The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-07


"A law which would disfranchise a
man for accepting money on election
day, or man for offering to pay
person for services, would be a wise
one" said Governor w. r. Stubs at
the morning session of the meeting of
the kansas State Temperance union.
If the temperance people would get
back of a movement for the passage Of
81 oh law 1t would help. 1 expect to
make a recommendation to the legis-
1ature with the view of eliminating in
fluences that are not good in connec-
ton with elections"
John Marshall, first assistant attor-
ney general, waxed eloquent in the
course of an address on Law and
Court Decisions
81 want to say something of these
manufacturers and boozeness men, said
he They probably would let us alone
if they could, but they can't. The
liquor interests are compelled to whip
Kansas or else Kansas will whip them
IF they can't make Kansas abandon
her ideas, prohibition will be adopted
by every state in the Union, and spread
to the western part of the world.
I'VE want to meet them on their OWL
battle ground, and it will not in my
judgment take us long to rout them
out of the state. We expect to show
them that we know prohibition is a
great thing and expect to stand by it.
We've got to kill the business in
this state and kill it completely. I
think you know the attitude of the
state officials. Go to the state house
and from the governor down to the low
est janitor you will find every man in
favor of the enforcement of the pro-
hibitory law.
zone of the most important cases
which has been tried as the result of
the effort to enforce the laws said
the speaker in citing specific cases
where the temperance cause had won
out, was the one against the Topeka
IrNv1't NJ 10 ~f-frN
but one of the most exclusive clubs in
the state, having many men Of wealth
as its members
1.-THE club maintained places where
the members could keep liquor. The
supreme court said that a club can't
keep liquor in its meeting place to be
used by it's members in any kind of
way. The club was hit pretty hard.
AS far as know the club has since
obeyed the law
1--WE have some avowed enemies
who had their meeting last night"
said Prof. w. H. Carruth in the course
OF an address on Our Enemies and
Dangers, and How to Meet Them
when Governor Stubs, two
months ago while conducting his cam
paign, warned the people of the COM
ing fight, certain papers just outside
the state said it was merely a cry of
wolf for campaign purposes. But it
has materialized and proven that
Governor Stubs cried wolf when the
wolf was there.
att was said last night that Kansas
has been running down and down, and
- through pure benevolence these per-
sons gathered as manufacturers and
business men to come to the aid of
the state.
''dr. Rose is a missionary and an
xlous to help out the poor old state
of Kansas
st understand from what 1 read in
the papers that your mayor. who is a
business man, and good business
mani don't want to run him down
thinks he is representing the interests
of socialism in opposing the prohib-
itory law.
1.-The Association of Manufacturers
and Business Men, has been boasting
for some time that the consumption
of alcoholic drinks has been on the
increase in the United States and in
Kansas. I don't believe a word of it.
The government figures won't show it.
Germany is Boosting that the con-
sumption of alcoholic drinks is being
decreased each year. Thirty years ago
the abstainer was considered freak
in that country. The socialist party
has taken stand in favor of temper
II am told that at the meeting of
the socalled manufacturers and bust
ness men the men attending the meet
ing of the Kansas state temperance
union were termed hypocrites. If
there is to be any charge of hypocrisy
why don't Rose and the others come
out from under cover and tell the
truth. and say that they are the repre-
sentatives of the brewers and distil-
Iers. and have no connection with the
legitimate manufacturing or business
interests of the country
"AIcohol is a dangerous drug, on a
par with opium and cocaine, and those
who advertise, handle or transport 1t
ould treat it as opium or cocaine.
Should we not insist that as in the
case of gun powder this dangerous
drug be labeled? Alcohol is being
recognized as dangerous and should
be treated by all concerns including