Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-05-21

Must Vote m They Pray.

MUST NOto N AyeJ AAeJ'
II we can Judge from the utterances
Of various religious bodies IN the state,
1t would seem that many christian
people are getting awake to tho TACT
that platforms alone arc not sufficient
TO secure the most satisfactory results
for temperance, but that men must
vote as they pray If they desire to see
In office men who wish to see the pro-
hibitory law enforced. Here are q
few expressions of sentiment that
have come to our notice. The Meth.
Oilisis of the Kansas conference SAID |:
I'VE arraign the present state gov
eminent for completely with the vio-
lators of the law in that the attorney
general has IN various instances coll
temptuously declined to exercise the
power with which he is clothed, and
the governor has been altogether too
ready with executive pardOns for no.
tOrious offenders. and lamentably lack
ing In official courage, or in wisdom,
or in tact in the appointment OF police
commissioners in cities OF the first
class.
ave emphatically declare our pro-
found conviction that the question OF
the extinction OF the saloon is the par
amount question challenging the at
tentiOu Of the American statesmen.
Other issues over which parties con-
tend are destitute Of moral principle,
and but like prating concerning mint,
anise and cummilI, while this involves
the weightier matters OF the law, JUS
tice, truth, mercy and righteousness.
"That the great political party to
which the state is indebted for its pro-
hibitory law can hope for the contin-
ned support of the christian element
40 long as it shall continue to be loyal
TO the interests OF prohibition. II in
the present emergency it shall refuse
longer to maintain it's fidelity 10 this
supreme question it will but invite
aud deserve defeat at the hands Of q
disappointed people,"
The NeOshO Presbytery:
"ltesolved, That we will not he
satisfied with o mere expression OF
sympathy with the cause of prohibit
ton as u plank in the political plat
forms, but demand that the men pre-
scented for our suffrage shall be clean
men aud known pr0hibitiOnists."
The Topeka Presbytery said through
its chairman OF committee on resolu-
tions:
"The committee do not feet 1t neces-
sarv 10 offer resolutions c0ndenning
the lawless sale of liquors IN Kansas
II the actions of the Presbyterian
church in arousing public sentiment
aud getting the law enforced do moi
proclaim the temperance c0nscience oil
our church, let Us not stultify our
selves with the swelling words OF
windy resolutions.
"The present administration has
proven q glorious success IN defying
the law. Governor Humphrey and
Attorney General Ives we cannot Too
strongly condemn with those mighty
slips Of white paper that educate OFF,
cial conscience.
"Nor should we forget that lazy
christian temperance people also bea'
the curse of the drunEard's family. Ii
this town, Junction City, where tho
meeting was held,) we are told tina
hell gained in the last election by
few dozen votes, while more than
dozen heirs of heaven stayed at home
and this is sample Of christians a
large. When every pulpit and ever!
pew does its duty, then and not III
then will prohibition brohibit. TIL
temperance sentiment is a sleep.
| Samson"