The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-19

HOW TO GET 4 DRINK.
The Club Room Beyond the Reach of
Prohibition law.
Quite Number of Them Established
and Running in Emporia.
The Scheme Works in Wichita With
Wonderful Success.
A Few Points Of Law on This Inter.
ing Subject for Warm Weather.

Not long ago there was but one club
known to be established in this city.
Now there are several, and more being
established each day. It seems that
| the ores now being established, so far
as the writer can learn, are being formed
entirely OF the social plan, where men,
bers can open bottle of beer or even
champaign, get a gin cocktail or even
mint julip with all the facilities of
first-class saloon. Some of these club
rooms are finely furnished. and the
membership consists of business men
of undoubted integrity and whose
word or honor none would dare i'm
peach. These men do not, of course,
believe IN prohibition. In fact, they
believe that social glass in good So
cial company does more good than
harm. And in this belief they have
established these clubs. The rooms
are kept neat as a pin, and there is a
doubt in the minds of many that even
were there open saloOnsAgain, the So
cial club would be found to flourish
like green bay tree and would absorb
the best class of customers. Games of
all kinds are INDUCED in, the latest
magazines and other literary produc-
tons are on hand, and refreshments
are served when called for. But then,
you must be Il member before you can
get drop of the liquid refreshments,
or even cigar.
In Wichita the club flourishes in even
greater luxuriance than here. as will be
inferred from the following from the
Beacon.
The eighteen or nineteen clubs in
the city are each known by a separate
name. To become member you must
buy stock in the corporation. The
| clubs have grown in numbers very
| fast and this is caused by the fact
that there is not much doubt about
| the question of their being beyond the
control of the prohibition law. a
case was tried yesterday in the police
| court, and although the defendant was
| fined, Judge Dixon admitted that he
| could do nothing but discharge anyone
| running club room, where 1t was i'm
| possible TO prove that he did not sell
To uIle not a member. There don't
seem to be much question as TO the
| law, as has alrefeay been said. but in
| the case tried yesterday the judge held
| that the prisoner had not been running
his rooms correctly and therefore fined
| him. The case was appealed and be-
| fore long Judge Reed will be given 4
chance to pass upon the much debated
question.
In the case yesterday, Mr.. Hal. Arm
strong. attorney for the defendant,
| submitted the following sylibns taken
| from the Fifty-lifth Maryland reports,
| page 566:
1.-THE officers of social club, whose
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| food and with beer by the glass at q
| fixed price to be consumed at the club,
the money so received being expended
| for the expenses of the club. are not
guilty of selling beer. etc, etc,
And another from the 18th MaSsa-
chusetts, page 564 says:
IA club of men bona fide to buy and
own in common stock of liquors
/ which is delivered by the steward only
to actual members upon receipt of
| checks previously obtained FROM him
| at five cents each, Held, that the stew
ard is not indictable for keeping liquors
/ with intent to sell. That where two
or more persons unite in buying iDtoX
| icating liquors and then distribute
| them among themselves they do not
violate the statute, and the intent with
| which they do this is immaterial. That
| if the liquors really belong to the MEN,
berS of the club and had been pur-
chased by them on their account, and
| were merely kept by the steward for
the club to be divided among them ac-
cording to previously arranged sys-
TEN, these facts will not justify jury
| in finding that the steward kept intOx-
| icating liqors with intent to sell and
that it would be neither selling OF keep
| ing for sale.
There can be no question as to the
right of the club, but it is very easy for
one to overstep itself and get into
| trouble. A member can take a friend
| who is not member into the club and
they can drink at the expense of the
member, but the steward has 10 right
to sell TO anyone who does not own
stock in the club. Each club is SO ar
ranged that drinks are obtained at the
same price they would be if the liquor
were bought in saloon. The best
clubs only contain the best class OF
/ men, and disturbance is never known.
The whole matter shows how prohibit
ton prohibits, and how a sumptuary
law is glided around. 1t may be added
that the clubs are glittering success.
BOulangsr's Condition Satisfactory.
| PARIS, 8 a. m.-General BoulaDger
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