The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-10-22
TO THIS WE SHALL COME.

The Walnut Valley Times. . bright
and interesting paper published at 81
Dorado, Butler county, shows It's appfe-
citation of "Veritss'' by publishing his
article on prohibition as a Factor in
Morals,h entire. If anything had been
wanting to prove the Times the we'll ed
tied paper which IL has the reputation
of being, this would settle it-EMPORIA
NEWS
Walnut Valley Tunes: "Veritss" res-
sons we'll, but bis reason is prompted by
his experience He Is now an antI-pro-
hlbitionIst. His desire to see temperance
prevail throughout the earth led him to
put his faith in legal enactments and
they fooled him as they have fooled the
world for ages. History proves that
prohibition, relating to what people
should eat, drink ana wear, has been
laughed at aud scorned, notably in
Queen ElizAbeth's time, when the royal
edicts were leveled at the extravagsnces
OF the court and nobility. Hesd-dresses
beyond eighteen inches In heighth were
forbidden; the ladies promptly length
ened them to two feet and halt. The
royal order was issued against the long
toothpick pointed shoes. The people
laughed and lenRtheDed the toes Of their
shoes, and even ran tiny chains from
the toes back to the knee
for their support. An edict went
forth prohibiting the use OF
certain rich cloth. except to those who
were land holders in cerTsin amount
and had at least q stated income per an
mum. The rich and ponr wore what
they pleased and tt.pleased the many to
wear the forbidden cloths. These laws
also were in those days pointed at ex-
cesses IN eating, drinking, gambling,
etc., with Just as little success. Those
were the days when theft meant death,
and yet thievinE was common.
The conclusion to be reached from
"Veritas' F." incontroVertible reasoning is
that the prohibition of to-day ia as weak
and powerless as In olden times; that
the people canRot be legislat-
ed into the practice OF viz
tue OF the stunning of vice;
that strong men and women are
not made by removing all Temptation
but in grounding them 90 firmly in
moral obligation to themselves and theil
fellows, aud in religion, that they riss
superior 10 temptations which surely
will beset them. The teachings a
home, the precepts Of father and mothel
are worth millionsSbeyond legal enact
ments in curtAiling the vice Of drinking
AS long &c humanity Is constituted
as It now IL, this always be 90. TIT
people of Kansas are just aWaking 70 tn
realization of the fact that actual prohi
bition of an evil is impossible and tina
to curb, restrain and watch 1t. and to pill
T heavy burdens upon and thus discouraR
IL, is worth many times more than q
the theories and accomplish ments G
prohibition. "1t Is wrong to license
wroaR," urges some tender-consci ence,
9 individual This may be true In theor
' probably Is, but In practice the licens
> serves 9 tWo-fold purpose, . means OF e.
ercising surveillance, and of AZ once n
ducIng in number drinking places, Will
those persons who sciH indulge thei
., Gppetitee there, are made to bear, 4
they should. the major portion OF M
:. nlcipal government and improvement
u To this surveillance and restraint Y
of sha0 evidently come.