The Harvey County Voice from Newton, Kansas • 4

DARVEY COUNTY YOICE. Has High License Failed? Thb Pwhibirion vote in Illinois will be about 35,000. A haad-soim gain. BY E. J.

"WHEELEE. FOBLISHED EVEBY SATUEBAT BT B. HOUSE, Bditoe. Womew support the church; men support the saloon. Aw evil or sin can never be reg by selling it the right to KANSAS, HO West ulated exist.

Office, Opera Block, Broadway. The Prohibitionists polled 61 and votes at Bellwood, Cleveland 62. PRICE, ONE DOLLAB A THAR. Entered necond elm manor it tho poBtofllco at Nawtoui Kan. Iowa over The Prohibition vote in Jumped from 964 in 1891 to 8,000 in 1892.

Subscribe for and circulate this paper. Congeess has done nothing of importance yet, but shake hands. The people must be allowed to exchange their products without pay tribute to monopolies. The Pruhibition vote in Indiana was 13,350, as against 9,881 in 1888, and 3,928, in 1884. The Prohibition vote of Minnesota shows a gain of 75 per cent over that of two years ago.

You cannot serve your family and the political interests of mo nopolists at the same time. The saloon is the curse of our country, the greatest foe to the homo and an enemy to a pure life. abolish usury by letting the postoffices receive deposits andloart money at cost. Simplest thing in the world. Establish the habit of watching the state lcgilstature.

Know how your local representatives vote, and hold them to account. The Nashville Chattanooga railroad will dismiss every employe who drinks either on or off duty. Can you name a singlo sin that doesn's breathe more freely when it can get the indorsement of some apparently good man? THE PROHIBITION PRESS. Lowell Campaign Patriotism is a more sacred duty than partsan hip. Ashland (Ohio) Sun The sa loon is the adopted child of license and tax voters.

What are they going to do with it! Irrepressible Conflict Not one word can be said in favor of the liquor traffic, but more that ten millions of votes were given in favor of it in November. Greenville '(Ohio) Transcript-Here is some strong argument against the Prohibitionists: "Yes, you are right; I don't doubt a word you say, but I can't just see see it that way." Vineland Outlook The individual business of every individual in the United States is to do his duty. What the other people do is a matter for separate consideration. Redlands (Cal.) Facts While reciprocity is being discussed by Republican leaders, it might be well to remember that the Prohibition party is the only party of. fering genuine reciprocity to the people.

Monmouth (111.) Truth This "moral suasion" business makes us very tired. You can morally "suase" a man from now to doomsday and you won't do any good, unless you have the right kind of law to back your moral suasion. Beverly (Mass.) Templar We speak of our nation as a glorious republic, with great possibilities before it. We pride ourselves upQnbeinga government "of the people, for the people, by people." This is all false; we are not a government of the people. This is a government of the saloons, for the saloons and by the saloons.

How long how will this thing continue? Western Leader There are Republicans, professed temperance men, men who ought to have character, who say: "When you get a million or more votes I am with you. When I see some chance of success 1 will join your party." Now, is not this cowardly! Think of it! They will fight with the enemy till tho victory is won, then they will come over. I would rather bo an honest ass and bray A PEorosmoN for an educational" qualification for voting received 11,423 votes in. San Francisco to only. 3,851 against.

If the citizens of America have not the courage to vote for what they want they should not complain if they get what they don't want. which they live, but several wards and even entire divisions of the city." And the Chicago News said, April 9, 1888: "Tho dives and dens, the barrel houses and thieves' resorts are as bad and as frequent in this city to-day, after five years of high license, as they ever wero. Call high license what it is," adds The News, "an easy way to raise a revenue from but let there be an end of endorsing it as a temperance or reform measure." Still fresh in the mind of the country is that uprising of bloody-handed anarchy, hatched? out in the high license Baloons oi Chicago. Chicago, St. Louik Omaha and Kansas City form a quartette of cities in which for years high license has had its -perfect work.

