Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-01-29
rsanunIrIex MAMIE.


A reeeot l=cssrs Il AiaHrsgoAs Of
Governor ~. Johns is reported ~ fol-
lows
This Question II nos past and gone,
and ao0t neg q1sslioz IS 1poa us-ihs
Question u al etaaneieafl0o greater
thar that u tie nezroes from slavery.
nsre - nstaIng nov 10 DIVIDE The
Ncrth aid south bst partisan blttsr-
ness. A solid political North or south
- nOW Do longer desirable what Is
needed j. a 2 ted country, vIrn one
sentiment. he one great issue on
witch teIs country esn be united Is the
izs1e Of s7ppressiEg the hq Ior frame.
In New York CIV there are lz.tlB Sa-
loon keepers, 1900 of whom are ex-
penI.sn:iaTy eJuF.cts. wAo govern the
politics Of that city. of the State, and
IL great measure. Of the country. lt
may be said, We cannot Suppress
them - bot that il merely base ad-
mission of the failure OF eiyl govern
meut- The dF4mshops must follow
slavery 20 the ground, AID The nsra and
party that a. 4nd in the WAY viii ~ sap-
pressed With them. They say pF1hihi-
non Is a failure. II 50, why don't the
whisky dealers and drsDshoF bnmruers
fhruw no their hats in favor OF pE1hisI
tion Why don't the newspapers sap
port Is With all respect for the good
people that publish newspapers land
they all love me }. | will SAY that there
= TODAY DO more sefYlle tool of the
liqa0r trade than the metropolitan
press Of this country. Bat u will not
always be ~. Soms time 10 the future
SOME good Horace Greeley will star; an
ether New York Trt5tl4s AMI lead rs on
50 victory. Mr.. ~. john spoke OF
prohibition in Kansas. and said
that in the first thirty one months
OF prohibition there were yIT
parties tired under the lsW,Of whom ~
xere convicted, and who paid $4,000
IN fines and spent an aggregate
number of eleven years i've months
and nineteen days in jail. Those pc D
pie certainly would not say that the Law
was failure. The State increased xij0,-
0O0.OO0 in taxable wealth during the
time aud the population 2i0.DO. not A
saloon keeper or dIsiiller or brewer in
the lot. The four distilleriss were ohok
ed out, aud bat feS of the thirty two
brewefies are left Tue revenue re
ceipts of Kansas show 800 saloons,
against $500 IN Minnesota. OF these.
however. 800 are druggists; 100 or 500
have been suppressed by the State and
a large number of the remainder have
moved several times froIE place to pla g
As they are chased around by the State,
| taking oat new government license
each time they move. 1t Is said ID At
tbs population of the penitentiary ID
increasing, but they are not increasing
as fast as the population of the State,
| and If they were, II would only argue
| that the laws are NOR strictly enforced.
| Governor 1T. John spoke contemptu-
| ousiy of those who argue that prohibi-
ton would destroy a market for grain.
| and showed how they were wrong. The
distill-ries and breweries only consaua
ed 1900 900 bushels of grain in 1883.
These establishments ted great many
head OF live stock. which would have
created market for good deal of this
product were il not for the disiilleries.
The speaker made a strong oratorical
argument for prohibition, and closed
with an eloquent appeal for temperance
to young men.