The Hanover Democrat and Enterprise from Hanover, Kansas • 1

State liisto real Society THE HANOVER Democrat Eeterir I VOL XXX. HANOVER, KANSAS," FRIDAY, JANUARY 18. 1907. R0.I7. worthy of indorsement.

I do not be lieve there are any people on earth rel merit. The same statement hna beep made to by more titan fifty iner- this state today that are saloonleis and jointless than ever before I the law was enacted. Results have been remarkable, rln four-fifths of the MAKING GOOD. How can it help JMt do so look at of the values: Swiss Knilroilery up to 10 indies wide with insertion to mutch worth up to per li)c. Km broidery fur Cornet Covers 18 inches wide at 29c per yd.

Hamburg Embroidery up to 5 inches wide, insertion to match at per yd. Laces 20c valius at 12i-o per yd. Linens sold everywhere 12ie, at this sale White Bed Spreads, large and These are values that will surprise you 20 yds good weight unbleached muslin for $1-00 We want to make this January the largest month in sale since we started in business, will you help us? Potatoes 0oc per bu. for iO days, Jan. 10 to 29.

These are Northern N-braska Potatoes, and have heard that Potatoes from the same section orVountrv are retailed at 80c. LOUIS PRALLE, Bremen, Ks. 5 lb. Package Itol led Oatmeal 19c. GOVERNOR HOCH'S Message To The Legislature on Prohibition.

chants in that city. I consider it a safe proposition to invite any one who feels in doubt to write any merchant in Kansas City as to the effect. "Last May our city officials were figuring how they could snare the mon ey to enlarge the city jails, but today we-have no use for those we have. The doors swing idly upon their hinges with no inmates, the guards at the rock pile have been discharged, and drunks and disorderlies have largely disappeared." The prohibitory law has never had a fair chance in Kansas. It has battled against a foe entrenched in the appetites of an extensive constituency fortified by legal sanction, through many centuries of the world's history, and made powerful by the enormous profits, very state surrounding as has tie'en opposed to our policy and has conttibuted in every possible way to its failure.

It has been like a farmer striving to keep hia farmjclcan of nox ious weeds, while his neighbor farmers permitted their farms to become foul and sow his farm thick with seeds with every wafting wind that blew his way from their premises. Our success under these conditions has indeed been remarkable. The absurd contention that more liquor is sold in prohibition Kansas than in license states should deceive no one. It is made chiefly by those who would be entirely content with the prohibition policy if their statements were true, but official figures abundantly refute the ridiculous statement. Uncle Sam is a pretty good bookkeeper and a pretty good collector Compare prohibition Kansas with our neighbor, license Nebraska, for instance.

Nebraska has about one-third less population than has Kansas but Uncle Sam has csliected about a year liquor tax from the people of Nebraska while he has been abie to get only about from Kansas. The amount of fermented liquor sold in Kansas is from 6,000 to 10,000 barrels a year, in Nebraska from 200,000 to 300,000 barrels, and in Missouri from to 3,000,000 barrels. When I came into office two years ago, I found this law largely ignored, if not flagrantly violated in every city of the first-class in the state, and in many of the smaller cities and towns. A most difficult duty confronted me, A definite policy was at once forrcmu-! lated, and, acting in harmony with the attorney-general, this policy has been steadfastly pursued. The enforcement of this, as of other laws, rests primarily, under our statutes, upon the local authorities.

I agree again with Governor Martin, who, in the same speech "from which I have already quoted, said: "Whenever or wherever the laws are not honestly enforced the local judiciary officers that is, the county attorney and sheriff are the responsible parties. It is practically impossi ble for any ono to sell intoxicatiug liquor as a beverage in any town or city iu Kansas if the county attorney and sheriff of the county do their duty. These officers, co-operating together, can make the illegal sale of liquor impossible." To this official combination, however, I would add the district judge, who, if unfriendly, can greatly impede if not eutirely prevent, the enforce ment of the law. Recognizing these fundamental facts, as well as the limitation of power conferred by the legislature upon the governor for the enforcement of thisand other laws, have written to every county atUrneyand sheriff.in the state, and to many of theni repeatedly, urging the enforcement of thelaw. Ouster, proceedings were instituted against the mayor of Kansas-City, the largest city in the 6tate, and against the coutity attor ney 'of Wyandotte county, iu which were successful, owing largely, let it be remembered, to the peculiar ability of Attorney deneral Coleman and his able local assistant, Mr.