What is the result? In no four cities of America is the government dominated and terrorized by the rum power more com-, III. The claim made that high license decreases the moral evilg of intemperance rests upon one fact, namely, that it has at times decreased the number of saloons. This is true; but it is equally true that the drinking and drunkenness have not been reduced. This, and not the reduced number of saloons, is the all-important point. When the Western Union Telegraph Co.

a few years ago swallowed up its rival, where there had been two telegraph offices there soon came to be but one, paying half the rent, but doing all the business that the two had done before. When a certain large dry goods house on Grand street, New York, was established, it swallowed up quite a number of little stores, but stimulated the traffic in dry goods, by increased facilities and attractions, far beyond the aggregate traffic of all tho stores it displaced. So, com. bine eight little groggeries in a block into one gorgeous palace saloon, freo to choose its own location and to increase its facilities to any extent, and the amount of drinking is likely to increase rather, than decrease. For beside the increased facilities it now presents, there is this further fact, that the greater segregation of drinkers leads to more social drinking.

Let three friends meet in a saloon, and there aro likely to bo three rounds of drinks. Let five meet, and by tho unwritten laws of treating, there aro likely to bo five rounds. A careful investigation of the police records in seven representative high licenso cities shows that these cities had more drunkenness under high than when under low license. High licenso is a measure forced upon the people by tho politicians, and supported by tho farthest sighted and clearest-headed liquor dealers. The United States Brewers' association has appropriated money for tho publication and distribution of pamphlets written in its favor.

Tho Hotel Dealers' association of New York state, in 1888, declared for it and sent a committee to Albany to aid its passage. Tho Viticultural com. mission of California has passed resolutions in its favor. Tho National Protective association has no word of protest against it. "What wo want," said President 'Circulate literatnre teaching the principles of the Cincinnati platform.

And, by the way, this paper is that kind ot litera. ture. Politics and industry are so closely connected in their interests and workings that a perfect Democracy in one cannot exist unless it be extended to the other. The indications are 'that the Prohibition vote of Ohio will bo three times that of the People's party. Quite a turn around since the state election.

spectable dealers, who, having more at stake, will be more care-ful to observe law and preserve order. The assumption heie is that th man who can command $500 is "more respectable" than the one who commands but $100. But even were this astounding assumption true, hero again the peculiar methods of the traffic ren-der the claim fallacious. For it has come to pass that the license fees of the saloon aro in large pro-portion no longer paid by the saloon-keeper, but by the brewer, the distiller, and the wholesaler. In New York last year, four thousand, seven hundred and ten of the eight thousand licensed saloons were mortgaged to the brewers, distillers and wholesale dealers, in in lieu of fixtures furnished and license fees paid by them.

In Chi-c'ago, under a five hundred dollar license, three-fourths of the saloonkeepers' bonds, according to Collector Onahan, are held by brew-ers, and according to the Chicago Herald, one-half the licenses aro held by them. So that it has come to be no longer necessary that the man who keeps a high license saloon shall be even "respectable" enough to command the sum to pay the license. All that is necessary is a willingness and ability to attract custom and make big profits out of his fellows, and the license, tho fixtures and tho stock are at once supplied by the millionaire brewer, who takes out a mortgage, and owns saloon and saloon-keeper, body, soul and bal-lot. It is too late a day to tell Americans that the concentration of political and financial power means its diminution. Tho whole trend of tho financial world is toward concentration in trusts and monopolies, and in the political world to" ward tho concentration of power in the hands of "bosses'" When there arises an apostle of high license who can convince tho country that the power of tho traffic in petroleum over courts and political parties was curtailed by its concentration in the Standard Oil Company; when one can demonstrate that the power of Tam-many Hall was diminished by its concentration in the hands of Tweed or Kelly; when one can prove that a formation of a "trust" is the way to destroy the power of those combining in it when 'we may bo ready to believe that the concentration of the liquor traffic, undiminished in sizo or profits, into tho hands of fewer and shewder men, in tho way to cur-tail its power in politics.

The supposition is as contrary to the theory of democracy as it is false to tho facts of experience. One thousand men led and wielded by a "boss" aro far more a menace than the same number actuated by individual motives and judgment. It is tho concentration of the liquor traffic, undiminished in size, into tho hands of fewer and abler men that we havo most to fear. This is the very thing which high license, so far as it has any effect at all, tends to accomplish. Omaha, under a licenso fee of ono thousand dollars, is to-day absolutely dominated by its baser elements: prostitution has been es-tablished on' a quasi-legal basis, and, together with the saloon, has (An abstract.) Yiewed from one standpoint, all license has the semblance of restriction.

Viewed from another, the semblance is that of protection. But the question what it is waits upon the question, what it does. It is to this latter question that this paper will be addressed. There is but one reason or excuse for any legislation that seeks either the restriction or the constriction of tho liquor traffic, and that is the evils of intemperance, as they effect, not the man who drinks, but the welfare of society. To correct those evils is the only proper object of such legislation.

