The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-21
THE TEMPERANCE MEETING.
An Enthusiastic Crowd Addressed by Judge Ray
and General A. B. Campbell-Anti-Extra
Session Resolutions Passed.

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ladies present, which was one Of the con-
spicuous features.
Mr.. II. Imboden called the meeting to
order, and Prof H. w. Everest nominated
Colonel Lewis for chairman, which pre-
vailed. He said that in city bearing the
reputation throughout Kansas as a SodOm
of injquity, unjust as it may be, he was
glad to see such an intelligent body of men
and women. The meeting was called to
enter its protest against an extra session OF
the legislature to re-submit the prohibition
question: also, to urge congress to take
some action as result of the recent 'Orig-
inal package decision. He thought a
crisis had come and demand for action
present. Kansas would be true to herself
and would still show the world that she
stands for liberty and in defiance to the
rum power; ever in eternal warfare against
the monster. He announced that the two
distinguished guests were present. He in
troduced Judge James A. Ray, of Yelling
ton, who was received with liberal applause.
He announced that he had seen by the
press that Judge Foster, of Topeka, and
Judge Reed, of Wichita, had been address
ing resubmission meetings If they had
done that other gentlemen of the same
standing should not be criticised for ad-
dressing meetings in favor of law, order
and sobriety. He announced that the ques-
ton was a very interesting one to him and
it was impossible for him to refrain from
expressing an opinion.
Senator Bentley and w. r. Payne of
Wichita, had recently addressed a meeting
at Wellington and he had clipped out a re
port from the EAGLE which he read.
The statement that Sumner county
had paid $4,000 for one grand
jury in his county and a
big crowd present Senator Bentley had
read the report but so far hadno corrected
it. The grand jury referred to cost
$1,000, and the hall at the meeting was not
half filled and the enrolment of club
membership was only seventeen and not
hundreds as had been reported. Three
weeks afterwards the secretary of the club
said he had been unable to get the club to-
gether. He asked in the name Of common
decency if that was fair play and if all the
reports had been SO badly exaggerated.
He said it was peculiar that all were
going over the country making resubmis-
sion speeches were temperance men and
Mr. Payne was member of the Methodist
church and tasted not. At this moment
referred to the prayer of the Pharisee.
Indifference, ridicule and argument the
three changes of every moment. The two
first stages had been passed and the third
was now to be considered.
He referred to the speeches of Bentley
and Payne at Wellington, taking up their
arguments He thought the farmers would
not favor resubmission, as in his county
the Farmers Alliance in ameeting showed
only three men for resubmisSiOn. The
farmers of Kansas needed change of
freight rates and not resubmissiOn. This
would benefit the farmer. In Wichita 5
resubmissiOn club not a farmer is a mem
Der He accused the bankers of being for
resubmissiOn and he understood the bank
ers were not much loved by the farm
ers.
He referred to Paynes statement that
Harper gave 800 for whisky per day and
that would be made in Kansas and saved if
prohibition was upset. He made some cal
culations, the result being s. saved to Kan
sas in the 500 spent for whisky. OF this,
S160 would go to the farmer, and
no more. He further figured that
if whisky was made in Kansas would in
crease price of corn not one mill per
buShel He further concluded that fruit
raising in Kansas for brandy would not
be a paying business. Concluded that
if prohibition law prevented manufacture
of int0Xicants in Kansas it also prohibited
the sale and diminished the nse of it. He
thought that the prohibition law would
spread to every state in the union in due
time. He referred to the statement that
GA government permits in Kansas and
claimed that the territory is in the terri
tory district and many of the number re-
ferred to issued for the territory. To illus
trate how the number increase, Foster
gets a license for a joint and gets busted
by the Kansas law, and Reed to take up
the business must get a license and when
he got busted Bentley to take up the bust
ness must get a license and when he is
forced to let up Murdoch to take up the
business would have to get a permit and
when he had been pulled J. w. Steen
would have to get new license, etc. The
application and illustration was responded
to with considerable enthusiasm The
speaker concluded that the number of per-
mits issued in Kansas did not represent
very many joints. Concluded that by
taking out drug stores and the repeating
process there are not over GA JOINTS in the
state. Before the law was enacted one
saloon to 500 people, and now not a joint
for every 1000 people. One saloon on
Douglas avenue would sell more than
dozen joints stuck up in the third story.
The prohibition of anything would de-
crease its sale.
The speaker looked back to
his kentucky town, his former
home, and the statistics of crime
showed that whisky produced crime
as shown when compared to the prohibi-
ton county of Sumner. 1t was also an
nounced that Sumner county had made
money by enforcing the law. The law
could be enforced in Wichita if the pub
lie sentiment was in favor of it. The trou-
BILE in Wichita was due to the papers in
the town. and all the blame should rest on
the papers.
This caused the front row to grow wild,
and continued to howl for some time, Civ
ing the speaker a rest.
Mr.. Payne had said he saw twenty boys
in a Wichita joint, and the speaker wanted
to reply that Payne never saw any such
thing. If it had been true, the fathers
and mothers would rise up ana close up
the joints.
Payne said it was natural to do
things commanded not TO do. He
quoted the Ten commandments and
applied them TO Payne. He seemed to
think the Bently-Payne combination
showed temperance and an example OPP
posite.
The speaker said that it was the history
Of the whisky men that they would fight all
law whether it was high license. low Ii
cense or no license. Some thing in whls-