The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-03-01
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To tie Editor Of the Commoswssisk:

| To tie Editor Of the Commoswesith:
While I am under many obligations "a
you for your good opinion as expressed ia
your editorial Of yesterday morning. yet
must entirely discIaim and foreeo the posi-.
ton Of q party leader in any sense which
you assign me.
| The success Of the Republican party,
believe, insures good order, preservation OF
right and morals and the welfare Of society.
This is SO because, as it seems 10 me, that
organization contains q larger proportion OF
men intent on these aims than any other.
Hence it Is that very large and controlling
element of that party stand for temperance.
Though some are more radical than others,
il still remains true, that more earnest, prac-
teal temperance men are found in the Re-
publican party than anywhere and every
where else. That element carried the pro-
hibition amendment to the constitution and,
as yet, see no reason to believe any change
OF their opinions on that subject.
You ask for some enactments that will
perfectly enforce the law and the amend
ment. Alas from the day Cain slew his
brother until now, no law human or divine,
has been perfectly Obeyed among men, and
SO IL will be until the ''lion and the lamb
shall lie down together" If you require
amendments to our present statutes whereby
the more efficient observance Of this law can
be obtained, answer that such provisions
have already been presented by the temper.
ance committee and are now pending in the
Senate Tbase anne ndrne m r. n o do email IN
remove those restraints against the lawful
use Of liquors which have been found TO pro-
duce friction and dislike without in any man.
ner advancing the object we all strive for,
the suppression Of the dramshop.
But q more efficient means OF enforcing
the law was presented early in the session
namely, repeal OF that costly and absurd
keeper two jury trials, while the murderer
can only have one. The opponents Of pro-
hibition fought this measure with intense
zeal, yelling their rea, hostility under the
familiar cry Of .'invasion of the right of
trial by jury" never once in that long de-
bate coming to the point-why should q sa-
loon keeper be entitled to two trials by jury, |
WuIc thC uoIbc tulci VI muIuticT uos Uut 1
one. The man charged with felony has on
y one chance to get recreant juror in the !!
box, where the violator OF the liquor law |
gets two. Had this anomalous provision |
been stricken from our statute there would |
be fewer dram-shops. Yet, after all, no one
will deny that liquor prosecutions under any
aw, license or local option, or prohibition,
ire the most difficult to carry on Of any I'M
Ter our crimes act; and no law will com
,letey and sumnarily destroy the grocery.
TO me, however, it is not a pleasant refec-
ion, that here In Kansas the government Of
he United States can enforce its law against
liquor selling without q permit, while the
anne dealers openly defy our State authori-
les.
This brings me TO a concluding remark, in
which employ the words addressed tn me
" prominent liquor dealer, only last Mon
lay: "Judge, they say this law can't be en-
orced; but you and know il the officers Of
he law are honest, it can be enforced
S. o. TEACHER.