Does high license do this! is the question of questions regarding it. The evils of intemperance are of three kinds; economical, political and moral. I. The economical argument for high license is the one urged with most confidence. There can be no question that it is one of the easiest and surest ways of increasing the public revenue.

But the increase of public revenue does not aaean lightening the public burdens; it generally means just the reverse. Every increase in revenue means an increase in the burden borne by some portion of the public. If it be supposed that the amount of money spent for drink is a fixed amount, the same under low as under high license, then a law that restores to the public $500 instead of 100 of the money so spent, does diminish the economical evils of drink. But here lies the fallacy, in that men for the most part gauge the amount they drink, not by its cost but by its effects. With the man who spends for drink all the money ho can get, an increase in the price means a decrease in the amount consumed, or in its quality.

But in the vast majority of cases a moderate increase in the cost of liquor means an increase of expenditure, not a decrease of consumption. Two facts support this statement: first, the enormous incrcaso (far outstripping the increase of population) in tho consumption of beer after the tax of was placed by the federal government on every barrel of beer produced; second, the continued increase of intemperance in cities whero a licenso fee of $100 has been imposed on each saloon. Tho increase of revenue, then, drained from tho saloon-keeper means simply an additional drain on his increased prices, more frequent adulterations, or a stimulated 'trade. Tho saloon produces nothing; whatever is squeezed from it roust first have been absorbed from the public, and diverted from tho various channels of legitimate trade. Whether tho importer or the consumer pays tho taxes levied by our tariff system, there can bo no doubt as to who pays tho internal revenues levied on tho liquor traffic.

As a matter of fact, it has The officicial returns from all counties in New York, with the exception of King's, give Bidwell 38,248 votes, an 8,000 gain over the Fisk ticket. Keep your eye on the Demo crats while they "reform" things. They won't even reform the tariff, although they will doubless deceptive changes in make some it. The Eev. Dr.

J. W. Dunning, of Ormond, has heretofore been a staunch Republican, has publicly declared that he will henceforth vote tho Prohibition ticket. It is said that not a civilized country in Europe would dare to go to war without the consent of the great banking house of the, Rothschilds; and America is doing all in her power to get her foot in the same hole. Theee are more liquor saloons in New York and Brooklyn than public school buildings in the state, while the entire cost of the latter was $30,000 less than the annual receipts of tho saloons.

Now that the elections arer ov coal takes another step higher. There is a deal of politics in busii ness these days. fit tho wind. "Will the people rule tho saloon, or tfiH the pon continue to rule Republicans in the Now York nil rtroit I tne Peopiet That is tho biggie dpuors I A 1. egislaturo aro fooling with tho iAn jovii; fv4 question at present coaxronung 4.1111 im.LMIII 1.1 IIC.IIK111UII1L! 11U1U uuu robibition amendment very much tho nation.

Upon which side of it will you cast your influence and as their brethren in this state did; companies, first, recognition oi the order; second, a minimum ratq They pose as its advocates ia tho your vote! egislature, but they will see to it that it is killed, if it should ever The evil (intemperance) ought come to a popular vote. But nobody is fooled by such tactics, not even Prohibitionists, gullible not to be permitted to grow in or-dcr that the police may be called to repress it. Prevention is not per month; third, pay for, ovei e. Ninety-fi per cent of the Operators employed belong to the order, and they aro sanguine oi success. TnE spell with which the Republican party held this country is broken.

This is well. It ifj well that no political party wilj ever again control this republic, as they have been on occasions. Editorial in Philadelphia Ledger, only better than cure, but prevention is a duty, and cure is a lame, halting attempt to undo an evil (Rep.) March 29, 1890. which we have willfully permitted. Cardinal Manning.

The eighth annual convention of the St. Louis W. C. T. as for tho growing intelligence of tho; nation the explanation of tho sembled at the First Congrega The truth is ihcro is not room been under tho enormous federal tional church 'of that city, on the for two successful political parties weakening of party control.

Lcl tax of tho last 20 yeaVs amount 9th and 10th instant. us have more intelligence and less The several unions of tho city ing last year to $88,000,000 that the mammoth fortunes in liquor down on the plane tho Democratic party of the north occupies. Tho Republican party, bereft of its partisanship. were well represented. Frcsney, of the Liquor Dealers' association of Pennsylvania, in an address in behalf of high licenso, Tho reports of tho representa moral issues, has been endeavor In tho city of New York the evictions exceed 20,000 annually, tives of the different anions showed that tho organization was alive and ing to contest with tho Democrats on their own plane.

