The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-09-27
CONCERNING THE JOINT BUSINESS.

HUMBOLDT KAN, Sept, s 1889.
Mr.. REGISTER:
After my respects permit me to say
that had concluded not to attempt
to gain hearing through your paper
and the suppression of the whiskey
traffic, and but for two articles that
appeared recently I should not. First
in your reply to Rechabite you say
''leave it to the people to deal with
the question Of intemperance." Again
:.'the people supported George Amos
and he eradicated every saloon in
Humboldt" Now let us see about
that. Mr.. Amos did prosecute the
liquor dealers with q vim, but what
was the effect? Did Mr.. Amos con-
Wet and punish single transgressor?
He did arrest and bring into court a
whole batch of whiskey vendors and
ne told me he had 20 witnesses to
prove their guilt. He said he thought
out of all these witnesses he could con-
vict. Did he succeed? Ever last one of
them swallowed the razSr and turned
the culprits loose to go on with their
diabolical business. He or some one
else did convict one man and these
people, whom you think should
SETTLE this question" baIled him out
and he skipped and got down to Ipde-
pendence where they had q better
educated people on the whiskey ques-
ton, and the last heard of him he
was breaking stone on the streets to
atone for his incorrigible misconduct.
As understand it, the press is or
ought to be the leaders and formers of
public opinion. If the principles of
the press are pure and healthy, moral
and elevating it will lead public opin-
ion in the channels of law and order,
temperance, morality and rectitude as
opposed to drunkenness, disorder and
dissipation. If you wish the people"
TO take hold of any reform movement,
las the Temperance reform) you must
COMPEL business men TO feel that their
interests are connected with the moral
and sober character of their patrons
instead of with the drunken lawless
rabble who trample on all the moral
and social interests of community.
1t has been the uniform practise. /
understand. for men who stand at the
head of the business of Humboldt,
whenever q whiskey seller gels into
limbo, to hasten off to lola and bail
him out. Apply your let alone policy
to such men, how much, think you,
would be accomplished toward the
suppression Of intemperance in life
time? Bro Charlie, your powerful
pen welded with that vim and per-
spicuiiy with which you are able,
would 60 very far toward the cab
lishment of Law aid Order in our
county.
REcHABITE.
We are sorry that "Rechabite"
should ever have been in doubt of
gaining hearing through the REGIS
TER sin favor Of the enforcement of
the law and the suppression of the
whiskey traffic" He must have read
this paper caressly indeed not to have
learned that its columns were always
open to any one who had practical
suggestion to offer for the accomplish.
sneat of these objects. But be must
pardon US if we insist upon the sug-
gestions being practical and to the
point. We cannot give space to mere
generalizations upon the enormity of
the whiskey crime, for everybody adj
mits it. Nor can any profit come from
mere complaints of violation of the
law, unaccompanied 6y any sugges-
ton of a remedy. And Certainly it
can do the cause no grod to belittle,
and undefstate what has already been