The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-29

down on Crane street kept by a joint
ess by the name of Adams, who way
lays the workmen, to and from the
shops and packing houses at all hours
during all days with her vile compounds
of wood alcohol, assfoetida and prus-
sic acid; and the mayor If he had en-
gagged himself in destroying her den,
would have found no time to have dip
ped his pen in gall and slandered his
office, his country and her laws. know
of but one place where an employee
would be Permitted to utter such re-
marks as the mayor has signed and
published; and that is at a vinegar
works on the North side. where the
pure food law has recently compelled
| it to make cider vinegar from apples
and where a short time ago young
man by the name Of oliver, now sick
in his bed from it, was blown out of
the boiler room by the explosion of gas
permitted to escape by the neglect of
an inebriated employee, the head of
which establishment is an officer in the
villifying concern presided over by the
mayor.
THE progress of temperance in this
| city and state has been wholly educa
| tional. 1t was considered an arbitrary
curtailment Of personal liberty for the
| railway homogeneous to declare that
no train operative should drink while
| in service, but we all got used to it;
| the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers adopted it; and then in the swift
SAl4uA OI time, CIl0 railway managers
declared that it's operatives should not
| drink even when off duty-and the
| Brotherhood adopted this too. This is
not all. The National Association of
Brotherhood adopted this too. This is
| ia bliShed prohibition as strong as that
| OF. Kansas and declares that the bar
tenders must not drink. We have trav-
eled long way toward the goal when
the white apron of the bartenders is a
| badge of sobriety.
There is not business man IN Kansas
who wants to change the situation here.
Tradesmen do not desire that their pat
| on Saturday night and spend their money
there before they pay their bills.
tics me h most b pestfer9 3 element IN POL POL
saloon interest is not factor here; they
| no longer are the ward cesspools; they
| no longer corral the worthless and no ac-
count voters and vote them as cattle at
| the polls
I'VE have city magnificent and SPLEEN
| did; there Is no room in it for the vile,
despicable and mean. In this city there
| is less number of young men going
size in the United States, and this should
| attract attention of those who desire TO
give their children a fair start, unhandi-
capped by the nefarious, degrading, open
saloon.
Let the N1issourian come over here and
see for himself. If he is a gentleman he
can buy no liquor in this state. He will
see only clean Intelligent faces reinforced
by homes. ,pocketbool1s and prosperity;
the people he will find well dressed and
| happy. In none of them will he see a
heart breaking scene of an intoxicated
bread winner who is drunken from the
| Interstate tarantula toxin, kept for sale
by some Semetic American in Kansas
| City, Mo.
mr.. Mayor, you did US wrong and
| wronged your high office. You pandered
| to the disreputable and gave willing SER
vice to a lot of undesirable citizens The
purpose of the times is higher planes in
l life. 1t is for you to apologize or for US to
condemn You did what you did to help
| greed now being waged by the brewers
| of Missouri against the homes of the
| state, against the women and children OF
| that great commonwealth who are first
| touched by the saloon; who feel 1t the
| longest and who are at all times its help
| less sufferers I thank God I am not
| such mayor"
| When collection was taken to defray
| the expenses of the meeting Mayor Bill
! lard dropped a bill on the nlate