Tricket, and to the character of the presiding judge, Judge Holt. Similar suits have been. beaUB in other cities. Assistant attorneys general have been appointed in ten other counties with varying results. But I believe it can be said without extravagance that there are more towiAud counties in atively more progressive and prosper-! ous than the sixteen hundred thousand people who constitute the population or Kansas.

Utir per capita wealth is iiti'i iiiiicij uuuara jirai i mi limits the average in the United States and nowhere is wealth more equally distributed. A poorhouse is almost a joke in Kansas. Saloons are not com mercial necessities. All the money that goes into their tilis is just bo much loss to the legitimate merchant The revenue from this source is not necessary to the permanent prosperity of any town: it debauches public sent-ment, debases public morals, and corrupts official channels; it destroys town pride, one of the first and great essentials to town jiuilding; it makes the saloon the center of political influence ind the most potent factor in municipal government. -The devil never invented a bigger lie than that revenue from illegitimate sources is necessary to the financial success ofi any town or city.

Such a contention is an insult to any communnity in Kansas. Wherever thi9 theory finds indorsement by local authorities, boodle and graft and extravagance follow naturally ancTinevitably. Many local illustrations of the fallacy that revenue from this traffic is necessary could be given, but I will cite only a few. Mayor "David II. Shields of Sn-lina ssys: "When.

I took office one year ago this spring (lSOu) business men of Sa-linasaid that business would be ruined and the city bankrupted, but, according to the city treasurer's report for March, 19(16. there was in the general fund of the city at that time The same report for this March (1908) shows, $7 769.49, an increase of over $4,000 and this in spite of the act-that the city took in over from the joints the year" before and less than 1,000 this year4hrough legitimate tines. The merchants claim that this has been the best year in the history ofSalina. More goods have been sold and more business done than in any twelve months of the city's experience A gre-ifc many of the leading business men of Kansas City, cherished the same delusion cherished by the business men of Sahna, but tf.c 'JX) joints in that city have teen effectually closed, and yet it is almost the universal testimony that the city was never so prosperous, Kansas pity, is the largest city in the state, and I believe it is the largest city in the world without an open saloon. There has been a wonderful revolution of sentiment among the business men, who are pospering as never beforehand who attested their faith in this new and wise policy by electing a law end order mayor at the recent city election The people of Kansas Oity, have a splendid opportunity ta make their city the most noted city in the world by steadfastly adhering to the wise policy under which they are now making such gratifying growth in every realm of civic importance, and other cities would do well to catch this infection, for is in the air.

In this great accomplishment too, much credit cannot be given to Attorney General C. O. Coleman, to the assistant attorney general, O. W. Trikett, and to the presiding judge, Hon.

W. G. Holt. In a recent address'Mr. Trickett said "When I first moijed upon the deus of vice two leading bankers, in company with three prominent merchants, called upon me to pj-otest against closing the saloons, saying it would ruin business.

Not long sine these same men returned to mfj office to apologize for their former request, and. stated that it had not only inot injured business, but had helped every line. The bankers informed ljie that in three months, under closed saloons, deposits had inceased $500,006. The merchants said their business had increased that collections were better, and that women were trading with, them, presenting their husbands' pay-checks, stating that they had never seen a pay check until the saloons were closed. ExiMayor W.

A. proprietor of the largest store in the sixth ward, which was the storm center the fight, stated to me recently that to his personal knowledge a score of families now live in comfort that lived iu squn-JU poverty before i the closing, mcve- i 105 counties the prohibitory law is as other pnnal statutes. The constitution imposes upon the governor the duty of enforcing law, but legislatures alone give effect to constitutional requic- meuts and furnish the executive with power for their enforcement. The governor eai only enforce law with law. The various laws enacted by Kansas legislatures during the past quarter of a century to make effective this constitutional amendment have been stubbornly contested in the courts in every possible way by the liquor interests, Some of these laws have stood the test, but some of ilie most importantones have been annulled by the courts, "Government," mid Heory Clay, "is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees," "Law," said Hoi land, "is the very bulwark of our liberties." "Let the aanetity of law," said Lincoln, "be taught to our children in the public schools, p1 reached from our pulpits, proclaimed in the press, and enshrined in' the hearts of all the If laws, are unwise they.should be amended or tpmiled, but while they are laws they should be obeyed and enforced, and "the best way to prove that a law is bad is to enforce it" said President Grant.

