The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-29

Well known speakers for this after
noon and tonight are DR.. Ira Land
rith, president of Ward-Be1mont col
lege of Nashville, Tenn, and DIR. Car
olyn Geisel of Battle Creek, Mich,
sanitarium. DIR. Geisel is speaking on
alcohol and the Man Himself" on
the tour of the Squadron.
Had not the party loyalty divorce
court been so busy separating mems
politics from mems religion" said DR..
Landrith today, the liquor problem
would no longer vex us. We would then
be all agreed that the man for whom the
Golden Rule has no attractions, and the
Deca1ogue no terrOrS has no business
in politics, while the man who votes
as he prays and prays as he votes, and
who both prays and votes for the pub
lie veal and not for private interests
has no business out of politics.
Capital Crime of Bride Taking.
THE civic Incidence of the upright
is itself a capital crime of bride TAX
ing, for the man who would vote right
if he voted at all simply sells his bal
lot for the price of a days labor when
he pleads that he hasn't time to go to
the polls.
1.-The saloon is an unmiXed evil and
unmiXed evils are never necessary
evils. Even Satan, whose it is and
whom it serves, has never been fool
enough to call liquor selling virtue
Shall the church now ground her arms
because the saloons have made of Ger
tain political parties so many cities of
refuge?
Democracy must be decent or die!
"Republicanism must be respecta-
BILE or ruined.
"Progressivism must be pure or it
is pre-ordained to persist"
Good Music Today.
The music at the session this after
noon was a feature. With todays
group came as soloist, Frederick Butler
of New York, regarded as one of the
leaders of his line in this country. For
IT erly leading basso of the Alice Mel
sen Opera company, he gave this work
up to become soloist for Rev. DR.. J.
Wilbur Chapman, world evangelist,
with DR.. Chapman, the evangelist de-
clared him the greatest evangeliStic
singer in the world" Mrs Butler is
to be the pianist for the meetings of
this group.
DIR. Sheldon on Election.
Arthur Capper, governor, presided
at the Sunday afternoon meeting. He
introduced Nr- Sheldon as "a cham
pion for the rights of men, for so
briefly and righteous government and
a representative with the squadron of
the soberest, trUest and happiest peo-
pie on EARTH
ION the Flying Squadron, I am con-
sidered the representative of Kansas"
DR.. sheldon said. Il want to go away
feeling that this city will elect men
whose past records have been known;
ment of the prohibitory lay 1 leave
the matter on your hearts. You know
what I mean
Il want to be able to go out with a
happy face and tell the truth about
my city
At the close of his address. Dr. Shell
don said: What Topeka needs more
than anything else is a great revival
of religion
At the evening meeting which was
presided over by Robert Stone, DR..
Sheldon said:
81 don't want to be embarrassed
by having to explain why certain men
are elected to office, men who have
sneered against the prohibition law"
Problem Is Being Solved.
THE problem of the American sa-
loon is being solved. In sixteen states
the making and selling of liquor is
crime. In Kansas, after "a years of
prohibition. the saloon is gone as a
commercial, political and social power
and the problem is worked out as we'll
as 1t can be until the national govern
lnent puts an end to the manufa cture
of alcohol and protects a state law
ers and diStillers.''
Address by Daniel Polling.
Daniel Polling said sunday evening:
1.-The liquor traffic is unmitigated
evil and as such must be destroyed.
Because the liquor disease is national,
the Flying Squadron declares for ma
tional remedy-constitution prohibit
ton entrusted to political adminiStra-
tions out spokenly committed to the
national amendment and to the Statu-
tory legislation that must everywhere
be enacted to make prohibition effec-
tive.
The Topeka Musical Art society
chorus under the direction of Dean
Horace Whitehouse sang two selec-