The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-21
w. j. BUCHAN, Chairman,
JOHN Fl. SMITH, Secretary.
THE REsUBMIssIoNISTs SPEAK

Following is the address sent out by
the Resubmission Republicans:
To the voters of Kansas:
HEADQUARTERS OF THE STATE REPUB-
LICAN RESUBMISSION CENTRAL COMMIT
TEE OF KANSAS-The recent decision of
the federal court deciding that the liquor
laws of Kansas are unconstitutional and
invalid so far as they attempt to inter
fere with the sale of liquors in the origi-
nal packages, puts a new phase
upon the political issues in Kansas.
The court did not pass upon the ques-
ton whether the Wilson law enacted by
congress is constitutional or not. 1t
found reason enough to release the de-
PENDANT upon other grounds, and hence
the constitutionality of the Wilson bill is
still undecided.
AS a consequence of this decision,
which is no doubt correct interpreta-
ton of the law, the original package
houses have again established them
selves in the state and are carrying on
business regardless of all prohibitory leg
islation.
Here is seen the direct result and nat
ural fruits of prohibition, for no license
states are affected by the original pack
age decision. Original package houses
locate only in prohibition states. No
good citizens advocate the system of
original package houses. They are de-
vices bred by prohibitory legislation
Prohibition alone is responsible for the
present condition Of the liquor traffic.
The original package honses pay no IL
cense fees and contribute nothing to the
public burdens
1t 10 easy to see the result if Kansas
should be affected with another prohib-
itory legislature. That hideous mon
strosity, now declared unconstitutional,
known as the Murray law will be re-
enacted, with its vigorous and obnox-
ious provisions. What, then, will be the
next step in the great prohibition farce
in Kansas? A test case will be filed in
the United States courts to declare the
so-called Wilson law unconstitutional,
and in all human probability it would be
declared absolutely null and void. This
opinion of the law is shared by the lead.
ing lawyers of the country and by every
law writer that has written upon the
subject.
With the original package law dec ar
ed unconstitutional the last vestige of
prohibition will be destroyed and the
gates flung open to the introduction of
original package houses, which would
fill every city in the state from the Mis-
souri, to the Colorado line. For two
years at least we would have a reign of
free whisky and until the situation was
met by practical legislation.
This is surely a condition that all good
citizens depricate, but it is sure TO follow
as a natural sequence of more prohib-
ltOry legitlation. We appeal to the cit
liens of Kansas without regard to party
whether they wish to support policy
that will foster upon Kansas a system of
free and open drinking places indepen-
dent of the police power of the state.
Will you vote for and support policy
which will limit, restrain, regulate and
tax the traffic and make it pay US its
share of the public burdens? Will you
vote to continue the malicious conten-
tons and strife that is now rending the
state; a system of Indifferent laws that is
driving away people and capital, exclud-
ing the hardy and industrious German,
that is burdening us with taxation, that
Is causing our property to depreCiate,
that encourages purjury, that creates
hypocrites without any compensa-
tory results; or will you support
policy that will lift the state from its
dependency, invite immigration, lessen
the burdens of taxation, relegate dema-
gogues and send us on the highway to
prosperity.
Every vote cast for tn so-called Re
publican party of Kansas means conten-
ton, strife, high taxes, litigation. free
whisky and public disaster. Every vote
for Charley Robinson will be cast in the
interest of temperance, sobriety, reform,
lower taxes and prosperity to our fair
state. Believing this to be good oppor-
tunity of finishing the reign of fanaticism
in Kansas and relieving the state of its
burdens, we appeal to every citizen in
the name of harmony, who believe in
true temperance, sobriety and honest
government, to vote for him only who
will favor high license, economical gov
eminent and is willing to trust the PEG
pie with all constitutional questions.
A. L ALLEN,
Chairman State Republican Resubmission
Central Committee.
BEECHER STERN, Secretary.