The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

but there was hitch In the plans some
where so / didn't see them before be-
gan work ] noticed one or two Of them
a1terward, but they STAYED across the
/ street ! was just marking the joints
so the police could find them and arrest
/ the pr0prietors-"
At the request of Miss Boise the po-
lice sent word to DR.. Eva Harding. who
! was one Of Mrs. Nations closest ad-
! herents during the old joint smashing
/ raids. and a long conference was hello
/ between the two women in the cell. L
/ is expected that a state complaint viii
/ be sworn out for the arrest of the win
I dow smasher and that she will be placed
/ in the county jail.
} At "A quarter before 9 o'clock this
morning Miss Boise was arraigned in
/ police court before Judge c. A. Magaw.
/ The arraignment was on the charge OF
disturbing the peace, and the prisoner
4 at once entered a plea Of mot guilty"
/ Her trial was set for 4 o'clock this af-
I ternoon, but it is unlikely that it will
occur at that time. As the case viii
probably be taken to the county court.
HER FORMAL STATEMENT.
i Miss Boise prepared q carefully writ
ten statement for the newspapers which
she gave out after her arrest 1t is as
follows:
This wild and ridiculous perform
/ ance before the public is simply to show
/ our utter disgust, contempt and lOath-
4 ing for those creatures in hat and trou-
sers posing before the world as officials
+ a burlesque on American manhood.
I seeking to misrepresent the loyalty and
patriotism of our dear old Topeka and
this state of the United States.
+ In casugating this chief perjurer, I
feel that l have only done my duty
unpleasant though it is. And in smash
] ing few joints, and plate glass, I
surely have done no wrong, have viola
/ ted no law It, too, is a creditable if
errauc but righteous act.
TO claim that one can disturb the
peace of public nuisance or a den Of
outlaws lis a mlsnOmer. Joint fixtures
ana sambhng devices or buildings that
harbor them, have no property rights in
Kansas any more than costly burglar
4 tools or expensive cOunterfeiting appar-
atus. / am told that expert counter
I letters, also safeblowers' outfits often
cost hundreds of dollars. yet they may
+ be seized and destroyed wherever found
by amy body. If a nest of burglars or
cOunterfeiters are even suspected of do
ing business in the city the officials
don't rear back in their chairs. pare
their finger nails, and wait for some
private citizen or 4 committee of WO-
men to wait on them. tell them their
/ duty, swear out warrants and draw up
/ evidence They just fan all over each
other to arrest and punish the offend
ers.
The court does not let them out on
straw bond OF their own TecognIzance
I for six months or year TO go right on
! committing the same offenses. Who
/ ever heard OF burglar or counter
]
fechnIcaIty or idiOtic mistake of some
attorney or incompetent official2 When
tile courts become a farce, furnishing
/ the innocent and letting the guilty go
/ free. When the constituted authorities
are poWerieSs to protect society from
law violaters and evil doers- When
crime lis licensed and premium put
upon vice a community is in a state of
fraIchy The sovereignty of citizen
ship must then assert itself, take mat
81 fff 40 nd
pense equity and justice The Union
league was war necessity The Wig
ilance committee. law and order sOcie-
ty, and right of forcible assembly are
last resorts
Back in Bible times Elijah. Jehu and
Josiah led such crusades. Christ him
self took the law in his own hands in
the temple rawhided the mercenary
occupants, drove them out and over
threw the tables of the money gam
blers If the Rev J. T. Mcfarland. J.
ID. COuntermine. Charles NJ. Sheldon,
and the rest of the Ministerial union
would preach from those texts perhaps
the men might organize an army to
settle this matter at the ballot box.
+ How the temperance men must admire
their late brave commander We sym
4 pathize with our brothers who were
mustered one thousand strong under
such Weakened leadership Had some
brave woman been in command in
stead of man who could be manipu-
lated by politicians, our Topeka would
/ BE- as free of Joints today as HOlt9n Is
1t was an irreparable mistake that
such a compromising man had his hand
on the Home Defenders, ordering them
not to defend. A few earnest Christian
women at LathrOp and Denver. No,
smashed more joints and spilled more
LIQUOR in a few minutes than all the
men in Kansas ever did Nor did the
F salo0nkeeper and officials combine to
/ iail and harass the women, either.
! r-7-- r~,4E F1rrr
! brothers We're OminOus and the saloon
men We're glad to get safely out OF
sight and stay there At CenteFVllle,
/ Iowa. where all the joints We're smash
! ed the officers jailed the saloon men in
stead of the indignant fathers ana
mothers who demolished their barrels,
+ bottles and fixtures. Kansas does diff
/ ferently-
Had Mrs. Nation operated under the
+ sHurrel law no court Of equity or OF
! Justice could have imprisoned and hned
her without paying we'll for the hunln~
alton and persecution
Here in our lovely Topeka the people
seem to be politically handicapped
How much worse is it to have a Demo
cratic mayor fail to arrest Jolntlsts than
for a Republican city attorney ana
Judge to turn them loose, thirty and forty
1T "A time2 Why do the w c. T. u
sisters not give vent to their indigna-
+ ton in a way that viii count TOR good
BLANCHE BOIES.
PLATE GLASS LOSS.
tt is the plate glass insurance agents
who VIII lose most heavily by Miss
Boise's deuredations. Even they arc
unable to more than estimate the
amount of their losses. Bailey Bros.
carry the insurance ON the State drug
stores windows 1t will cost about S13o
to replace them The biggest glass
broken was at The Palms. at S33 Kan
sas avenue. on which the Nellis & Nellls
agency is likely 10 lose about $3.50 e.
~ f-.5T1 r No TsiG
al the RovaI which viii cost between
$3.50 and 5000 to put back. The glass
in Russum Joint at $50 was plate and
worth about $500 At the National bill
lizard hall and at Y0ung's drug store at
! S34 Kansas avenue the windows and
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