The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-19
COMING TO THEIR SENSES.
From the Kansas City Gazette.

FROM tuc hduSdS Oity 0seLSttc.
The Atchison Champion is doing great
deal of post-election talk the past few
days, it seems 10 US. a few weeks ago a
prominent prohibitionist of this state
made swips at the editor of the Gazette
for his connection with the resubrission
movement in 1884. We remarked that II
the resubmission movement had won then
that the shystering would have stopped.
10 our surprise he responded You are
right. Ii the movement had succeeded
thea we would today be on better ground,
and trfiing would be at an end" just
about the time for nominating conven-
tons. "A lot OF candidates get together and
hey pool whole lot OF issues, swapping
each other off including the party news
papers, and the result is an ipfernai lot OF
sui that few believe, and no one cares for
Ii there was little more talk like the
Champions article about convention time
Instead OF letting scbemerS and manlpu-
iators do It, al! things would be healthier,
and there would be less trouble. Here Is
what the Champion says about prohibi-
ton, which must some day be honestly
settled, one way or the other, at the risk
OF defeat
1.-THE Champion has no sympathy with
the saloon business. 1t knows of no occu-
patton more degrading than that OF the
men who sell Intoxicating liquors to habit
uai drunkards IL is a business partner
ship with the devil and its assets are
banked in he'll There is no language abe
quate to describe the evils of the liquor
habit. 1t is the constant menace to soci-
ETY., the demon of the household, and the
persistent enemy of The individual. 1t Is
perfectly safe to trust the question OF how
it shall be treated to the homes and fire
sides of the land. The drink habh IS the
implacable foe of the household. Let tue
house holds deal with it. The mistake III
Kansas has been that temperance laws
have been made d football fer lot of
political Adventures. Men whose moral
character would not stand examination III Il
low down dive have ranred and torn tuelr
hair and lined their pockets over prohl-
hibition. Worst of all, it has been
ridden to death as political hobby
horse. Men who haven't drawn sober
breath in twenty years have stood up In
RepuDiican conventions and demanded
that prohibition should be made the testof
party fealty. The metropolition police
Dill III Atchison, Kansas City, LeaVen-
WORTH, Fort Scott and Wichita, has been
made the trading stock of political man
ayers and the executive Office. Saloons are
run openly In all these Cities as before the
law was enacted. Not only that, there
are not fifteen counties in Kansas with
out saloons with government license. In
the face of all these facts, Republicans
are asked to continue their party
partnership with ProhibiLionists. And
that, too. in the face of the fact that there
are a lot of 'goody goody' people who bolt
the Republican ticket at every state and
national election and help elect Democrats
to Office. This year if all the prohibition
lists in Kansas had voted the Republican
state ticket it would have been elected. 1t
is time to talk plainly. Kansas has nearly
as many habitual drunksrds as auy farm
ing state in the west III proportion to popu-
lation, and as many liquor sellers. 1t is
time for ii temperance revival for the bene-
fiC of druukards and their families. 1t is
time to take the question out of parties
and into the homes. The debauohery OF
the most grave and important questions
the citizen and his home by
scheming politicians is one OF the darkest
spots in the history of Kansas politics.