The Topeka state journal., 1902-05-10

New President State Temperance Union
made this declaration, which he supple
mented with another in which he said
II consider it the greatest honor of my
life"
Mr.. Coburn's speech of acceptance Of
the office was very brief. He concluded
by saying; The only promises Whlch
make are to do the best can.
That he will do the best he can ana
that the best he can do will be equal II
not superior to anything that mas Deen
done in the association heretofore, no
one who knows Mr.. Coburn doubts.
The retiring president, Judge L. T.
Carver, paid tribute to Mr.. Coburn, ana
his work for the state of Kansas IN ms
capacity as secretary of agriculture,
and of his zeal in the temperance work.
ia wel-turned phrases.
The closing meeting of the State Tenn
perance Union convention was address
ed by Rev. William A. Quayle last night
on the subject as announced. w nat an
ex-Kansan Thinks About Prohibition.
Rev. Mr. Quayle is a dramatic speak
er Of forceful style, and the voe1ferous
applause which greeted his more sur
ring declarations fully attested the nigh
appreciation which the large audience
accorded him in the delivery of his
speech
may deny the statements which am
about to make, inasn uch as they are
only thoughts and no one may deny
or argue with me on what I think. You
may say 4 don't think, but that does
not alter my thoughts.
'I am Kansas man." Rev. Mr..
OuayIe declared. Il say that not out OF
disrespect to you, but rather in respect
to myself. / was in Indiana, which IS
east of here, once upon q time. A de-
licious people live there. One time
man said to me, You are from the west,
are you not2' I answered that was
not but that Il was from Kansas. And
fu arn Kansas is Kansas. II IS
of the west, but at the same tine is
distinctly separate. If there is better
place to be born and reared, the geog-
raphy has failed to chronicle it.
II like Kansas because II is big
place. The skies are high and the hori-
zon is wide. It allows of expansion 1
wouldn't deny that the conditions breed
liars 7 couldn't. But I think it is not
a moral disability of the people but
rather the result of the excessive mag
inatiOn, the faculties being greatly sus-
ceptible to the atmospheric conditions
u think that prohibition has done
wonderful thing in the expurgation of
vol,r vocabulary. Prohibition has made
the word saloon obsolete in Kansas. In
other places the saloon is as multitude
nous as wtckedness-
.gThere are no decent saloons; the
more decent the saloon apparently, the
more Indecent it is. The more elegant
the furnishings, the worse it is. It only
the more serves to hide the true char
scter Of the den of iniquity that it is.
The great peril nowadays is not men
drinking, but the women drinking It
is customary now for young ladies to
go abroad to complete their education.
While they are in Germany they con-
tract the beer habit, and while in
France thew get the wine habit They
return home to spread the fad among
their friends, and think nothing of 1t.
say the great peril now is that the
women drink and look upon it as a
foible and not a sin.
Prohibition should not be secured by
IaWlessness. We cannot expect to gain
lawfulness by lawlessness. I believe
more people are turned from prohibit
tion for this reason than for any other
cause.
Woman suffrage will not make a
state temperate. I used to think that if
the women could vote there would be
no trouble. No border town has ever
been helped to be made temperate by
women voting"
The officers for the ensuing year are:
Presldent-F. D. Coburu, Topeka
Vice Preaident-T. E. Stephens, To-
Deka-
seeretary-J. E. Everett Topeka.
Treasurer. W. Gleed Topeka.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions were
I'VE. the members OF the Kansas
State Temperance union, in annual con-
vention assembled, at Topeka May 8
and g, 1902, do hereby adopt the follow
ing statement of principles and resolu-
tfons.
AS workers in the cause of temper
ance and believers in the principle of
state prohibition for the suppression OF
the liquor traffic, we find reason for en-
couragement in the splendid progress
made during the past year. The moral
sentiment Of the state. now becoming
more and more thoroughly aroused,
augurs well for the future We believe
the day has gone by, never to return.
when the saloon can flourish on Kansas
soil under the protection Of the law
That the saneity OF the home shall be
protected against the assaults of Grim
anals ana outlaws has become a fixed
determination In the minds Of the great
majority e1 the people, that ths higher