They aro while in Ireland tho number now ruminating sadlo over tho re reaches about 5,000 annually. suit. While we continue to send thous ands of dollars annually to the The blood of Abel was not shed Buffering poverty-stricken tenants for nothing. So with the blood of Lincoln. And perhaps tho days doing effective work.

A banquet was given on the evening of the 9th which was a very enjoyablo affair. Tho assemblage was presided over by Mrs. F. II. Ingalls, president of the St.

Louis W. C. T. U. Mrs.

Clara Hoffman closed the proceedings on tho evening of tho 10th, with an able address on "Tho Outlook." of the emerald isle, let us get our eyes open to tho larger wrong, and inhumanity and suffering at our of tho shedding of blood have not been made tho financial pillar on which rests tho common-school system. Four out of nine wards send liquor dealers to tho common council, four out of five arrests aro for drunkenness, and though every saloon violates tho legal restrictions dally, but sixty-thrco arrests for this causo wcro mado last year. "No ono," says the Omaha Bee, December 10, 1888, "can deny that tho license system, as now existing in our city, has been a source of corruption and irregularity." In Chicago, under a five hundred dollar licenso, ten liquor dealers were last year on tho board of aldermen, and thcro wero nine liquor dealers' political associations. Said tho Chicago Herald, May 21, 1888: "Thcro aro perhaps yet passed away. Tho liquor own doors.

traffic will havo to bo atoned for, unless forgiveness is asked nt the Four times as many evictions have been made. It is a demonstrable fact that the retail profits on distilled liquor aro greater today, under a federal tax 'equal to Bix times tho cost of production, than they wore before tho tax was levied, while tho consumption continues to increase. Tho revenue wrung, not from tho liquor dealers, but from the liquor drinkers, and every manufacturer, every merchant and every tradesman feels in his own pockets tho effect of this increased flow of money into tho till of tho saloon-kcoper. Tho revenue argument for high 11-csnso is as false, in fact, as it is debauching to tho pnbllo conscience. II.

Tho political argumert runs as 'follows: Decrease tho number of saloons and you decrease their political power, make it easier to enforco tho restrictions imposed by law, and force tho trafflo into the hands of more re. "is laws to regulate and elevate tho liquor traffic." HenryClauson, lato president of tho Brewers' and Malstcrs' association of New York, said, referring to high license: "That is what we aro seeking; it is to our And President Her, of the Liquor Dealers' association, in Nebraska, writes a private letter for the liquor dealers of New York to peruse, saying that after six years' trial of high licenso in that state, if it wero put to a vote of tho liquor dealers, "they would almost unanimously bo for high license." Why not; when wo boo tho whisky lobby at Washington fighting to preserve the federal tax of over $00,000,000 per year on tho manufacture and salo of "their own liquors! No more disastrous mistake conld mado than to allow tho aroused sentiment of tho nation to crystallize around this Iniquity, which intrenches tho saloon and debauches public consolcuco with a bribe. ballot-boxes by bringing forth in New York city as in Ireland Twenty thousand in one county. works meet for repentance. 6,000 in tho other.

Isn't it The ofllciat count of tho votes lovely commentary on Christian Tho Christian Endeavor society of tho North Presbyterian church, St. Louis, were addressed on last Sunday evening by Wm. O. Wilson and Mr. McClollan on tho sub- of Kansas, as made by the score civilization! Why does such In humanity and suffering exist! tary of state, shows that tho proposition to hold a constitution Because greedy ghouls in human al convention was defeated at tho recent election by a majority of form aro allowed by law to collect rent foe the tiso of tho earth thct a dozen saloon-keepers whoso net incomes exceed that of a member find created for all mankind.

In jeetof Temperance, They had a very attcntivo audience, and made an excellent impression, bringing forth confessions from somo that they wcro ''almost persuaded to be 1,281. Tho result is a great dis appointment to thoflo anli-prohl of tho president's cabinet, and thcro aro a few who, politically, bitionlsts who hoped to soonro the not only control tho wards la torestt Usury I Rent! Three synonomous words ot tho devil's own coining. How long mutit tho Jamaa race bo cur by thorn 1 Prohibitionists." repeal of the Prohibition laws..