Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-15

BILE letter published In another
column from Judge w. p. Camp
bell of Wichita, on the subject OF
st. John and prohibition. The
writer is and has been q conscien.
tious Republican, but he has writ
ten truths which will be ackonwl-
edged by every fair-minded man.
His arguments will have no effect
on q large class of hypocritical
beings who, are riding their. hob
by, apparently so earnestly, who
fiRuratively are climbing to house
tops to pray and advocating that
dcspised 81 am better than thou "
doctrine. While there are honest
advocates of the prohibition
movement the leaders are no
more In earnest than their class
are in advocating new doctrines
for the purpose Of getting votes
money or position.
Temperance 10 in the right and
intemperence should be discoun-
tenanced and is by all good citi-
sens. The prohibitory amendment
and the laws enacted to enforce
that amendment are both failures
in Kansas. It Is well known that
in Topeka, Atchison. Leaven-
worth, Dodge City, Caldwell and
IN fact all the cities and large
towns in the state saloons are
kept open and liquors sold to q
greater extent to-day that before
the amendment was adopted six.
teen months ago. In a few small
towns intoxicating drinks are not
sold with open doors, but will
any one say that liquors can't
be obtained in any of those townsi
Just ask the commercial travel
ers whose business takes them
in every part of the state. They
will tell you that the landlords
Of the hotels furnish them with
bottles, that the druggists sell il
ION the sly" or that they eau get
II other in WAYS.
Lately a party connected with
a wholesale liquor house in Kan
sas City wrote q private letter tC
q friend in Chic ago andlaccident-
~ the letter!got .intoj the hand,
ola reporter who published it
The liquor man stated that prohi-
bition in Kansas was the best
thing that could have occurred
for his. house, for now, he stated
they were doing an immense bus
mess IN small packages and those
being shipped o. o. d. there wa
no trouble about bad bills
He said another thing: an inferior
article OF liquor could be sold a
the same price they formerly solo
adecent article for.
The experience Of this house il
the same as hundreds of Others
east OF Kansas; and yet these pro
hibitionists 60 to other states
write letters and give out the
statement that Kansas is now {
prohibition state ! And there are
tools who actually believe that il
10. They are innocents who do mo-
get outside Of their own yardl
after dark and who believe any
improbable story so It happen
TO be an argument for their way
Of thinking.
Then IL IL is Q fact that the Law
10 being violated ever day, WHY
leave such Law on the statnte
books or have such an inopera-
tive and bunRling clause In the
constitution. That law is worse
than no law which 10 imperative
IN lie provisions, and, that otheI
and wholesome laws may not al
90 be violated, should be repealed
IL 10 like the decayed or barreu
tree, taking the vitality Of those
which would be useful IL bui
cleared OF their surroundings
Men learn to evado the proVisionI
OF the prohibitory laws and find
that go easy and the punishment
90 remote and uncertain that
they are tempted to experiment
on more dangerous ground.
lie told 20 get q drink OF
whisky or to deny having receiv.
cd 1t or sold Il will encourage
men to lie about gravsr matters
and the pepurer 10 soon in exis-
tence.