The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-14

Topeka and he had the Canadian club
arrested in the next twenty-four hours.
This was the opening gun of his fight
against crime and he has been firing
ever since. He had been warned fire.
quently against the invasions of the
ministers of Topeka and the State Tenn
perance union and during his first few
weeks in office he dreaded the sight
of these people. But they never came
to his office and, contrary to his ex-
his duties to him. After he had COM
menced fighting the conditions in To-
peka the union and the ministers SIM
ply sent him congratulations and
helped him in their own way. Mr..
Schenck said that it was then he de-
cided to join forces with the good peo
pie and make good his oath of office,
even though he would make hundreds
of enemies.
In speaking of the bad influence of
drink the county attorney pointed out
that since he had taken the oath of
Office the county had saved $4,000
simply from the decrease of crime
and the closing of the saloons. Prior
to this time saloon keepers were ar
rested every day but they were never
prosecuted and thew would sit in court
and laugh at any sentence that might
be given them. They knew that the
| county and state officials thought pub
| lie sentiment was against the prohibit
tory law and they were AFRAID 10 nSnJ
| 1T. Since the present county attorney
| has entered the office he has caused
| 80 jointists to be arrested and they
| have all been convicted and made to
| pay the fine.
Mr.. Schenck pointed out that much
| of his success was due to the zeal of
| the mayor and police department.
When he said that the mayor, sheriff
| and police officers did not know
politics but simply followed their line
| 80 l,1Rx hn audi
| several seconds The police depart
| ment has been doing wonderful work
| in the last eighteen months and today
| Topeka is cleaner than ever before in
| the history of the city The recent
| arrests and raids by the police have
carried the public sentiment in their
| favor and their applause was deafen-
/ ing when the department was men
! toned last night. At the very time of
| the speech Chief of Police Eaton
and his officers were hunting down a
| bad bunch of characters in the bot
! toms"
The Shawnee county attorney also
paid a glowing tribute to Judge Dana
of the district court In part he said:
Judge Dana is the best judge any
district court in the United States
ever had He told of many incidents
where the judge had compelled the
jointists to close down on account of
the fear of his heavy sentences.
DIR. Sheldon Speaks.
When Mr.. Schenck had finished DR..
Charles NJ. Sheldon spoke on THE
| Liquor Business in Great Britain"
He gave some startling facts and made
the duties of the Kansas State Tenn
perance union seem very light COM
pared with the work of the English
reformers in lettering their country.
DIR. Sheldon said that the liquor
business in Great Britain was n
respectable one. If man was a
difference in his social standing. He
gave an incident of two young women
and two young men playing tennis.
The two girls were of the best families
in England and the men were sons of
liquor dealers. He told of another
of a city were liquor dealers and
| owners of large breweries.
A large number of the members of
the house of lords and the house of
commons are liquor dealers. In one
! casethe most influential man in the
house of lords owns hundreds of
saloons.
In England the saloons and the
| churches are in the same block. In
some cases they are on the same cor
ner DR.. Sheldon has seen men enter
the church from the saloon and en-
ter the doors of a saloon after church
| services Many of the prominent
elders in the churches are saloon
| keepers.
But according to DR.. Sheldon's talk
reform is coming in England. In
many cases the local option of the peo-
| pie have turned the saloons out
Many of the newspapers have fought
the drinking in the nation and thei1
J fight has been taking effect Lodges
have been organized which prohibit
drinkers to it's membership rolls A
law is being made to keep the small