The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-12
PROHIBITION In KANSAS.
Interesting Facts Gathered by Bill Nye Dur
ing His Travels.
New York World.

New York World.
Kansas. we all know is making specially
of prohibition these days. From bleeding Kan
eas. starving Kansas and grasshopper Kansas
she has grown TO be better known lately as
thirsty Kansas; but. as matter of fact. she is
doing better with the matter than the outsider
is led to believe. The great curse of rum. IN
der its various aliases. is. without doubt. the
public drinking and treating, for in that way a
public treat becomes public bust
The theory in Kansas is that man who en-
joys the pleasing exhilaration of rum may Sc
cure it in quantities. take it home and insert it
into MS circulation. wrap Slnmber robe around
himself and remain with impunity: but that
the saloon, where men go to sit in the sawdust
and nurse their wrongs and get their courage
up to where they not AFRAID to attack their
wives when they get home, Is an
taken as illustration of the success of
this theory it is no longer experiment. This
was not thrown among Prohibtionists very
much while in Kansas; but it is the opinion of
liberal and broad-minded men that people who
want to uss wine other liquors should
who do not yearn for q stimulant may continue
to squeeze along without it.
Bleeding Kansas has become booming and
beautiful Kansas. Crime has fallen off, aud the
bloom and perfume of prosperity mark her prog
ress where the way lined with the
ruins OF shattered commandments and the air
reverberated ever and again the song OF the
six-shooter was heard in the land. or the hush
of midday Was broken by the low quash of the
indictment
A generation of young men is springiug up
there who believe in the great success of move
ment Hundreds of live and thrive in
Topeka alone who ready to go before
anv tribunal at moments warning and have
their breaths examined Saloons are n longer
political factors in Kansas. Politics there buds
and blossoms in the pure and health giving
ozone of thu caucus and the unsulllad atmos-
phere of the ennobline primary. Elections are
quiet and orderly, and feel warranted in say
ing that IN Kansas to-day politics. aside from
the election cigar, are pure. There is strong
Plymouth Rock element in Kansas and l can
not close this essay in a better way, perhaps,
than TO give paragraph of John J Inealls's dis
sertaton on catfish aristocracy as DISTINGUISHED
from the Goldfish variety. ''Snang" is the name
OF a representative of the former.
"kansas is the child of Plymouth Rock. Tt
was once fashionable TO sheer at this historic
bowlder. but it is IN most impressive spot
the face of the earth save the summit of
Calvary. The Puritan idea rules the world.
Like Aaron's rod, when t appears il swallows
MP all others Shang and mia friends would
have starved TO death the stsrille hills of New
England, but The Puritan manfred the etingy
SOIL with mis- ideas, and il has produced crop
that IS better than corn. or oil, or wine. Ideas
are more profitable than hogs ar becves. The
Puritan idea is aggressive. Il has an I'M
couquerable vitality. Wherever IL IS planned
II becomes majority. A little of it's leaven
leavens the whole lumn. Assailed. IL grows
stronger: wounded, it revives; buried, II becomes
the angel or its own resurrection"
BIrY N.Y.