The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-25
NO OPEN SALOONS FAVOR BOND ISSUE
Charles Holiday Men and Farmers Urge
sionist, Ha Change of Heart Great State Fair
Mayor Billiard Making Great Enter Into Spirit Garry
Mistake, He Says Proposition at Election
ALL ON EQUAL BASIS no BOOST PROPERTY
Prohibition Now Enforced Plan Held as Advertisement for
Every City in Kansas. City and County.
Hopes Missouri Fall Campaign
Line. ing Made in Shawnee.
Charles Il. Holiday, Resubmis<
siOnist, Has Change of Heart.
Mayor Billiard Making a Great
Mistake, He Says.
ALL ON EQUAL BASIS.
Prohibition Now Enforced in
Every City in Kansas.
Hopes to See Missouri Fall Into
Line,

The State Journal has received a let
ter from Charles K. Holiday, member
of the board of education from the Sec
ond ward. which is little short of SEN
sationaL
Mr.. Holiday has always been at the
forefront of the anti-prohibition cru
SADIE in Topeka. He has frequently
offered himself as a sacrifice on the al
tar by standing as a resubmission can
didate for Office.
His letter to the State Journal in
which he declares that the saloon must
not return to Kansas will therefore be
a surprise to Topeka people 1t fol-
lows:
Billiard Makes Mistake.
7 believe that Mayor Billiard has
made a great mistake in espousing at
this late date the cause of reSubniS-
sion in Kansas. Time was when pro
hIbition in Kansas was merely a local
issue-when Topeka alone bore the
brunt Of the fight and was sneered a
and jeered at by her sister cities of
Kansas and it was next to impossible
to get any state convention to meet in
the capital city because the rest of
Kansas, especially the cities of the first
class, were wet and Topeka was dry
44OSe were the days W0Gn the Q1S-
elimination against Topeka hurt. But
of recent years prohibition has become
a statewide fact in Kansas and Topeka
has come into her own as is evidenced
by the good win of the state and even
the nation.
No city in this Union the size of
Topeka that has not an especial rides
cent boom on like San Diego, Cal, is
growing more rapidly or more sub
stantiaIly than Topeka. There is more
actual building going on today in To-
peka than there is in Kansas City, Mo-.
and the capital city of Kansas is rap
idly becoming the great convention
city of the west.
Have Outgrown the Saloon.
There is a reason for all this and
the plain unvarnished truth of it IS
that the great American people have
outgTown the saloon The saloon no
longer is a factor in the growth and de-
veIopment of great cities and it is Il
positive hindrance now and a detrirnent
when it comes to getting conventions.
I do not believe any one in Topeka
ever will accuse me of not being of 4
liberal turn Of mind. I fought prohibit
ton in Kansas and fought If hard for
twenty years-but fought it because
believed it was detrimental to TtB
peka. I could not see the consistency
of Leavenworth, Atchison, Kansas City,
Kan, wichita, and other towns, all be-
liquor traffic while Topeka was the
one dry spot in the state and discrini
mated against because of that
Now things are different. Prohibi-
ton in Kansas today prohibits every
where within the borders and is be
coming national in its Importance and
any one who can see at all terms it
merely a matter of time till the saloon
in America will be pushed into the At
Iantic and Pacific oceans
Open saloon Never Again.
Hence personally I am satisfied
satisfied as q taxpayer and as an erst-
while resubmissfonist- Now freely
believe that Kansas rather would suf-
fer the sevent plaques Of Egypt-pestil-
ence and famine-rather than ever
again see the open saloon within the
borders as legalized institution.
Therefore I reiteTate that I believe
Mayor Billiard has made a great mis-
take in espousing at this late date the
cause of resubuission. All cities in
Kansas now are willingly obeying the
law and Topeka now flourishes like
green bay tree-so where is the kick
Surely if Topeka is not being dis
eliminated against. Mayor Billiard has
no cause for complaint for he certainly
is not in favor of the open saloOn-just
for the saloons sake. 1 am in company
with thousands of others in Kansas
who we're ardent resubrnfssionists from
prfncfple-now in favor of the prohibit
ton law in Kansas as it now is en-
forced all over the state. No city now
is harmed-all are treated alike-and
peace reigns within the borders of
Kansas.
Next to seeing prohibition honestly
and fearlessly enforced-as it is In
Kansas today and as even Mayor Bill
lard is enforcing it in topeka. I would
ike to see it prevail in the coming No
vember election in Missouri for if any
state in the Union ever needed real
honest statewide prohibition it is old
Missouri To this end I would suggest
that persons living in Kansas and hav-
ing friends in Missouri should write to
them the facts about prohibition in
Kansas before the November election"