The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-18
STILL AT WORK.
Association of Manufacturer
and Business Men at Old Stand.
VIII Continue Kansas Campaign
for ResubmiSSiOn.
EARL ROSE is HERE.
One of Managers of Movement
States Plan Frankly.
VIII Conduct Speaking Bureau
Rose to Speak in Topeka.

w OPONA HI AODChde
Earl B. Rose of Chicago. secretary
OF the National Association of Manu-
facturers and Business Men, and son
Of ex-Mayor Rose of Kansas City, Kan.
said in Topeka this afternoon that KAN
sas would vote for resubmission of the
ilquor question either four or six years
nence- Mr.. Rose further said that the
ofhces of the association in Topeka
would be maintained and an educational
campaign inaugurated for licensed and
regulated saloons in Kansas.
In a statement made this afternoon
Rose said that alreadv the association
! mad established offices in about so large
towns and cities of the state and be-
Tore the first of the year would estab-
nSh ten or a dozen other branch Of
hces. Then the work will be taken III
IN the small towns and continued un-
til the association is confident that it
connot win in the state or that Kan
Sas wants open saloons.
i want to say this" said Rose that
this organization, is not controlled by
the brewers or liquor houses, as Gov
ernor Stubbs alleges, and further that
the only thing Mr.. Stubbs has stated
about the association that is true is
that it is working for resubmissioa."
Rose Will Speak i'm Topeka
Commencing next month, a speech
making campaign will be started in
Kansas by members of the Manufac-
turerS and Business Mems association
that will be continued throughout the
winter and perhaps much longer. Mr..
Rose himself will take the stump in
the interest of the cause and will spend
week making speeches in Topeka and
Shawnee county. He will open his
meetings in Topeka Monday, December
! .. Perhaps a dozen other speakers will
I be placed in the state.
! When asked if resubmission in Kan
4 WOli0 n ha -ar7
pa1gn, Rose replied that he did not
/ think SO.
| Hardest Fight in Kansas.
! Prohibition has been longer estab-
ished and has a better organization
in this state than anywhere else in
the Union" replied Rose, "and it will
take more time to win here than in
other states. The politicians talk for
prohibition in Kansas because they
think the people wan- it, and the news
papers are editorially for the law, be-
cause. they think the politicians are
guessing right
Then the Chicago representative of
! the organization proceeded to give his
opinion of the issue in other states
One year from date" said Rose,
/ two and possibly three prohibition
! states will be wet On January l, 1909,
| prohibition went into effect in Alabama.
In November, 1909, a prohibition amend
ment was defeated by $1,000. In No
vember, 1870 Democratic governor
and legislature, pledged to repeal the
prohibition law, was elected in the
state. In June, 1911, the legislature will
meet in that state and by carrying out
! the party pledge, the state will become
wet.
In Tennessee, there is a question
whether or not the legislature is Re-
publican or Democratic. If Democrat
ic, the present law will be repealed,
i but if Republican, it will stand.
ResubmissiOn in Maine.
"In Maine, they will probably resub-
NIT the question in April, 1911, because
the state has just elected a Democratic
legislature and governor on a platform
which promised to enforce the law by
means of regularly elected officers. re-
peal the so-called Sturgts law, and re-
submit to popular vote the question OF
/ constitutional prohibition.
"In Georgia, there is a law on the
statute books and the prohibitionists
are satisfied. The city. county and
state receives its revenue from licensing
! sale of near beer and near whisky
! and they are satisfied. The citizen who
desires can get all the Intoxicating Ii
| quor he wants from those licensed to
| sell near beer and near whisky and
of course he is satisfied. There will
! probably be no change there.
| North Carolina has state dispensar-
| les where the white population can get
all the liquor it wants, and the colored
population is prevented from securing
1nCOXlcdnCS except from DOOlleSS6rS ana
blind pigs; which was the object OF
the prohibition law.
Conditions will remain the same in
Oklahoma and that state will continue
to be the mecca of all bootleggers.
blind tigers and keepers of speak easies
and kitchen bars.
In North Dakota, where there is a
prohibition law, the ratio of arrests
for drunk and disorderly conduct in the
large cities is about one arrest for eve
cry six or seven population.
''The amendment for state wide pro-
hibition in Oregon was defeated. The
amendment changing local option from
county to cities was enacted. Thirteen
dry counties in the state voted wet
and none of the wet counties voted dry.
In South Dakota, a county option
amendment was defeated. In Florida
and Oklahoma the same.
I'm Utah the Republican party, on
an nti-prohibition platform, was elect
ed. These were the only states in
which the question of prohibition were
submitted to an entire state wide
vote
Rose admits that the hardest fight
for saloons will be in Kansas. He says
the association win send its best men
here and that permanent offices will
he maintained in every town of i'm