The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-19
Governor Hoch of Kansas and
Assistant Attorney Gener-
al Tell of s'a~' aonsaS City
Case.
BUSINESS IMPROVES
AFTER SALOONS GO.
Crime Has Been Diminished
And People Save More Mon,
ey Than Formerly City
Debt Lifted.

statements carried IN the large post
ers placed on the billboards through
out the state by the brewery inter-
ests, 10 the effect that prohibition has
made conditions in Kansas City. Kan.
worse than they were when the city
had its saloons. are given the lie by
Governor Hoch, of Kansas: C. W.
Trickett, assistant attorney general of
the state of Kansas; the Commercial
club of Kansas City and C. T. Brokaw.
cashier of the Commercial Natfoffaf -
bank of Kansas City, Kan.
All of them say that prohibition has
proven a boon to business and the
morals of the city. They say that new
business has increased to a greater
extent than it did before the saloons
were closed Crime has been greatly
decreased. and. although many OF the
business men of the city were at first
opposed TO the closing of the saloons.
fearing business depression. there has
been a remarkable change in senti-
ment since the saloons were closed.
and it is said that under no consid-
Grafton would the citizens of Kansas
City go back to the old conditions.
How Law Was Enforced.
c. w. Trickett. according to infor-
nation furnished by Governor Hoe
with letter to Indianapolis Star, wnD
responsible for the closing of the Kan
sas City saloons and gambling dens
He was appointed special aftorne5
general for wyandotte counsy< Kalro Z.
on June s. 1906. At that time fn1<0
were 256 saloons, 200 gambling dena
and 60 houses of social evil In wyan-
dotte county. OF the saloons. 30
were in Kansas City. 90 in Argentine,
10 in Rosedale and IA in other local.
tiles. Thirty days later there was not
a saloon in the county.
The first public act was to issue writs
of abatement in four cases. Those sa-
! looms were selected which contained
costly fixtures and located in different
parts of Kansas City, in the hope that
when the power of the law was DEM
onstrated the other saloons would take
the hint and close their doors. No
such results followed, however. and the
business continued. The next day
writs were issued in all remaining.
cases where judgment would permit
1
lures of the estimated value of $4,000.
But this seemingly did not cause un-
rest among the saloon men. and the
saloons continued to operate as before.
Wholesale Injunctions.
After all cases where there were
| judgment had been exhausted. injunc-
tion suits were filed by the wholesale,
and at the commencement OF these
suits the saloonkeeper and his bar
tenders and the owners of property
were enjoined from maintaining a
place where intoxicating liquors were
sold or kept for sale. This action had
not the slightest effect. The saloons
continued to. operate. The arrest or
violators of the injunctions for con-
tempt of court was the next move by
the assistant attorney general. Six
bartenders were taken. one after an
other, from one saloon and placed in
4 the county Jail. but that saloon con-
tinued business just the same with new
bartenders, and the brewers boasted
they could get new men IS fast as the
old ones were put In jail, and they
would be doing business when the as
sistant attorney general was in his
grave. Rich brewers owned the So
looms and paid the fines of the men ar-
rested, continued their salaries while {
they were in Jail and put new men In
their places behind the bars. -
The Paddock "Habit"
The authorities then turned to the
federal court. which Issued writs orr
dering each saloon closed and ordering
a deputy sheriff to take charge and
paddock the doors and see that the
order of the court was not violated.
Ten orders were first prepared and ad-
i ditional ones were then issued as rap
idly as possible. Within thirty days
sixty buildings had been padlocked and
deputies were in charge of those sa-
looms where legitimate business was
. carried on in addition to the sale OF
, intoxicating liquor.
. After the saloons were closed the
authorities of Kansas City were both
cred by boot-legging. In the beginning
this was largely by bartenders who
had been thrown out of a job
J Mr.. Trickett's Address
! In an address delivered before the
} Winfield CKan.) chautauqua, Mr.. Trick
, EFT discussed the effects OF the closing
of the saloons in Kansas City. He said:
The publicity given to the closing
1 of the saloons in our county has
brought letters from all over the world,
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