The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-19

twenty i've years of prohibition something
thing less radical nigh ne submitted. DR..
Crosby's method, ior instance, but not
now"
ELDER J. II. DUNCAN
was seen BY the BAzOo reporter and asked
wha. grounds he thought the legislature
would have for refusing to submit the
question of prohibition to direct vote of
the people. He replied, that he did not
think they could, In justice, refuse to sub
NIT the question, if they we're the servants
of the people.
There were certainly. no constitutional
restrictions which would justify = refusal
to give the people chance to express
themselves.
DO you think prohibition will come ?"
asked the reporter.
We'll. I think the fact that the opposi-
! tions are aroused on the subject, indicates
that there is strength on the side of tenn
Perance; and sgsin, nearly all the churches
have, In state conventions and associations
declared in favor of prohibition. These in
dictate that the question vas . live one.
and strong influence would be found in
its favor, even from those who sometimes
drink"
REV. r.. A. JOHNS
of the German Evangelical church, said !:
AS to temperance, prohibition etc, can
only say:
/. The oulv sn.idote which cansuccess-
fully and effectively couuteract the poisons
corrupting cur human family, is the Cos
pei Of Jesus Christ.
2 All vicious habits can be fully over
come hy change Of heart, and by that
alone.
3. Try, with the help of God, to con-
vince men OF their error and to lead them
to the Savior and Redeemer, Christ. and
you will have christian, and therefore tenn
perate, men and women"
THE PASTOR
Of the Baptist churct, Rev. b. Fuller.
had just returned to the city from Burling
ton, Iowa, and begged to be excused from
an expression of his views. He said, how
ever, that he believed in total abstinence,
though he desired more time in which to
state his views on the question of prOhlbi-
ten.
THE FIRST LAWYER
met ~ the reporter, was Captain L. L.
Bridges. To pertinent inquiries, he said
Il am in favor of prohibition for myself
and believe it wouid be q good thing for
all men. Ii the Law could be made effect.
ual it would be well, but do not SO think
it can be done Still, l am in favor of il
as an experiment. although fear that it
cannot b. enforced and that would bring
contempt upon il, and such contempt would
extend to other laws. II the people want
to vote on the question, let them"
WHERE HE WILL ne rorrrp
Mr.. B. G. Wilkerson thought the people
should be allowed to vote on the question
il they wanted to, this is their right and
privilege. While not strict temperance
man, in the accepted meaning of the word,
Mr.. Wilkerson said he would be found
with them. If the lines were squarely drawn.
He said he thoaght the whisky element
we're afraid the measure would carry, if
submitted, Judging from the opposition
they were making. 81 don't see how any
party or paper can oppose the submit; sion
of the question to the people"
Judge Shirk was seen, but was too busy
to talk upon the subject as he wished. He
thought the people should be allowed to
vote upon the settlement of the question,
and believed it would be, eventually, sub
mitted to them
E. ]. Smith didn't hesitate q moment to
say that he would vote for the amendment
when il was submitted
NOT THE BETTER WAY.
Postmaster Blair said he did not think
prohibition the better way to suppress the
liquor trsffic, but thought the question
should be submitted to the people.
Mr.. John Montgomery, jr, said, very
hat hot he in fov rf rro
hibition.
Rev. q. A. Beattie was met on the street,
but as he was just about to leave the city.
he could make no full statement. "You
NAV saw for me-" he said to the reporter,
"tha am for prohibition first, last and
all the time. And believe it is coming"
Elder George Fl. Plattenburg, one Of the
MIST eminent divines of the Christian
inquiry propounded, replied that he was
not prepared, just then, to state his views.
"You NAV say. however, that / am not op-
posed to prohibition" he said to the man
of news.
THERE ARE MANY WAYS"
said Col. Ritter, to the reporter, Gin which
the money now invested in the liquor traffic,
could be used with great profit. To say
that prohibition would be . financial in
jury TO the community, is silly. There ere
forty things in which the money could be
invested, any one of which would prove
profitable We need a linseed oil mill,
factories and manufactures, and no loss
would ever accrue 10 the country by the
stoppage of the liquor traffic Am not a
teetOtsler but I'll be hanged If wouldn't
vote for prohibition, for believe it good
thing, and there are hundreds of drinking
men who Will do the same thing when they
get the Chance"
Mr.. D. Fl. Smith vas found waiting fer
his mail, At the post Office. He said he
thought it doubtful that the people wanted
the question submitted, but Il they did, it
should be. He, however, did not believe
|! it wOdld carry; not at the present, NJ
least