The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-04
Tells Veterans at Dodge City
They Must Aid Him.
''WE WILL" THEY YELL
Governor Folk Spoke of Crafts
in Kansas.
Thinks Prohibition Might Be
Better Enforced.
Alva Adams of Colorado Pleased
With the State.

Dodge City, Kan, Aug. 4.@Gov-
ernor Joseph w. Folk of Missouri q
son of Confederate parents. made de-
cided hit before the Southwestern
Kansas Union Veterans association
Thursday afternoon. He spoke for
two hours under tent, where tha
thermometer registered more than 100
degrees, and he not only held his audi
ence, which extended far beyond the
open tent sides, but many persons were
able only to look upon the young gov
ernor, without hearing the words that
came from his lips.
1t was interesting to hear the COM
ments of those who came forward
after his address. They carhe up by
the score. "God bless you, governor"
said one. 81 wish every governor in
the Union could have heard you to-
day." said another. Your parents
may have been rebels" said a third
but we love their son. and so it was.
one after another, as they passed in
review.
Governor Hoch's Comparison
In his speech in the morning Gov
ernor Hoch very adroitly compared
the Kansas and Missouri saloon fights
Governor Hoch explained to his audi
ence in the hearing of the governor OF
Missouri that Kansas has not the
necessary laws to enable the governors
to enforce the prohibitory law, which
had proven SO valuable to Governor
Folk, had been repealed in Kansas.
and that the governor now possesses
insufficient power to close the "joints"
in the cities of the first class. Th6
point that Hoch made was not lost on
the Missourian and he devoted some
time in the afternoon to answering
the Kansas governor. The answer was
as cleverly and as adroitly given to the
audience as had been the original
statement in the morning. In dealing
with the Kansas situation. Governor
Folk said:
kansas consists not alone of its fer
tile fields, it is known by and consists
of its laws. If all of its laws were to be
ignored the people would return to q
state of anarchy, and just in proportion
! as a single law or g. number of laws are
| ignored, in just such a proportion are
| the people anarchists. want to say to
| you that anywhere in this country
| where you find the saloon open and run-
ming at times or in places where it ought
| not to be, you can be sure that some
| body is getting graft out of it. There is
somebody getting his and you have
| only to search to find the person; the
| friends of the saloon will tell you that
the anti-sa1oon law is a blue law well,
any law looks blue to a man who does
not want to obey it,"
Talks of Prosperity.
Continuing, Governor Folk said:
| ''Lawbreakers always claim that a city
or state is hurt when the laws are
enforced No state or community can
be injured by the enforcement of law.
The disgrace is in liberation of viola
| tionS of law, not in correction. When
! the bribery statute was enforced in Mis-
| souri, those selfishly interested set up
| the plea that the state was being hurt;
on the contrary, the last three years
1 have been the most prosperous in the
| splendid history of the imperial state.
Immigration to Missouri in the last
| three years has increased rs per cent
more than in any prior period of its
| history. Lands have advanced 20 per
cent more in valuation than in any like
time before. There is not a county,
| city or township in the state that is not
| increasing in population and not city
or town that has not prospered. It was
| said that the execution of the gambling
] and wineroom laws would have a disas-
trous effect on the large cities.