The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-02
Prohibition in Kansas.

President Indiana w. c. T. U.
Prohibition in Kansas.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis journal.
AS it is for the interests of everybody inter
ested in the various phases Of the temperance
problem to know what are the facts, give you
the results of my inquiries into the workings of
prohibition in Kansas. At Topeka put the
question to some of the best citizens-among
them Hon. John Guthrie, judge of the District
Court, and Rev. DIR. F. s. McCabe, formerly Of
Peru, Ind.-and the reply was. prohibition is
a complete success. Topeka is the largest
city in Kansas, and if it works we'll
here, it is fair to say it works well
throughout the entire State, for the liquor
interests here were larger and the opposition
more determined than at any other point Pro-
hibition is Thoroughly enforced in Topeka. There
is not saloon in this city of 10000 people. Dur
ing the last year $40, 600 in fines have been col
lected, and some twenty law breakers have been
imprisoned But the question is settled and the
law is triumphant. This talk about the drug
gists filing the place of the saloons is nonsense
OF course, occasionally druggist is deceived,
but they are not attempting to avoid the law
and are acting in good faith The change in
public order and morals consequent upon the en-
The Iowa people have made some mistakes, but
in the end prohibition will be success there
also"
Now, the facts given by such responsible
men as these l found corroborated by the ab-
sence OF liquor shops and drunken men, No pro-
hibitory law will ever completely extipgnish the
sale of whisky any more than any statute
against murder or larceny will completely stop
theft or murder. The real test must be, are
life and property more, and how much more pro-
tected in these States where these penal statutes
exist and are enforced than in those States
where their existence and enforcement are nom
inaH Is life more safe in Mississippi
or Massachusetts? SO with prohibition.
ness in Kansas than Indianaa If so, prohibition
is better than license. But, it does not follow,
because there may be some violations of the
liquor laws in Kansas therefore prohibition is
failure am only giving the facts such as
believe them to be. am not arguing the right
or wrong OF prohibition, nor saying whether OF
or not Indiana is ready for prohibition The
study of remedies is often quite as important as
the study of diseases. What is one mans cure
is another mans kill. And public diseases and
their cure are governed by the same considera
tons Facts precede principles. Enthusiasm
is no substitute for experience.
Dec 26, 1885, D. p. BALDWIN.
In Memory of General Hsekleman.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
We are informed by General Morris, one of
the State house Commissioners, that there will
be at least eight places in and about the new
State house suitable for placing statues or
memorials Now, it will be very generally con-
coded that no more deserving or appropriate
name or character can be suggested for such
recognition than that of the late Gen. Pleasant
A. Hackleman, who killed at the battle Of
Iuka, Miss, during the late unpeasantness;
not simply because he was the only general In
diana hac killed In actual battle during the war;
but more especially because he was the ideal of
the Indiana volunteer soldier. But it is not
the purpose of this article to enter into history
of his life and character, but merely to
call attention to the matter, and
to request his comrades in the late
war, especially the survivors of the old Sixteenth
Indiana Regiment. to 60 to work in time to Be-
cure this much-deserved recognition of one of
the great men of Indiana who has been shame
fully ignored up to this date
Indiana will honor herself far more than she
can honor p. S. Hackleman by doing this sensi-
BILE act of justice to his memory; and we suggest
that there be a meeting of the survivors of his
old regiment, called to meet at an early day. in
this city, to take some action in the matter as
quire some action of the Legislature to secure
the desired statue memorial, and, there
fore, it will be necessary to begin the work as
early as POODLE. WILLIAM JUDKINs,
ROBERT E. SMITH,
II. T. THOMPSON,
JOHN KENsLER,
ORAN PERRY,
ELI r. RITTER,
Late of Sixteenth Indiana Regiment.