The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-09
RESUBMISSION IN KANSAS.
Past, Present and Future.
How the parties stood
in 1891.
SOME STARTLING FIGURES
Is to the Cost of Prosecution of Liquor
Cases, as Compared with Other
Cases. Cost of Grand Jury.
SOME Prophecies
Concluded from last week.)

the whiskey cases than was received
in fines. Rudolph Hatfield says ithas
cost only 81 900 more than the fines re-
ceived, which is about the same pro-
portion rs our own county. But why
should we be so seictious about what
it costs i'm enforcing the prohibitory
law and never word about other
state cases? In the latter we received
back only about One-tenth in fines and
cost in the former more than fuur-fifth
in fines and cost, and that to suppress
an evil brings disgrace TO the user, his
family and the community.
AS TO amount of liquor sold in Kan
sas, it has often been said that there
has been more intoxicating drinks
sold in the state siuce the prohibitory
law was enacted than before.
Wishing TO know the facts, some
five months ago 1 addressed a note to
the U. s. Supply Co. of 1908 st. Louis,
Ave. Kansas City, stating what had
often been said about the amount sold
here and asking if they could give
me the facts, and enclosed stamp for
reply. So far have not heard from
them. Sometimes / have thought
that perhaps they were so busy put
ting up and shipping the extra goods
to Kansas they had no time to reply
to my request.
Not content with this wrote to the
Brewers Journal, of New York City,
making the same request of its edi-
tors, stamp enclosed for reply. They
sent a book written in 1890, by Mr..
Hinton, OfNewtOn, Kan who pictured
in glowing terms how people perjured
ers, and whole lot of other things to
show how the law demUralized people
and communities, the awful cost,
dd infRitUDl; but not one word as to
wheIhe more Intoxicating drinks
were sold than before. A statement
appeared about ten months ago in the
Evangelical Messenger. of Cleveland,
o., taken from the Brewers Journal,
that the prohibitUTy law had de-
creased the sale in this state as per
cent. 1t looks TO us that if any such
thing were true that more liquor was
sold here than before they would be
too glad to let it be known, for the
effect il would have OH the people of
the state. Were it true it would be
better to go back TO a license system.
Compare for moment, Kansas and
Nebraska. In 1882, 1,544 government
permits were issued in Kansas. IN
Nebraska with only about 60 per cent
of our population, l,074. In 1885 1t
had risen To 2,20S ia Kansas; to 1854
in Nebraska. In 1889, the number
in Kansas had fallen to 1878, while
in Nebraska the number had risen to
3,707, and that with much smaller
population. These figures speaks
louder than words.
"Resu bmit" say they, "then if it
carries again we will obey the law"
obeyed any law it did not have to, land
never will. Over in Sedalia, Mo +,
they have law closing the saloons
on Sunday. Did they obey it? Not
any; until the citizens rose up in their
might and made them. 1t was the
same in New York City. 1t was the
same in our own state before the pres
ent law was enacted. 1t always has
been so and always will be The talk
about public sentiment being neces-
sary to enforcement of the law is the
sheerest nonsense.
"Oh but" says some one, "we must
have the revenues to run the city
with and fix the sidewalks" 1 have
always hoped l wOnId never have TO
tread on sidewalks built with the souls
of men and the cries, 3rOans and tears
of women and children.
Carroll d. Wright after long and
ICcOdICh SFNCnGy
in the United States found that for
every dollar received from the saloon
S12 were spent as the direct result of
the same.
Whiskey is always intolerant.
Whoever or whatever stands in its
way it brushes if in its power. No
purer man ever lived in Kansas than
George l.. Douglass and while he
fought the battles of resu omission for
them he was their God, but when in
the strength of his manhood and up
rightness of purpose he stood up for
the enforcing of the laws as he found
them, the whiskey interest turned
against him and he has been obliged
to leave state he has served faith
fully and ably He, more than any
other man. saved the state in the
winter of 1893. He should have been
made governor for it, too.
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