Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-07-24

ing an original package house here. The peo
pie here are in no humor TO tolerate such AT
invasion Of their rights, and IL would be q
bold man who would dare 10 open a saloon in
Clay Center.
As IL is here. so il is all over the State; mass
meetings are held in every town; the people
are resolved to fight the saloon and hangers
on 10 the last, peaceably If possible, with force
IL they must.
Wednesday Of the present week OCCURS the
great mass meeting at Topeka, which is eX-
peeted 10 be the largest ever held in Kansas,
il not in the United States. Congress is be-
ing deluged with kilograms and petitions, and
if they do not move pretty soon they are liza
BILE to shear something drop" for Kansas is
in no mood TO be trifed with. Bot many, and
/ am among the number, are inclined to
think that all this will prove ablessing in dis
guise, as it will elevate the prohibition cause
from local into national question. There
are no dobuts as to the final results. for the
world does not advance backward, neith-
er does the cause of truth and right. Just az
sure as right and truth will and must prevail,
just SO sure will the time come when instead
of State there will be national prohibition
and the people win be relieved of the dis.
grace of having elections carried by the whis-
Ky power.
I am well aware that the impression pre-
walls in some parts of the east that prohibi
ton in Kansas has proven failure, and that
there is as much liquor drank here as there
has ever been. 1t is true that there is moi
only as much liquor drank in Kansas as ever,
but I am not afraid to state that there is more,
but the liquor is not whisky and beer, but
water. It is quite amusing to see in eastern
papers accounts of how easily liquor is to be
had, and how much drunkenness prevails,
and how the open saloon is seen on every cor
ner, when everybody who knows anything at
all about the state of affairs here knows that
such things are utterly false, and written by
irresponsible persons, whose wishes coincide
with the falsehoods they write. have lived
in Kansas for more than ten years, and have
been through all phases of the prohibition
question end know of what write.
But even the friends of temperance them
selves had no idea of the overwhelming public
opinion in favor of prohibition until the ad-
vent of the original package house, made
possible by the recent decision of the supreme
court. A great tidal wave of temperance
feeling has swept from one end of the State
to the other: the people are reused as never
before, even in election time; those who were
'on the fence" are forced to declare them
selves, and most resubmisssionists have
turned out prohibitionists. In fact resub-
mission is killed SO dead that it is forgotten
even by its friends, while even those who had
their beer shipped in for private use are up
in arms. Said one of the latter sort to me
few days ago, 81 have always had my beer,
but I'll be shot if want those miserable, low
lived holes called original package houses and
saloons around, and woe be to the man who
opens any in Clay Center" and SO say the
best majority of the people of Kansas, tenn
perance men and women as we'll as beer
drinkers.
CAD AsTRA PER AsPERA."