Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-12-01
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RED HEAD ANSWERS SORREL
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Does George Martin, ex-state printer and
editor of the Junction City Union, exchange
with the Leavenworth Times and the Kansas
Chief; and, if SO, does he read them, and
how does he feel! Not 10 put too fine a
point on it. what does George think of
things generally and of prohibition in Kan
sas in particular? Amt matters q little out
of sioint" including the saloon interests,
and must the "joint" go alsoi George, what
saw yous Speak up. Al Griffin writes Us
an awful letter, inclosing circular. He
failed to authorize us to publish either the
one or the other, although he warned US
against any unnecessary profanity. We
read this letter. but have postponed reading
| the circular till double church services to-
day. Finally, Gear George, doesn't it look
rs though We would have to tsil-in on
Krohn, Griffin and Campbell, after all, and
tail-in on the tail at that? We anxiousy
await your red headed conclusions on the
whole matter, but be careful, we beseech
you, to avoid your well-known tendencies to
choleric.-Wichits Eagle.
We gladly respond to the sorrel top
of The Arkansas Valley. We like
straight questions and we like straight
answers. The papers referred TO are
among our most esteemed and care
fully read exchanges. They have here
tofore abOundeG in good sense, and
Notwithstanding they have been for
mally and enthusiastically received in
to the prohibition ranks, (SOl. will
please not puke here-no danger of
| Anthony's stomach going back on
HIM, VIC have no doubt but that they
will occasionally slop over, and give
US something we can catch on TO. But
they are entirely too candid just now
| to suit US AS we gather his idea, An
thony says he is no longer saloon
Republican. We never were. We
have always been temperance Re-
publican, and temperance man. hay
| ing no use for saloons ana always OPP
posing the saloon, but holding de-
terminedly and conscieutiously TO
the idea that legal prohibition is
a vicious moral fraud. The way
the Republican party has been
captured in behalf of this folly is a
political fraud we have a right to re-
sist. And Sol. says he is done mon
keying; We are sorry 10 know that
he has ever done any monkeying.
God knows we have never monkeyed
with this question. Every four-year-
old in the state knows The Union has
kicked like mule, fore and aft, in
broad daylight. And, nOtwithstand-
ing Sol. says he is done monkeying, he
proposes to go over where they have
never done anything but monkey.
Of ,,rnhfhifinp rn-
mains the same, notwithstanding the
saloons and saloon papers go over
TO prohibition. We havn't the remot-
est infinitesimal particle of faith that a
movement based on sham. deceit, du-
plicity and living can ever be of any
moral force. We can have no sort of
respect for the dishonesty which
prompts conferences, Presbyteries and
synods to ignore the drug store as
saloon, drawing distinction between
gin which flows from these duplicates
of the devil. The saloon" no matter
under what name it may sail, ''drng
store" '.joint," "dive," etc, will not
go. There is nothing in it. And those
who now favor its enforcement" as
n matter of spite, because their ticket
was not voted, will not be of any serv-
ice to it.
We think brother Griflin's anti-sal-
Don Republican organization will
eventually be neucleus for third
party. That is, if they are honest
but God only knows this. We all
know there are thousands of Repub
licans, including alleged prohibition
lists, who do not care a straw whether
the saloons are closed or not. Once
or twice year we want them to vote
our ticket. How are we to run police
temperance without monkeying! How
did it happen that thew voted the
straight Republican prohibition ticket
last fall? How did it happen that
they prefer the prohibition ticket i'll
DAVIS county? Because as r whole
sale liquor dealer in Kansas City said
after the drug law passed: ave now
have the world by the tall
Tail in on what? Prohibition? After
four or five years of controversy we
are compelled to stop and inquire, what
is prohibition What does it dO?I
What is it like? How does it work
II may be something which has refer
ence to the continued growth of the
penitentiary. Do they have it in
Topeka? a correspondent OF the
Chicago Tribune writes of n drug
store down there that handled 108
kegs and 101 cases of beer, a CORES
ponding amount of whisky. in one
month. Twenty-eight other drug
stores did like moderate business, to
say nothing of joints, houses of prosti-
tuition, etc. Does it do this besides
making the newspapers, preachers,
elders, deacons, conferences, and synods
lie about it? A little over year ago.
when the saloons in Topeka were all
closed as they are now, the editor of
the Union visited thirty-five of them
in an hour and halls walk. We found
the whole prohibition party, including
the churches and the politicians. TO be
monstrous liars, Is this what they call
prohibition? We want TO know before
we tail-in.
As to failing in on the Republican
party, we were there first. We never
left the party. Our sympathy aud
associations in that direction can
never be broken. We could not write
a Democratic eiitorial-we would
not know at which end to begin. Our
love for the party does not require US
to indulge in mockery about some |
thing absolutely un-Republican and
Finally, we would give a fortune if
we could find Eugene Wares platform.
and never read or write another word |
about this wretched and intermnible /
bore.
But-we will be prohibition TO the
extent of seeing that prohibition !
officers do not monkey-we will see
that they keep their pledges.-Junc-
ton City Union.