Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-08
Prohibition A Failure.

Our Speech upon this subject the
preachers say has stirred up hornets
nest.
Why it should stir up holy wrath
from the divine at the facts as stated,
was, and is, a mystery still. To give
vent to his holy wrath however Rev.
Turner drove his sacred pillow share
relentlessly among the vitals of the
men honored by Thomas county rs
the fairest and tittest, and insultingly
set said county at defiance. Sending
said officials careening backwards in
to chaos, and parading himself in
strut and swell with clinched fists and
crashing teeth as the Neplus Ultra of
the particular species Homo, the
only worshipful in the universe of God.
His long boosted speech 1T last is
pronounced failure by the best crit
les, though at the expense of wrecking
his creed, his highness would sweep
far above all else that is noble and
good.
The hornets nest above alluded to
was few undeniable facts relating to
the above caption expressed openly
by us without the council of his high
ness and hence his holy ire. 236 sec.
10 Revised Statutes of Kansas, says,
The manufacture and sale of intoxica-
ting liquors shall be forever prohibited
in this state, except for medical, scien-
titic and mechanical purposes"
The object of the law as is admitted
by all is to put stop to all drunken
ness in the state OF Kansas. The law
either does stop drunkenness, or it
does not stop it. The law is sue.
cess if it stops drunkenness, and the
law is not a success if it don't stop
drunkenness. If men get drunk in
every town in the state, which is
known to every one that they do, when
and where did it begin to stop it?
Let echo answer where. If man
bores well for water in Kansas and
keeps boring ever so diligently and
gets no water, is his enterprise sue.
cess or failure? If a man plows the
soil diligently and perseveringly and
raises a few nubbins of corn only, is
he success or failure? To fully
the word failure, after so
much is said about it let lis go to
Webster for a definition. ''To be
wanting ITO fall short" ITO be de-
ficient in any measure or degree ''To
come short
If men get drunk Notwithstanding
the law, which they do; in the sight
and hearing of all men and women too,
and the law does not prohibit. Does
the law not fall short? Is it not in
some degree deficient? Is it not
wanting i'll some particular? Does it
not fail to reach the case? Is it not
failure? If the law might be inforced
and is not, is it not dead letter? A
blank would do as well. Does prohi-
bition prohibit when it does not pro-
hibit whatever the fault? Can any of
our wise prohibitionists tell us the
difference between tweedle dee and
tweedle dun; whether a thing that
might do, and don't do, is done any
how, because it might have been. The
CAT says some of the saloons have
been closed What of it, if an appl-
cant signs druggists application and
gets it all the same, does whisky out
of drugstore lessen the effect and
make the crime of drunkenness not a !
crime, and drunkenness not drunken
ness at all? Why not enforce the law
says the fanatic; the law was made by
statesmen to satisfy clerical whims
The law makers use it, they pass laws
to please their constituents whether
good or bad, if not too bad. People
clamor for them, vote for them and
get them. The law in order to reach
bad men is made so as to, rob good
men of their heaven born fights, life, |
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Some men are constituted with weak
nesses SO that a constant stimulant
and tonic effect is needed in their case /
Prohibitory legality begets excessive
taxation and they cannot afford it.
Their health and consequently their
pursuit of happiness is abridged, pro-
hibition drives drinking men into the
drugstores where they mingle with the
young and all sexes and people and
compel all to meet there, for the drug
gist is the Drs. right hand bower, where |
he sends women and children to get
his prescriptions filed, drinking men
would prefer the saloons where they /
would be alone. Prohibition drives
Them to the drugst0res where the
druggist don't want him but can't
help himself. Then they persecute
he druggists and tax and tease him
until patience wanes and they laugh
when they get him down, he the very I
nan they need most Of all IN their direst