Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-22


ubiQuity and love lie back of all human
progress and ennoblement will bring de-
liverance from the all-encompassinge evil
through some other way.
But this foreboding conjecture is need
less. The people of Kansas have re-
solved upon the destruction of the dram
shop, and it must go.
And as the horizon widens until it rests
upon the blue waters that bound the Ma
ton on the east and on the west, we be.
hold an almost limitless field of action and
duty Tor the party devoted to noble re-
forms and progressive principles. The
time hastens on when the true sons OF
Kansas in the halls of Congress must by
voice and vote demand that that princi-
pie which is now SO happily entrenched
in our own organic law, shall be submit
ted to all the sovereign States, so that at
last the Nation shall not only forever
forbid the existence of those twin rel
ics' of MISUNDERSTANDING and slav-
ery"-but also, enshrine in the heart of
the Constitution the humiliation of that
traffic which, in its arrogance and in its
hostility to the public veal fosters evils
to the Union beyond the reach of
thou hit.
The dram-shop with its debased, re-
only that party its friendship which will
most heartily obey lis Unsuitable de-
rnands, pollutes and often governs the
primary with its degraded, yet docile
vote, decides who shall be put in nomin-
alton, mingles with oath and maledic-
ton among the throngs of peaceful citi-
zens, Fastening to the voting precinct,
casts its solid voted for such men alone
as will not modest its depredations on
society, and above all, introduces discord
and decay of civil integrity into the Ma
TONS life. If slavery, which was Sec
tionai, needed for its extinction prohi-
bition in the Constitution, much more
the dramshop, whose presence every
where is standing menace to society.
If polygamy, which is an infection touch
ing only one dark spot, calls for heroic Ma
tional treatment, much more the dram
shop, which ruins homes in every part
Of the land.
The politician will anxiously ilquire,
what effect such a measure will have on
his party, but the larger q-le.tion for him
to answer is, what will be the effect of a
refusal to submit this National evil to the
direct action of the States. Is he afraid
to trust the people? The nation puts
special tax upon the traffic; let 1t put
special prohibition upon it. Let it be
observed that not for twenty-five years
have party affiliations been SO loosened
as now. Men vote with their party only
because it unfurls to the breeze the
whitest banner. The party that stands
1carest to the conscience of the people,
best reflects their purest ass ration, is the
party of their love and must be the party
of the future.
As a man must be true to his con-
Ucience, so must party to maintain its
integrity reflect the convictions of it's
wisest and best men 1t does move, said
Calico, TO the Inquisition. And now as
then, the world moves through struggle
and difficulty to deeper peace and a
nobler, more radiant hope.
Mr.. BENNETT TALKS.
The second speaker introduced was
M. V. B. Bennett, and his address re-
ceived marked attention.
In referring to the organic and statu-
tory prohibition of the liquor traffic in
Kansas, as a beverage, he alluded to the
enactment, Interpretation and enforce
ment of the Kansas prohibitory liquor
law, commencing Chief Justice Horton
for his service as the head of the judi
ciary, and Senator Thacher for untiring
efforts in the cause, especially in staying
the effort that was commenced in the
State Senate in January, 1888, providing
for re-submission of the amendment.
He advised that men be elected who
had been allied to the prohibition move
ment, as standard bearers in the event.
full campaign of 1884. He paused to tell
a little story of the Louisianian who
had caught an opossum, and WHO vas
met on his way home by three boys;
each of whom asked that it might be
given him. Finding that the boys were
Republican, Greenback-
er and Democrat, he asked each for
she reason of their political faith. There
upon the Republican boy said he was
one by reason of the Republican party
the Rebellion, maintaining
the public credit, and seeking to give
good government. The Greenback boy
said he was with the Greenback party
because it believed that fair pay should
be received for days wages; that there
should be one kind of money
for the rich man and for the
poor man; for the laborer the same
money as for the bondholder. The Dem
ocratic boy showed his suspender and
jerked up his pants, saying he was
Democrat because he wanted the oppos-
sum. Referring to his paper, the Proli-
bitiOnist, which was ST 90 per year (paya-
BILE in advance, he instituted the inquiry,
how would it look for him. devoted to
blotting out the saloon influence, to ad-
vertise the articles of spirituous charac-
Ter tfat the retail and wholesale dealers
were trafhcking in.
He made, as the audience thought,
some pertinent hits at political aspirants,
and whether as candidate tor Office or
journalistic manager. the allnsions