The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-09

Washington was president IN 1874,
when the distillers organized and re-
sisted the collection of the tax inn
posed by congress and Washington
was obliged to call out the militia to
quiet it.
Whiskey never obeyed any law it
did not have to.
Down in Wichita one of the joint
keepers refused to pay the monthly
assessment made by the city. The
chief of police took three men with
him, all armed with axes went in and
smashed every thing in sight, and
gave notice that any other refusing to
pay would be served likewise.
Whiskey never Obeyed any law it did
not have to and never will.
The government keeps hundreds of
men to hunt illisit distillers, who
seem to think it meritorious TO de-
fraud tout of the tax if they can.
Again we dS.erve. whiskey never
obeyed any law it did not have to and
never will.
The only thing a man engaged in
selling liquor ever needed was
the hard knocks the law gave him.
One engaged i'm the business seems to
lose all sense of obedience TO any law
lift stands in the-wa of bis business
1t blunts the moral, mental and phys
ical faculties of whoever sells or drinks
it. 1t is curse without one redeem
ing feature.
But why resubmit? Is there one
particle of good that will come TO the
state by it? Every amendment sub
mitied costs the state about $1,000,
to say nothing of the cost of the cam
paign, the stream of corruption money
that would blow into the state from
the liquor interest all over the United
States as corruption fund to make
our grand state worse instead of bet
ter. 1t would keep the state in
turmoil for months and all for no
good end. We have shown that three
separate times has the question been
brought to the people aud each time
resubmission shown a decreased vote
from the last, and we believe it will
this fall.
SOME PROPHECIES.
First: That the people of Kansas
will never submit the amendment
until there has been brought to bear
all the power of the state to see that
the law is Obeyed and they find it
cannot be done.
Second: That the legislature will
amend the present law 80 as to SIM
plify its enforcement.
Third: That men of all classes, ex-
cept those who expect to gain by its
sale will unite sooner or later to drive
the saloon in all its forms, whether in
drug store or any where else, from the
state. The statistics we have pro-
duced show the state is progressing
that way.
Fourth: That sooner or later the
people of Kansas will elect governor
who will have the courage To make il
SO everlasting hot for the viOlators of
the law they will b" glad to get out of
the state with their nefarious busi-
ness.
Fifth: That in time the good peo-
pie of Kansas will come to the con-
clusiOn that the whole state is greater
than any part, aud will act accord
ingly.
sixth: That the people of Kansas
will never resubmlt the prohibitOry
amendment anyway.
"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is
raging, and whatsoever is deceived
thereby is not wise"
"Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow?
Who hath redness of eyes? They
that tarry long at the wine cup; they
that drink mixed wine"
If the foregoing shall tend to en-
Tighten the people and help to get rid
of the worst curse that ever afflicted
the people, shall be paid for the long
labor of getting together what here
present.
Again want to express my thanks
to County Clerk Wakefield and Dis
trict Clerk Travis.
l.. B. PEARSON.
Humboldt, Kan, September 1896.