The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-07-31

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from that charged BY the Times.
There may Be some ..red-uosed pro-
hibItiohists" 10 Kansas, bat 10 was
certainly In bad taste for Mr.. Payne
IN charge hypocrisy snd the habit Of
drunkenness uPon the republicans Of
the state, without modification Of
number.
For the sake of argu ment q
might be admitted that prohibition
has caused some men 60 leave Kan.
sas. Doubtless some have gone
away for this reason. But some &C.
count should also be made Of the
numbers who have come here be-
cause we have prohibition. We
have - much reason 10 assert that
the eomers on that account have
equalled the gOers. We do not know.
The settlement Of Oklahoma has
taken away . large nunher from
Kansas. They did not all 70 be-
cause Of. prohibition. There are
causes for decrease Of population in
some Of our cities other than thar
which IL the burden OF the COM
plants OF the resubniissionIsts. The
elear-hesded, unpreI1diced people
OF Wichiia can point to other causes
Than this Why many persons have
left there. One Of these was limited
at above. We know Of cities in
California, and In every territory,
that have been prosperous, that
have gone into innoeuous desue-
tude, and the cause was not prohI-
billion In any ease. There have
been cities In the eastern states
that have ProsPered awhile and gone
down - not one from prohibition.
leaving out the moral side OF the
question altogether, Il IL q repabli.
can measure Of this state and
should lie sustained by all who do
not wish, Willingly or unwittingly,
to assist the democratic party into
power.
This magnifying q mole-hill Of
fact into q moHatain Of conjecture
every breath Of which tends TO depre-
ciats the interests Of the state, 10 to
be deprecated. The agitation Of the
prohibition question. now on hands
because Of the persistence Of the re-
submisslOBlsta. does the state q
great deal Of harm everywhere.
For In order to make Q point at all
to their position every business
must be bounded down, the popula-
ton Of cities made 60 seem less than
1t 10 and every fact Of our wonder.
full growth kept In the background.
An instance Of this 10 found in q
letter from one of our own citizens,
who, In his ardor TO help along the
cause Of intempsrance, has said, in q
distant paper we learn, that Saiina
Is on the down grade, when suoh Is
not the fact, and other equally un-
true things. Whit sort Of hold has
this powerful element Of liquor upon
the minds OF men when they will 20
against their best interests In order
to uphold and make &c more power
full than ever?
This reminds us Of 9 manifest
venom 81 the speaker last Tuesday
night ut the moral people who want
,aeahIhfaiosa H,r a.. 49, a.h. 5000
less Of other reasons. For our part
We cannot see anything particul-
arly obnoxious In believing that
saloons are . curse, and the traffic
In liquor an unmitigated evil. That,
we take, Il IL an axiom and so re-
garded by civilized people every
where. Not even the speakers Of
last Tuesday evening dared 10 ssy
that the saloon was not m evil.
The only design was, It seemed to
US, to arouse . fear Of depopula-
ton Of The state u the prohibition
question was again resubmitted.
So far as our observation and in
formation 60 the statement Of Mr..
Payne that the boys of this state are
becoming drunkards, that they fer
quent upstairs saloons and know all
the ins and outs Of the whiskey
joints, that they gather mp bottles
to sell and suck the dregs Of the
beer In the bottles before selling
them, II . misstatement OF fact.
There may be places where such
things are done, but we do not be-
lleve 1t 10 general by any means. go
with other statements made to boil
ster up the cause Of resubmission-
lists. They are too general and
sweeping. Isolated cases cannot be
produced to :pbstantiate general as
sertlons.
We rather liked the remarks Of
Mr.. Payne on the subject OF hypoc-
riley. HyPOcrites are 9 despicssle
class. But not all Rspublicans
are bypocrites by any means.
Neither are they fanatics, In the
sense chosen by the speaker, who
was proud Of the fast that his voice
could be heard half . mile that he
might denOunee them. We couldn't
exactly eaten on TO the relevancy Of
that remark. Speak N loud n be
might, however his voice 10 weak
compared with that Of the press,
which reaches many miles and IL
fairly e. truthful - the words OF |
the orator. Generally speaking the
press Of Kansas II on the right, both
In politics and morals, aud this fur
Their might be said truthfully Of Il
that IL only speaks In unmistakable
terms In favor Of Kansas and her
Interests. In this there seems 70 be
no variance except In the case Of the
party, which Just now
seems 70 take particular pleasure In
the material interests
Of the state In behalf Of the liquor
dealers.
There was . strong plea from both
the speakers for the liberty Of the
ballot. We did not suppose that
The most prejudiced man could
safeIy assert that the right Of the
ballot could not BE- intrusssd in the
hands Of the people. Nor had %
into our mind 10 think for
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