The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-16

to use liquors, even having detectives
out watching them.
The supreme court decisions point tc
the conclusion that any license law is
unconstitutional and may be revoked.
License is a permit. License does not
restrict the sale OF liquor. It is not in
tended to, but it is a protection to it.
A school teachers license requires a
certain standard OF proficiency to foster
/ ed cation.
Let the state keeps its hands free from
anything that destroys the manhood of its
citizens.
4 state cannot receive revenue from
any such soul-destroying business with
out being equally guilty with it.
The history Of slavery is wonderfully
analogous to the liquor traffic.
Three years before the war. under the
] Dred-Scott decision, slavery seemed to
be about to spread over the whole coun-
try.
We deplore anarchy. But when we
get down TO the bottom of this business
we find that anarchy has its foundation
in the liquor business. The man who
shot the president was the son of a sa-
| loonkeeper, brought up in a saloon, and
went from over a saloon to do his horri-
bic deed.
The papers last winter were fun Of an
archy in Kansas.
Now. when the decisions Of the supreme
courts Of seven states outside of Kansas
have been that a private citizen may
abate nuisance when the offers of the
law refuse to do so-which looks the most
like anarchy-the officials from the gov
ernor down to the mayor and policeman,
who refuse to do their sworn duty ard
enforce the law, or the Ratchet in the
hands of the praying mothers?
officers will not be ahead of their con-
stituency. There are officers in this state
and in this city who would like to en-
force the law, but their hands are tied.
The party back of them does not want
law enforced and they dare not be trait
ors to their party.
Let's wash our hands OF our RESPONSE
bility by doing our duty and that means
its death.
Then followed quartette by students
of the university Mrs. Daisy Barr said:
Il want you to understand why temper
ance sentiment has been so much on the
increase. 1t is because the women have
walked up"
Like the inscription which the Irish
man gave the committee to put over the
entrance to the graveyard, we are here TO
stay but we are not dead by any means.
We are measuring everything by dollars
and cents. but we are selling ourselves
at the same time. What is a boy worth.
anyhow? He is not to be valued in
money at all. if he is my boy and ruined
by the saloon.
Rev. Edward a. Fredenhsgen Of To-
peka. kan. Of the Kansas Society for the
Friendless. introduced the subject Of
prison Reform. He said in part:
I'm Kansas % per cent Of the cases
IN law come through rum. In Illinois 80
per cent come through rum. So that If
we could do away with rum We would
in great measure DO away with crime and
criminal expenses. a man must have
a living. have his friends and have his
Christ Then he can so ana sin 10 more.
Two ont of three in the prisons. when re-
leased. would so and sin no more. but
the conditions o. making a living must
be met. having friends ard Christ. We
want TO help the brother in bonds"
Rev. Miller favored the audience with
q temperance solo. accompanying himself
or the autonian.
While e collection was being taken up.
the Quartette favored the audience with
another selection.