When any question of governmental concern, is up for original discussion It is the privilego of every citizen to have and to express, freely and without restraint his opinion upon the subjejt, but when the matter has been crystallized into law it passes out. of the domain of discussion, except for amendment be repeal. There is then but ono duty of the officer, and that is to enforce tins law, and but one duty of citizens, and that is to obey it, The specious plea that any law is under the ban of an adverse public sentiment as an excuse for official dereliction is unworthy of consideration. The officer did not make the law and is nob responsible for its making. He has nothing to do with public sentiment, He did not swear to obey public sentiment.

He swore to enforce the law. "Lot me say to you," said Judge J. T. Dickenson, of the fenderal court in the Iddian. territory, in a pnblie address last year, "that f.

believe one of the worst evils of our government at this time is the lack of appreciation of the solemnity of an official oath that' many people inofficial positions have. How can an officer of the law go in and out of saloons, joints, drug stores where intoxicating liquors are being Sold, winking one eye, and whispering low in the presence of the violators of the law it is his solemn sworn duty to uphold? How can such perfidy bo permitted in a civilized country?" Kansas must take no backward step in this matter. "It is the province of Kansas to lead and not to follow," said Mr; Trickett. in the speech from which I have already quoted. "We have blazed the path of great reforms in the past, and this generation will not fall below that of its ancestors," Upon you, gentlemen of the legislature, devolves the duty of conferring greater power upon those clothed with responsibility of government, to the end that the good name of the state may not be marred by the persistent violation of the prohibitory law, and that the wise economical aud moral policies involved in this constitutional amendment may be made more and more effective, i have some well-matured thoughts aa to what you should do in this matter, but will not make specific recommendations at this time.

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is a fruitful source of crime it is the devil's, best "recruiting camp; it im- poses more burdens of taxation upon the people than any otlier agency in existence; no human interest is sacred to it; it voluntarily obeys no law; it desecrates the Sabbath, and refuses to dose its doors on this holy day except when a policeman with righteous orders from some courageous mayor is on that beat the Fourth of July appeal? not to its patriotism, for it has none: it debauches childhood in defiance of the law against selling to min ors it makes day lurid with its profanities and night -hideous wiih its or gies it is everywhere and always ah anarchist. Every license law, high or low, every Taw to which reference has been made above, is proof of popular estimate of its baneful character, for no such laws restrict and restrain legitimate business. Our prohibitory policy is not, I repeat, questioned as a matter of principle. Its wisdom is only questioned as a matter of expediency. This is the battle-ground of thought, oil the suqject.

But I must ever believe that, in the final ana'ysis, wrong, alone, is inexpedient, and that ultimately some means can always be found to make any "right thing practicable. Relatively (and every thing is relative in this world) the prohibitory policy has been a great success in this state, It has been a great benefit edu cationally, morally and financially to the people. Viewing it from the highest can" heartily revoice the following sentiments of one of my ablest predecessors. Gov. John A.

who in a public address said: "I have never made any secret of the fact that I voted against the prohibitory amendment, cannot therefore be suspected -of a desire to vindicate my own original judgment when I declare, as I-do, that in my opinion this state is today the. most temperate orderly, sober community of people in the civilized world, I realize fully the force of this statement and am prepared to sustain it here or anywhere." Viewing it fro'hi a lower planp, from its economic side, I believe it is eqiial'y EAT 'EM LIKE CANDY Plaasaut, Palatable, Fount, Taate Good, Do flood, Merer Sicken, Weaken or Gripe 10, 85 and to cents per box. Write tor freo sample, and book on health. Addreu 433 Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York. KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEJUI.