Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-11-01
PROHIBITION IN NEBRASKA.
The following letter to one Of our
citizens explains itself:

lHC iOlIOWiuS IOt'Ci w WV Va WI
citizens explains itself:
ENDIcoTT, NEB., Oct. %, 1890.
DEAR FRIEND: Iou ask me TO give
YOU some facts with regard to the high
license law of this state. If you could
come up here on the border Of Kansas
YOU could get an intelligent idea of the
workings of prohibition. The people
of Nebraska will vote on that question
this fall, and they will vote it down
two to one. There are very few pro-
hibitionists along the border, either in
Kansas or Nebraska. We prefer Il
temperate high license or local option
law TO an incorporate prohibition law
that does not prohibit. We live on the
border of Kansas and we know there
is just as much whiskey drank in the
Kansas towns as there is in the Ne
braska towns, while at the same time
we have three times as much trade us
they have.
In Kansas nearly every farm is for
sale and eau be bought for from 50 TO
SIS per acre, while just across the line
in Nebraska the same class of farms
are in good demand at from SIS to $50
per acre. 1t is easy 10 see why this is
so. Land buyers are coming to Ne
braska on every train, while none go
10 Kansas. Yon may think ths i'm
migration is all from foreign countries
and that we will SOON he overrun with
the worst class of Glow down" for
eigners, but that is not the case. A
large proportion of the immigrants
who come west TO buy farms are of
the better class Of broad gnage agri.
culturists from Pennsylvania, Ohio
and the older states, who have been
crowded for room aud are enterprls-
ing enough TO see that the west will
give them better opportunities to build
up their fortunes than can be found in
the east.
Many Of these home seekers are
temperance men, but they are not of
the narrow contracted sort aud they
cannot reconcile their liberal ideas of
a republican form of government with
the bigoted creed of the apostles of
prohibition who seek to make The peo-
pie of Kansas think aud drink as they
do. / am as strong republican As
ever and l don't see how good re-
publican can he prohibitienist.
There is nothing of the kind in the
national platform and none of the
founders Of the grand old party ever
advocated it.
All our old army comrades here
will vote against prohibition. The
men who carried the flag-that old
flag that never waved except in the
cause of liberty and freedom, and for
the rights of man-can never vote to
deprive any man of one jot or title of
his just rights and privileges as loyal
American citizen. We fought to free
the black man and shall we now, 10y
unjust, unrighieous, puritanical lcgis-
lative enactments, enslave the white
race?
You people'of Kansas must he blind
Ia your own interests VIXEN you prefer
prohibition TO high license or local OPP
ton. Don't you see that il is not only
depOpulaling your stale of all enter
prising, liberal minded citizens and
driving immigration from you, but il
is draining the state of lie good cash
money? The Nebraska aud NJ ssOHri
whiskey dealers get the cash aud your
merchants have to sell their gO0ds'On
time. We have a disiiIlery here that
always pays u good price for corn aud
seIls the product at a good price 10
Kansas consumers. The "hnme in
dusiries" Of Missouri and Nebraska
are kept running night and day with
Kansas capital"
In view Of. the fact that we have