The Opelousas courier., 1890-02-22
ELI PERKINS ON KANSAS fEMpERAvcE.

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Editor Union Signal.-I send you good
news. have just completed a tour of Kan
sas. and | nave Just time to tell you that
Kansas has full and complete temperance.
The cry for re-submission is the last dying
wall Of the whisky, poorhouse and jail. in.
terest. It will not succeed.
Still there is a vast amount Of lying about
Kansas. / often hear the old WORKOUT blast
from threats hoarse with rum:
''They's drinkin' mvre whisky in Kansas
thar ever beforem
Ihear this cry all over Missouri where in
temperance prevails. Not all over Missouri,
for Missouri is growing in temperance, and
two-thirds of the State, like Norway County,
is for temperance. The same is true OF Ken
lucky. Temperance is growing there. AZ
Petersburg, XIV, three distillers were on the
lecture committee. When l asked them if ]
could say d few words for temperance in my
lecture, they said:
Yes, do so by all means"
But you are distillers," | said.
eyes" they said, 1--WE are distillers, but we
are for temperance in Kentucky"
"a distiller, and for Temperament l ex-
claimed.
YES, sir. We want you to understand
that we don't make this whisky for our Ken
lucky boys; we make it to poison the Var.
KEGS and the Irishw
But about the man who lies about kans-
At Nevada, Mo, they had eight big -
looms, 5000 people, seven policemen, a full
poorhouse, and an overlooking jail.
Call this selling whisky" they said,
'whv, you ought to go over to Kansas,
they're lust pourin' it in over thar"
/ crossed the line to Pittsburg, Kan, a new
mining town with 10000 peoples wonder
full town only two years ole. What did :
see? Not 3 saloon in town. Not a sign
Everybody temperate. Miners paying for
their homes. Real estate advancing, and
taxes next to nothing. To govern this 10000
nothing to do. Not a pauper in the poor
house: not one criminal in the jail.
Still here the few wicked whisky men who
wanted to introduce poison in Pittsburg CRIED
oft:
''They's sellin' more whisky in Kansas thar
ever beforem
Everywhere I've been in Kansas-Topeka,
Lawrence, independence, Yates Center, Ere
donia, Sedan, C~herryvale, Ellsworth and
Emporia, | find no signs of bars and no signs
of drinking. The good people all tell me they
have practical temperance. -.
A whisky soaked dude screamed the old
falsehood recently on the Topeka train, about
more whisky being drunk in Kansas than
ever before. He was a commercial tire 5eleE
for a cigar house. You never see a whisky
commercial traveller in Kansas nowadays
When I got to Topeka, l said:
Now show us a s~aloon-show us a bar;
show me one man drinking"
But I can get you a drink"
t'Can get me a drinkn | laid, $50 you ca:
get men to steal chickens and horses. Law
against drinking are lived up to as well a
laws against stealing"
Come up to my room at 3 o'clock" h!
said, land I'll show you some beer"
Well, l went to his room at 3 O'Clock. Whel
] got there he called a porter, whispered to
him and sent him out. In about twenty min
utes the porter returned with a bottle of ff0i
done up in a paper.
How much did you pay the porter?'
asked.
TWENTY-FIVE cents
"How much did you give for the beer"
twenty-five cents more"
Fifty cents in all for two small glasses oI
beer?'
Yes
"Why that would buy champagne in New
York" I said. Can you afford u prices
fifty cents for two glasses of heer?'
''Oh, no! l did not buy it to drink, l got i
to show you it could be done"
Then this is a dime museum you'v'
brought me to" l said. why, this is no
| only practical prohibition, but it is higl
license, toon-Ei Perkins.