The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-09
A Few LINES
From a Highlander Who
Visited Kansas,
As Well Al 10 Mako q Few Remarks
On the Ever.Important Sub.
ject Of Politics.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, Nov. 2Sth, 1886.
EDITOR News. HERALr-1 have passed
weeks vacation in Kansas, and have
seen little Of the great State where
person cannot get whisky unless he goes
tn druggist and says he Is threatened
with malaria; and he doesn't even have
to tell the druggist that much. L do not
want my Sinking Spring friends to think
that called on druggist tor the pur.
pose Of getting malaria cure, for the air
of Kansas is quite salubrious, yet in
looking over the book of applications in
the largest drug store in Garden City
I was surprised to see the amount
of malaria which existed in that charm
ing town. The law especially provides
that no liquor shall be consumed in the
stores where it is sold. What is the
obvious effect of this law as It is
at present working in the town of Gar.
den City? There are eight drug stores
in Garden City-that is one to every
four hundred inhabitants-under the
ordinary estimates Of population, about
one drug store to every 80 heads Of fam
lilies. Of course the average Garden
City druggist is like the average saloon.
keeper you have in Highland county,
probably the only difference between
them is that the Highland county saloon.
keeper is more intelligent and does q
more respectable business than that Of
the Western druggist. While I do not
take sides against prohibition I can not
see why the Prohibitionist always refers
to the great State Of Kansas as where no
one sells the nasty stuff. Why, 1 know
minister Of this city who in recent
lecture on prohibition and referring to
Kansas said: 'The law provides that
any licensed druggist may keep all kinds
of malt and spirituous liquors in stock." {"
These liquors may be sold in any quan.
tity demanded by customers. The meth.
cd of sale is this: The druggist keeps q
blank book or book with blank appli.
cations and the customer fills out one of
these applications, giving his name and
the disease for which the liquor is re.
quired. He can not have the same dis
ease twice in the same day, but in his
one application he can obtain sufficient
amount of wine, whisky or beer to cope
with any physical i'll that "aesh is heir
to-" If person calls on him for gal.
lon of Bourbon for bunions the druggist
would not declare that whisky was not
q specific for those troublesome visitors.
So now, my dear Sinking Spring con.
verts to the Prohibition party, II you
ever are troubled in your sleep (where
prohibition reigns) by gnawing in your
breast set trap for it, and If the trap
doesn't catch 1t go to the old reliable
druggist and fill out blank application
and you will surely be we'll enough to
60 to the post Office and get your envel.
ope that the grand old Republican party
gives you. The Republican party can
never be downed, and while it was beat
en- at the last Presidential election we
feel that We have reason to believe that
it has seen its last defeat. If you want
a Democratic President in 1883 vote for
the Prohibition candidate, for they are
by virtue Of the result of their endeav-
ors the same enemies to the Republican
party that the South is. The Prohibi.
tion vote Of New York State defeated q
man more worthy than he who to-day
presides over this Nation Of ours and
who to-day is filling up departments in
Washington with rebels. I wasn't old
enough to know anything about the
war, but I havn't been slow in acquaint.
ing myself with history, and while there
were Democrats as we'll - Republicans
in the Union army, they are not the same
class in old Highland as they are here.
l find six out Of eight Democrats here
were in the rebel army, and while they
told me l would have to be less enthusi.
astic in behalf of the party to which I
belong ! have never been so much Of a
coward as to not stand up for my side.
Well, I commenced to tell about my
visit and trip through Kansas, 80 that
any of my friends that have heard such
glowing words Of sunny Kansas will
know whether the papers they have re.
ceived did it justice or not. To those
who have never had any experience in
town building, or booming as 1t is usual.
ly called here in the West, an insight
into schemes used to induce people to
locate, would indeed be Q revelation.
Most of the new towns I visited are
owned or controlled by town companies.
For instance take Garden City: The
fortunes made there in the short space
Of eighteen months by the rise Of prop
erty gave an impetus to town building
never before heard Of. All the railroad
sites from Garden City to State line were
bought up by companies and then
doomed. Although located from ten to
fiftv miles farther west the town com.
panies made claims OF greater rainfall,
more healthful location and better coil.
T.