Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-07-12
POLICE Who CAN.
GOVERNOR GIVES OUT IKDIa-
EAKT INTERVIEW SAYING
EXCUSES ARE NOT WANT
Ed.
TELLS H0E n DO II.
Csnfscate Stock, IL After Three
Arrests saloonist Still Keeps
Open.
TELLS H0V n DO II.

Governor Folk spoke a follows re-
gardlng the lid-lifting 10 st. Joseph.
"The saloon keepers Of ST Joseph,
10 their impotence and defiance OF au-
thority are sowing the seeds OF q whlrl.
wind. 1t remains TO be seen whether
they are greater tnan the state Of
Missouri.
'If the present police authorities
confess their inability to enforce the
Sunday closing law they will have to
give way to some one else who can.
Amy man can give up. The police
officials needed are those who will up
hold the law In the face OF difficulties.
JEFFERSON City, Mo, July s.-Goy-
ernor Folk to-day in an indignant In
terview on the defeat Of the police OF
St Joseph by the lid lifting saloon
keepers, Intimated that the head OF
the Police Chief OF that town will
come OF and radical changes be made
in the Police Department II the saloons
are allowed to keep open next SUM-
day.
Gov. Folk issued instructions to the
St. Joseph Police Commissioners to ar
rest all saloon keepers OF st. Joseph
who keep open next Sunday and after
the third arrest, they yet refuse to
close up, TO take charge Of all their
stock and place it In safe place for
evidence against them.
In discussing the matter this morn
ing the Governor said:
The saloon keepers OF St Joseph in
their impotence and defiance OF au.
thority, are sowing the seeds of a whirl-
wind. Itremains to be seen whether
they are greater than the State OF
Missouri. The closing Law must be
obeyed. They will have to obey It.
They might as well understand that
the fight has not ended. 1t has just
begun.
"If the present authorities confess
their inability To enforce the Sun
day closing law they viii have to give
way TO some one else who can. ANY
man can give up. The police officials
needed are those who will uphold the
Law in the face of difficulties and dis
couragements. Excuses are not want
ed, but aggressive action is"
ST. JOSEPH LID LIFTKRs GET BETTER
or PoLIcE.
81. JOSEPH, No., July s.-After a
fight between police and saloon men
which lasted all morning, many saloons
in this city remained open during the
afternoon In spite Of the police. By
night over half the saloons In st. JOS
eph were open.
Orders had come from Jefferson
City TO the Police Board to enforce
the Sunday closing law despite the
decision OF the Kansas City Court Of
Appeals, which held valid the AndrianC
ordinance, permitting saloons to re-
main open after 12:30p m.
The Police Departments began max.
ing arrests shortly after midnight, and
continued them 10 the afternoon, but
as fast as a saloon man was released
on bond he would reopen his place.
Then officers rearrested the dram
shop keepers and refused TO release
them on bond. In a short time nearly
every cell In the Central Police Station
was filed with saloon men and bar.
tenders.
Writs OF habeas corpus were applied
for before Judge Henry NJ. Ramsey,
who held that the police had no author.
ity 10 refuse to release a man on bond
when he was charged with a misdem'
eanor.
Then Chief Frans instructed his meI
not 10 molest those who had been ar
rest once, but to keep a close watch fol
~yiolators who had not been apprehen,
ded.
Meanwhile those who had been lock
ed up we're released on their persona
bonds. Those arrested will be prose
cuted under what is known as the
blue law.