Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-28
SOME PLAIN TRUTH.

Judgment doing harm TO the Republi-
can party. One class are those in
tenSe!y prohibition papers that cen-
sure every paper and everybody that
does not look through their eve glass.
The other clas- are those papers that
profess 10 be in favor of temperance.
and at tle same time are continual y
beratlng temperance people, denounc-
ing Temperance organizations and
prohibition, and by this course give
powerful influence TO open rebellion
against the constitution and laws OF
the state. Both are hindrances 10
prohibition, and both are doing the
party great injury. We have no pa
thence with those who flippantly tall
of reading the Wichiea EAGLE, juno
ton City UuIon, Troy Chief, Leaven-
worth Times and other papers out of
the party. Such talk Is nonsense. We
have entirely too much respect for
these old Republican warriors, Mnr-
dock. Martin, Miller, Anthony and
others who were AT the birth of the
party. and for a principle that was vi
tai 10 the nation and the welfare of
humanity. who born the burden and
heat of the contest in Kansas for
twenty odd wears, TO try to read them
out. We could not il we would. and
we would not il we could, read out
such old grey headed warriors from
the Republican party.
Everybody knows that there il just
Is much prohibition in Kansas with
the exception of two or three towns
~ anV sensible man ever supposed
there would be.
The present statute to carry our
constitutional amendment into effect,
carries upon its face the idea that CALI
not be misunderstood. that lis purpose
was not to prohibit all drinking of
ardent spirits. but that itS purpose
was to prohibit, close up and abolish
the whole saloon system, and this IT
has done, the EAGLE being witness -
Fl. Scott Monitor:
The above are extracts from two
very long and strong editorials in the
Monitor. The Monitor seeks TO be
charitable To the misguided and head
strong editors alluded to, but because
a writer j. not an ont and out uncom-
promi-in" Wor~hipper at the shrine of
prohibition i no good reason why he
should aiw&is be set down upon and
apoli9izrd for We said. THAT every
body knows shat there is no such
thing IL prohibition in Kansas" The
Monitor aS good A. admits the truth
of the observation but still criticiZes
the EAGLE for making it. The last
legislature passed the present law a a
compromise, knowing that there WIS
no prohibition in it. They started out
to beat tie open saloon and did il
very eiiectualiy, except As to few
towns. The EAGLE has said over and
again that - far Il the youth were
concerned and 80 far as that class who
we're in the habit of ,quardcring their
brcad-and- money for drink were
concerned, that the drugwump law
was 4 great deal more preferable than
the open saloon. The EAGLE in fact
has said very little against the pres
cnl law except in the way of Joking it
Is pretended prohibition law which
ii is not, and which the Monitor ad-
mits il i not. But the EAGLE did
ask that all drug stores taking
out permits, bc made To pay
a saloon license for the reason that if
this was done sach drug stores would
see 10 ii that no holes in the wall or
other ont of the WAY unlicensed places
were allowed 10 flourish If the Mon
it"r viii bear with liz we will state for
it, better information that its not .he
whisky interest or the saloon interest
that he EAGLE would defend by itS
criticisms of prohibition but princi-
pie which seems la lie at the very
foundation of our tree ms titutions
i,tcr, have been arrested in Boston
within a week or two bccau,. %. IL
prohihtorv law which prohibits such
acts al personal liberty in the Boston
Commons a. preaching. Bands are al
lowed Ia play there, pic-nicS AMI all
manner OF things in the way of rccrc
alton. vet If a man gets up To talk
about life and Immortality he is ar
rested and lined and sent to prison
under prohibitory law which touches
the citizens personal liberty. Now if
we were the preachers of Boston we
woIld fight that thing out if il took
all summer, and we would preach on
the Commons or force every other
paStimc or amusement from the place.
These ministers. no doubt. ANNOYED
large number of respectable people
who sought the Commons for recrea-
ton, but we don't believe in the doc
trinc that therefore the ministers must
he Sc: down on. The EAGLE. dear Mr..
Monitor. has never been an advocate
of either whisky or Saloons-it has
been simply Republican.