The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-16
HOCH WILL HELP.
Pledges His Assistance to State
Temperance Union.
Says That the Organization Is
Right.
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
Doesn't COuntenanee the Use Of
IntOXicants.
President F. ID. COburn Delivers
Annual Address.
THE BIBLE SAYS

Governor Hoch in addressing the
State Temperance union last night
gave utterance to one sentence which
warmed the hearts of the enthusiasts
for temperance in no uncertain man
ner and which called forth tumuItuous
applause. The sentence was: II say
personally and officially that shall be
! glad to cooperate with you to the
fullest extent of my official power"
The main auditorium of the First
| Christian church was crowded to its
| fullest capacity at last evenings ses-
sion, which was in reality the formal
opening of the convention as relating
to the public at large.
President F. D. Coburn presided
over the meeting and said in the
/ course of his annual address:
| Whatever its champions may claim
or its defenders allege to the contrary
the trade in and consumption of in
toxicants in. Kansas never before have
been at so low an ebb as now. and the
| advocates of prohibition never have
| had greater cause for rejoicing nor
| been nearer the goal of final victory.
| Our problem is not what the world is
doing but what Kansas is doing. With
| Kansas put right and kept right a
mighty work has been done toward a
solution of the world problem.
| THAT we have just inaugurated one
of our own as chief magistrate of the
| commonwealth, a man with convic-
tions of which he is not afraid, renews
US with glad courage. That we nave
a practical worker for temperance as
mayor of this capital city, this light
set on a hill, makes us rejoice; that
| he sustains at the head of the city 8
| police department a man of the high
best character, fearless and tireless in
| coping with lawlessness in all FORMS a
terror to evil doers, is a. sign OF the
ffir1aG-fha times which
! ganization and these members OF the
IOld Guard have so long worked The
good cause has been advanced, too, Dy
our having a resourceful, aggressive,
militant secretary who co-operates
with every good man and means tor
law endorsements
ssNone of this means, however, that
= the millennium IS here, or near we
= must be no less alert than heretofore
y and no less mindful that the enemy is
at our gates. Eternal vigilance ana
| everlasting battle for this cause must
Il need be ours. not alone for what II
means to Kansas but for what our eN-
ample and success mean 70 an enIlS MS,
tendon the eyes of whom are upon
=, rs and whose courage rises high or
I l sinks low in the degree that this plo-
neer and pivotal state Is true anu
strong or passive ana lmpoIeH1'
i After the conclusion of his address
: Mr.. Coburn introduced Governor Hocn-
q : Governor Hoch extended a welcome 70
= / the convention and said in the course or
] his remarks: with the history. with
! the work and with the purpose of this
union I am tolerably familiar ana Win
: it I am heartily in sympathy ms ms
| union stands for something, 1t STANDS
2 for sobriety, for cleapliness. for law.
for good government ans with al OF
these I am in hearty sympathy. There
is temperance as well as intemperance
in other things as well as drink, there
is intemperance in speech and in IRE:
tTennerance is the moderate use or
things unharmful. This union stands
for these things and its contentious are
: logical and right. Its contentious are
scienti6cally right. 1t is right from a
business standpoint and one of the most
hopeful signs today to my mind IS the
fact that the business world IS array
cd on the side of temperance. The BUS
l. mess of the world is temperance or
ganization. They have realized that
their employees must be temperate men
in order that the best service may be
expected.
lel seen passages in the Bible which seem
e to countenance the use OF liquor I
have examined the Bible at some length
: and I have found from my examina ton
lS that in every instance where the BlDle
le saenoed to sanction liquor the wine
es meant is a non-intoxicant- say to
=, ven the Bible is arrayed on the side OF
le lealIpg1 You are right politically. What
e, should be the attitude of the govern
e, rnent toward the liquor trat1cY II IL
% is good business it should be as un-
y = tTammeled ~ from law as any other bus
iU mess as the shoe business, as the gro
n cerv business, but it is not and the
90 only logical attitude towards the busl-
+e ness is absolute prohibition.
.srThere are some things about which
& there can be no argument. There Is
IN no citizen who should not obey the law
and if he doesn't do it he should be
ds made to do So
It slDon't be discouraged, prohibition has
It's not been the entire success which we
er bave believed it would be but don't
Mt helieve that there is a better. more So
al her lot of 1,5OO 900 people anywhere In
ed tbe world than right here in Kansas
he and we owe it largely TO the pfohibl-
ge fion law / say personally and othclal-
in " that I shall be glad to cooperate
no With you to the fullest extent Of my
nd official power.
he
in p H Forbes, representing Mayor Ber-
elf s-,7ndfhaI then appeared on the platform
he 9nd exDlained the reason for the abb
ii eence of the mayor from the meeting.
av TToliovrfns this came the principal ad-
of dress of the evening, the one by W. Ii.
of Anderson Of Chicago, superintendent OF
IS +ba TlIinois anti-Saloon League. Mr..
ASderson spoke on the Solution of the
mt saloon Problem" He said in part:
o. ssrrhe saloon and the state cannot exist
I'M side by side because they are inconsist-
no anf together: the one builds up man
er- hood and citizenship, the other tears
..,rhe church and saloon cannot exist
on fooatber These are probably the two
r. greatest opposing forces in the world
ty today. There are two kinds or competi-
is fion the one healthful and building up
ty of the best character, the other tearing