Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-01-08
FREE WHISKY.
How Prohibition has Hurt Temperance In
Kansas.

Kansas.
An Observant traveller recently in Kan
sas gives the following account of the
influence st, John has had on the tenn
perance cause in that state:
IL am grfeyed to say that there Is no
temperance cause In Kansas. 1t seems
to be utterly destroyed. Bar rooms and
saloons are open all ever the state. In
Newton, where year ago not a drop of
liquor could be bought, the bars are all
open. So it is in Topeka, and, in fact,
all over the state. There seems to be no
more restraint against intemperance
now in Kansas and other western tenn
perance states than there is around five
Points in New York.
"What has made this change for the
wOrse"
"It is the Indifference of the Republic
can party?"
"But how should that interfere with
intemperaRce or Temperament asked tho
reporter.
"Well, 1 asked that same question Of
the people in Kansas. The reply invari-
ably was: Why, the Republican party is
the wall behind which the temperance
party always fought. The Republican
party protected the temperance people.
1t enforced the temperance laws. 1t
kept the whisky men back from the rad
ical temperance refOrmers. But when
these same temperance mon went and
stabbed their best friend in the back
that friend, while it will not retaliate,
proposes to let the temperance assassins
strictly alone. As the Officials-mar-
shals. cOnstables and police magistrates
ARE all Republicans, there is no one
left to enforce the law. The temperance
people are impOtent and useless them
selves. The mob just laughs at them"
did you talk with any of these Re-
publican cOnstablss"
Eyes, frequently. In EmporIa saw
all the saloons wide open, and young
men standing in the doors drinking to
st. John. When l asked marshal why
he did not close them, he said: L am a
Republican. The men who got these
laws passed have stabbed me in the back.
They have mOrtally wounded the old
guard who carried them to victory. We
propose to let them run the temperance
cause alone now. | will not 60 across
the street for the ungrateful men who
have tried to kill their best friends. No,
sir! | will not stab them back, but l
will let them alone alone, SIR"
what are the temperance men doing
IN Kansas and IOwa?" asked the report
er.
10 tell you the truth they are dazed.
They don't know what to do. Many of
them are mourning because of the dam
age they have done. More than one cler
gyman has said to me within two weeks,
as he would ring his hands: oh, we did
not know what we were doing. We have
destroyed the fort which we fought be-
hind bishop of the Evangelical
church said: 1 voted for st. John and
against the Republican party, but re-
pented and prayed every day for two
weeks that the Republican party should
not be hurt; and, if God spares my life,
will try and undo the damage we have
caused
Il passed through Olathe the other
day; where st. John lives. st. John was
on the train, but everybody bOycotted
him. No one spoke TO him. He is a man
to be pitied. temperance men are every
where denOuncing him az the Judas who
sold them out to the whisky party. Yes
said clergyman, Indignantly, the
shrewd scOuadrel deceived us all. lie
took the influence and votes of clergy
men. college professors and of the whole
moral community, and bartered them for
money over the bar of the whisky and
slavery party. which wO1ld grind us to
powder ii it COULD"