The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-23
CHRIST OR DIANA.

Enforce the law! Desecrate the holy
desk on the Sabbath day with lies ana
libel. and turn the hour Of worship OF
| Gods temple into an unseemly hurrah,
and bachanalian pictures for the en-
| forcement of the law.
For the enforcement Of what law:
1t would be waste of space 10 eX-
plain what law. There is only one
law in Kansas No one ever heard
of any other law. When anyone IN
Kansas speaks Of the enforcement OF
law" everybody knows that only one
law is meant, and that one in being
an infringement of individual con-
science fails TO command respect. and
therefore becomes impossible OF en-
forcement There is no threat from
pulpit or rQStrum for the violation or
the Sunday law, or of any other laws
enacted in the interest of virtue or
morality, no demand for the enforce
ment Of penal statutes of any char
acter. But in their anxiety for the
enforcement Of a sumptuary enact
ment men forget the teachings of the
religion which they preach. ignore the
rights of the neighbor. jeOpardiZe the
demands of justice and dissipate their
own influence for good by converting
the house of God into a caucus-council
for slandering rulers and libeling indi-
viduals.
SpasmOdically and at more or less
regular intervals. for fourteen years
has this community been distracted,
and subjected TO grievous expense.
Men have been prosecuted, fined and
imprisoned; innocent women and chill
dren have been defrauded and reduced
to restitution, political parties have
been beaten, bad blood encendered,
business rendered unstable and IN
gospel have in engendering strife and
opposition lost their influence, the
names Of some Of them becoming polit-
zeal by-word, and the characters Of
others a reproach. And what has the
cause of temperance or Of morality or
of religion gained: One of the min
listers just selected to arouse the state
10 the enforcement of law wouldn't
be trusted in this community Among
the prosecuted we recall a man who |
was good citizen, bright. cnterpris-
ing and hopeful. He put all he had, |
Il comfortable fortune. into n beer |
brewery. Subsequently ''the law
was passed. Although he manufac- |
tured pure and unauthorized beyer- |
age, which he believed to be as harm |
less as coffee, but which lie offered TO |
ship and sell outside of the state, his |!
property was legally destroyed and he |
was sent TO his grave. His young |
wife, n highly cultivated woman. know /
ing more of history, literature and of |
the arts and sciences than the perse- |
CutOrs Of her husband, was with her /
children reduced to want and being a |
Christian woman her cries went to
heaven. These cries will vet con-
front the fanatics who bounded her
husband, night and day, and upon
whose hands is the life-blood of that
husband and father
But he manufactured a drink, which
S used as an innocent beverage the
wide world over, and legally so, just
rs much 50 as is the coffee or tea. ex-
,ept in Maine and in Kansas. There
being more slaves to the narcotic eff
fectS of coffee than to the stimulation
Of beer the time is coming. logically,
when in these two states coffee viii be
-aboOed. 1t viii get into the law"
If it is put there it will not be by those
who find no harm in beer. but by those
who knowing drunkenness to be a sin
therefore hold that abstinence is re-
igioS obligation, by those who cry for
the destruction Of the New Testaments
symbol of the blood of Christ, because
some are found who abuse its use.
The 1.-TWO wine" theory is fraudulent
invention and an evasion.
So prohibition does not mean tenn
nor Yet peace within thy
walls and prosperity within thy
palaces 1t is Il 1.-THE paid in mint
ma aniSe and cumin; it is Il gnat-
strain, a whited sepulchre. If thine
enemy hunger let him starye; if he
hirst read him the claw" 1t is the
letter which killeth the spirit, the
speaking of things by busybodies
which they ought not
Great is Diana of the Ephesians.