Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-05-24
STATE TEMPERANCE UNION.

STATE TEMPERANCE UNION.
Regular Session Of the OrganIEvtion ~ To-
pslIR Platform Of Prlnciples-H0w tho
Supreme Court Decision b vlewed.
ToPEKA, Kan. May 1.-THE State
Temperance Union, in session in this
city, yesterday adopted resolutions con-
graduating the people Of the State up
on the successful enforcement Of the
Prohibitory law, and the report Of the
committee, which was adopted, further
declared:
Referring specially to the recent declsion
of the Supreme Court Of the United States IN
the Iowa liquor case, w say that We
promptly bow to the authority Of the law OF
the land. without hesitation We accept ana
obey the law as interpreted by the courts.
Let there be no mistake nor misunderstand-
ing on this point. Whether decisions by
courts accord with our opinions or not, We
maintain our old posltlon-unswervlng ale
legiance 20 the law of the land We con-
denim and abhor every grade Of anarchy.
and we Insist that the American Idea OF gov
eminent 10 liberty under law. liberty accord
ing TO law.
While there may be difference Of opinion
rs TO the scope and meaning of said decision,
We tuiuk 10 BouCEHiy uBfoco sees -
effect may be to open In Kansas, under tn0
authority Of United States permits, the sale
of liquor In the original packages. To what
extent, II any, we may bv able TO reach ana
control this sale by our State laws IL ques-
ton to be hereafter determined by the prop
er authorities In the meantime We stand
immovably by our Kansas Proh'bitory laws
and we hereby serve notice on all parties In
interest that, In all legitimate ways We shall
seek the vigorous enforcement OF our own
laws
After reciting the fact that sovereignty
is in the people and that that sover-
eighty shall so express itself concerning
the liquor traffic through legally estab-
lished modes that the interests Of the
people shall be maintained, the report
continues:
Resolved, That we urge the Kansas dele
CATION In Congress to use all the means In
their power to induce that body at once to
declare an emergency and to take such ac-
tion as shall prevent the Interstate Com.
merce act from all interference with the sale
and trafiic In intoxicating liquor In any State
contrary TO the laws Of said state and we call
their attention to the fact that such legisla-
ton Is demanded not only In justice to states
that have Prohibitory laws, but equally In
ulation or license OF the liquor trafc This
resolution also urges Congress to forbid the
sale OF revenue stamps 60 citizens OF States
until such citizens shall conform TO the law
OF the States, and It c0ngratulates the United
States Senate on It's recent decision, and that
we urge upon the House Of Representatives
the duty Of passing the law forbidding the
sale Of alcoholic liquors In army canteens,
and that we also urge upon Congress the ap-
- A. tel ars1r ION aeWfA
sion already re ported In the House.
Resolved, That we deeply appreciate the
Endorsement given to Prohibition by that
large and intelligent body, tle teachers In
the schools In the State, and we earnestly
invite all farmers, mechanics laboring men
and all others, organized or singly. to join
with us In determined efforts to prevent the
reopening Of traffic which increases taxes,
nils iails and prisons, squanders the wages
of honest labor and builds mp among MS the
most oppressive monopoly that ever cursed
any community.
Resolved, That we renew and emphasize
our arraignment Of the saloons and the
liquor traffic. "The saloon gtineg progress
fosters pauperism, brufalizes husbands and
fathers, breaks wOmen's hearts, puts rags On
the workingman's back, disease In his body
and shame and despair in his heart" A.
John Wesley, 100 years ago. branded the
African slave trade as the "suH OF all villain
ies," so we solemnly Indlct, as he sum of all
villainies In this country the liquor trafIiO
which Is now attempting, with satanic audac.
lty, to add to It's own crimes the infamy OF
strik ing down and tramping under foot, in
this State and In other states, the laws which
the people for their own projection have
framed, and which have been declared con-
stitutional by the supreme Court Of the
United States. The proposed efforts OF Mis-
souri, liquor dealers to establish "Originai
package houses In Kansas under cover Of
the Supreme Court decision is but another
effort to establish saloons which have been
driven from our borders by the higher civil
Ization OF Kansas, and we resent it as Sec
ond shameful invasion by Missouri rufIan-
ism and we pledge ourselves 20 resist these
efforts to the full limit OF the law.
= Resolved, That we oppose the calling OF an
extra session Of the Legislature, for the pur-
pose OF resubmIttlng the Prohibitory amend
ment We do so for the reas0ns-that such
extra session would mako Q needless addi-
tiOn to our taxes, already sufficiently heavy;
that the reopenlng OF saloons. even II it
could be effected, would be disastrous to
the prosperity OF the State; that we have tho
best grounds for believing that the attempt
to reopen the saloons would be over
whelmlngly defeated, and that, while many
who at first opposed prohibition are now its
friends, the most vocifer0us advocates OF re-
submission are those who voted against pro-
bib ton. and that we can not reasonably be
required to resubmlt at tha demand OF q
faction which has not yet submitted to the
viii Of the majority.
Resolved, That, coming as we do from all
portions OF the state and representing as we
do great variety of industries and callings,
we brand as misleading and false the state
ment circulated by resubmissionis lists that the
business interests Of the etate have been IN
iured by Prohibition. The fact 10 that We
are simply sharing the commercial and
financial depression which unfortunately
prevaIls In all parts Of the country. The
charg. that hard times In Kansas are attrib-
utable to the cl' sing OF the saloons 10 NOS
only a calumnv without q shad " OF truth,
but Il comes with specially bad grace from
those who in the same breath assert that
the saloons have never been closed In Kan
Bas. We dlstrust the integrity OF those who
aaek IN carry mt their selfish echemea nv