The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1901-02-19
KANSAS LAW
CONCERNING wHIsKEY TRAFFIC
Who Has a Right to Destroy Sa-
loon Fixtures. Etc.

In the State of Kansas the con-
stitution provides: "The manu-
facture and sale of Intoxicating
liquors shall be forever prohibited
in the State, except for medicinal,
scientific mechanical purposes"
The stsSStes further provide;
"All places where intoxicating liq-
oors are manufactured, bartered or
given away in violation of any OF
the provisions of this act or where
intoxicating liquors are kept for
sale, barter or delivery in violation
Of this act are hereby declared to be
ooiu mon nuisances ana upon the
Judgment c;sis sf OF any court having juris
diiction, finding such place to be a
nuisance, under this section. the
sheriff, his deputy or under deputy
on any constable of the proper coun-
ty, or marshal of any city where
the same is located, shall be direct
ed to shut up and abate such place
by taking possession thereof and
destroying all intoxicating liquors
found therein, together with all
signs, screens, bars, bottles, glass
es, and other property used in keep
ing and maintaining such nuisance
and the owner or keeper thereof
shall, upon conviction, be adjudged
guilty of maintaining a common
nuisance and shall be punished by
a fine of not less than 500 nor
more than $500. and by imprison-
ment in the county jail not less
than thirty days nor more than
ninety days. The attorney gener-
al, county attorney, or any citizen
Of the county where such nuisance
exists, or is kept, or is maintained,
may maintain an action in the
name of the State to abate and per-
petually enjoin the same. The in
junction shall be granted at the
commencement of the action and no
bond shall be required. Any per-
son violating the terms of any in
junction granted in such proceed
ings shall be punished as for con-
tempt by a fine of not less than
S100 nor moro than $500. or by i'm
prisonment in the county Jail not
less than thirty days nor more than
six months or both such fine and
Imprisonment in the discretion of
the court"
In writing of the work of Mrs.
Nation Mrs. Francis Beauchamp,
President of Kentucky w C. T. U.
says;
Mrs. Nation Is an educated, cul-
tured, refined woman, about sixty
years of age, with gentle, motherly
WAYS, a devout Christian. After
fruitless effort as local leader to
arouse the courts and the public
officials to a performance of their
solemn oaths to enforce the law,
she determined that the sleeping
public conscience should be arous-
ed and that the children and the
homes of Kansas should have the
benefit of the protection that the
law guaranteed to them. A home
maker, mother and grand moth
er, with the blood of Kentucky an
cestors throbbing in her veins, she
resolved to vex her righteous soul
no longer by contending with the
spirit of anarchy that had crept in
to the high places of government in
her State, but use the right of ev-
cry free born citizen to oppose law
lessness, be that lswlessness found
in the low joint keeper or in the
perjured officeholder who had re-
fused to hear evidence against the
Joint keeper and enforce the law of
the State ss he had solemnly sworn
to do. Mrs. Nation has done no
new thing under the sun, she is sim
ply treading in the well defined
paths of pioneers in the ages of the
past.