Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-30

foreigners Of any manufacturing
city in the country, unless you call
Milwaukee manufacturing city. 1t is
city of slums. There was only one
minister that would talk law enforce
ment from the pulpit when we enter
ed the fight. We had q mayor who or
dered his policemen to keep the 256
saloons open at all hazards. The sa-
looms were protected by all the pub
lie officials and by public sentiment
yet in less than thirty days the stat
utes closed every one of those sa-
looms.
How?
1--WE placed temporary injunctions
against every saloon and then arrested
the barkeepers for contempt Of court.
The breweries and wholesalers own
ed the saloons and as fast as we ar
rested the men they paid their fines
or hired new men, We finally pad
locked part of the saloons and kept
the keys. Immediately every other sa-
loon keeper in Kansas City paddock
ed his own saloon. They wanted to
keep the keys themselves. They
didn't want that property destroyed.
1--WE prosecuted 1000 men in Kan
sas City; we prosecuted the mayor
and all his councilmen, the chief of
police and nearly all Of his officers.
We had prohibition in Kansas City
You say you can't have prohibition
when the neighboring county is wet?
We enforce prohibition in Kansas City
on an imaginary line. On the division
| line between Kansas City, Kas., and
| Kansas City, Mo-, there is a saloon
building. The floor bears heavily
painted line. On the Missouri side Of
that line is the bar. We keep man
there all the time whose sole business
is to shove the men over into Mis-
souri, when they want to drink.
| "Out Of thirty-three drug stores we
prosecuted, twenty-five of them had
temporary iniunctions placed against
the buildings. Seventeen of the TWEEN
ty-two druggists were arrested for con-
tempt. The drug stores of Kansas
City obeyed the law. Not druggist in
Kansas can even fill prescription
that contaiis liquor. The doctors must
do it and the law says they cannot
receive money for it,. I guess there
will not be much liquor secured from
the physicians.
| NOS Always Pheasant.
II have told you the pleasant side
Of my story There is another side.
When man starts in to enforce the
law he is up against the criminal
element. They will not balk at any
crime nor at any law; nothing is too
low down for supporters Of the saloon
men and the men who are paid to sup
port them to undertake. and that
brings me to this paper
which charges me with being a Grim.
inal. was in danger Of life and prop
erty for months in Kansas City, kas
They dynamited my home and burned
two Of my properties. They offered q
reward Of $4,000 for any one that
would get me out of Office so they
brought suit against me for $4,000
for attempting to keep men from
l breaking the laws of Kansas. The
criminal charge against me was thai
1 had received fees before they were
due. was just starting out on {
chautauqua course when that happen
ed and / found that every whisky pa
per wherever I went had that story
about me being declared guilty. They
have yet
"A justice OF the peace found me
guilty and | was bound over to the
grand jury. The district judge sent his
instructions to the jury. I have copy
here in my hand. He said that l actet
in strict compliance with the laws ant
dismissed my case. You see the whis
ky papers only print half the story.
Half Truth Lie.
4 "a half truth is the biggest lie evel
told A man that will tell only half the
4 truth is low enough to do anything. He
lis an assassin Of character
II "A paper that publishes only hal
the truth when 1t knows the whole