The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-20
BILL NYE ON PROHIBITION
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
Kansas, as we all know, is making special
ty OF prohibition these days From bleeding Kan
sas, starving Kansas, she has grown to be better
known lately as thirsty Kansas but as a matter of
fact she is doing better with the matter than the
outside world is led to believe. The great curse OF
rum, under its various aliases is without doubt the
public drinking and treating, for in that way Il
public trust becomes public bust
The theory in Kansas is that's man who enter
to1ns the pleasing eXhilirann of rum may secure 1t
in quantities, take it home and insert it into his
circulation, wrap slumbcr robe around himself
andremaln so with impunity; but that the saloon
where the men go to sit in the sawdust and nurse
their wrongs, and get their courage up to where
they arc not afraid TO attack their wives when they
get home Is an unnecessary institution. If Topeka
may lie taken an illustration OF the success of this
theory it is no longer an experiment. This is not
the statement of prohibitionsts, for l was not
thrown among prohibtionists very much while in
Kansas but tits the opinion of liberal and broad
minded men that people who want TO use wine
other liquors should use them ut home in civilized
manner, While those who do not yearn for stim-
liant may continue to squeeze along without it,
Bleeding Kansas has become booming and beau
tiful Kansas. Crime has fallen off, and the bloom
and perfume of prosperity mark her progress where
once the way lined with the ruins of shattered
commandments and tie air reverberated ever and
again Z the song of the six-shooter was heard in
the l.As Z the hush OF midday was broken by the
low quash of the Indictment
generation of young men is springing up there
who believe in the great success Of the movement.
Hundreds of men live rand thrive In Topeka alone
who are ever ready to go before any tribunal at
moments warning and have their breaths exam
ned. Saloons longer political factors in Kan
sas Politics there buds and blossoms in the pure
and health-giving ozone Of tie caucus and the I'M
sullied atmosphere of the ennobling primary. Eec-
tions quiet and orderly, and feel warranted in
saying that Kansas today, politics. aside from the
election cigar are pure. There is a strong Plymouth
Rock element in Kansas, and cannot close this
letter in better way, perhaps than to give para
graph of John J. Ingalls, dissera ion from the cod
fish variety. "Shang' is the name OF representa-
tive of the former
'Kansas is the child of Plymouth Rock. It was
once fashionable to sneer at this historic boulder
but it is the most impressive spot ON the face of the
earth save the summit. Of Calvary. The Puritan
idea rules the world. Like Aarons rod, when it
appears il swallows up all the others. Shang and
his friends would have starved to death on the
sterile ILLS of New England, but the Puritan ma
nurei the stingy soil with his ideas and it has pro-
duced a crop that is better than oil or wine.
Ideas more profitable than hogs or beeves.
"The Puritan idea is aggressive 1t has an I'M
conquerabe vitality. Wereyer 1t is planted it be-
comes majority. little Of its leaven leavens the
whole lump. Assailed, it grows stronger; wounded,
il Ie ives buried, 1t bee ONES the angel Of its
resurrection" BILL NYE,