Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-09-25
], KANSAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1856.

/ Kansas for all the liquors they sell. A Xix,
/ ratio for the whole state would give kansal
1l,slI saloons whose daily expenses at 81
| per day would aggregate the enormous sun
Of sly, l65 per day or S64, 60, Do yer year
/ Just SIS, SIS, 225 more than the sales by In,
/ druggists now aggregate.
DEMOCRATIC sLAEDR or HONORABLE MEN
/ want to add. too, that in my judgment
1 the assertions sometimes made, that tn,
/ drug stores OF Kansas have all been trans
/ formed into saloons, are absolutely false.
| am acquainted with many OF the druggists
| of this state, and know them to be honor
\ able, laW-Eesp ecting, conscientious citizens
/ who would not only 6cOEn to do an Illegal aCi
] for peCuniary profit, but who are fal
/ above and beyond the meanness Of selling
/ liquors as a beverage. There is no class Of
/ business men IN the state who stand higher
| IN the esteem and respect OF all good clti,
| Zsus than do our druggists and tbs attempt
I on the part OF the democratic party ana Its
allies, to degrade their business TO the low
! level Of the Saloons and 20 biacksn and
[ stain their reputation as honorable and law
/ respecting citizens, Is unspeakably out
rageous. 1t is true, no doubt, that there are
men engaged In the drug business who dis
grace 1t by violating the constitution and
laws and who, for pecuniary profit, sell
liquors for other than the excepted purposes
Of the constitution But these men are the
exception, and not the rule, among the drug
g1st5 OF Kansas, and sooner or later the law
viii reach and punish them, and drive them
however who place druggists generally IN
this class are either stupid or malicious
slandeEers of men who, as a class, are honor
able citizens engaged IN reputable and ls-
climate business. The sale of liquor for
certain purposes is expressly authorized by
the constitution and the laws, and
sales for these purposes are far larg-
or than most people suppose. Alcohol
is sold for hundreds Of mechanical and sci6n-
tlhc uses, strictly within the permission of
the constitution; and all varieties Of intOxi-
eating liquors are prescribed by learned and
reputable physicians for medical use. The
sales for these legitimate and lawful uses
constitute have no doubt a very large pro
portion Of the sales made by the druggists
OF Kansas; so that the quantity of intOu-
eating liquors sold as q beverage is reduced
to very small amount, and this amount
viii grow smaller year after year.
THE SOBER, LAW RESPECTING STATE.
My fellow citizens, those who assert that
the drug stores have been transformed into
saloons, or that drinking and drunkenness
have increased IN Kansas, ought to know
that they are not telling the truth. There Is
not an Intelligent, observing man in Kansas
who does not know that drinking and drunk
euu65B have been enormously diminished IN
this state during the past five years. 1t is,
no doubt, true that liquor is sold in many
places IN violation of law. But no intell-
gent, truthful man. who knows what the
condition OF affairs was SIX or eight years
-
form has already been accomplished. 1 have
travelled over the state a great deal during
the past two years. l have attended public
meetings IN a hundred different towns and
CIIes-pOlltlcal meetings, soldiers reunions,
fairs and other gatherings, at which from
(, 700 to $1,000 people were embled-and 10
Is one of the raEest of things to see a single
person under the influence OF liquor. have
heard hundreds of people speak of this re-
markable fact, and always with satisfaction
and pride. Wherever the saloon has been
banished, nlneteen-tWentieth of all the
drinking and drunkenness prevailing have
of the drinking habit goes with the saloon
and this social t6ature-the American habit
of treat1ng-ls responsible for nine-tenths Of
all the drinking and drunkenness in Amer
with It's crowd of hangeEs-On, has gone with
the saloon. The bad example set before young
boys, the alurements Of good fellowship
which TEMPTED so many, the appetite devel-
have gone with the saloon. And yet not to-
day. nor next year. nor for a decade to come
Will all the good results of this abolition of
the saloon be realized. The old generation
of drinkers will, many of them, probably
continue to get liquor IN some Way-but
their boys, our boys, all the happy, hopeful,
brlght-eyed and rOsy-cheeked young fellows
who are growing up on the pEairis5 of Kan
sas, will grow to manhood untemptsd by the
social allursments of the saloon, sOberer,
healthier, happier men than their fathers
we're.
FATHERS, MOTHERS, WIVES AND CHILDREN
REJOICE.
And where is the father who does not re-
jOice over this prOspectg The man does not
live who Is so degraded, so brutal, that he
would wish his boy, or the husband of his
daughter, to acquire the drinking habit
Where, then, is the man who is not willing
to give his voice and his vote to sustain the
party which, respecting and obeying the
form IN of Hara
poses to abolish the saloon and the frightfGl
crime, poverty, Wretchedness aud vice Of
which It Is the fruitful sOurceE Suppose
that not another drop of liquor should ever
be sold, as beverage, in kansas-WOuld
any human being Ia the state thereby suffer
harmg If every saloon in Kansas should be
closed tomorrow and never r6Opened,
would any man, woman or child within the
limits of the state be injured? Has whisky,
since the first drop was distilled, ever beue-
fitted any man who drank it, or made the
life of any wife, mother or sister happier,
or brought Joy to the heart or smiles to the
lips of a little child? Has any good ever
come out Of the saloon? Has any human
being been hurt or harmed, in any town o
city of this state by the closing of the
saloons? Not One-nOt a single one. In
hundreds of Kansas towns whence the sa-
looms have been banished, there are thousands /
Of homes where wives and children wear
better clothes and sit down every day to bet
ter meals, than they had provided for them
a home anywhere in the state that is less
prosperous and happy, or a child
that is clothed IN rags or wife whose love
and happiness has been bHghtsd, because
the saloons have been clOsedt Not one
not single one.
TIE SALOON THE SCHOOL HOUSE AND RECRUIT |
ING STATION OF THE ANARCHISTS.
Another and, If possible, more urgent |
reason why the saloon must 90, has recently /
been brought home to the people OF this /
country with convincing force. Americans ]
have believed that this was the fresst, hap
plest land under the sum- and 1t is. Its gov
eminent Is the perfection Of human wisdom. /
1t is, as the greatest Of our presidents has /
said, "a government OF the people, Tor the I
people, by the people" No limitations u /
are placed on the rights or b /
srty of any citizen except such as are ueee5- |
5ary to protect the rights and liberty Of all /
other citizens. The humbiest man IN I
the land may aspire to the highest /
0thcial place, and 1t Is fact that /
vast majority Of those citizens who I
have attained the loftiesU hOnorE /
spEang from the humbl65t walks IN life. ]
Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Blaine, Logan and /
thousands of others who might be named, ARE /
conspicuous illustrations Of this truth. Ours I
Is government Of liberty regulated by law. /
It's delegated and reserve powers embOdV the ]
knowledge Of mans weakness and strength, /
s5lnshnes5 and generosity cruelty and JUS
1ce-5mbodys IN fact, the experience OF 800 I
centuries Of haman progress. Only a few
brief years ago the people gladly and /
proudly sacrificed 500, 900 lives and billions 4
IF treasure in order to preserve, for them ]
selves and their children, this heritage Of free
government.
But within the past decade there has been |
spawned upon our hOspitable shoresa school /
1f dspraved and vicious foreigners, who are |
poisoning and poliuting the very ahLdos- /
lhere they breathe. Incapable OF comprs- |
bending the difference between absolute /
iespotism and republican freedom, con /
-oundLng LlsELE with Lealsa. ragard- |