Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-02

stitution For long time the ecclesiastical
party was completely crushed, but of late it
has shown disposition to defy the govern
| ment. Now religious professions march
| through the streets and the sacerdotal garb is
seen in public.
Prohibition is as much a failure in Kansas
| as in Maine. Governor Click says the liquor
traffic has become 'go-as- -you-please af-
| fair" One town which had forty saloons,
yielding an annual revenue of $40, 900 under
high license, now has one hundred and sixty
places where liquor is sold In another
town, where the law is apparently enforced,
the express agent said that six hundred cases
| of beer were delivered a week, and in one
day one hundred five-gallon kegs of whisky
were delivered. This private drinking is
one of the sad effects of prohibition. In GER
tain cities places are licensed to sell
lemonade, soda water and Eother drinks. -
The records of these cities show less num-
Der of persons convicted in the police courts
for drunkenness than in towns where there
is not this license or monthly tax Another
peculiar fact is shown by these records The
towns having the noisiest prohibitionists,
which have become noted for it, have the
most convictions for drunkenness In one
town, where a prohibitionist who las
achieved some reputation as a lecturer Oh
the subject resided, the receipts for liquor by
railroad had increased fourfold within three
years. Where the saloons are closed there is
an increased consumption of liquor. " here
hey not closed they are vastly more nu-
Il
one cent of revenue.
Mr. Cable has stirred up much bitterness
against himself in the South by his famous
Century article on the negro problem, but he
is also not without hearty supporters in that
section. One of them is the Protestant Epis-
copal bishop of Kentucky, DR.. Dudley, man
who was a confederate soldier before he be-
came preacher of the gospel. There was
missionary conference in Baltimore the other
day and he was one of the speakers. Here J.
what he said, as reported in the Churchman:
1t was idle and preposterous to talk of the
colored people going away. They We're in
the South to stay and should stay. The gov
ernment freed the colored man, but it did
not give him the intelligence and the con-
sciousness of duty and right to enable him to
be citizen. Isolation for the colored man
means spiritual destruction and for the white
man great damage. Statisticians say that in
eighty years the colored race will greatly out
number the white, and it is our duty now as
men not to attempt to shirk a responsibility
that properly belongs to US. There will be
no separation Of the two races The work of
elevating the black man must be begun by
casting out of the heart the spirit of caste.
We must lift them up by going down close
to them and carrying them the gospel. No
barriers must be set up from selfish motives.
If man is fit to serve God minister the
color of his face makes no more difference
than the color of his hair. He said there
we're many, and probably some before him,
who might wonder how he dared to speak in
this way, but he believed what he said. A
man said to him the other day that Mr..
Gable was traitor because he discussed the
freedmans case from an equitable standpoint
in the Century Magazine! God help us to
quit ourselves like men in this work.