The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-28

appeals to Christian sentiment and pat
riotisTn almost unprecedented and by |
combination of moral influences never |
before seen in this country, that by his |
conspicuous example as a Wine-drinker |
at public banQuets, and as a Wine-serv-
ing host in the White House, he has
done more to encourage the liquor BUSH
ness, to demoralize the temperance hab-
its of young men, and to bring Christian
practices and requirements into disre-
pute than any other president this re-
public has had.
President Mckinley is responsible
for the army canteen, with all it's dire
brood of disease, immortality, sin and
death, in this country, in Cuba, in Porto
Rico and the Philippines; and we insist
that by his attitude concerning the can
teen and his apparent contempt for the
vast number Of petitions and petition
ers protesting against it, he has out
ragged and inSulted the moral sentiment
of this country, in such a manner and
to such degree as calls for its right
eOuS uprising and his indignant and eff
fective rebuIe. We challenge denial of
the fact that our executive, as comman-
der in chief of the forces of the United
States, at any time prior to, or since
March 2, 1899, could have closed every
army saloon, called a canteen, by exec
utive order, as President Hayes did be-
fore him, and should have closed them
for the same reasons which actuated
President Hayes; we assert that the act
of congress passed March 2 1889, for
bidding the sale of liquors, "in any post;
| exchange or canteen," or by any 'ofli-
| Ger or private soldier" or by ANY other
! person, on any premises used for mill
| tary purposes by the United States"
4 was and is as explicit an act of prohibit
4 ton as the English language can frame;
/ We declare our solemn belief that the at
| torney general of the United States in
! his Interpretation of that law and the
| secretary of war in his acceptance of
! N fnT- feaf f1l 1,Se-
! enforce the law, were and are guilty of
! reasonable notification thereof and
| that President Mckinley, through his
assent to and endorsement of such in
! depreciation and refusal on the part of
/ the officials as appointed by and respon-
sible to him, shares responsibility in
| their guilt; and we record our convic-
! ton that new and serious peril con-
! fronts our country, in the fact that its
| president at the behest of the beer DOW
er dare and does abrOgate a law in con-
/ gress, through subordinates whose acts
become his and thus virtually eonfesses
that laws are to be administered or to
be nulliffed in the interest of a law-de-
| flying business, by an administration
. under mortgage to such business for
support
FOREIGN LIQUOR POLICY CON-
| DEMNED
Fourth-We deplore the fact that an
| administration of this republic. claim
ing the right and power to carry our
! nag across the seas. and to
| and annex new territory, should admit
| its lack of power to prohibit the Ameri-
| can saloon on Subjugated soil or should
| openly confess itself subject to LIQUOR
| sovereignty under that flag We are
| Inundated, eXasperated and grieved by
the evidence painfully abundant. that
this administrations policy of expan-
sion is bearing so rapidly its fruits of
drunkenness, insanity and crime under
the dollhouse sun of the tropics and
when the president of the first Philip
pines commission says it was unfor-
tunate that we introduced and esta h.
ished the saloon there, to corrupt the
natives to exhibit the vices of our race
| We charge the inhumanity and IN
christianity of this act upon the ad-
ministration of William Mckinley and
upon the party which elected and would
perpetuate the same.
We condemn the present administra-
ton at Washington because it has re-
pealed the prOhibitOry laws in Alaska
and has given over the partly civilized
tribes there to be the prey of the Ameri-
can grog shop; and because it has en-
tered upon a license policy in our new
possessions by Incorporating the same
in the recent act of congress in the code
Of laws for the government of the
Hawaiian Islands
We call attention to the fearful fact
that expectation of liquor from the
United States to the Philippine Islands;
increased from 1887 in 1898 to S467 1913 in
the first ten months of the fiscal year
our
expectation of liquors to Cuba never
reached 100000 a year previous to Amer
lean occupation of that island our ex-
ports of such liquors to Cuba during
the fiscal year of 1899, reached the sum
of 1928, 655.
Sixth-One great religious body (the
Baptists) having truly declared of the
liquor traffic that it mas no defensible
right to exist, that it can never be re-
formed and that it stands condemned
| by it's unrighteOus fruits as a thing I'M
christian, un-American and perilous ut
terly to every interest in life" Another
great religious body (the Methodists)
having as truly asserted and reiterated
that mo political party has a right to
expect, nor should it receive the votes
of Christian men SO long as it stands
committed to the license system or re-
fuses to put itself on record in an atti-
tude of open hostility to the saloon. u
Other great religious bodies have made
similar deliverances, in language plair
and unequivOcal as to the liquor traffic
and the duty of Christian citizenship
! IN opposition thereto; and the fact be-
ing plain and undeniable that the Dem
ocratlc party stands for license, the sa-
loon and the canteen, while the Repub.
ncan party, in policy and adminiStra-
ton stands for the canreen, the sa1ooI
: and revenue therefrom, we declare our
! selves justified in expecting that Chris.
tan voters everywhere should all cease
their completely with the liquor curse
, by refusing to uphold a liquor party
l and shall unite themselves with tht
only party which upholds the prOhibi.
: ton policy and which for nearly thirty
' ! years has been the faithful defender,
of the church, the state the home anC
the school against the saloon, it's ex
- panders and perpetrators. their actua
q and persistent foe.