The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-25
Roasts Topeka.

solely designed for outside effect, Is every
body knows that no city in the state leads
that people In the consumption Of liquor
Following the last meeting, In which II
was held that Governor Leedy had beer
completely done for" another was con-
vened in the guise Of . banquet At one OF
the hotels. Friday night, to which al the
business men of the town were invited fol
the purpose of consratulating each othe,
over the success Of their more public dem
onstrations. OF course the tables were
abundantly supplied with wines and other
drinks, and the best speakers had been
notified in advance Of the responses they
were to make. Eugene r. Ware, Esq, the
law partner Of the man more consicpuous
than any other in backing the Dick Wake
crowd, was assigned the New and Greater
Topeka The spirit Of his response came
Ike thunder clap and the prohibition.sts
declare the sentiments uttered as outright
treason. For truth embodied in scathine
sarcasm. for a roast that burned. and riot
that cut to the quick. his effort would be
hard to equal The following Is brief
synopsis Of his speech:
by appropriate constitutional metods
We have been deprived Of any impulse &c
drink anything stronger than hydrani
"otSA, - may UC ScCA W Tic O0nQ0Ct l8Oie
before US, and we have taken the legisla-
tive Keely cure for vice and crime. We
have now become by statutory enactmen;
the highest and most perfect type Of mora
people on earth, and We are living here in
that unmistakable bliss that Buddha speaks
Of and are being absorbed into the tram
scendental by continual contemplation OF
our own goodness and excellence.
tSr6a Lou SAnr
is nothing to prevent it. We are all for it.
the past. They are q rancid Renaissance
We do not keep them in our houses. To
this picture there are no colors that are
not bright, no recollections that are not
happy. except one, and that il, that in q
financial sense. in an earthly and grovelins
sense. in q low, basso profundo sense, we're
hard up. Our rate Of taxation Is four and
nalf per cent Under 1t manufacturer,
lapsuish, and without manufactures To-
peka cannot grow, and more bonds are be-
ing issued
After philosophic consideration of the
question before US, the fact Is that we are
losing adult population. that taxes are high
and that we are issuing bonds to make
them higher, and that we want a large city,
have what goes with all large cities, large
virtues and large vices and as We are well
fixed to furnish the virtues. and as the
People east Of US, as shown by the census,
are worth 8, 200 per capita.
1T would seem to be the very highest
method Of doing missionary work to have
learn from US. 1t increases the price OF
-
heather pay their own travelling expenses.
and 1t shows them how the state senate
(the house concurring) can jack up a COM
and social attitude.
But we must not dwell too intensely
upon the missionary feature. The mann
mon OF unrighteousness' cuts somewhat of
figure. We want no people without cash.
It's cold cash as well as cold beer. No
cash, no beer. The question has its finan-
cial as well as its bibulous side. No finance.
TO Doodle.
To carry out more In detail the plan
proposed, suppose we get the 10000 people
with their million dollars. which Is the very
lowest estimate, and suppose We had five
saloons selling cold beer; what would be
the result? Why, the occult forces of ma
Z,
morality and statutory society would begin
to act and react on the incoming cash.
We would not touch drop Of anything. ex-
cept the specie. We wouldn't do a thing
to them
THE result would be that by our silent
influence We would teach great lessons in
social economies, and in a short time we
would be ready for the next ten thousand.
and so our sphere of usefulness would ex-
tend in ever widespreading circles like az
when something dorps into the placid bosom
Of the Shungonunga
II think I see the time when the changed
condition of public sentiment will bring
about a changed condition in this regard
The question will then be, il ten thous-
and people will come TO Topeka with a mil
lion dollars and cast their lot with US and
build houses. open manufacturers and help
US advance enterprise, and pay our bonded
will We permit them to spend
some of their own money for frigid cold,
polaric, arctic beer?
Personally, your action is committed 70
the theory that each man is his brothers
keeper. That IL anybody else has a shoot
ING match or a hotel we ought to run IL for
him. That We. what there is left of US.
who have not moved out of Kansas. are
constituted with the natural greatness and
legislative goodness which makes 1t our
1uty to see that everybody else does the
way we think he ought to do. That
re hold all the debenture bonds that have
been issued by decency and morality on
Earth. and control the issue and the trust
made to secure the same and
hat II Is our duty to put socity in the
lands OF receiver, and We be the receiver
TO the position that we are our brothers
teeper, / am infiexibly committed
But how can We be our brohter's keeper
irless he will come here and let US get
,hance TO keep him; to keep his habits. his |
morals, his conscience, his cash. We can
lot go and get him. We thought we had |
lin once. but We didn't, and now he is ours |
@ get, before we can be his keeper. IL is |
pore than tiresome for us 20 be Keeping |
ach other. lis our brother that we want |
Q keep. The brother that 4 not here at |
.ome. We think IL we can get him here we /
an keep him and at the same time pre- 1
erve the great fund of legislative morals /
shich We have on hand. and I've lives of |
legislative purity as BELTS those who have
cen morally clarified by appropriate sta
u.ory and constitutional methods.
Hence think that the new and greater
-opeka' Will begin by the change which I |
ave suggested.
II think / see the beginning. The old bat
alion OF saloon keepers falls In line and
iaches to Topeka. They are no: 50 risky
8 of yore. They have not that look OF
npertinent squirttvity. They have chang
q. The mayor addresses them briefly as
pillows:
81 Fellow Citizens and Exsi-z: see be.
5re me what is now left of that expatrist-
d body OF saloon keepers that were in To-
eka when prohibition began There are
OF so many OF you now as there were then
ONE of you have fallen victims 20 The