The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1885-06-18

Charles LOcke-Curtis, a reporter
sent out by the Toledo Blade to make
a tour through Kansas, Iowa and
Nebraska, for the purpose Of learn
ing how the various prOhibiiOFy laws
are working. has not much that Is
vastly encouraging to say Of the
workings Of the amendment to the
Kansas PrOhibitOry law. We are not
even given the small comfort Of be-
lleving that less liquor Is consumed
under the new than the old law. We
can only cheer ourselves by the re-
Election that confirmed and unslghtly
drunkards and boys cannot easily get
liquor Here IL the only crumb Of
comfort for Kansas PrOhibitlOnists.
The law reads well, though It may or
may not be constitutional. When
doctors disagree, who shall decide?
While judges are giving decisions,
adverse and favorable. the lovers Of
alcohol are finding II an easy matter
70 obtain liquor. Express companies
carry, delivery men haul kegs and
cases OF intOXicants very much as
though no law existed fOrblddlng.
Perhaps the law might not be halfas
bad law II we had officials who want
ed ftenfOr ced.
Mt Curtis seems 10 find nothing
encouraging in the results Of the
high license law in Nebraska. He
shows that the number Of saloons in
that state have increased u per cent
during four years ofhigh license law.
Men Of means see tremendous profits
In the liquor traffic rs carried on In
Nebraska, aud are willing TO pay
81 600 license, in the hope that the
high license will shut out poorer men
from the business.
Temperance people, are however,
not 10 be disheartened. Tine laws
against theft and murder are con-
tinually broken, but nobody argues
theFefrOm that they ought to be re-
pealed as good for nothing. PrOhibi-
tiOnists need the sober wOman-vOtes.
Just now women may and do petit
ton aud protest, but they are power
less 20 prevent sympathisers with the
whisky element from being put into
the places which control the enfOTc-
ing OF the law against the traffic in
liquor.
1.-THE Toledo Blddc man had visit
ell Salina, Il possibly would have
been written that, though a large
amount Of liquor Is being sold at her
drug stores, for mechanical and
medicinal purposes" Of course %
there Is a great quantity sold at other
places not "for mechanical and me
dicinal purposes" and the buyers
have the advantage Of getting their
liquor without lying.
soon after the Iowa prohibitOTy |
law went into effect, most Of the sa-
loon Keepers ofSiOux City, not know
ing how severely the state would deal
with them, closed up. At the same
time, they went around among their
friends aud got up long petitions,
containing 500 signatures, which
were said 10 represent a capital Of
$40. 900. In this petition they set
forth that they had invested a large
amount Of money In their business
and that they would be ruined 10 not
allowed 20 continue lat the old
stands" Whereupon several ladies
% the place also circulated petitions
which were signed by over 600 wO-
men. This document set forth that
the petitions represented a capital Of
500 husbands and nearly ., 500 chill
dren, and declared that they would
be ruined IL the accursed rum traffic
was not stopped.
Thus do women row against the
stream. When these Sioux City wo-
men 60 up with that petition before
the city authorities they will be told
dear lovely ladies coming straight
from the home sanctilies, your infiu-
snce Is strong and we feel Il, but you
Ire not our constituents; you can't
rOte we can do nothing for YOU
Ind the ladies will go home wonder
lag what they can do 10 save their
Owed ones from this blight. Kansas
Adies have also this problem 10 solve.
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