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

ality or law" 1t needs no argu.
| ment by me to show that there is q
| definite damage" and "a definite risk OF
damage" in the traffic of whisky, 90 it must
be taken out of the province of liberty and
placed in that of morality or Law. If placed
in the province Of Law, prohibition is the
only Law making all equal. For if you
have high license you make whisky high
and more easily obi aimed by the rich than
BY the poor. Ii 1t is good
for one, it is good for both,
aud each should have the same facility of
obtain ing it-but if it is bsd for one it is
bad for both and both should be prohibit
ed. No msn has the right 10 do or permit
to be done that which will damage an in
dividual or the public, but the sale of
whisky does that, as might be shown with
evidence Eiled high as Olympus. That
which keeps men sober snd industrious
is protection to Every indivi iual
and to the whole community. Pro-
hibiiion will do that and is good
Thai which tends to make men drunk, lazy,
worthless and losthsome is an injury TO ev.
cry individual and to the com munity. Lii
cense doe this, and is bad. Cheese yeu be-
tween the two. Every saloon in the land is
guide board pointing the way to the Jail,
The penitentiary, the insane asy lum AM the
poor house, and many there be Who have
resched their goal. Is it an Infringement
upon personal liberty to destroy these guide
boards2
l might aliude to one other reference
frgeueatly made, and that is the Rev DR..
Crosby, of New York. OF him and his
arguments l have only to say that he be-
lieves in the daily use of wine, and all his
arguments are from personal stand point
He does not look at human nature a. it is.
learn its ills, and seek from that standpoint,
q remedy, but he see, the ills and is anxious
to remedy them; and he. seeks solution By
taking IS his gu de, his own emotions, his
oHn desires, and his own habits. Ii reason
ing from such standpoint will be good in
all things else, it will fail when applied to
temperance. DR.. Crosby as q temperance
rtformer is q terrible failure.
think l have satisfied you that pro-
hibition is not an Infringement Of per-
sonal liberty. / think / have shown
you that prohibition is the only law
which can be executed equally toward all
men, rich and poor, alike. have spoken
of the startling sympathy between judges
and the whisky ring, and have told you ths,
this last condition grew out of the fact that
The temperance men, members Of churches
and minis ers of The gospel were cowardly.
l have said this much because the
men engaged in the Iiqnor traffic are
trying 10 ehsuge the issue from en-
foreement of the prohibition law versus
reputation, TO high license, versus prohibi-
ion. They desire TO cloihe thep selves in
the garb OF temper ince reiormers, for they
realIz, IN that way alone have they any
chance Of success. These high license tenn
persEce rsformers are all interested IN the
traffic Of liquors, or 10 increase :he facilities
for consuming it. So, when they say they
want high license for its orma.ory
Influences, they simply lie. Tney want il
for the protection of trade that is NOW
unlswed. They want it to increase their
'scilities to deal in liquor. They want ii as
drunk. Those who are in the liquor traffic,
Who desire high license, wont it to create
the ge attest mon opoly the world ever kne "
and these who drink i! want it to make
drinking respectable, for they are ashamed
70 drink when the traffic is tibooed by law.
The cry that the prob ibition law is not en-
forced is nonsense. 1t is said you cannot
op drinking by prohibition. No, nsr can
you stop horse stealing by Its prohibition
BY law. Crime will be committed until hu.
man nature become, perfect, but Law must
be msde to restrain crime, not to protect
it,
The claim is made that there are more
licenses issued by the United States than
there we're before the prohibition law was
enacted. This may be true. For every
opponent of prohibition and every op ponent
If the Republican party have interested
themselves to have more licenses issued by
the Uni.sd States for two purposes. First,
to widen and strengthen their political
II fl1snce, and second, TO have q record of
tn strength of whisky and the weakness, Of
temperance, go with Democrat who is the
representative of the whisky element as
Governor, with pardon in his hand, using
MS power for political purposes snd the
Protective Union" using It's po yer for bust.
ness purposts, if there are not more licenses
issued by the United States now th,n ever
before i! would be the wonder OF the age.
We NUT seek re nedy for all these
thing, or revert back 70 the Old condition
chen tenpersn7 e men were liable to the in
iignity OF being rot en- egged and othersise
nairested, and the whisky sa.oon and
whisky drinking was the standard of re-
spsctability. To fed these means l would
urn your thoughts in what some may call
political direction. Give it that thong At
The subject demands at your hands and l
am content. What are poliics2 Webster
$ ys it is The science Of government; that
part of e hcs which has TO do with the
regulation aud government Of q nation or
state, the preservation Of lis safety. peace
aid prosperity"
For the prsser vstion Of the safety peace
and prosperity Of the State, desire 10 in
vite your thoughts to the subject of politics,
for This government of the people, by the
people and for the people" The true
science Of government is to express the
command Of the people in the most concise
manner in the form of Law, and when
expressed in that form, be sure it is
executed. The only way to test the value
Of law, is to execute it to the letter. If
laws are not executed, but -epudiated, tha
whole system of & ,vernment that voiced tht
law into being, takes its fret step towarde
anarchy. Have you anything to lose BY
losing all there is good in this government?
II you have, you must become an active
element TO see that all laws are exc
cuted. Can you do that BY standing at home
and leaving the selection of officers to these
who desire to destroy law? You must or
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