The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-24
Calling Upon Patrons to Defeat
"Bone Dry" Bill Here.
Urge Members of Legislature to
Sit Down on Measure.
ONE WHEY is UP IN ARMS
Mcpherson County Woman Saw
Letter to Her Husband.
1t Is a Fight to a Finish for
Booze in State.

Kansas City, St LOUIS. LoulSNlile
and Memphis liquor manufacturers
are urging their Kansas patrons to
protest to members of the house and
senate regarding the passage of
'-bone dry liquor bill. One of the
letters went astray. 1t was opened by
the wife of Mcpherson county farm
er who enjoys an occasional nip.
Now wiley is flooding the mails with
letters and has urged Representative
John Ostlind, Jr., to stay up nights if
necessary to secure the passage of the
most drastic and far reaching liquor
bill available.
Thousands of letters from scores of
liquor dealers have been received in
Kansas during the last few weeks
They have urged movement for the
defeat of all legislation which will
seek to prevent the shipment of liquor
into the state. 1t is the Stone bill in
the house and the Montee bill in the
senate which gives the booze makers
greatest concern. Bills have been Of
! fered providing that people shall Ian
| guish in jail for owning a bottle of
! liquor. Another bill seeks to register
photographs of bootleggers in the
rogues' gallery. Another holds relief
with a provision for case of beer
and quart of whisky month. There
is seemingly little chance for any of
shipment-look out. There is the bill
! that causes apopleXy.
! Quick Action Urged.
| Protest before it is too late!" is the
| startling heading on a letter from an
old established liquor house beyond
the Missouri TT this bill be passed, .
I says the letter in referring to the
/ Montee measure. you will not be able
to get another drop of liquor even for
your own use in the state of Kansas.
| Write at once to the state senator
OF your district, as well as to the rep
against the passage of this bill. Write
them that such a law would be I'M
reasonable, tyrannical and un-Ameri-
can and that, like most unreasonab BILE
laws, it will defeat itself and make
more bootleggers and criminals than
any other law or circumstance. Tell
them that you voted for them because
you believed that they were just AMI
sensible men who would protest
against any legislation so manifestly
unfair. Don't 1elay-write at once
before it is too late"
! Order at Once.
While the liquor houses are protest
Ing against the proposed legisla ton,
they do not fail to capitalize the stu
alton and impress upon their patrons
that they should order an immediate
supply that would care for demands
fl many nights and days to come.
( For if this law is passed, as appears
possible if not probable, this will be
your last chance to obtain liquor Is
the closing argument of the firm
which appealed to Kansans to speak
/ to their legislators about the bone dry
bills
! One of the letters found its way % a
MCPHERSON county home. where the
industrious Swede husband enjoys Il
little jolt occasionally. And it just
! happened that the Mcpherson farmer
was not at home when the letter came.
So wifey- always thoughtful of i'm
mediate needs-opened the letter an ]
read it. New she has started a letter
writing crusade to counteract the in
! fluence of letters from booze makers.
81 am writing you protest" raid
the Mcpherson county women in her
letter to Ostlind. But it is not in thu
in the name of the wives and the chill
dren end widows and orphans of Kan
Sas who have endured hardships and
sorrows and heartacheS thru the evils
of the liquor habit" There was more
o. ia whole page. And now the
I Mcpherson woman whose husband
likes a drink, just to be a good fellow
with the boys. you know, is starting a
regular oId-time crusade for the pass
age of liquor bill with teeth i'll it.