Wichita eagle., 1889-11-27
Che Hailg gagIe qsdndsg orng poueber a. 1898

not vote for the repeal Of the prohib
tory amendment when it came to vot
they simply want to meet the questio
and get rid OF it.
One Way or the Other.
| From the Atchison Globe
Heretofore Senator ingalls, has foun,
out pubic sentiment, and then followed
1t. In the present emergencysshe mus
lead, and stand or fall by his judgment
The question now is, is it resubmissiol
or anti-resubmission, and Mr.. Ingall
must take stand one way or the other
There are only two ways to guess; if b
speaks on the right side, he will be re
elected: if he does not he will have
great deal of trouble.
| Leavenworth Joined to Her Joints
From the Leaveuworth Times.
Mash Murdoch is badly ratified. Bet
ter come into line, colonel, and help en-
force the law in your city. So long a
you rebel against the laws of Kansas 70,
must expect the press Of Kansas to lash
you. Kansas thinks she is bigger thar
Wichita. The great state has no inten
ton of permitting little city to annu
her laws. Leavenworth could give
Wichita some valuable pointers on thil
question.
Acknowledges the Joint.
From the Kansas City Gazette.
The above we find in the Wichita
EAGLE. The Gazette has never deniet
the existence of joints in Kansas City
Kansas. They are here just as Other
evils, to limited degree, but they are
repressed and punished. Joint keepers
are not on top here, and when one is
fined the whole town is not frightened
into rebellion. We accept the laws OF
the state and the means Tor their en-.
forcement. We have something else to
do down here than to discuss and vote
on this old chestnut twice year.
Thanks, but What Of the Joint?
From the Atchison Champion.
The Wichita EAGLE, it may be said
without disparagement to any other
agency, has done more to make that city
than any other half dozen factors, it
would, therefore, be great pity now for
that excellent journal to undo much of
it's grand work by allowing it to be
snarled up with an issue whose advocacy,
Whatever may be its merits, bodies
neither commercial nor moral good to
that or any other community. The
Champion may be in error about this,
but that is its view of the matter.
Away With Joints.
From the Atchison Champion.
In all the talk about resubmission cur
rent in those newspapers which are spe-
cially advocating it, the commercial as
pect OF the question alone is considered.
The moral aspect seems to be entirely
ignored. The commercial aspect is, of
course. important in the consideration of
all questions of public policy. But not
whit more 80, if as much, as the moral.
1t would be we'll for those who are clam
oring for resubmission to allow the NOR
al aspect to have due weight with the
commercial in the determination of this
question.
Yes, Down With Joints.
From the Lawrence Journal.
Everything points towards resubmis-
sion, i. O., prohibition, campaign. Our
old figures on so much for bread and so
much for whisky, the insane asylums
and prison statistics, the number of grog-
shops on one street in Chicago, the man.
ufacture of malt liquors compared with
cotton and wool products, the SO many
years in hell lectures, the rank, foaming
at the mouth, anti-sumptuary law
shriekers-all these are about to be upon
us again. The worlds the same, the
people are the same, and all life's
monotonous.
The Rebellion Swelleth.
From the Arkansas Valley Democrat.
Marsh Murdoch, of the EAGLE, last
summer started little innocent and
harmless rebellion in the Republican
party. He kept it within his reach and
we'll under his control until about the
first of this month, when the thing broke
away and assumed huge proportions and
started out on its own account. Marsh
has lost control but he is doing his very
best to keep in sight of the thing. But
there is the Capital. the mossbacked En-
poria Republican, the jumping jack
Hutchinson News and others of the kind
that will not wake up to realize that
there is a rebellion until it is too late.
Close Up No Hell Holes.
From the Lawrence Gazette.
If public sentiment in Wichita, Atchi-
son, Leavenworth, Wyandotte, or any
other city or town, is in favor of high
licensed, closely regulated saloons, in
preference to disreputable joints and
dives that sell hell-tire and pay none of
the city's expenses, we say that it ought
to have the privilege. If another local
ity prefers to go without the revenue,
and is able to absolutely enforce the law,
it, too, should have the right to carry out
its views. But it is unjust that one plan
should be enforced upon all, regardless
of popular sentiment. Local option
with high license and strict regulations
would close the dives everywhere, shut
up saloons where they were not wanted
and restrict the dealers to decency wher-
ever licensed; and wherever liquor was
sold. the municipality would derive a
handsome revenue. instead of getting
nothing, as now. Prohibition is a farce
and humbug.
A Stumbling Block.
From the Valley Center News.
George L. Douglass in Sundays EAGLE
came near hitting the resubmission ques-
ton fairly and to the satisfaction of
nearly every Republican in this part of
Kansas. The question is one that has
been agitated now for ten years, and has
been stumbling block of the party all
these wears. The main argument of the