St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-06-20
FALSEHOODS TO DEFEAT PROHIBIT
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lions Herald knew and said at the
time that the campaign against con-
stitutiOnal prohibition in Massachu-
sets was based on a system of most
determined and wilful falsehood.
This is now gradually appearing to
the general public, and when fully
apprehended, as it will be in brief
time, Il great and reactive tide of
conviction will set in. AS a last re
sort, to repeat the stock allegation
that prohibition was a failure, w. p.
TomIinson, editor of the Kansas
Democrat, of Topeka, was transport
edtO Boston to reiterate the declara-
ton, with all the sanction of person
al knowledge. He was sent about
our commonwealth to repeat such
statement and enlarge upon it, and
many good people were persuaded
togivelarg credence to his utterance
because he claimed to speak from
personal knowledge of what he was
saving. In an interview with this
TOmlinson, published in the Boston
Globe, he said: The liquor cases
have completely choked up the
courts. We have been obliged to es-
tablish the grand jury. Within the
past thirty days Topeka has been
obliged to establish the metropolitan
police system to enforce the liquor
law, and still it is not enforced.
Dives and joints flourish, and all the
iniquities of secret selling are added
to the lesser evils of the open traffic"
County Attorney WEIGH, of Tope-
ka, recently summoned TomlinsOn
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ing-places of which he had expressed
himself so emphatically III Boston.
The following is the authoritative
report of the examination:
County Attorney Welch.-Do you
know of the existence of an open sa-
loon in Shawnee county at the pres
ent time?
W. p. Tomlinson.-I do not.
County Attorney Welch.-Do YOU
know of any open saloon in Shawnee
county within the past two years?
". p. TomlinsOn.-I do not.
County Attorney Welch.-Do you
know of n secret place where in
Intoxicating liquors car be bought
by the quantity from a half-pint up
ward, in Shawnee county?
W. =. Tomlinson.-I do not.
County Attorney Welch.-DO YOU
know of any drug store where intox-
icating liquors are sold contrary to
law?
w. p. Tomlinson.-Of my own
personal knowledge l do not.
The Topeka Daily Capital, from
which we take the above, is entirely
justified, therefore, in using such en-
phatic words as these:
The Capital, in its issues of April
IL, II and IS, branded w. p. Tom
linSon as a liar, when he was going
from town to town in Massachu-
sets declaring, with an uplifted
hand, that the ~prohibitory law was
openly and VIGOROUSLY violated in
the towns and cities of Kansas, and
that saloons, joints and dives flour
ished in great numbers and without
molestatiOn from the officials and
courts Every reader of the Capital
in Kansas knew he was a liar, and
this morning we prove him as such
by his own words"
The editor of lions Herald has
been for some days In the two largest
cities in Kansas-kansas city and
Topeka-and with the closest scru-
tiny has not been able to find a place
that had the appearance of a "sa-
loon, joint or dive" There was
more heinous falsehood uttered
than that constitutional prohibition
does not prohibit in Kansas. The
people of New England will avenge
these late campaigns of Intentional
and willful lying when once the mat
ter is fully apprehended.-[Zion's
HornId BOSTON