Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-02-09

] NAN"Hf.N NAfNANt"Nla
Judge Colboru then produced "a tele-
gram from A. ID G0lkeson, exc preside
ing Judge OF the Kansas court of APP
peals FOR which be said he paid Sl.to
Boz Geographic tolls This message was
dated at HAYS kan. Feb @. and read
'rhe prohibition law OF Kansas d.
| fcarfully and wonderfully made. The
| long-haired men and the snort-hairei
| women have got an the prohibition they
want. and the remainder OF the popula-
ton an The liquor 10 wants II is mere
ly "a political dodge. worked boy an
I candidates from governor to road 0ver-
3 seer. before election. work both ways.
/ for and against. as the locality doe
I mauds and ignored the day after cl.c-
I ton 80 attempt is made Co cnfo.cs
the law except by talk and there has
| been fastened upon the state "a large
| army of sncaks ana per1urers. has
brought the sanctity OF the oath into
! dlsreputc, and disrospect for the other
| laws. 10 is simply the playthlug OF
| demagogues has been productive OF
/ crime ~ class which taps the vitals
/ Of government through the evil at-
| tempted 90 be eradicated by it lt has
/ made Kansas the dumping ground ~
/ the yilest death-dealing decoctions
/ produced either ln the stll or the
] chemical works. and ] seriously doubt
]
| 10 certainly has increased private
! drunkenness. and the army OF hypo-
| critics who howl God and mortality and
/ drink in their homes o. beyond number
/ 10 is no protection 10 the rising genera
/ ton. On the contrary. % is 90 It's detrl-
ment. 10 has fastened upon as gang
/ OF snitch-lawyers who cannot make 10
living by the practise OF their profess
! sion, but who now. throughout the
state. bring actions in the name OF
good morals and decency. FOR the graft
there is in them. ehioiuing expenses
upon the counties and stirring up strife
in an communities
FROM GEORGE PECK
This the defense seemed 20 think was
trump card. But the Judge felt h.
had another joker mp his sleeve for be
produced the following telegram from
eX-Gov George w Peck Of Wisconsin.
as follows
From my personal investigations OF
prohibition In Maine, Georgia, ID JkOta.
Kansas and other states, ] am salts
fled that prohibition does not prohibit {.
Whore ] have been there has been
more drunkenness than where saloons
are opcn Perjury Is encouraged and
hypocrisy is general The law is con-
siautly broken. crime has iucreas d.
children are encouraged to laugh at
violations Of the law and temperance
| is not the result OF prohibition law.
GEORGE W. PECK"
Judge Colborn was quickly picked up
on the Petk message By Rev. l. S.
Fuller while the rest OF the audience
was wondering who ever had hard
of Golkson.
PECK HIRED BY LIQUOR MEN
Mr. Fuller asked II Colborn did not
know that Peck was an attorney em-
| ployed regularly by the liquor interests.
Prove it!' exclaimed the Judge
Mr.. Fuller replied there was ample
evidence In possession OF the Anti
/ Saloon league
do you deny Peoks veracity?" cried
/ Colborn.
Hcbor j. Grant here interposed with
/ the question 20 the orator OF the even
/ ing. Would you believe Peck against
+. b. stephens?
This raised quite laugh and the
announcement that Peck was nothing
[ but "a joker and the tool Of the liquor
rims, spiked the guns OF the defense
| at that point
Judge Colbon then produced yet
third telegram from Piusburg, Kans.:
Five hundred empty residences. 20
vacant business houses and "a depleted
| city treasury are the monuments To- the
prohibition wave I'm this city There
are blind tigers and bOot-leggers in
abundance. DIR. j. =. GALLEY.
Editor of Kansau.
Tho speaker made e. special point
against prohibition as AN infringement
ON human rights ana with the rights
of property aud claimed that no leg
islature can make "a crime what is not
I inherently crime
"li ! become "a soL 10 is not FOR
legislature 90 deny the God given lib-
erty Go temperate men TO drink n
they chose
This reference 90 drinking as lIb-
crty gifi from COD made not "a few
people bon the audience stare.
CROSSED HIMSELF
Io also got himself into "a corner in
relating DTS futile efforts 90 induce tho
conductor ANA walter Boo dining ear
fH supply him with beer while crossing
/ iowa. when only few moments pre-
vioua Do bad claimed there was mo-
such thing as prohibition Boo Iowa. He
also read from prepared pamphlets
. describing Kitchen suc1keIeies. ana
/ blind pigs Iu Maine ae showing the
/ liquor law there was "a farce 80 law
/ Is effective without tha sentiment OF
I Che community o. hnrk o. Attempting
7 tl enforce Che law against prostitution
here bias scattered b. over Tine town.
There win re 200 prohibition until men
. coHae Zoo manufacture liquor be- de-
DHr.l.
a member OF the committee wanted
Il know 10 the uQuar tranic could he
. stopped f cut uut uf the drug stores.
NJ liquor was NOT nt for "a we'll man.
could DO he Tor the sickf the speaker
WHs asked,
THE prosecution" then took its inn
mas aud Rev. n. B. short of she First
. Methodist church took tho stand with
applause chat had been studiouFly With
I..I FrUm Judge tolbou. Uo held
mat Ii prohibition meant financial
bankruptcy fur titan. hc would urgo
prohibition "ltlFhteuusness oKalteth "a
HHtIUn. hut not financial succoss. hc
+iIl amid applause. highteOusugss
naH"s DIty EreHt state and na-
gloom PERPETUAL The downfall of ua-
InHs nHH moo because they had wealth
NHi because they were immoral drunk
rn IIUDutuuH and afuriCIous.
= hINu "a church Dob debt and ono
man faid ll We. You can't sHNc your
/ church If prohibition clmrs' Then Itt
mf church go down, hc declared llrUe-
fully
Ih. apeakor then road government
report showing o. decrease iu the inter-
nai revenue receipts i0r tho year sud-
nE june 800. 1905. of flIanol2 This
looks said De-. like prohibition uas
masking itself felt Dob the nation not-
- have q Pgohlb.tory 10 snt en-