The Topeka state journal., 1906-02-12
KANSAS CRUSADE.
The War Against the Saloons
Of the State Started.
Thirty Meetings Held Sunday in
WyandOtte County.
TAKE UP COLLECTIONS.
70 Clean Up PittsBurg, To-
peka and Kansas City, Has.
Judge Carver and +. M. Stahl
Relate Their Experience.
Carver Says He Is Up Against
ga Hard Proposition.
TAKE UP COLLECTIONS.
Judge Carver and T, M. Stahl
Relate Their Experience.

Kansas City, Kan, Feb. 12.-As the
Beginning of a law enforcement cru
sade in this city, thirty meetings under
the auspices Of the Kansas Temperance
Onion were held in the church Sunday
morning and last night The regular
pastors gave way to speakers affiliated
with the union and collections we're
taken in all the churches to carry on
a fight against the Joint evil" 1t was
part Of a plan of the state organization
fer a campaign to include all the
larger cities in Kansas. Similar meet
ings viii be held at Pittsburg next Sun
day and later the union forces will
move on Topeka.
While the meetings were being held
yesterday liquor was being sold in the
165 joints in the city. For weeks the
jointsts have been getting bolder until
it IS no longer necessary to go through
alleys and enter back doors to get
List Of Speakers,
The principal speakers at the
churches were:
The Rev. Charles Coke. Woods, pas
tor Of the First NJ. =. church of Sa-
lima, at the Washington Avenue N. z.
church yesterday morning and at the
First United Presbyterian church last
night.
J. K. codding of Wamego, attorney
for the State Temp union, at the
First Presbyterian church and the
London Heights NJ. z. church.
John Marshall, Winfield. at the
Seventh Street NJ z. church (South)
and Trinity Lutheran church.
The Rev. A. NJ. EeIls, Usage City,
Peoples Methodist Protestant church
and Grandview Park Presbyterian
church.
The Rev. Robert Norris, Topeka,
Edgerton Place Baptist church and
Armourda1e Baptist church.
II. S. Pitcher, Topeka, Cumberland
Presbyterian church.
The Rev. J. NJ. DunlayYs Frontenac,
Central NJ. z. church.
The Rev. w T. Hilton, Atchison,
North Side Christian church and Ar
mourdale Christian church.
The Rev. David Fl. Shields, mayor of
Salina, Central Presbyterian church
last night
Frank NJ. Stahl, ex5chfef of police of
Topeka, Swedish lutheran church.
The Rev, J. Dec AIi BuekRer, EIfa-
Wathas Mount Pleasant n. r. chuch,
First Congregational church.
IT, f. Carver, Topeka, assistant at
tOrney general OF Shawnee county, at
First Baptist church last night
The Rev j. B. McBrian, Lansing,
chaplain of the state penitentiarv,
Central Christian church last night.
All the speakers urged their congrega-
LUIS 10 klidhE united movement
against the 'jointkeepers'' in this city
At the VVashingtonAvenue NJ. y. church
the Rev. Charles Coke Woods, pastor of
the First NJ. E. church al Salina. said:
Justice Brewer Of the United States
supreme court has said federated
church could reform New York. make
Philadelphia a. good town and clean up
Chicago. If the churches viii do what
they should municipal conditions in
Kansas City, Kan. can be changed.
heard that a man here said, Damn the
law want to say that a man who
would say that is not fit to hold a pub
lie office"
The minister ridiculed the argument
that the revenue from s'joints'' was nee
esssry to run the city government. He
talked on conditions in Salina and said
that when the Rev. David H. Shields
was elected mayor a year ago next
spring there were about twenty-five
'jOints' in the city. At this time, he
said, there We're no open 'joints," al
though liquor was sold in two or three
"holes-in-the-wall." The city had met
all its obligations without Tioint's feve-
nue., had done some street paving and
was installing a paid fire department.
AT the First Presbyterian church. J.
S. Codding, attorney for the State Tenn
perance union. made a strong appeal
for the support Of the churches in the
law enforcement movement. He said
that the union was engaged in one