The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-23
KANSAS REFORM.

| i nave DScu III every HOOK anu COI =
ner or this land and believe To-
peka is the cJeanest city In morals
lin the United States. have
mot seen one drunken man
since. came here. see no
disorder o. vile characters on the
streets. II here. tho lewd, the vic
ard drunken arc secluded. In the
". NJ. G. IA. building cigarette
smoking is prohibited. A preacher
who smokes Is not wanted in Kan
sas. A singing evangelist was re-
jected here because =" 1t "a reported
be smoke5." In graduating class
here of forty-one persons, about ff-
teen men. not one used tobacco iu
any form and net. ono drinks. In an
Illinois town on Commencement
Day all the boys drank. smoked and
some we're drunk. They gave n
public ball and girls ANA boys drank
linked drinks. Our Bro. Mallory
Is president of the city school board,
and no such folly will take place I'm
Topeka. silly people vii say, oh,
YES, but Topeka has her drug
stores" True, and whisky can be
had here In disguise; SO can strych-
nine and opium. In the drug stores
there are no vile crowds. People
4 In ssI 4.
~. M. many drug stores close. and
no lazy. sinful men gather there.
They go home to their families. In
Emporia they close nearly all of the
drug stores on Sunday. and those
that are open are only for emerg-
ency. The licenses were taken away
from stores here for violating the
law. Every papsr % Importance,
evtty preacher and every teacher mp.
holds the prohibition law. The can
didatcs for mayor hasten to mako
1t plain that they are opposed TO
The saloon.
~Should man come out ere for
Governor as an avowed champion
of the whisky interests, he could not
get 25 per cent. Of the votes. The
voters would bury him like the old
woman wanted to bury tho devil,
with his face down. 50 that the
harder he scratched the deeper he
would go. Topeka, n city Of $4,000
has but few criminals in her prls.
ons. Kansas City, Kan, since her
laws have been enforced has de-
creased her police force, and on
Monday mo. ming, Instead OF her taIls
being full Of drunken men, they are
lsmpty. May .kaEsas never take
backward step. We rejoice tha.
one-haf of the United States Is
now under prohibition. y. v.
Coombs, in the Christian STANDARD
OF February 90. 1907.
| what Is bad for other men Is
pad for the soldier" "AbolIsh the
Outside dives. Weed out the drunk.
ards. = Some army statistics.
The friends Of the army saloon
seem to have oycrshot the mark IN
their attacks upon the ant. .canteen
agitators In general and the W. C.
y. u, In particular. Indignant pro-
tests continue to come from mon
10 whom these fulmlnations have
Proved obnoxious, MS we'll rs from
the press. The following excerpts
arc fair samples:
have just read OF 4 ,yemcpt
started by some women In washing
ton, ID. c., to put the canteen back
among our soldiers. The article nj
Sc states that these wornc,. attack
the W. c. I. IT, as an organiza-
aon 81 mcddllng women. Who
would do well to raise their own
boys and lot others do tho same
etc., etc. 1t is just. such baldcr.
dash as this that ono occasionally
reads In the newspapers, that ought
to weary any man who has brains
enough to reason from cause to ef-
tcct and which leads me TO addrcss
you as the representative pnper Of
the noblest organization of women
49, sAS NOiiu Huo huOW0.
In what school of phi .osophy
have these people studied. who rcas.
on that saloon or "cantccn' as
they call 1t, kept In the quarters of
the men. hired by the United states
Government. as scldiers, is good for
them. when the majority OF the
people In the South, the big railroad
systems, and large commercial
houses OF the cotDtry. have found
Tint the saloon Is a damage. destroy.
ing the usefulness OF employees aud
promoting crime and pauperism:
H. tie canteen were 10 be restored,
there would be hundreds of men in
";r battloships and In our moving
aimics that would have copportunitics
foy promoting the drink habit. who
today escape because the outside So
loon cannot afford to accompany our
battlcsbips, And as for the forts
and stationary sOidiers' 0liartcrs