The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-14
KANSAS COMMENT
FOR GOOD OF THE ORDER.

Bill morgan claims that his pass
Moru IN the square deal organization
| IS not good east of Emporia. When
| ne was here last week he put on some
me moor work indicating that the
western dispensation of the S. D. is
1ourlsh1ng. Mr.. Morgan reported that
Slr knights Ed Madison. and Victor
Murdoch and Past Master FITZGERALD
are getting their work up so that they
may go up a chair. 1t seems that in
me western dispensation Chester 1.
Lo9s name was up before the lodge.
ana although they are liberal in their
ideas, they had to send out for more
black balls in order to give everyone
d chance TO vote. The purpose of Mr.
M1organs visit to Emporia was to
Clear up certain difficulties lying be-
tween MN and a rise to the uniform
rank OF the Square Deal. 1t appears
mat the Most Exalted and Worship
dul FoteAtate at Lawrence has taken
an axe, and hacked one side of Sir
NnighC Bill Morgan, and he can go no
1uther until the dents are smoothed
OUT; All the keeper of records and
seals az Emporia could do, was to give
SIR Bill a letter to the grand lodge,
ana exenplify some of the new work
that mas been put on while Sir Bill
mas Deen in the desert. He will have
I make a penitent pilgrimage to
lawrence to get into good standing in
the order. 1t is said by those who
ENJOY the graces of the inner temple
II Sir Bill manages to clear up his
record fecq with the Exalted Potentate:
that Past Grand Henry Allen, will
take a flyer, and move to be rein
stated!-Emporia Gazette.
THE LESSON OF JOHN WALRUF'F.
The Kansas brewers who are threat
ening to fight ito the last ditch" the
action OF Attorney General Jackson in
taxing possession of their property in
mat state have evidently overlooked
the story of John Walruff, who fought
the prohibitory law to the last ditch
in the early $685.
Walruff was wealthy brewer of
lawrence. He believed that prohibit
ton was Unconstitutional" and went
into the courts to prove his contention.
Inc case finally reached the United
states supreme court, and that tribu-
naI IN the most exhaustive opinion ever
delivered in this country decided that
Kansas had the right to pass a pro-
h1pitory enactment. WaIruff spent his
law.
Prohibition is the established will of
the people. and the brewers will pro
bably take more conservative view of
the situation when they reflect on
what happened to Walruff, especially in
no property rights are vested in
brewery or saloon fixtures. Since the
days of John Walruff the rum vendors |
nave had no standing at court in Kan
sas. They have escaped punishment !
at times through legal technicaIities, |
perJured testimony and bribed juries |
and in some communities they have |
been able to openly defy the law
But the brewers know that the law
has only awaited the advent of the |
right kind of an attorney general to |
make 1t effective. The property of |
brewers and wholesale liquor dealers,
utilized for law violation is regarded |
n the same light as the professional
assets of the counterfeiter or any
other outlaw.-kansas City Times.
NATURAL GAS
Smash the fire Shovel break the
poker, throw the coal hod in the
crap pile and announce fearful fare
veil to corn, cobs. kerosene and
lindling wood. Kick the ash pile
Vhitewash the cellar, shoot the coal
nan and get ready to live a clean,
iecent life. We, have been stocking
oal off and on for thirty years-but
we've quit. Natural gas is here-and
he price of it, do you ask? Well the
as was turned into the kitchen range
friday afternoon in time to prepare !
he evening meal. Then there was
MISUNDERSTANDING day-Sunday.
i've pound and six ounce black bass
ay, and Mondays brea kfast. And the
ost of natural gas for half of Friday
II day Saturday and Sunday and half
f Monday was twenty-four cents.
Tx meals with the gas turned on full
lit, at a cost of four cents a meal.
his IS true Story.-El Dorado Re
ublican.