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DOES PROHIBITION PROHIB1T9'
EDITOR INrELLIaENCER:-There was
an article in your issue of the Sd INST.
under the above heading quoted from
the Plattsburg Democrat, which ought
not, in the interest of truth and the
righteous cause of temperance to 60 out
to your readers unanswered to deceive
and mislead them. The article is utter
" falacious and misleading and un-
true to the facts.
It is not the statement that whisky is
still drank in Kansas, and sold by large
numbers of druggists for beverage
purposes, that 1 object to, or question
the truth of. l have no doubt that a
great many OF the same old topers and
anti-temperance men that used to pat
ronize the saloons and drink freely
their poisonous mixtures before the
DAYS Of prohibition still are able to graf
ify their appetites at the drug stores and
doubtless in thousands of cases get
their drinks by lying and pretending to
be sick. But this article represents the
prohibitionsts as doing this, and the
people of Kansas generally as doing it.
Let me quote from the article, to show
that l do not m~isrepresent the writer.
He says,sI wish to call attention to an
other curious, if not even remarkable
revelation of the druggists statements.
They contradict, controvert and refute
q of the principle arguments OF the
prohlbitionsts, who contend that alcohol
is a poison, and its use even as a -medi-
cine is unnecessary. This argument
urged from the pulpit, the platform, the
stump, through the prohibition press,
had its influence in securing the adop-
ton of the prohibition amendment, yet
no sooner does prohibition become a
law than it is discovered that for gen
eral debility, dyspepsia. bad colds and
an lnnumerable catalogue OF physical
ailments, whisky Is a sovereign speclhc.
Kansas abolishes it as a beverage, only
to adopt it as a medicine. In perhaps
no other state is it so highly priced, or
so generally relied upon as a remedial
agent. 1t has thus received the endorse
ment of prohibitionists themselves, that
endorsement. being fortified by the
great seal of the state of Kansas" Now
this is undoubtedly a SANDER, that the
same people that by their votes abolish
ed whisky as a beverage, have adopted
it as a medicine;that prohibirionists who
claimed whisky to be a poison. as
az the law was adopted have discovered
that it is a sovereign specific for all
physical ailments. And what the
writer has done for the whole state, he
has in particular done for Emporia,
representing the whole community as
whisky drinkers. He says, cover their
own signatures Emporians have con-
fessed themselves to be grievously
afflicted with ailments innumerable OF
which general debility is chief. There
are thousands upon thousands of these
statements on file in the probate judges
Office, and the stranger who examines
them wonders if in all Emporia there
can be found even n sound and healthy
person. Emporia recognizes liquor as
q sovereign specific for nearly all the ills
that flesh is heir to, general debility is
q common Inheritance, and all the
literature sen broadcast over the land
picturing Emporia as a haven of health
is simply refined fiction. That this
strange state of affairs actually exists,
the laws of Kansas and the files OF
statements in the probate judges office
IN every county in the state bear ample
evidence"
Now l believe these sweeping state
ments and representations to be utterly
misleading and untrue. l have con
versed with many intelligent and re-
liable citizens of Kansas, have read
many statements of the condition OF
the temperance question in that state,
aud am thoroughly satisfied that the
facts in the case are utterly at variance
with the representations OF this article.
A few months ago the attorney-gen-
eral of the state sent circular letters to
eighty six counties of Kansas, making
inquiries in regard to the observance OF
the prohibitory law within these coun'
ties. He received replies from sixty
two counties; tifty-two of these coun
ties had no saloons. In eight othel
counties the law was partially enforced
In q few other counties the law wa
wholly set at nought. He stated also
that 70 per cent. of the cases prosecut
ed under this law have resulted in con
victions: of the prosecutions for thu
violations of other criminal laws only
fifty per cent. have resulted in convic
tons.
At a special meeting of the legisla
: ture, which convened last winter, Gov
Martin in his message, expressed hi
views in regard to the efficacy of tn
prohibitory liquor law. He SAID h
was not in favor OF the law at the tim
of it's enactment, but since it wa
written on the statute books he ha
labored strenuOusly FORTS enforcement
And he claimed in this message that tn
law was enforced and that not MOI
than one-tenth as much liquor as befol
the passage of the law, is now consun
ed as a beverage; that IN eleven week
that he had spent in county fairs dul
ing the past autumn, he had not seen
drunken man hat there are now on.
two cities in the state where the law
defied, and that it will not be long b
fore these cities will be compelled
yield obedience.
In a conversation few weeks sine
with DR.. Murphy, who has just L
turned to this state from a short pa
torate in Kansas, he said to me. "Tl
greatest objection feel to coming bal
to my native state as a minister, is tn
l come back to meet the whisky j
fluence again. 1t drove m away fro
two pastorates in this state, and dres
its influence more than anything Ell
upon the young people of my congreg
tions. They are free from its influen
in Kansas. People may say prohib
ton does not prohibit, but 1 tell yo
one thing it does not do, it does III
make drunkards. l have not seen the
for the last year and more. No nobl
man or more honored minister of Il
gospel lives in the state of Nilsson
than DR.. Murphy, and l want to fort
fy The petition l have maintained