The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-09-21

make men. and are the authors OF the.
+ Crimes of men. 1nte.npe-ance in women
usually tends ore way, II men many
ways Forgery Is usually committed by
educated men; seduction by the better
ciasses: murder, by violence, usually by
the poorer classes. in rage: poison IS an
''upper-crust' crime, and was first used
by the nobility. Envy, cove;ousness IS
I a moral, not a legal crime, and yet as
much crime comes from envy and eoyes-
ousless as any rich mans crime The
"bu3co-steerer' is usually q sleek, e3u-
Gated villain Crime is superindueed By
liquor. but except loss Of life attributable
TO drink, The crime OF the rich ard well
to-do,' year by year. IS greater than that
by the poor. Fifty poor vyretches rob
and steal an average less. than one hun
dred dollars: one magnificent, hypoeriti-
cal Sceundrel cleans out q bank. loss 10
depositors Si0o.00ao0. another set OF epi-
curian villains steal a railroad. loss to
shareholders from one to ten millions
The fifty drink, and drink bears the
blame; the other chaps don't drink
A man may drink and be honest moral:
another may be a man who never drinks
and yet be theft. periurer, adulseres.
and lacks only personal courage 10 be-
come a tra&n-wrecker, bank-swindler or
po.soner. Drunkenness .s no more i'm
morality than total abstinence from Eqror
is religion; a moral man does not become
a thief because he drinks; a thief forger
or confidence man IS not less a villain be-
cause he keeps from liquor.
Therefore. we urge that the Equcr
amendment was simply a party policy
entered upon in good faith. TO better So
ciety as a physical and financial expert
mert, and morals and religion had no
more part in il than the present law
against throwing. dead animals in water
courses was inspired by morality or re-
lig:on.
Prohibition is simply local or state polit-
zeal policy, and has prevented the mater
ial growth of the state. by preventing a
hardy class of farmers from coming to
Kansas; it has tended toward reducing
a majority of se.0oo to nothing The
vote for governor the year Humphrey
Willitts and Robinson ran demonstrated
that large per cent of Republicans IA
vored resubmission. Prohibition has put
dema gocues in front and honest men to
the rear; il gave Kansas its only Demo-
cratic governor; turned strong Republi-
can counties over 10 the opposition: it has
made the worst municipal rule the state
has ever had. Under resubmiSsion al,
local option the localities desiring high
license would have Il; those not wishing
would have Prohibition. Prohibition
made Iowa a Democratic state. or ar
least partially SO. II gave MaSsachu-
setts a Democratic governor, and has
placed New York in a bad situation, and
finally, despite the best efforts of the most
loyal, self-sacriiicing and earnest work
ers in the party. It viii deliver the state
to the organized band of political,
cyprians and demmonde, whose rule is
ruination, whose policy is plunder, and
whose principles are anything TO beat
the Republican party.
Therefore the wise. safe, sagacious pol
icy 70 the Republican party in our judg-
ment is to have the legislature meet and
materially alter the Murray law; cut out
parts of it, and amend other parts; boldly
declare for resubmiss.on and local option;
nominate clean state ticket next year; |;
sweep the state, and give the electral vote
Of Kansas to the nominee of the Republi-
can national convention.
The Republican party In Kansas. as
another Samson. has played with this
Prohibition De9lah until weak, exhausted
and eEervaied, it 3 in danger of loostng
its locks. Soon the only way to crush lis
enemies will be to tear down the temple
and commit involuntary suicide.
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