The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-15
TO TRY A BOYCOTT
Country township to Refuse
to Trade at Augusta.
BECAUSE OF THE JOINTS
Resolution Read in the Meet
ing of Citizens to This Effect.

The little city of Augusta, Just east Of
Wichita, is having ali kinds Of trouble
over the prohibition question.
It 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
protected at the enemy by the people Of
country townships refusing to trade in.
towns which maintain joints. q
Lately two joints have started up In
Augusta. From all reports the authors-
ties of the city are not precisely angereo
over the presence of the joints and do
not interfere with them. This makes the
prohibition element very angry but evil
IDENTIFY 1t is not strong enough numer1-
7caIly to induce the officers to act.
The prohibition fight Is being led by
Will H. Cady of the Augusta Journal. In
his last issue he heads an article "WiH
Boycott the Town. and then relates
that the citizens of Spring township met
and listened to a resolution which pro-
posed that the people of that township
boycott Augusta. He says in the article
that the resolution was not put to vote,
but his heading ''wil Boycott the Town"
is taken to mean that he has inside in
formation that the township will not
trade with Augusta until Augusta drives
out the joints.
This is on the assumption that all the
inhabitants Of Spring township are on
the prohibition side. which Is not at all
likely. Echoes of the Augusta war are
reaching Wichita and the proposed boy
cott is talked about considerably. It Is
the general verdict that the boycott will
be complete fizzle
The article referred to In the Augusta
Journal is as follows:
Hearing that citizens of Spring town.
Ship had met and decided To boycott Au-
gusta, the editor wrote to a friend for
particulars. The reply was a personal
one, but no confidence Is violated In pub
fishing portions OF the letter. At con-
vention held In Haverhill the temperance
question was under discussion. To test
the sense of those present a gentleman
offered a resolution something as follows:
That It is the duty OF law-abldinE citi-
gems TO trade with merchants in those
towns that enforce or endeavor to en-
force the prohibitory law The resolution
provoked considerable favorable discus
sion. and those present seemed to be
unanimously in favor of its adoption,
but the resolution was not put to vote.
''Our correspondent in reply to the
question: What is the sentiment of the
people in your vicinity on the liquor
gra L.
felt toward the guilty persons in your
city, whoever they may be. not only
against the vendors and dealers, but
against your local authorities, II 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 well stop to consid-
er. Here is a citizen OF highest respecta-
bility and integrity. a citizen whose pat
rOnage Is we'll worth cultivating, who is
highly indignant at the unrestrained law
lessness of late rampant in Augusta, and
not only he but many of HIS 1reighbors
are also indignant He nves four miles
nearer Augusta than FL Dorado. but his
respect for law is of such a nature that
he will drive eight miles further than is
necessary in order to avoid a place that
makes no pretense of enforcing the law.
''If the writer had not done all in his
power, even TO the possible sacrifice of
future business. TO change the present
condition of affairs he would hang his
head in shame. As II 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 au-
7horities apparently make no attempt to
enforce 1t. nay. even appear to connive
at its continued violation.
''But enforcement OF law need not he
left entirely TO the authorities. Public
meetings, the opponents of public opin-
Sons. may be held and thus express the
sentiments of a 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-
proval. The one is as inimical to a gov
eminent by law as the other. This stat
eu truth may De unpalatable to the read
er. but sometimes unpalatable truths set
us to thinking and get us back into the
right road.
There is some patriotism in every citi-
zen. and II is TO this sentiment the Jour
nal appeals for careful consideration Of
the present condition in Augusta. We
dove our city and labor for its advance
nent. either morally, commercially or
both. From the moral standpoint. are
we doing our duty in violating any law
or permitting its violation by others9 The
moral sense OF the surrounding communi-