The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-06
A RASCALLY PLAN
In the House, Recommended by
Republicans, Too,
To Wreck the Entire PrOhlb-
itory Law.
THE DEEP SCHEME is
To Sneak the HackbuSch Bill
Through,
And Allow Saloons to Run BY
Paying Fines.
PILLORY THE MEN
Who Would Thus Ruin All the
Prohibition Work
OF the Last Fifteen Years
Their Names Are:
Stromquist, Baker, Dickson,
Mathews. Mccarthy, Glenn,
and Moss.
Of the Last Fifteen Years
Their Names Are:

The enemies of temperance in Kan
sas seem determined to overthrow the
prohibitory law if they can do it in any
possible way.
The house committee on temperance
has been made subservient to the intiu-
ence of the enemies of prohibition and
has recommended for passage a bill,
which if it should pass both houses,
would almost completely nullify the pro-
hibitory law.
This bill which was introduced by Mr..
Hackbusch, one of the Republican mem
bers from Leavenworth. amends the old
law by simply changing one word
The change Mr. Hack busch and his
liquor friends want made and which the
house committee on temperance has en-
dorsed will make the imprisonment of
man convicted of violating the pro-
hibitory law optional with the court be.
fore which he is tried.
The present law provides that violat-
ors of tiais law shall be punished by
fine AND imprisonment. Mr. Hack busch
very cleyerly wants to simply change
the word AND to Or
The text of the Hack busch bill, house
bill No. 132, is as follows:
SECTION / That section of paragraph
2527 of the general statutes of the state
of Kansas of A. d. 1889 be amended so as
to read as follows:
Any person without taking out and
having permit to sell intoxicating hq-
uors as provided in this act, or any per-
son not lawfully and in good faith en-
gagged in the business of a druggist, who
shall directly or indirectly sell or barter
any spirituOus, malt, vinous, fermented
or any other intoxicating liquor, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined in
any sum not less than one hundred dol
lars nor more than five hundred dollars
OR, be imprisoned in the county jail not
less than thirty days nor more than nine
ty days.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its publication
in the official state paper, and all acts
and parts OF acts in conflict herewith be
and the same are hereby repealed.
The members of the house committee
on temperance have reported this bill
back to the house with the recommends
tionthat it be passed.
The members of the committee on tenn
perance who are by their action to plaza
the enforcement of the prohibitory law
in jeopardy are c. ]. Stromquist rep. of
Mcpherson, chairman; Baker (Rep) of
Franklin; Dickson (Rep) of jackson:
Matthews rep of Ellsworth; Mccarthy
(Rep.) of jefferson; Glenn (Rep.) of Gree
ley, and Moss (Pop.) of Lyon county.
The argument of Mr. Hack busch and
the friends of this bill is that it will in
sure better enforcement of the prohibi-
tory law, but every body knows that that
argument is not good. 1t is all nonsense;
if it were not for the fear of imprison.
ment which every court must infiict on
persons found guilty of the prohibitorv
law there would be saloons in every town
in Kansas.
1t is only the fear of the Jail sentence
that keeps the Jockhecks and Dura;De
and others of their ilk from running
open saloons in Topeka today. They will
gladly pay the fine imposed as a license
to engage in their unlawful traffic. The
prohibitory law must not be weakened
py this proposed change of one word.