Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-28

hons OF them. Every man who il an honorable
man, and who obeys the laws is 4 King Refer
ring to the prohibitory law, he said it was . rule
OF action. prescribed by the supreme power Of the
State, commanding what is right and prohibiting
what is wrong. To teach differently you teach
wrong. The man who does not understand the
constitutional tendency dess not understand any.
thing.
OF the enforcement Of the law, he said comma
nifty after community was surrendering the LIQUOR
trafic-and Dodge City would be no exception to
the rule. 1t will not fail. Another objection was
met regarding personal liberty" The man on
the outside Of the bar says, ANY one who SAVE
what shall eat and drink attacks my liberty"
This application was q fallacy. There could be
an exception of a man who took his own poison
There was no law that undertakes to tamper with
your lberty-thcre was no law in Kansas to pre-
vent you from taking barrel of whisky, if you
can get 1t, and you can get drunk you please.
There was law of heaven that ought to reg
ulate you and your home. 1t will be q terrible
day when you put that barrel of whisky in your
cellar When can get man not to do this have
done good. The only law in this respect is the
power Of the universe. The law in Kansas says
you shall not SELL There is q difference between
sale and use. If a man sold you diseased meat yor
would prosecute him but there was no law to
prevent him eating the meat-he can revel in hog
cholera. He has no right to sell, but he has the
personal liberty" to eat it. There was law to
prevent q man from drinking chalked milk, but We
have right to prevent him from selling it. The
law lie that We must use our own. Society was
based on this. You must your own not
to njure other people. Who is to decide the ques-
ton: The kings Of this country decide. II there
any personal liberty" to sell in Kansas: II you
take away my right to sell, you make it inconven-
lent to drink. When the people decide what shall
be done. 1t is your lookout. The State decides
what is for the public good, and every man that
owes allegiance must submit, or else he is not .
good citizen.
The speaker spoke Of the decisions in the eu-
preme court 50 years ago, affecting the abridgment
of personal rights. The tendency then was to
prohibition to liquor traffic for the public good.
The adoption of the 14th constitutional amend
ment was for the benefit Of the negroes Of the
south, but the saloon keepers Of the north took il
to their benefit. There no abridgmsnt Of hu.
| human rights, the courts so d.cidcd-that liquor
selling was only by sufferance, and when the peo-
pie declared against it, it was lawful The de-
cisions Of q Massachusetts court also sustained
| this position. Whenever the traffic interferss
with public morals it the duty Of the state to
| strike it down. 1t was the duty Of the state to
strike down anything detrimental to morals OF
| business. The public good is the supreme law.
The courts have decided all rights were subject to
| police power. No man can complain if he goes
into business with such risks as the whisky bus
| mess. The courts had decided.
| Though the people Of Ford county had voted
against prohibition they must stand by the will OF
the majority Of the state. The people having voted
for the proposition the supreme court said no ir
regularity on the part of clerk could defeat the
will Of the people In Kansas all exceptions to the
| law were not sustained by the supreme court. II
| was the duty Of the people to sustain all laws
Officers were required to support laws. If they
did not they were giving either aid comfort te
| violations of the law. There were IA saloons ir
| Dodge City in open violation of law. Our law,
makes whisky selling criminal business, and il
| is not incumbent upon any one to remain and en-
gage in it. He did not want any one to leave the
state, but he wanted every one to remain and en-
lose any one who was willing to stand by our laws
| In IL months past one hundred men in Kansas
had been put in Jail for selling liquor. 800, 600 in
| fines had been imposed for selling liquor The
great power Of public conscience-was coming tc
Dodge City as sure as you liye-and you CAM
keep it away from here Kansas sent many men
to the Of the rebellion, and she will not allow
, her laws tranpled under foot. What right have
saloon keepers to disobey laws! We have nc
privileged classes in this country. Absolute sub
mission is the vital principle to the sovereign will
of the people. The people say if you don't stop sell
ing whisky will grind your business. Every opsn
dram shop in the state will be closed out. Every
man. if he has any discretion will stand from under
He can't buck against million of people and keep
out of Jail. The were only about ten counties in
the state keeping open saloons. You tell me
prohibition won't prohibit in Dodge City" 30,
boys you are mistaken" He hoped every man
soon would respect the law and go into some other
business. Every man who does not obey the law
is like an erring child. The power Of the law
must be applied.
Mr.. Campbell said Dodge City, Leavenworth and
Wyandotte sent more men to the penitcntiary than
any other counties in the state. They sell more
whisky than other counties in Kansas. This was
sad commentary. Get the saloons out of here for
the good Of your boys. The speaker shuddered
for the future of them, for in his own life's ex-
perence he had studied it all. 1t leads right OIL
drinking, prostitution, gambling and the peniten-
tiary. The speaker recited the poem of "The
Two Glasses"
He spoke Of the operations Of the State Temper
ance Union. The pledge was that they would
keep mp the campaign until the law was ,nforc-
in every county in the State. The temperance
work in the State was due to the efforts Of the
State Union. 1t has more power and more inhu-
than any state institution in the world. Half
the State was organized, many organizations being
made by townships. The Union proposes tina: no
man shall get the votes of these loyal people I'M
less he is willing to obey the laws. The State
Temperance Union was engaged in prosecuting
officers who failed to do their duty 1t proposed
to do that kind Of work until every county at:or-
ney does his duty-unti it is understood that OH
GERS do their duty as we'll as anybody else.
call was made for life membership to the
State Temperance Union, when the following
named citizens and organizations responded
Members. Amour; Subscribed.
NJ w. Sutton, Attorney-at-Law ....... $1,000
N. Z. Sunday School, by Rev. A. P. George. 1900
Apollo Lodge No. 81, K Of p, by ]. Shaw. 1000
]. Il. Crawford, Grocer Observation-Disclosures. 1000
Lewis Post, No. 294, g. A. r., by ]. W.Keith 1000
McAdams 49, 1000
Mullendore ............... -. 1000
Choir Of NJ. E. Church, by r. E. Rice ....... 1000
DoDeE CITY TINES by n B. Klaine. editor 1000
Young men Of Dodge City, by J. II. Crawford 1000
Ladies of the Baptist Church, by Mrs. L. X.
McIntyre -. 1000
Public Schools of Dodge City, by Miss Jessie
hclscy Ao.OU
II. Snyder. :. -. 1000
Young Ladies, by Miss A. Waite and Miss