The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-22

the state, IN state wnere Sney nave no
saloons, but they have their JOINTS ana
speakeasys / do not believe that you
have any of them here.
In the state of Maine there are more
government licenses issued per capita
than in any licensed state on Gods green
earth There are more licenses issued per
capita in the state of Maine than IN the
high license state of Nebraska, two to one
In the state of Maine they have had pro-
Dow, the father Of prohibition,
ran for mayor in one of the
towns How did he come out? He was
not known in a canvass. The old man
was beaten so badly, and felt so bad over
it that the next day hc wrote a letter stat
ipg that the rum-sellers and saloons beat
him after thirty-five years of prohi bitlOn.
So much for the moral side.
Every man knows that the very moment
that YOU say TO a man or boy that he can
not have this or that, then he begins to
INQUIRE and say: Il want TO know what
that Is.
In this day of publication and reform it
is not expected that the boys of this gen
Grafton will be any better than the older
ones / see before me tonight. They tell US
on the other hand that it represses crimes.
that the people DO not commit so many
depredations We have here as a great
ideal in the state of Kansas, Attorney
General Bradford. He used to come down
here, not a great while ago, and close
up the joints. On September Il
this same General Bradford, who is
now one of the leading missionaries
in this country was up in the state of Ne
braska making speech and he stated 10
people of Grand Island: II live IN the
capital city of the state of Kansas, in the
capital county of the state. | live amid
population of 5000 inhabitants and on
the first day of the present term Of the dis
trict court of our county there was not
single criminal case on the docket" That
is what General Bradford said.
What did sanity Joe Hudson say up at
Topeka? The same joe the saint of all
saints ia tn. state of Kansas. On the
9th day of August, speaking about the
first day of the district court Of Shawnee
county, be caused to be published among
the local items in the Topeka Capital the
following: Judge Guthrie, of the district
court, has returned from a summer vaca-
ton and will on Tuesday morning open
court. The crminrl docket is very large
one, and there will be trials for murder,
larceny, burglary, rape, perjury, etc. Then
follows l07 criminal cases for the Septem-
Der term.
SO YOU see, my friends, that it is next to
impossible for the saints to tell the truth.
You will recollect some two years ago,
when John James Ingalls,, another prohl-
bition oracle, used the same argument.
II g said there was not a criminal case on
the docket, and there was at that time
sixty criminal cases on the docket. These
gentlemen by monumental lying have
bolstered up this proposition. Let us 20
a step further. 1t was not long since that
the sheriffs of Kansas met at Topeka
and they ordered their beer, l
presume, from Kansas City, Mo-
and they made their reports, which
showed that there were confined in the
jails of the state 459 prisoners. These re-
ports showed that there were but seventeen
counties in the state where the jails were
empty About the same time in the sister
state of Nebraska the sheriffs held their
convention. They investigated the same
subject and their reports showed that in
the high license state of Nebraska there
were forty-six counties in which there was
not single criminal in jail, and in the
balance of the list there were but 137.
Applause
How does that depreciate crime? Look
at your penitentiary. We have 800 con
victs there today We have increased over
four hundred since we have had prohibit
ton, and our population has increased but
a little over 400,0 900 since that time. 1t does
not prevent crime; at least of the higher
sort In the last fifteen years | have de-
Tended twenty-eight men upon the charge
of murder, and Of this number there was
only one that i'll a drunken brawl, killed
another In the lower class of crimes,
neighborhoOd quarrels, little assault
and batteries, the drinking of glass of
beer or whisky may engender crime
to some extent, but not to the
extent it is claimed it does.
There is not city in the state of any con-
siderable size but what today has its gov
eminent license for the sale of Intoxicating
bara hnInr no had In
tho city OF Atchison, since the first day of
MAY. they have taken out lightweight
revenue stamps for the sale of liquor. They
sell liquor in that city by wholesale aud
they are not molested. 1t seems to be
somewhat understood between the gov
ernOr of the state of Kansas and the police
commissioners They are not much mo
Tested down in Wichita, where you have
III government licenses, l don't know
whether there is any trade or not. They
are not much mOlested in the city of
Wyandotte, or Kansas City, where they
have ll9 government stamps In the City
of the SAINTS" where Joe Hudson, Camp
bell, ana other saints reside, they have
taken out eighty-three government stamps
since the first day of May-for patriotism,
and not for the purpose of selling liquor
| want to call your attention to an epis-
tle-because we are living in sanity times
now-from st. Joe to the balance of the
saints. all over the state of Kansas, with
reference to Governor Robinson. just
hear what a terrible, deplorable state Ofa
fairs is coming over Kansas when Cover
nor Robinson is elected. as he will be, and
when you hear il you will not vote for him
of course. with Robinson elected COVER
nor and Ives for attorney general the pro
hibitory legislation of this state will be
openly and shamelessly Violated every day
in the week just think of it, This Is one
OF Gods chosen saints to another saint.
come from a community where we have
been cursed by this law as no other COM
munity has ever been cursed. Our prop
erty has deprecated no more than yours;
our population driven out no more than
yours has been driven out. Topeka at one
time claimed 10000 inhabitants. she has
now $1,000 and fraction; down in Leav-
enwOrth we had 81, 600; today we have 20,
900 and some odd. In Wichita you have
- O00 Every man. woman and child knows
that our population today instead of
being l. 423. 600 If IL had not been for the
curse of this prohibitory law, would have
been 1000 900. You know as well as | know
there has been no immigration into this
country. There is class of soft-headed
and soft-handed people who say we do
want them here: we do not need you: you
are not our kind; you don't believe in pro-
hibition, although you are temperate. We
have got law upon our statute books
which says you have got to believe upon this
question As | believe. You might As well
place on your statute books a law saying
you shall all be MethodisJs, and bowling
ones at that.
Five millions of dollars spent in Kansas
every year for intoxicating liquors. How
many drinks at five cents a piece would
five million dollars buys Voice from the
gallsry: Great God") One hundred
million; the prohibitory law violated
within year one hundred million times.
Is there any other law in the state VIC
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