The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-02-23
L. It & Success ?

Is It Successr
This Of course. refers 10 the liquor law. IL
seems hardly necessary, in view of everyday
facts TO ask such question; yet there are thoSe,
a, the head of whom stands the Governor OF the
STATE who persist in asserting that the law Is
snccess. except IN a very few localities in the
State. Now and then there is a conviction und-r
the law: but every week piles up the testimony
higher and higher, that the law is disastrous
failure.
After repeated failures TO convict "hisH'!
sellers in Topeka. before the Police Jndge' II Nas
said that no more eases would he brought before
that officer, but that they wonld he taken TO inc
District Court where the law could be enforced.
We'll. n number of suits were brought in that
court. and last week they came up for trial.
Every one, with a single exception, was ruled
ant az conrt or a HolLe was entered. The remain
,uy one went TO trial, and the jury, as usnal,
failed TO aeree. So much for enforcing the law
In Topeka.
Hinwatha is 50 hot for prohibition that the at
mosphere is blue with it, and smells OF It. Al.
HuIse, a druggist of that town, was recently ar
rested, on the charge Of selling whskey- The
arrest was made upon the complaint of hired
spy and detective, who bought a bottle of whis-
kew. A change Of venue was taken TO Hamlin,
also strong prohibition town. Last week the tn
al came off, The prohibitionists gathered IN full
force, and resolving themselves into beasts OF
burden, hauled the spy triumphantly from the
depot to the justices Office. He was there rs
prosecuting witness, and his bottle Of whiskey
was there. The result was, that Hulse was ac-
quilted, and it was adjndged that the detective
should pay the costs. The inference is, that the
prosecution was held to he malicious. That is
the way the oath of a hired spy is regarded The
poor devil had TO walk back TO the depot. The
law cannot be said to be n success in Brown
Comfy.
Cowley County was the banner County in CIV
ing majority for the amendment. The Winfield
CoHrGnt says that the law is failure in that
County, and has been a heavy burden of cost,
and that the people are sick Off
Mr. Hooker, a prominent citizen of Nemaha
County, who favored the amendment, writes a
long letter, in which he confesses that the law is
a failure, and that its adoption has caued more
evil than good.
waterville, in Marshall County, another strong
prohibition town, has just had its first liquor
trial. The defendant got clear.
About two months ago, White Cloud took one
Of her periodical spasmodic temperance reviyals,
and closed up the saloons. On January 9Th, we
published the following item:
white Cloud is enjoying of her periodical
Temperance spasms IL will next be in order, judg-
ing from the past for our correspondents there to
record IN unusual number Of drunken rows"
Our correspondents have not yet made the rec
ord, unless they do so this week Perhaps they
LAT - D,t L.
that as it may, White Cloud, last week, had one
of the worst drunken rows that ever occurred
there. Tive men were shot and severely wound
ed zone of them peaceable man, who was not
engaged in the row, and one man is now in Jail
in consequence of it. Nothing like it ever oc-
curred in the days of license.
The prohibitionists get on their high horse,
and loudly assert two propositions as great prin-
cples, One is. that it is never right to license
wrong; and the other is, that there no degrees
of respectability or honor among liquOr-sellers,
but that all are equally low down in the scale of
infamy. That sounds very finely, still it does
not meet the emergency. There evils that
never can be abolished-of which Hquor-drink-
ing is the most widespread The next best thing
is to regulate it, There is as much difference in
respectability and standing among liquor-sellers
there is among persons engaged in any other
business BY having a license law, with large
license fee, responsible men only can secure IL
eenses-Inen who can give bond that they will
obey the law and as they have property TO risk
by any unlawful acts, there is an inducement TO
keep within bounds. There is no call for secret
dens, kept by irresponsible persons. But under
the prohibtory law, all liquor selling is alike