The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-07
ROSE OPENS WAR.
Attempt to Revive Prohibition
Issue in Kansas.
Speaks for Manufacturers and
Business Mems Association.
THERE ARE JOINTS.
Crawford County Has Liquor
Distributing Depot, He Says.
People Entitled to Vote on the
Law Again.

ISOLATION. He recited page after page
of history, statistics and records to
prove to his audience of 400 persons
| that the prohibitory law in Kansas is
not all that is advertised. His discus
sions of local issues were repeatedly
applauded and twice when Mayor Bill
lardPs name was mentioned there were
outbreaks of enthusiasm. Frequently
| Rose stopped in the course of his talk
| to pay his respects to Governor
| Stubs.
After a. short discussion of the pur-
pose of the organization, Rose pro-
/ ceeded to arraign the prohibition move
ment as being in direct opposition to
the principles of free government and
| the teachings of the Bible. Then he
told the history of the prohibition
| movement.
1.-THE recent wave of prohibition
| which has swept over the country, is
not the first we have experienced" de-
| clared Rose. TN the decade from 1850
/ to 1860 fourteen states started under
prohibitory rule and remained under
| that rule for periods of time ranging
| from two years in Illinois to So years
| in Vermont and 81 years in Maine, the
| latter being the only state of the four
teen which started in that decade and
still retains within it's laws this pro-
hibitory clause"
Rose then stated that at least four of
the present eight prohibitory states
would go ''wet' in the next twelve
months.
kansas, the proclaimed leader in the
prohibition movement, will then have
such company as North Carolina,
North Dakota and Oklahoma If you
| fellows out here like that kind of a
| crowd, stay where you are"
| The speaker discussed the prohibitory
outlook in the eight dry states in much
view printed in the State Journal two
weeks ago.
Uses Some Statistics.
In his discussion of Kansas prohibi-
| ton, Rose read comparative statistics
from Kansas and Nebraska, wherein
| he claimed that the percentage of
| crime divorce and insanity in Kansas
was greater than in the sister state.
He said Kansas had increased in popu-
| lation, but had not made the same
comparative increase in school attend
ance and was behind other states He
claimed that the growth of the Kansas
banks was made in spite of the pro-
! hibitory amendment and not because
/ the law became an asset to the banking
! business. He claimed further that the
growth of population had been in the
1 large towns and cities, which are the
wettest and not in the rural districts,
where the lid is held down with pad
| lock. He said Kansas had 81 paupers
for every 100000 population, while Ne
braska had but 43 and South Dakota
| 81.
"This Anti-SaIoon league charges"
said Rose, that nearly all cases of in
| sanity are to be credited to drunken
ness but the investigation of the United
State census bureau shows that only
| Is per cent are traceable to drink, while
more than A per cent are traceable to
| religious hySterfa."
| Discussing the prohibitory amend
ment in Kansas, Rose said in part:
cat the time this prohibitory amend
l ovofv at n n
| there were perhaps few more than
| $4,000 inhabitants in this state, and
most of these were engaged in agricul-
ture. You had no large cities; you had
| few railroads. you had no railroad
| shops your coal mines were undiscov-
cred and undeveloped, your oil fields
we're unknown, you had few manufac-
| turing industries and the entire popu-
| lation had it's chief interest in agricul-
| ture The prohibitory amendment was
carried by a very small majority and
since the I'd day of November, 1880,
when this law was annexed to your
constitution. the state has been under
prohibitory law. And what is the re-
suit? Has prohibition prohibited in
| Kansas?
| at is claimed by the prohibitionists
that perhaps these laws were leniently
enforced during the first few years, but
that within the last year or two the lid
has been clapped on, that the joints
have been closed in your state, that
I there are no open joints in the state;
/ or il there are your governor will close
them or resign his position. 1t Is claim
| ed that because of prohibition your
/ bank deposits have increased in the
/ last ten years from seventy to one
hundred and ninety million dollars; it
| is claimed that because of prohibition
| that taxes are reduced, that Kansas
buys bread instead of beer and Kansas
| people don't get crazy and kill each
| other and go to prison and send fami-
= H.
In fact the prohibitionists would have
| you believe that because of prohibition
YOU are on the threshold of the mil
| lennium. Yet these people forget that
Warden Codding, who is speaking at a
/ Temperance meeting in Topeka tonight,
recently urged Governor Stubs to use
| his authority and parole 200 prisoners
| from Lansing in order that there might
not be an overflow in the state peniten-
| tiary.
! Cites Joints In Kansas.
Governor Stubs says there are no
| joints in Kansas, yet refer him to
place in Crawford county, where they
/ have the largest distributing depot
west of the Mississippi river.
THE Rev Mr. Sheldon recently said
/ forty barrels of liquor was consumed in
Topeka each day, yet he was willing
to admit that Topeka is perfectly dry.
Presenting that Mr.. Sheldon meant
! beer, that means $4,000 big schooners
/ of beer every day in your town, or one
schooner for every two men, women
and children in Topeka. And yet at
the same time this is prohibition Kan
1 Sas.
81 feel tonight that you see the
| opening of a campaign which will
/ mean the dawn of personal liberty for
the citizens of Kansas feel that
/ Kansas is about to arouse from her
! Indifference and strong men standing
/ shoulder to shoulder will demand of
/ her state that there be removed the
/ reputation of fanaticism, hypocrisy, in
/ tolerance and intemperances'
/ After Rose had taken his seat. the