The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-15

G. Markham, president of the State
Anti Saloon League, presided at the
meeting.
Economic conditions, Wilson said,
were responsible for the fact that it is
now more profitable to make liquor in
the state of Kansas than to go to the
border states and import it. General
prohibition has made the price of
whisky as high in Kansas City, Mo-,
and in Joplin, as it is in central Kan
sas. and there is no more profit in i'm
portation, he said.
That is why the moonshiner is COM
ing to the fore. and enforcement of
prohibition in this state has assumed
an entirely new angle. Wilson ex-
planned in some detail the work of his
department, and urged that the pro-
jected cutting down of the activity in
the state along that line, be opposed
by the League.
Still Need Officers.
81 don't want to challenge Governor
Allen and Senator Curtis in some of
their campaign speeches, when they
indicated that they favor cutting down
! governmental expenses by abolishing
a department which was no longer
necessary" said Wilson. But when
| they say that we have prohibition now
and there is no longer any necessity
for a swarm of agents to fight the
EIquor traffic they are mistaken.
it, that there is not a county in the
state of Kansas which is without one
or more Illicit stills today"
Law enforcement in the state of
Kansas is popular The time has come
when it is a popular thing with the
people to enforce the laws which are
on the statute books whether they are
good or bad. If law is bad, it can
very quickly be removed" said Justice
Marshall, of the state supreme court,
in welcoming the new state superin-
tendent of the league. "Ninety-five
per cent of he people of Kansas are
idealists. We have more idealists than
any other state in the union, and we
are for the enforcement of prohibit
tion," Judge Marshall declared.
Support Is Pledged.
Richard ]. Hopkins, attorney gen.
eral- of the state, together with the
other state officials present, pledged
the support of his department and the
fullest cooperation in dealing with
the liquor traffic.
Rev. S. B. Anderson speaking for
several representatives of the ministry
present at the meeting, assured Mr..
Crabbe of the assistance of the~church
organizations of the state in fighting
liquor.
Mr. Crabbe is a former Ohio attor-
ney. and has been engaged In the work
of the Anti Saloon League in Ohio and
other states, for several years. He
has been working for the league in
Wyoming, and will shortly move his
family to Topeka.
Colonel Dan Morgan Smith, who
spoke recently in Topeka in the inter
ests of the Anti-Saloon league, gave
Mr.. Crabbes work in other states the
highest praise, stating that he was
within a few places of the top in the
ranks of the prohibition warriors OF
the country.
There was no mention of cigarets.
tobacco. or anything other than
"booze," during the meeting.
Won't Fight Cigarets.
1--WE do not intend to take up the
cigaret proposition" Mr.. Crabbe said
before the luncheon. There is plenty
| to do wiping out the last vestings of
the liquor business in this state. and
that is what we are going to work on
/ The year 1880 has been set by the
Anti Saloon League leaders as the
dawn of prohibition in every country
in world where the English language
] is spoken.