Middletown transcript., 1907-10-05

%, has the following notice OF an Anti
License meeting
John Marshall, d well-known lawyerof
Kansas, who took an active part in plac.
ing bis state in the prohibition column,
was the speaker at meeting OF
local option advocates in the auditorium
of Grace M E. Church yesterday alter
noon. The speaker was greeted BY
large audience and bis telling points were
caught by the audience and applanded.
The speaker was introduced by Royal W.
Raymond, field secretary Of the National
AntiSaloon League.
The speaker referred to the methods
employed in forcing Kansas to 90 dry"
He said that while q saloon-keeper is
physically courageous be is not morally.
The speaker pointed ont how the Kaneas
law was rigidly enforced and said that
the most fragrant forms Of vice could not
exist we're the saloons removed Grim
inals,n said the speaker, "Wili 60 to the
places which invite them" The speaker
added that honesty and local option 60
hand ia hand.
Mr.. Marshall said no state or county
has the right to receive revenue at the
expense Of dishonor. The contest against
the liquor traffic, the speaker declared,
ID between the church and saloon, and
there ID no more ground for compromise
than there is between God and the devil.
The speaker asserted that the church that
does not fight the saloon ceases to be a
factor for good.
Referring to the right OF the people
TO vote against the saloon, the speaker
said that when the day arrived when the
people have 10 right 70 talk, it would
mean the end 81 the nation.
We shall let the news report Of the
| gEas papers answer Mr. Marshall in
part. with comment as follows
Have criminals left Kansas for license
statas?k
| Read Read Read !
Police Court, Kansas City, Kan, Friday
i September goth, 1907, ,-Repartee in
i Kansas City, Kan.
| Daily Globe.
4 Fourteen lawbreakers faced Actini
| P9iice Judge William Winship thi
morning. Tie offenses charged agains
them ranged from plain drunk To rob
berry. The offenders charged will, being
drunk were fined 50 each, this beini
their first offense.
| S. Simmons and Georgia RIFE, negroes
were before Judge Winsliip on the charg'
Of vagrancy. They we're arrested q
James street and Central avenue ON com
plaint OF two men, who refused to Civ
their names, but who said they had beer
robbed by the above named couple
They we're turned over to the State.
Bertha Clay, Ed Wiley and Delli
Pefeete were up on the charge Of robbery
It is said they robbed man Of $40 ant
+ | a gold watch. The alleged robbery oc
| Cured at Central avenue. They will
be turned over to the state.
Ben Dixon and George Harding, two
1 I7-year-oid boys who live in Armourdalel
we're tried for petit larceny. They were
arrested by Detectives Quinn and Nc.
/ Knight. The boys had been getting
! wheat from the Terminal elevator. Judge
Winship fined them $40 each.
| Henry Horton, 20 years of age, was
charged with yagrancys Detectives Man.
sell and Gibson, who arrested him. stated
that the case was an aggravated one
They also said the parents of the younf
man had had considerable trouble will
| Henry. The defendant stated to tbs
| court that be had no idea why il wal
that he couldn't work like other men
1 He was fined $25.
| John Krego, an employe Of the Swift
packing plant. was up on the charge d
| petit larceny John admitted having
| stolen some nails and rubber betting. He
was fined So
KANSAS REVENUE INCREASES
| Trickett and Marshall from Kansas
came to Delaware and declare prohibition
ID enforced in Kansas.
The Hutchison Daily News, September
| i8, has the following:
.DRYNEsg INCREASES REVENUE
u <
Incidentally II Also Adds to Number oi
Bootleggers
Topeka, Sept. 1s.-James Simpson,
internal revenue collector for Kansas.
says that the prohibition agitation has
increased both the revenues collected by
the department. and the number Of boot
leggers