revolutions do not G
backward:
The negroes of the recent exodus ar
Utmost a unit for prohibition. PerhaE
or this end they were sent into the State
J iov. St. John recently said in Harris
urgh, Pa: "There was one set of nae
hat needed no exhOrting or drilling
they were always in line, and doing tn
,turdiest battle. They were the Metl
,dists." There are now four Conference
= # them. These are men who have bee
imprisoned, mobbed, and almost murde
4 for their principles. All the rest, eve
those who have suffered for the caus
co lrt a like opportunity, and are reaf
NAN
iospel that includes temperance. II
,luse cannot fail. Better that ten thou
nd men should sell out their homes
the East and come here as in the earli
lays.
What is the inducement? We ha
alternately heard from Kansas a moan
/ boast, shrek or a hallaluia, for t
past twenty years. What is the trut
Land commands a much higher price
Kansas than equally good land over an
visible line in Missouri. All the imr
grants have gone over possible Edens
Missouri, because the trail of the serpe
was on them, to get at the deserts of Kf
P%t' crs sas. Missouri has been cursed by its pc
I'd tics, and is poorer to day by tens of II
nF lions of dollars therefor. She might ha
- had most of the hardy populations a