The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-27

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/ Let US do our duty on March TO- Every
/ preacher should take part in this fight.
/ 1t is a long cry from Sodom and Com
| morah to Smoky Row The preacher
/ who cannot do that has no business IN
/ the pulpit"
| The audience then sang America,
/ led by ". NJ. Shaver.
DIT. ". c. Evans was introduced He
/ took his place on the platform amid
I cheers.
Il trust the day will soon dawn"
/ he said, when the women viii cast
1 their votes not only IN municipal but
/ in county affairs. We are not here to
exploit any particular candidate for
I office, but here to talk for the Offices.
/ The only reason I stand here IS that
think the accession of the Offices
/ should be to the best interest OF the
I community. A schoOlmaster passed
along a highway and caught a chip
munk on his way to school. He met
/ three of his scholars and all wanted
/ the little animal So he said: Bob,
you are PrOhibitiOniSt; jim, you are
/ a Republican. and Joe. you are a
1 Democrat. The one that gives me the
! best reason for his politics gets the
/ chipmunk.' Bob said he believed in
1 the prohibitory law because of the
/ evils of drinking. Jim said he was a
/ Republican because of the work that
4 party did during the civil war. Joe
said he was Democrat because he
wanted that chipmunk. Now ladies
i
we want that chipmunk. Opposed to
! US are a gang of thieves. They want
not only to rob US of our birthright,
/ Of our commonwealth, but of our inn
mortal souls. I am here to justify the
preacher in politics. Some people say
( that we ministers must not take part
/ in political campaigns. When any
man or combination of men conspire
to interfere with my business by their
business. it becomes my duty to in
2 ass 6yyf l.
ness. The internal business of the
joints Is debauching the fair girls of
Our CITY. There are homes tonight
where the parents will not look friends
in the face without shame because the
girls are debauched There are par
ents crying that their boys might have
died when young. 7 want to serve no
tice on the jointists that 7 am a sp1en-
did slayer. I have been in battles be
fore-we are going to win. 7 know the
jointists make the plea that laws
should he made to please them. They
are like the story about the Kentucky
dog bill. a bill which will please the
constituents and not take away the
rights of the dogs. You can call the
Joints the dogs If you will. I would.
The JOintists are Offering money here
and there as bribes. offering money
stained by the blood Of men and WO-
men, and are pouring that money in
here to debauch our city. Courts have
been disgraced and dishOnored by
suhorned juries. I am here to ask
you men and women how long will
YOU stand it2 At 133 Kansas avenue
is painted on the glass door the sign
of the Anheuser- Busch brewery How
long will you stand such Haunting in
your faees2 On Sunday express wagon
! No, % drove to the drug store near
the -Copsiand hotel and unloaded
wagon fuH Of beer. I'm talking to
free born American citizens. There is
a firm in this city tonight. an empIove
. eNF n r4-7a TT.-a
law to the court. He testified that he
bought liquor of a certain place. can
name the man and the joint.
THE next day a customer came in
and demanded on pain of Withdrawing
his trade that he must discharge that
employe- The next day another came
in and said that a boycott would be
formed against that place of bust
ness"
Or. Evans" said a man from the
audience.
Never mind" replied the speaker,
/ I'm talking now.
isn't that a high-handed outrage
that men who are little better than
+ thugs-Httle better than thieves make
/ such a demand. On March 10 you will
f scourge to every jOintist and candidate
i back of them. I have been in cam
/ paigns before. never saw such
unanimity in the press of city. They
{ nave SUNK every QlAAEG ClACG anu ia {
1 come together as a unit on this point.
/ (Cheers broke fOrth.) Give it to them
4 again. CThis time the applause lasted
j for several minutes.)
"Give me the pulpit, the parlor and
! the press and I will police any city.
We will see that the jointist is set with
j out our gates. I count it a great privi-
i leEe to be a citizen Of Kansas I was
4 here thirty days and Kansas was born
/ in me- It is a husky child by this
{ is 6ric al of H.
1 great galaxy. She is the glory of the
+ sisterhood of states. Topeka is the
I gem of the prairies. We are to have a
/ Semicentennial here in 1911. History
has shown that past legislatures have
i been from z 3 to 80 per cent In favor
i Of the DrohibitOry law. If Topeka goes
/ to that next legislature, drunk and
/ debauched as she Is tOday-if Topeka
/ In that condition dares to ask for a
/ million or more dollars will say that
/ If we make that request unclean-that t
/ legislature vii refuse US. You don
aDDlaud. I don't want you to. / want
YOU to think I want Wou to vote on
March 10. I want you to purge our
city and our county from this scourge,
so that our sons and our daughters
NAV walk the streets IN sa1eTy-
w NJ Shaver then led the audience
! in singing work for the night is com
ing, A collection was taken up to
help in carrying on the campaign. II
netted 1925.
Tom AeNea1 was next caIled 10
lspeak. we are not here to discuss
the Righteousness of prohibition he
said. II have the highest regard for
the man who honestly disbelieves that
the prohibitory law is the best way to
stop the sale of liquor, but VINO HJlil
saws that the law should be enforced
to the letter since it is on the statute
books A man who believes in dis
LOBBYING the law because he does not
believe in 1t is a traitor to his flag ano
when we are wanted to displace the ma
ltfonal eolors with a whisky bottle
couchant and beer mug rampant
They ask US to rub out the names OF
square deal and square count. It may
be that it viii be necessary for US to dc
more than sit here and applaud and &C
home and pray. There is a church