The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-05-21
STATE TEMPERANCE UNION.

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 decision
OF the supreme Court of the United States in
the Iowa liquor case, We saw that We
promptly bow to the authority of the law Of
the land. Without hesitation We accept and
obey the law as interpreted by the courts
Lee there be no mistake nor miSunderstand-
ing on this point. Whether decisions by
courts accord with our opinions or not we
maintain our old ELECTROMAGNETIC al
lesiance to the law of the land We con-
denim and abhor every grade Of anarchy
and We insist that the American idea OF gov
eminent is liberty under law, liberty accord
ing to law.
While there may be a difference of opinion
as to the scope and meaning Of said decision,
we think that il is generally agreed that its
effect may be to open in Kansas, under the
authority of United States permits, the sale
OF liquor in the original packages. To what
extent. If any. we may be able TO reach and
control this sale by our State laws il a ques-
ton to be hereafter determined by the prop
er authorities. In the meantime we stand
immovably by our Kansas Prob bitory laws.
anu VIC hSIcoS serve uotlce 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-
hshed 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 IL induce that body at once to
declare an emergency and to take such ac-
tiOn as shall prevent the Inter State Com
merce act from all interference with the sale
and traffic in intoxicating liquor in any State
contrary to the laws of said state and we call
their attention to the fact that such lcgsla-
ton is demanded not only in justice to states
that have PrOhibitory laws, but equally in
justice to those that favor the so called reg
ulatiOn or license of the liquor traffic This
resolution also urges Congress to forbid the
sale of revenue stamps to citizens of states
until such citizens shall conform to the law
of the States. and il congratulatcs the United
States Senate on its recent decision. and that
we urge upon the House of Representa- yes
the duty of passing the law forbidding the
sale Of alcoholic liquors in army canteens,
and that We also urge upon Congress the APP
sion already reported in the House.
Resolved, That We deeply appreciate the
Endorsement given to Prohibition by that
large and intelligent body, the 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 a traffic which increases taxes,
fills jails and prisons, squanderS the wages
of honest labor and builds up among us 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 stiles progress,
fosters pauperism, bru'aiiZes husbands and
fathers, breaks wOnen's hearts, puts rags on
the workingman's back, disease in his body
and shame and despair in his heart" As
John Wesley, 100 years ago, branded the
African slave trade as the "sum of all villain
ies,'' so We solemnly indict, as the sum of all
villainies in this country the liquor traffic
which is now at emptng. with satanic audac-
ity, to add to its own crimes the nfamy of
striking down and trampng under foot, in
this state and in other tates, the laws which
the people for their own protection 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 "Original
package houses in Kansas under cover of
the Supreme Court decision s but another
effort to establish saloons which have been
driven from our borders by the higher civil
iZatiOn of Kansas, and We resent il rs a sec
Ond shameful invasion by Missouri ruffian
ism and we pledge ourselves to 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 resubmittngt the Prohibitory amend
ment. We do so for the reasOns-that such
session Womb make "A needless AUIi-
tiOn to our taxes. already sufficiently heavy;
that the reOpening OF saloons. even tx it
could be effected. would be dsastrO to
the prosperity of the STATE; that we have the
best grounds for believing that the attempt
to reopen the saloons would be over
wheimngly defeated, and that. while many
who at first opposed prob 'biton are now it's
friends, the most vOcferOuS ADVOCATE, Of re-
submission are those who voted against pro-
nib ton. and that we can not reasonably be
required to resubmit at the demand Of
faction which ha not yet submitted to the
will Of the majority.
Resolved, That coming we do from all
portions of the State and representing As we
do a great variety of industrie, and callings-
we brand as misleading and false the state
ment circulated by resubmissiOn ists that the
business interests Of the state have been in
jured by Prohibition. The fact is that we
are simply sharing the commercial and
financial depression which unfortunately
prevails in all parts of the country. Tho
charg that hard times in Kansas are attrib-
utable to the cl sing of the saloons is not
only a calumnv without a shad W Of truth,
but il comes with speci lily bad grace from
ihOs. who in the same breath assert that
the saloons have never been closed in Kan
sas. We distrust the integ ty of those who
seek to carry out their selfish schemes by
shameless misrepresentation of the people
and the business of the state in which they
live.
Resolved, That in this extraordinary emer-
gency We urge all ounty officers and munic-
ipal officers to ncr- ased fidelity and courage
in the en- .Orcement of our laws closing the
saloons, and we exhort all good citizens
heartily to support the officers in their work.
We also urge our cit zens OF all parties
throughout the State to vigilance and activ-
ity in electing to the Legislature only trust
worthy men pledged to resist resubm ssion,
and all the schemes for reopeninx saloons.
Resolved, That we believe that the dissent.
ing Opin ion Eled in the Iowa liquor case by
Justice Gray OF Massachusetts,. Just ce Har-
Ian of Kentucky and Justice Brewer OF Kan
sas presents the doctrine that will ultimately
be recognized "a cOnst;tut iOnal and safe, as
serting as they do the FEEDER ii authority
guarding the rights of the several States and