The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-06
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will resubmission carrys friend. come in and
take chairi
faint likely Pm =. gOin' to preach with You
You seem to be an honest man who doesn't
know 1t all,
So I'll give you my experience in resubmission
hall.
1t must have been a month ago, month or
there about,
A whisperin' wen. around that prohibition
And the boys said, kinder sly-like, that if 1
would be on hand
That night I'd bear gun go OF would paralyze
the land.
Well, stranger, seem how I'm glad to see the
world advance,
The meetin' had been called for over simpkins'
What used to be whiskey j'int-pd been in
| I reckon nigh to twenty men and boys wert
| slttin' round,
Discussin' of the outlook and layin' ON the
ground;
There warn't no gospel singin' and no lcadin'
or in prayer
When old Jedge Thomas Jefferson was called
| to take the chair.
1 never heerd he had case, nor why they call.
ed him jedge,
and old sledge;
And when it comes to smellin' drinks and 10.
You bring along your camel ana the jedge'l
give him p'ints.
And there was Billy wildermann, who used tt
Keep saloon
For days and days that man has kept me fulle'
And Jim, his brother, silas Pease. who's liv'
in Oh his wife,
his fife. '
A candidate for Congress sa inferred in and tool
seat,
One Of the sort what want to know If In gall
jest was on the pint to ask IL he'd go In hi
stead,
When somebody cried ''orderl'' and the jedg,
stood up and said;
"My friends and Teller citizens''-asI can rec
We've met to- might to talk about the wrong
Shall we submit our freemen's rights Il
sumptuary laws'?
Ceres Of mol MOI" and .'Good!" and sich
like tokens Of applause).
''The Jefersonisn doctrine gives us all tn
1t does NOT say what, when or how much W
says: Be menl assert yourselves! deman'
your rights in life!''
(Enthusiastic cheers from Pease, who's Twin
of his wife).
Look round. my fel Ter citizens, and see tn
Brought down by tyranny upon this bleedin
Our business busted, credit gone. to satisfy
whim.'
c'Hooray! cried bill the barkeeper; ''Hooray'
| cried Brother JIM.
"Thank God, the light is breakin', 1t
| streamin' in the east;
In wichita and Leavenworth our prayers ar
A wave Of resubmission is a rollln' on thi
| way,
And liberty, sweet libsrty-andt drinks-ha
| come to stay
| sI reckon, jedge," says I, 'that what your
tellin' ms is right,
But wichita nor Leavenworth amt Kansas by
| sight;
And if You think that what they do is goln' t
| set pace,
Why, jedge. make motion. you're littl
OF your base.
Ppm no great shakes at arguin' bout sumptu
The liberty Of person or any other cause;
But we've had the drinkin' period, and W
| found, when most too late,
That the more we men was drinkin,' the les
| the women ate.
"This liberty it seemed to me, was not
The eatin' and the drinkin' was too much OIL
And saturdays. them Saturdays Of jefferson
| ian epuDk,
When half the town was sobbin' and the othe
half was drunk,
"Them good old days. you speak of, then
good old customs when
The neighbors used to say: There's lobe
4 poor man, he's drunk again.
Was when the children saw me come and rul
And had only liberty to feed them and m.
wife,"
Well, stranger. as you might allow, this tall
A-comin' from a man who didn't have tn
jedge's brain,
So Boggs he moved squad of three be 'p'inte'
by the chair,
And there bein' no objection was speedil.
/ elsewhere.
Some four or five days later picked up in
A Kansas City paper printed jest the day be
| fore;
A headin' ''DEr CREEK ALL ABLAzE," wa
first to meet my sight,
And, durn my skin, II 'twarnt about our meet
ing tother night.
1 laughed Til was sick then hadn't laughe'
enough;
1t didn't take me long to spot the reason or tn
| source;
What's that you say2 this paper2 Democratic
i why OF course.
This article went on to tell about ''tida
| waye,'
And the '.resubmission fever'' which the
| ''great mass meetin' gave;
The jedge az chairman figured as "our shinin
And 81 was "Colonel Pease," nan VIII,
| stood up for the right"
| And Bill and jim, why, they was "two OF DR.,
| Creeks solid men -
And Boggs was spoken of rs ''our substantial
| citiZen;"
There was .'ringiu' resolutions" which wa
i taken as sign
That Dry Greek, 8 population has now "faller
| into line
Will resubmission carry? Stranger look across
| the way:
Do you see that new white school house with
! the boys and gals at plav?
Do You see that little gal in red, the rosy LITTLE
| chunk:
That, stranger. is my little gal; she's never
seen me drunk.
She came the last of all, thank God, and revel
| knew the shame
Which only six short years ago was on hel
| fathers name:
Them little chaps around her there, they NEE
me without fear;
They never saw a whisky sign, much less ;
glass of beer.
Will resubmission carry? Stranger, lOol
about the town;
You don't find many shanties, many houses
| tumblin' down;
| Things seem to move on easy like without thu
| aid of drink;
Will resubmission carry? Well, my friend
| what DO you think?
| Rose NJ. Field.