Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-09
- FACED LIE
-hibS and the Sneak-Up-
Stairs Saloons.

The EAGLE never based an argument fc
resubmission on the ground that prohibitio
had been failure, Notwithstanding the fat
that the Leader knows and every body know
that there is no such thing as prohibition
Kansas to-day, nor even pretense tha
there is, outside of the simple fact that th
openly licensed saloons, as rule, have bee
closed more or less efectually though nc
entirely.-Eagle.
II is strange that intelligent me-
use the English language so loosely
Even the editor of the EAGLE, if h
viii give one moment TO reflection vii
admit that there is .'such a thing a
prohibition in Kansas to-day. Ma
fionalist.
Nothing but downright lying vii
satisfy the extremes Oh This question
Every time that the EAGLE cxpresse
an opinion or publishes fact baset
upon lis o5ser Walton touching prohi
or anIis. And it is fact that III,
same kind of lie is equally accepta
bic 10 both the p-ohibitionists anu
saloon men and that the truth is about
equally distasteful. If the EAGI.i
should come out this morning and say
that prohibition prohibits" in Wichi-
ia, it would equally please the prohibi-
tionisis and the proprictors of the
forty or fifty Illicit and sueak-
up stairs saloons, while the
great majority OF business
men would know that such an ascer-
ton was bare-faced lie The prohi-
biliouiStS like 10 have newspaper
say that prohibition prohibits and
they will pat the editor on one shout
der every time lac intimates that the
law is being obeyed, and ii the Same
time the sneak-up- stairs saloon man
will pat him on the other shoulder and
tel him that lac i telling the Cos
pei truth, that there isn't a saloon
within 4 hundred miles. The prohi-
biiionist likes to think he il on the
winning side and the sncak-up-siairs
saloon man likes 10 know that he l.
on the winning sidc-that he Is selling
tn >iun right along without license
or hindranCc and " Ill do 50 50 long a.
the papers lei! the people that nobody
is violating the law.
SO far ~ the NationaliSt's two artl-
Giles of criticism on the EAGLE are
concerned. and which we have not
room 10 quote, we viii say that no
single word will Ice taken back. The
EAGLE does not claim nor assert that
there j. a much liquor sold in Kansas
now as before the prohibitory law was
passed. a many papers do,
nor that the openly licensed
saloon is not closed. nor anything of
the kind. but that we know and ever
body knows that if Il ''prohibitory
liquor law means the suppression OF
liquor traffic except through legalizcd
channels, then there i no such thing
a. prohibition in Kansas up TO date. >
We don't know wha: new law the
next legislature may give the people
of Kansas for the enforcement of the
prohihitoTy amendment but we can
see but one way TO etfectually enforce
'hc present drugwump law and that
i to put a still license on the drug
stores, so stiff, in fact, As will com
pc! the drugstore men through selfish
Interests 10 hunt out and close mp the
sncak-up--tairs saloons. This course
has been urged by the EAGLE all
along. whisky mcu VIII combine TO
set down on and intimiiate the aver
age officer, but on election day, nor at
any other time, can they successfully
prevent the proprietors of drug stores
from seeking Ia claim that for which
they have been forced TO roundly pay.