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

min tster who lives in my town and who
was nominated for governor, says In MS
speech accepting the nomination, That all
attempts to enforce the prohlbltory law are
farce and a failure. You say there is a
difference in the manner of sale; we don't
want open saloons Well. what have we
got in place of il? Up in Lawrence
when we had local option we had ten
saloons. We have at present twenty-slX
permits to sell Some are drug stores, but
most of them are what Is called joints.
How much better is a joint than an open
saloon. IL your son goes into an open
saloon everybody sees him, and they VIII
renort to YOU. But these lunch counters,
these cigar stands. these holes in the wall,
YOUR son NAV enter there every hour IN
the day. and all these good people who say
that prohibition prohibits will say that
your son has not been where there is any
drink. But he may 60 there, and he may
become tippler and a drunkard before
YOU know it. 1t has been said by men
who have Investigated the matter down
east that one secret, covert place was
worse than a dozen open soloons for the
young and believe it.
As ] said, am teetotaler; nave been all
my life. | have no use for intoXicants AS a
drink. | belonged TO the Good
Templars, and always join every
temperance organization in the
neighborhood. When this law was
passed we had Good Templars all over the
state The first year of prohibition the
report of the secretary Of this organization
reported that seventy lodges had gone out
Now, if you can find Good Tempiar or
ganization in the state of Kansas / would
ike to hear of it. In travelling over the
state have found one-Over here at Wash
ington. What do the young folks do now?
They dance, which is right enough. But
the young man and woman working for
me, who attend dances say that there the
bottle is AS indispensable as the fiddle.
Nobody is now teaching temperance but
myself in that whole country. ! have
kept right along in the old way. They are
depending upon keeping the children away
from intOXicantS.
Il | had a boy twelve years
old and be could not find all
the liquor he could drink in fifteen min
utes after he got into Lawrence | would
send him TO the imbecile asylum. Ny
friends, it is a sad thing TO say, but | tell
You il is the honest truth as / believe 1t,
that all the young men in my neighbor-
| hood in Lawrence who think they are fash
iOnable young men are tlpplerS. ! nave
inquired into that matter, and tell you
the next generation is not going to be as
temperate as the present, in my Judgment,
unless we get rid of this.
This to me, is very serious question.
In the first place believe that prohibition
is wrong in principle. | think that temp
erance is a virtue. and vice,
with which the law has nothing to do any
more than with any other virtue or vice.
/ believe that moral agencies are the only
agencies that can save men from vice.
Applause You cannot make man
virtuOus without free agency. You take
son, and you say, Il will save him from
drink: will see he doesn't get possession
of intoxicating liquors. ! will watch him
closely. You let him grow up and be
knows nothing about 1t; be becomes p
years of age and goes TO seek his fortune
in the world He sees these yonng men
going into these saloons and drinking, and
he don't know anything about it, and he
begins to drink and the first thing he
knows he is a confirmed tippler.
But you take your son and say, Here
my son, this Intoxicating liquor is bad: it
is injurious to you physically, mentally
and morally, and | hope you will not in
dulge iu il. Lack over and see that man
at middle age lettering upon the verge of
the grave on account of liquor; that other
man who is abusing his family on account
of liquor. My son, / hope you VIII
study into this matter and come
to the conclusion not to Use it, as
! have come to that conclusion. You get
him to say, my father / will not touch 1t,
and say ii from conviction, that il Is ms
had no character whatever: you destroyed
his free agency. But when he chooses to
be temperate, then he is temperate.
In my youth | said viii not touch it.
went 10 California in 1919, and have been
in the gilded saloons when there was no
other place to 90 to, yet | never had the
least inclination to take drop of liquor
or to gamble "A dollar. Why? Because l
had made up my mind about it.
Let your children be educated in that
way and you are safe, and you are not safe
in any other way.
Mr. Lucien Baker was received with
enthusiasm and spoke as follows:
Mr. Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen:
IL affords me uHbOunded pleasure TO see
so many intelligent ladies and gentlemen
of Wichita present on this occasion. 1t
reminds me Of the abused city from which
| come. ] know by your faces you mean
business. and that you feel as ] do, that
one of the most important elections that
has ever ACQUIRED within our fair state Is
TO take place on the 4th day of November.
] know that you will vote for your homes
and your firesideS. / feel that upon that
occasion when / cast my ballot for Charles
Robinson it will be one OF the nOblest acts
ever performed in my life. There i no
more doubt that Charles Robinson will be
the next governor of the state of Kansas
than there is that the sun will rise in the
morning The people of the state so
decrerd By the loss of population we
will not be able to poll for the four can
didstes for governor over 2'OOO0 votes.
ANY man who gets on that day ll2,OoO or
49, 900 votes is the next governor. Charles
Robinson in this controversy starts with
$1,000 votes out of 100000 Democratic
votes in the state; and Charles Robinson
j. stronger in the state than the Demo
cratic party and the the liberal Republi-
can parry. He viii poll ut least 800 of
the is,CO0 colored votes, because he is the
friend of the colored man.
| shall feel that have cast an honest
ballot ana not ballot for hypocrisy.
! The speaker said he didn't know much
/ about the tariff, but related his experience
1 in buying his wife a cloak about the time
1 the Mckinley bin was passed.
But there Is a question that in my mind
/ i paramount TO any other questlon-the
| prohibition question We have lived ten
/ years in the state under prohibition and
/ know what it means; we know that it
means free, unlicensed whisky. Being d
! temperance man, a man who does not in
dulge in drink, | am opposed to free
whisky, whether under the guise of prohi-
/ hition or the original package decision
/ That is why am here tonight. i voted
! Tor the constitutional amendment in 1881;
voted for il rs an experiment. All eXpe-
! rence has demonstrated TO the people Of
the state OF Kansas and ex-
preSsly to the people in the
] large communities that it is an
/ absolute failure and humbug and n fraud
/ Ii never has prohibited, and 1t never will
/ prohibit. From the very nature of things
4 it cannot be made to prohibit
The people OF the state Of Kansas are of
all shades of color, complexion, and
nationality, and for one class Of the peo-
! pie 10 say that they can prccribe for the
/ balance what they shall eat and drink.
and what they shall have, Is simply alb
] Surl II navpr did and nayr will work