The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-09
KANSAS WILL Be DRY
No Alcohol For Any Purpose Will
Be Sold After July.
MANY DRUG STORES TO CLOSE

rhore Will Also Be a Passing of the
Secret Order and Social Clubs.
The 'sBoOtIegger," Who Has OPP
Grated in the State Many Years,
l. Expected to Flourish as Never
Before.
Topeka, Kan.-People are be-
Ginning to adjust themselves to the
now prohibitory liquor law, which
ooos into effect in this state July
9th. and under which nothing in
the way of alcoholic liquors can be
cold. even alcohol for scientific and
mechanical purposes being barred.
# is predicted on every side that
swarm of "boot-leggers" will take up
the thread of business laid down by
the Joints, drug stores and clubs.
There are 100 clubs in Kansas,
including the Elks, Arions, Eagles
and others, whose members have
been able to buy liquors by the drink.
All these have been ordered closed.
Even the COCKER" system, where
members of these organizations have
kept their own liquors under lock
and key, must be discontinued.
Wichita's Commercial Club and the
Elks' Club were the first to yield to
Attorney General Jackson's demands,
and the Topeka Club, maintained by
the prominent business and profess
sional men of this city, the Elks and
other organizations, have voted to
comply with the law and shut out
liquors.
Many Drug Stores to Close.
Two-thirds or more of the drug
stores in Kansas will have to go out
of business, for under the law they
are not permitted to sell liquor, and
a government revenue license on the
premises will be prima facie evidence
of an attempt to violate the state
law. There are so drug stores in
Topeka. With the liquor business
cut out the legitimate drug business
will not support more than 10.
Those who argue that there will
be just as much liquor drunk in Kan
sas as ever,' base the statement on
the belief that the ''bootlegger'' will
do a fiOurishing' business.
This individual is not new to the
towns and cities of Kansas. He has
been operating here for % years.
He works on the mail order" bust
ness plan. He buys his stock from
liquor houses that advertise fine
old bourbon" or pure rye" at s1.9S
per gallon, and it is shipped in as
household goods Then he goes
into his cellar, if he has one, or into
the kitchen of his squalid cabin, and
there fills up a quantity of half pints
and begins his days work.
Bootlegging Will Flourish.
Boots are always worn by the pro-
fessional "bOOtlegger," hence the APP
pellation; and the larger and more
r0Omy the tops the better for the
business. An overcOat is also an i'm
pOrtant accessory. Usually the boot
logger" wears his old and loose-fit-
ting overcOat far into the late
springtime-and it's pockets on the
outside are not the only ones it con-
tains.
The favorite place for the boot
legger's" stand is about the railroad
stations and near to the spot where
the smoking and chair cars of a
train happen to stop. A bootleg
GER of agility can dart into a coach
and dispose of a dozen half pInts
while the conductor is getting his or
ders. He also finds the side streets
Of town, where the farmers bring
their produce, hay and grain to mar
ket, good location for business, and
If he fears the police he arranges
with a customer to meet him a block
or more away, in a livery stable or
blacksmith shop, where the half pint
Of very red liquor is delivered for
so cents.
Because of the passing of the club,
the drug store and the joint the
State Temperance Union will re-
double it's energies to break up the
'bootlegger's" business, which, that
organization learns, will be attempt
ed on larger scale than ever in the
towns and cities of the state A
score or more of special officers will
be detailed to watch the operations
OF this law violated in Topeka, Wich-
lta, LeavenwOrth and other cities.
PUBLIC CIDER CISTERN.