The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-03-30
CORRESPONDENCE.
DON JUAN.
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aIcHIsoS. KAN. March q, 1852
Few people aware of the great difficulties and
dangers which surround and threaten the publisher
Of an outspoken temperance paper like the Bugie. /
am forced to disguise myself in various ways, to
escape assassination, or something worse, at the
hands Of the Internal wdefying whiskey sellers
Locking over my stock of disguises, the other day
find the following:
Thre pairs Of false whiskers. with clothes TO
match TO represent an old man, an English csekney
and Granger.
One Chnamans suit. one negro wig and plug hat.
Dress, paipitators bonnet par,sol, veil and fan, to
represent an old woman.
One sailors costume
Full Indian costume, with pony in q rear room
One Buffalo Bill outfit
Costume of Low Dutchmsn, with wooden shoes.
Had it not been for these disguises, there is no
doubt but that, ere this. I would have yielded up
my sweet life E martyr to the great Of pro-
hibitiou.
The Bugie yesterday contained the following mild
editorial
coRRrrTNG PrBrlc SENTIMENT.
The so-called and alleged anti-prohibition papers
whose editors nearly all in the pay of the ga
loon keepers-sre doing more to corrupt public SEN
timent and make drunkards, criminals, orphans and
widows, than all the rum-sellers in Kansas These
isekas Of perdtion say to the drunkard, drink ali
you want to; the Law Is unconstitutional, because
no man, men, or Legislature has moral, legal or
constitutional right to say what you shall drink or
shall not drink. To the saloon keepers they ssy:
defy the law; We will mould public sentiment in
your fsvor-we will stand by you. and fight your
battles, because We want your influence, your pat
ronage, your good will, your votes and your money!
Yon are great and powerful auxiliary in politics
We need your aid. The ruin you are causing in the
households of our friends, by selling helish rum 10
Of little moment, compared TO your sweet smiles
your votes, and the cssh which is handed US month
y by the secret cashier Of your secret organization
You are making 800 per cent. out of the whiskey
traffic; Of course, you must divide, because We work
for pay and as you are making big thing by defy
ing plain Law, which you should obey just the
sams as any other Law. you afford TO pay US for
upholding you in breaking the law.
When Alexander the Great returned from the
siege Of Troy, and settled down in New York with
pension, and opened q frstclass saloon. he said to
me. one day, while taking cocktail before break
fast, rs an appetizer. that man with fame but no
money was poor ahoat that he had conquered all
the worlds ho could find lying around loose over the
sea, but ~ there money in the business he
concluded to come to America, and train as poll
tieian. lecturer, theatrical star. prire-ghter.
Seeing there was more money in the saloon business
than anything else. he had bought out ranch. and
was clearing. on an average. about $50 day. "A
can't subsist fame" said he, .but he can live
quite snugly on $50 day, clear, clean profit"
In an interview once with Bismarck. while travel
ling with the American legation in Europe, the ed
itor Of the Bugie susgested that the German wines
the best in the world-fsr ahead Of the French
wines in quality and bouquet bismarck said in re-
ply, that the great Of the success of the Ger
man armis. over the French. and the complete de-
feat Of the latter due altogether to the superb
ority Of the German wines "0ur soldiers said he,
'had three bottles of wine each day. but no water
was allowed them. Even the artillery and cavalry
horses allowed three buckets Of wine each per
day, and the effect wonderful. Why, nv old
charger, which rode in all the principal battles,
and who is alive yet and very corpulent. has drunk
nothing but wine since the war. lie won't touch
water at ALL and although thirty years DID, il as gay
and frisky a colt, and able to make his mile in
2:lsi before q light Concord with ease. Had the
French wines possessed the vim, life and goodness
Of our German wines, the VAT would have been pro-
tracted, and it would have been nip and tuck to win
But we beat them so easy, constantly, so thor
oughly, and quickly, as to sstonish all Europe.
The German wines, sir, fought that war, and de-
feated the French, There is no doubt Of that"
Lord Palmerston told the writer once, ut q sup
per given by the Queen that he attributed the dis
affection of the Irish altogeths- to Irish whskey,
which, he said. wac calculated to make man feel
patriotic and long for liberty, and farm of his
The Sultan of Turkey once said to us-but why
multiply the testimony We could cite hundreds of
illustrious names in different parts Of the world,
with whom We have conversed the liquor ques.
ton, to the effect that prohibition prohibits. and
that the internal whiskey business in Kansas must
be suppressed, at all hazards. The hanging of .
few wbiskey sellers would have = very Wholesome
effect We that little blood-letting be tried.
As soon as the Bugie, containing the above edto-
rial was out, I disguised myself as Dutch immi-
grant, and mingled with the crowd to note its e.
feet. DON JUAN.