The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-13
The BEAUTIES OF REsuBM1ssI0N
Troy Chief

Troy Chief.
The Leavenworth Standard Is bat
thing manfully in behalfof Resubmis
sion, which seems to be nothing but a
return 20 the saloon and whiskey sell
ing, under the fictien of'high license. u
Here is one of it's strong arguments
twenty-five saloons in Leavenworth,
paying 81 900 year each, would fur.
nish us money enough to pay oul
police force, pave our streets, and make
other necessary improvements" That
is, the citizens would be relieved OF
$25 900 of taxes, and the saloons would
step in and pay the money to carry on
the city government and improve
ments that the people now pay for:
Would the saloon-keepers reach into
their own pockets and pay this amount
or where would they get ii? They
would tax the poor and the laboring
classes for it. They would steal it
from the mouths and off the backs OF
women and children. Men who now
epend most of their earnings for food,
for clothing and for fuel, would squan.
der the bigger half on whiskey, and
put their families on short ratiOns.
Their stomachs would often 60 empty,
aud what they got to eat would be of
a coarser and cheaper gu ality; their
clothing would become more scanty,
thinner and more ragged; they would
often shfver by cold stove or fireless
grate-all that the saloon-keepers
might be able to pay a "high-license"
of 81 900 year, at their expense. But
would the money even come indirectly
from the saloon-keepers! They would
still further dilute their whiskey with
water, and add few more cheap and
poisonous drugs, to keep up the decep.
ton of whiskey, and this water and
those drugs the laboring men would
pay ten cents a drink, to enable the
saloon-keeper to put up his "high
license" And would not the legiti.
mate business men have to pay their
share of this license, after all? The
amount cut off from the support of fami-
lieo, that are purchased from dealers
of various kinds, would wholly come
from their revenue, so that the liberal
and public-spirited saloon-keepers who
are anxious to pay for the city inn
pruvements, would take the money
from women and children and business
men.
Suppose the Republican party of
Kansas should make an issue in favor
of amending the Constitution 80 as to
compel the laboring men and the
poorer classes of people to pay for all
city Improvements, and the expenses
drumming the city government. Sup
pose they should enact law requiring
every laboring man to put in three
days of every week on the public
works of the city, without pay. and
prescribe half rations and half a proper
amount of clothing for their families,
and that the value of the other half go
cut off should be paid in money iuto
the city treasury, to pay the expenses
of the police force, etc. What q howl
would go up against the t., ranny of the
Republican party, and its policy of
taxing the poor for the benefit Of the
rich. How long would it be until the
party was hurled from power? Yet
the whole effect of Resubmission
would be to bring about this very
thing.
Those Democrats and sore. head
Republicans who are clamoring for
ResubmissioD, are doing 80 in the
hope that Prohibition could thereby
be 0Yerthrown. and licensed saloons be
reinstated And that means that the
laboring men shall contribute the
money to pay this license, and make
these public Improvements, at the ex-
pense of their families.
Are the PEOPLE Of Kansas hungry for
Resubmission? Are the sheep In the
fold clamoring for the walls to be lev
elled, DO that the wolves may get In?