Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-10-04

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riders LA TO January l., lsSs...........s Sil 90
Orders IL 70 February 10, Jag .
Orders l. 90 TO september H. I" 54iSs6
Cash in Topeka State Bank as per bank
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Respe ,ttully submitted
GEoRGE NJ. sTEARNs, Treas.
The auditing committee made the follow
ing report:
Your committee ID audit the accounts of
the treasurer aud secretary Of the s ate
Temperance Uaion, 6nd that the reports
are correct, and the balance in the treasury
is SI,0i979. Oh. CowLEs,
A. Coz,
L X. ELLIOTT,
Septembe. is, 1888. Committee.
Presiden. Campbell then m ade his annual
address, which was as follows:
speech of Hon. A. b. Cam pbell.
L1diss and Gentlemen of the Cjartntim -
have thought for some weeks, that the
best service could perform 70: this Con
vsn.ion, when it met, would be TO present,
briefly and carefully, in an opening address,
the condition and needs Of the temperance
cause in the Safe OF K ansas, as the subjsc.
presented ITSELF to my mind, and to make
such suggestions IS seemed to me to be wise
a, d prudent action fer the future. / have
tried TO prepare myself for tina,
duty and shall perform it at the
hour as we'll as can. Please remember
that these are mere suggestions Of my Owe
which may or may not commend them
selves to your juigmen.s, and are simply
made to aid you in the performance Of the
important duties before you. A careful
man frequently looks back over his past hit
tory, to see whether in the ligh. OF the e1-
perience of the past, he il pursuing the
wisess course. We will make &c great.mis-
take in the future, if we are careful 20 treas
ure up the lessons Of the past. And We
must look to the past also, to discover
whether we are consistent with the course
| marked out in the beginning Of
our work. If we are pursuing a
plan Of work, we must not depar. from it
without good reason, and we must no. for
get what we have done, but, taking careful
view of the whole situation, past and pre-
sent, We can wisely construct our plans for
the future. For these reasons, we will re
view the ground over which we have
travelled to our present advanced position
After five years of active temperance agita-
| ton in the field of moral suasion, the
legislature Of 1879 came together in Topeks,
There were many strong temperance meu
in that body, and they were seeking
more stringent temperance laws. As has
been the case always, after the popular
heart has been touched BY moral reform
work upon this question, 90 thst the people
became aroused to the evils of the liquor
traffic the desire to get rid Of the business
by legal and proper efforts, take possession
Of them; hence prohibition always follows
moral suasion, ss effect follows cause. At
this session, the folio wing bill was intro.
duced in the Senate by Senator Bradley, on
the 24,h day of January, A. d. 1879:
! AN ACT.
To amend chapter IS Of the General Statutes Of
| Kansas, 1.6S, entitled, IAN act to festrai n
drsmshops and taverns. and to regulate tn G
sale of intoxicating liquors" and supplemental
| to said act.
Be it enacted by tie Legislature Of the State q
| Kansas:
SECTION 1. That Section of said Chap
ter SO of the general statutes of 1868, en-
titled, "An act to restrain dramshops and
taverns. and to regulate the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors." be amended 30 as to read as
follows: Section l. Before s dramshop
license, tavern license or grocery license
shall be granted to any person applying for
the same, such person, If applying
for township license, shall pre-
sent to the tribunal transactIng
county business, peti ion or recommends.
ton, signed by at least two-thirds of the
residents of the township, of twenty-one
years of age and over, both male and fe-
male, in which such drains shop, tavern or
grocery is to be kept-or if the same is to
be kept in any incorporated city or town,
then to the city council thereof, q petition
signed by two thirds of the residents of the
ward, of twenty.one yesrs of age or over,
both male or female, in which said dram
shop, tavern or grocery, is to be kept-re-
commencing such person as fit person to
keep the came, and requesting
that license be granted to him
for such purpose. And the party
Supplying for said license shall prove 10
the tribunal from whom he asked said Ii
cense, by an affidavit attached to said petit.
ttOb, thos ShC oAkuasuiCo W sbiu RCtAAAou oIC
all genuine, and we're made by the parties
purporting to have signed said petition, and
that each and all of said petitioners are
over twenty-one years of age, and that all of
said petitioners are actual residents, in good
faith, Of the townshi p in which such dram
shop, tavern or grocery is to be kept, if the
petition be for township license; and that
al of said petitioners are actual residents
in good faith, of the ward in which such
dramshop, tavern or grocery is kept, il
the same is to be kept in any incor-
poratsd town or city: Provided, That if
any fictitious names are signed To
said petition, or if any Of the signatures to
said petition are forged, or if any of said
signatures have been obtained by false pre-
pretense, or BY representing to the persons
signing such petition that it was anything
else other than petition for dramshop
license, tavera license or grocery license, or
ifsaid petition Be signed BY lesD11nn1p-
thirds of such residents q afoF ).
and in all such cases. any icer
upon or BY virtue Of said petite 3
null and vcid, and shsll be no p y
defense 10 the pszsoa acting