The Topeka state journal., 1899-09-28


may call out the militia, but this is not
often resorted to.
Governor Stanley is a good man, but
I blame him for putting his hand to the
plOW and helping to destroy the metro
politan police law of this state That
law was our only safety: To be sure
there were saloons running under that
law but it was not the fault of the law.
1t was the fault of the office holders
who failed to enforce the laws, not for
the good of the city, but for their own
good. The police boards always had a
sufficient number of mugwumps on it
who wanted to run it to suit them
selves.
In my county, we had a couple of
men open a. saloon. What did our
sheriff do. He did his duty. He was
elected to enforce the laws and he did
it. He did not wait for some one to get
up a petition that these joints be closed
up. No. he did not wait for the churches
to take up the matter, and appeal TO
him to close the places where they
were selling liquor contrary to the law
He went to that saloon and arrested
those two men and today they are on a
$500 bail in our jail. That is the way
we should treat the jointists. Those are
the kind of officers to have.
THE trouble is, we elect good lords
and good devils, who ought to have
been chIorOformed and sent to heaven
20 years ago. We elect to Office men
who would carry the saloon on one
shoulder and the Sunday school on the
other They are good men, perhaps, but
they are half-baked Christians. Those
are the kind of men that we elect and
it is not to be expected that the laws
will be enforced There is the kIon-
dixie, located not far from here, and
about which so much has been said
lately. L should like to see it blOtted
out. Force it out of existence. 1t can
be done and must be done.
I'VE are sending our boys thousands
of miles to suppress a people who are
opposing the government OF the United
States, while the men and the state Of
ficers here at home are not doing a
single thing to those who disregard and
disobey the prOhibitory law here at
home Let US pitch into the Fiipinos
here at home and drive the KIondike
out of Leavenworth and into the Mis-
souri, river. We do not need such peO-
pie in the state and the sooner that we
are rid of them, the better.
We must accomplish prohibition by
prohibiting. We must do it through the
ballot box. A plurality Of the votes cast
viii bring about the reforms which we
are clamOring for. A plurality OF the
votes in the state and in the nation.
Can a few old deacOns get together, and
pray and carry on and then pray some
more and then ane home and think that
they have had a great political meet
ing and think that they have done any
good. The vote is what we are after,
The w0rlSingmau's vote is what we
need. His vote is worth as much as any
mans vote. He should help US.
II believe in wOman's suffrage, in wO-
mans vote, and the party which refuses
to put Womans enfranchisement in
their platform cannot expect much help
from the woman. The women are SEN
sible. A great many times more so
than the men, and they would soon
show to the people who should rule, the
whisky ring or the prOhibitOry law.
Look at the trusts. They are holding
up the people. They put up the price
of iron, of lumber, of every thing that
the people need and still we all sit idly
nv n nd n no q q n
nefariOuS practice. How do we treat
the train robber, who holds up a train
and robs the passengers. We take care
of him. We generally hang him.
What shall we do with the trusts who
hold up all the people of the United
States? Shall we not say anything be-
cause of being afraid of hurting the po-
lirical party to which we belong"
Following Governor st. John, Rev.
Martin V. B. Bennett, spoke. Rev Ben
nett said: kansas has been the pride
of everybody in the battle against the
rum traffic. The time has existed when
no liquor could be bought in this state.
Now look at it. The ballot box pre-
vented it, and the homes of the people
We're protected against this curse. We
enforced the laws and we put upon the
bench men who enforced the laws. Look
a t the good record of that Kansan1 that
man who did so much for prohibition
and the enforcing of it's law. You all
know him, he lives in your city, he is
the Hon. John Martin, a Democrat, and
a man who made Kansas a state of
pure homes and pure liberty
PROHIBITION RESOLUTIONS.
Before adjourning the following reso-
lutiOnS We're unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That we regard the existence
of the Prohibition party absolute
necessity The Democratic. Republican
and Peoples party are so under the con-
troll of the whisky ring that they are
Powerless to aid the prohibition reform;
in the Iowa the old parties repealed pro
hibiti0n and legalized distilleries, brew
cries and saloons, in Kansas prohibition
is stricken from the party platform While
Gratis, the bitter enemies of prohibition.
Whereas, The horrors produced by the
beverage use of alcoholic liquors are so
apparent that this cornmonyv eaIth In its
wisdom has prohibited its sale in saloons,
club rooms, joiuts-saIoons and all other
devices, by penalties OF fines and imprls-
against the ruling of some of our district
judges who allow club rooms to exist in
clear violation of their oathbOund obl-
cations. we regard the encOura cement
to liquor drinking as an outrage that
can not be tolerated by law abiding citi-
zens. As imperfectly as prohibition is
take pleasure in comparing its success
with the fraud and failure of license, the
contrast is pleasant to contemplate. We
affirm that the state and nation have no
right to enact laws that will ruin the
rich and destroy the poor; no moral or
constitutional right to legaIiZe a traffic
test with all the energies of the soul
against any alteration to prOhibitOry
liquor law especially to crafty the liquor
fraternity and make it less efficient in
in the anti-canteen law passed by con-
greSS and protest against the nullify1ng
acts of United States Attorney GriggS-
We deplOre the silence and non-actton of
President Mckinley in allowing this great
outrage. We depIOre the non-enfOrcement
of prohibition at the soldiers home known
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