The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-17
PrOhibitiOnists to Try the Eff
feet of a Boycott.
A Country Township Refuses to
Trade at Augusta
BECAUSE OF JOINTS.
Resolution Read In a Meeting
of Citizens
To Purchase Their Goods at
Ell Dorado, Further Away.

Wichita, Aug 17.-Augusta is having
all kinds of trouble over the prohibition
question.
1t was thought that all the tactics in
the prohibition battle had long ago
been exhausted. but it seems that an
entirely new weapon has been devised.
This is projected at the enemy by the
people of country townships refusing
to trade in towns which maintain
joints.
Lately two joints have started up in
Augusta. From all reports the authOri-
ties of the city are not precisely an
gered over the presence of the joints
sand do not interfere with them. This
makes the prohibition element very an
CRY but evidently it is not strong
enough numerically to induce the Off
GERS to act.
The prohibition fight is being led by
VIII II. Cady of the Augusta Journal
In his last issue he heads an article
VIII Boycott the Town." and then re-
lates that the citizens of Spring town
ship met and listened to a resolution
which proposed that the people of that
township boycott Augusta. He says in
the article that the resolution was not
put to a vote. but his heading .'Wiu
Boycott the Town is taken to mean
that he has inside information that the
until Augusta drives out the joints.
The article referred to in the Augusta
Journal is as follows:
Hearing that citizens of Spring
township had met and decided to boy
colt Augusta. the editor wrote to q
friend for particulars. The reply was
personal one, but no confidence is viO-
lated in publishing portions of the let
ter. At a convention held in Haverhill
the temperance question was under dis
cussion- To test the sense of those
present a gentleman offered a resOlu-
ton somewhat as follows: That it is
the duty of Iaw-abiding citizens to
trade with merchants in those towns
that enforce or endeaVOr to enforce the
prOhibitory law The resolution pro-
VOked cOnSi derable faVOra bic discus
sion, and those present seemed to be
unanimously in favor of its adoption,
but the resolution was not put to a
vote.
Our correspondent in reply to the
question: What is the sentiment of the
people in your vicinity on the liquor
question: writes: Great indignation is
felt toward the guilty persons in your
city, whoever they may be, not only
against the vendors and dealers, but
against your local authorities, by and
through whom such a state of lawless-
ness becomes possible. Have heard
some very uncomplimentary remarks
about your honorable 90 mayor
Augusta has a condition confronting
her that citizens may we'll stop to con-
slider Here is a citizen of highest re-
spectability and integrity, a citizen
whose patronage is well worth culti-
waiting, who is highly indignant at the
unreStrained laWlesSnesS of late ram
pant in Augusta, and not only he but
many of his neighbOrs are also indig-
nant. He lives four miles nearer Au-
gUsta than Ell Dorado, but his respect
for law is of such a nature that he will
drive eight miles further than is neces-
sary in order to avoid a place that
makes no pretense of enforcing the law.
AT,r g+.-n- L 4. III
power, even TO the possible sacrifice of
future business, to change the present
condition of affairs, he would hang his
head in shame. AS it is, he cannot
avoid that sense of humiliation which
comes from the knowledge that the
town in which he has conducted a
newspaper for nearly ten years should
permit the law to be openly violated
and the authorities apparently make no
attempt to enforce it, nay, even appear
to connive at it's continued violation.
But enforcement of law need not be
left entirely to the authorities. Public
meetings, the opponents of public opin-
ions. may be held and thus express the
sentiments of community, which in
our case, we will, we must, believe, is
in favor of enforcement of law.
THE anarchist believes in no law but
that of his own creation, and allied to
him is the one who believes in Obeying
no law that does not meet with his ap-
prevail The one is as inimical to a gov
eminent by law the other. This
stated truth may be unpalatable to the
reader, but sometimes unpalatable
truths set US to thinking and get US
back into the right road
There is some patriotism in every
citizen, and it is to this sentiment the
Journal appeals for careful considera-
ton of the present condition in Angus
ia. We love our city and labor for its
advancement, either morally, CONNER
cialIy or both. From the moral stand
point, are we doing our duty in vio-
lating any law or permitting it's viola
ton by Cthers2 The moral sense of the
surrounding community is shocked by
the open and fragrant violation of the
law. This will result in loss of trade
and retard if not entirely check our
present advancement. From a CONNER
cia1 standpoint, can we afford to lose
the trade of that class of citizens who
will certainly leave US if the present
condition cOntinueS2
Every citizen, no matter how hum
BILE or exalted, how poor or rich, to citi-
zens without regard to religious or pol
itical creeds, We appeal in the interests
of our city that the laws be respected
and obeyed; but if they are not if
they be violated, then let US tell the
truth. the whole truth and nothing but
the truth, that the majesty of the law
may be vindicated''
FROM KANSAS, OF COURSE.