Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-10-19

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investing any more money in Kan
sas, has been withdrawing all he
had previously invested, and has
taken it down to Kansas City, Chi
ergo, st. Louis and invested his
cash where the high licensed sa-
looms, and fair rents exist, and
where joints and bootleggers and
cranks are not.
II do not believe that the majority
of the people of Kansas want any
more of this expensive farce. At a
pure matter of fact the taxpayer in
our towns and cities can no longer
stand the cost of prohibition, and
municipalities are now being driv-
Ell to the desperate expediency of
illegally taxing joints or saloons
in order to raise sufficient revenue
for the carrying on of municipal
affairs.
Zone by one the inquisitorial and
monstrous laws that were put upon
our statute books in aid of prohibit
ton are being swept away. There
is only one more step TO be taken,
and that is for the supreme court
of Kansas TO declare that the pro-
hibitory law, which learned Judges
labored so hard to make constitu.
tional, is unconstitutional.
Justice Brewer. in his opinion
prohibitory amendment cases. a
Kan, 100-among other things says:
The central idea of Kansas law, as
of Kansas history, is that substance
of right is grander and more po-
tent than methods and forms. This
is government of the people, by
the people and for the people. This
court has again and again recog-
nized the doctrine lying at the
foundations of popular govern
ments that in elections the will of
the majority controls, and that
mere Irregularities or informalities
in the conduct of an election are
impotent to thwart the expire ssed
will of such majority"
The court admitted that the pro-
hibitory amendment had not been
submitted TO the people, or voted
upon in accordance with the man.
ner prescribed by the constitution
for amending the same, but for the
reasons above stated il was Geclar.
ed constitutional. OF course there
can be no doubt but that the 'ex-
pressed will of the majority would
be Just as effective now as in Judge
Brewers time; and il the people
want the prohibitory law declared
unconstitutional, all they have got
to do is to elect judges of the STU
preme court who are known TO be
opposed to it. The prohibitory
amendment never was anything
but legalized abortion. The party
that gave it birth HAS repudiated it.
The judges that baptized it stretch
ed the running gear of the consti-
tuition to such an extent that il has
been out of shape ever since. Soon
er or later it will be declared un-
constitutional or legislated out of
existence, and the sooner the bet
ter.
Mr.. Holiday expresses this opin-
ion upon the question of foreclos-
ures: ain all fairness and equity,
when a man has been pushed to
the wall by Eastern loan companies
and his property taken, or rather
confiscated under existing condi-
tions), his surrender of the property
upon which the mortgage was
made and the money loaned, ought,
at least, to balance accounts"
About life insurance Mr.. Holli-
day says: II believe in these times
of goldbug prosperity. when every
thing seems going by the board,
that man should be privileged to
make some provision for his wife
and children, in the event of his
demise, that cannot be seized upon
by his creditors. A mans life in
surance should be a sacred trust,
and the hyenas and wolves that
would rob the widows and children
oughtto find no favor in any court"