The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-15

Where crime is engendered, ruin made
The young become reckless the old be-
come poor
Where the win becomes lost beyond all
A demoraiized stomach. a sin-debaueh-
ed soul.
A wreck q the body. the stoppage of
breath.
A terrible life. a premature death.
Thank God for the progress Kansas has
IN doing away with this demon-Iilse
saloonists are frightened. ana haste to
retire.
Our cause is spreading like a prairie on
fire.
Rev. HIP. Gregg. Peabody. said: IF
we church people are not active the
prOhibitory amendment viii be lost"
Here Judge Eldridge interjected. Not
where there's two or three met to-
gether to pray"
one of the things which is defeating
prohibition is perjury said Mr. Gregg.
'Jurymen. witnesses and officers in
dulge in it. The officers should be
backed by the common people the com
mon people by the church people, and
the church people by the preachers.
Dear friends, I am q bachelor preacher
and they can't starve me out Here's
one whom they can't compel to be still
upon this subject If resubmission
was brought before the people and
fair vote could be had, I would favor it,
but you know that the liquor power
viii spend many million dollars to
defeat it."
DR.. J. NJ McWharf. Fort Scott. said:
Down in Fort Scott We have a man
who was nominated for governor And
when the governor sent a man down to
help enforce the laws, what did he do?
This man skipped TO Missouri. (Voice;
Shall we vote for Hurley2) No, thank
God, he is not on the ticket But the
representatives of both old parties are
men who are favorable to the liquor
traffic"
Then Lawyer Robert Stone. who is a
Baptist, read a resolution which he said
he wished to have appended to the re-
port Of the committee. The following
is the resolution as reported by him
Resolved. That we have viewed with
the deepest sorrow and regret the at
titude Of our state administration to-
ward this important question for the
past four years; that with shame we
have looked upon the coWardly aban-
donment by our chief executive of the
vantage ground which we had gained
and the consequent disregard of the
law in nearly every portion of the state.
We deplOre the fact that during our re-
cent Reunion and Festival the laws of
the land were violated with impunity
and the honor and fair reputation of
our capital city was tralled IN the dust.
BY long years of faithful living Topeka
had builded for herself a reputation for
cleanliness and order; now her shame
is heralded in every part of the state
and untold injury has been done to the
temperance cause.
Resolved. further. That we repudi-
ate the doctrine that each community
may determine for herself whether or
not she will obey the laws. Each mu-
niciplaity owes to the laws Of the state
the same loyalty which our state owes
to the national constitution, and any
laxity in the enforcement of one law
breeds contempt for all laws. No more
perniciOus doctrine was ever taught
than that a law need not be enforced
because it is obnoxious to a portion Of
our citizens for the minds Of the
younger generation are corrupted by
such teachings"
The presentation of this resolution
was a bombshell and caused a lively
discussion. Men opposed to it denounced
it and charged the Trainer with con-
spiracy to drag public officers into
net which they We're not responsible
for, and others upheld it,
Rev. A. L. Newell. Emporia, said
when the present governor was nom
mated I was told that I should support