The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-04
MADE THINGS HUM
A Big Temperance Meeting at
the Auditorium.
About 1000 People Listen to the
Speeches.
STAHL TELLS HIS TALE
Thinks He Has Done Pretty
Well Enforcing Law.
Mayor Hughes Commends Chief
Stahl's Efforts.
Lecture Delivered by Col. George
w. Balm.
STAHL TELLS HIS TALE

More than two thousand people gath
cred in the Topeka Auditorium Sunday
afternoon to hear an address given by
Col. George w. Balm, of Lexington.
KY. preceded by a short talk from
Chief OF Police f. NJ. Stahl. P. H
Forbes called the gathering to order
and introduced Mayor Hughes, the per-
manent chairman In taking charge
Mayor Hughes said that the prohibition
law was better enforced at this time
than it had been in ten years. He
promised that if the supreme court
allowed him to hold the Office which he
now has, the present chief of police
would continue to be a terror to law
breakers" The invocation was given
by Rev. D. NJ. Fisk, pastor of the First
Congregational church.
Then Chief Stahl came forward and
began review of the temperance stu
alton in Topeka. He said little that
was different from what he has gone
over in a number of other speeches
around town. He referred to the Audi
forum meeting of last spring and the
large number of joints which were run
ming at that time and the way in which
they were fitted up Now, said he,
there is not a bar outside of the
Turner'S and AriOns with all its para
phernalia that is worth much more than
three dollars. You've got to hunt for
the joint today; but of course if you
are persistent you will always win the
Victory. he IneQ gave some detailed
descriptions of the means of protection
from invaders with which the jointists
have surrounded themselves. and as a
sample told of a number of raids which
he and his force had made on the Nc
Coy joint at 1011 Kansas avenue But
1t isn't the chief of police" he con-
tinued, that should have the credit; he
is getting more than he deserves. What
could he do if it were not for the sup
port which he gets? You have seen by
the papers that the mayor and chief of
police were not getting along we'll Now
I want to say to you that Mayor
Hughes never has put the brake on
me. He has told me repeatedly i want
you to enforce the ordinances without
fear or favor, let it hurt whom it will
Now we want two things, he said,
concluding, I'VE want the law, and we
have that Besides we want loyalty.
Let the people watch at election time
for good, true men, and we will have
the law enforced"
Col. Balm was introduced, and after
several hundred people who had crowd
ed into all the standing room on the
lower floor had been seated IN the gal
1ery, he began his address on "a Cen
fury Searchlight,'' or 1.-The Old Century's
to the inheritances of persons, such as
wealth bestowed upon children by
parents. 1.-The Nineteenth century has
given to the Twentieth much of good;
but there has been also some bad In
a burst Of elOquence he depicted the
marvellous growth of civilization in the
Kansas
commonwealth with whose material pro-
gress Providence had to interfere.
But there are unsolved problems of
imperial moment" he went on, serious
1y- I'VE turn the searchlight on the race
problem. Since the close of the war the
negro race has increased at astonish-
Ing rate. Tt was supposed then that they
would go among their liberatOrS to live.
But they will lever leave the southland
They have gone on multiplying in the
southland and problemizing civilization
In my mind Booker It. Washington has
the best solution of the negro problem
IN his normal institute at Tuskegee. If
the negro is the best blacksmith in a
community he will get to shoe all the
horses. If the best farmer he will win.
If the most artistic painter his pictures
will adorn the walls of our houses If
the negro is worthy he will win a place
IN whatever calling, just as Paul Laur-
ence Dunbar has won a place in litera-
ture- We must level the colored man
UP or he viii level us down.
I'VE turn the Searchlight a little far
Their to the city problem. If the city
population goes on increasing at its
present rate in twenty years the cities
will have 10000. 900 people more than the
country and they will control the re-
public The question now is, can we
save the cities of the republic. Oh, for
the day when the cities will have a
mayor and chief of police who will go to
temperance meeting on Sunday after
noon-
The immigration problem next came
most cosmopolitan country in the
world declared the Kentucky colonel.
1.-TWO hundred and fifty thousand peo-
pie have landed on our shores within
the past 80 years. Many of them have
been good people but they are not all
So From this latter class came
<he assassin who killed Humbert of
Italy, and from that same class came
the man who few weeks ago shrouded
our own country in deepest gloom" He
lauded Mckinley highly both as a pres
1dent and as man; and in concluding
this topic said: In the name of the
ancestry which pIowed it's way through
the seas I stand here to say that. too
long we have allowed this republic TO
become the sewer for the social filth,
ignorance and anarchy of the world.
There is a vessel leaving New York
city nearly every day for that class"
On the subject of expansion Col Balm
tries to avoid taking sides with political
parties. "YOnder in the Philippines
said he. 1--WE have so different tribes
and how to mold them into one common
whole is a problem. America should he
the standard bearer of civilization to
the farthest corners of the earth; and
whether or not 1 favor annexing the
Phippines to the United States am in
favor of annexing the civilization Of the
United States to the Philippine islands.
1--WE turn the light to the subject of
labor and capital. Both are organizing
both determined to win All the trouble
between them is not the fault of CAPT.
tai AS travel up and down this land
/ find that it is not the capitalist who
patronize the hotel bar-roOmS most
freely, but it is the laboring men. What
the workiugmen of this country spend
in one year for liquor would purchase
500 of the average manufacturing es-
tahlishmeDts of this country. That
which they spend in 50 days would buy
the whole Pullman company's plant.
II believe if you settle the saloon