The Walnut Eagle from Walnut, Kansas • 1

argest THE WALNUT EAGLE. Advertis- ing Medium WALNUT, CRAWFORD COUNTY, 'KANSAS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1907 VOL. 13 NO. 12 EDITORIAL NOTES THE MODERN CAIN. "Am I my brother's keeper?" A START FOR RESUBMISSION JUNCTION CITY BUSINESS MEN FORM CLUB TO FURTHER IT.

Junction City Dec. u. (Special) At the Commercial Club "I have set watchmen upon thy walls, 0 Jerusalem, which shall never holcf their peace day or night; that make mention of the Lord, keep not bilence." The so called social is gliding along in its slimy trail bowing, nodding, scraping, smiling the smile of death in its semi-mude-attire. Lookl See the effectl Every beautiful flower upon which smiles withers and dies. Rev.

It T. Upchurch, Arlington Texas, If as the Kansan says the majority cf the business men ofPittsburg-favor the saloon, then that is one of the very strongest arguments why the manual training school should not go there. It should be located in a city that is opposed to the saloon and other immoral places, where there is a fine christian, educational and moral sentiment, and where the young people will be thrown in the best of society. If you want the manual training school clean up. Drive out the pest-houses.

issue squarely. The result was twenty-six members in both houses rose for it. If it was resubmitted I would speak in every county in the state against it. and I believe that the effort to open this state to the influx of intoxicating liquor would be defeated by two, three or four to one. Under this law Kansas has prospered wonderfully, and what prosperity is steady and equal to agricultural prosperity, and what people are equal in homes, comforts, virtue, morality and intellectual growth to a temperate people? A drinking community could not produce 99,000,000 bushels of wheat and 230,000,000 corn in a year and grow up such beards of cattle and hogs as Kansas has done.

I once made the estimate as carefully as I could and concluded that only one tenth of the intoxicating liquor was drank in Kansas that was consumed in Illinois. Look at the men Kansas is producing. They distinguish themselves every where, We seem to have a law enforcing administration now which seems to be taking measures to close the saloons in the larger cities as well as in the country districts, and if it succeeds as it surely will, the prohibition law will do still more good. No, my friends, who I think smell a little of the saloon, you cannot any more repeal the prohibitory law in Kansas than you can the law against rape, arson or murder. rooms last night a meeting was held by a number of business men and a club organized under the name of the Junction City Resubmission Temperance Club.

Mayor F. W. O'Donnell was the temporary chairman of the organization and S. W. Fenton the temporary secretary and treasurer.

The object of the club is to use its best efforts to bring about the resubmission of the prohibitory amendment to the Kansas constitution in regard to the liquor question. The temporary organization was made permanent and the executive committee appointed and was giyen full power to act. It was decided to present the matter to the representative of this county and senator of this district by petition signed by the voters of Junction City and Geary county. A subscription list was opened at the meeting last night and was very liberally subscribed to defray the expenses of the club, About twenty-five of the leading business men of the city were present at the meeting and signed as members of the club. The petitions were being circulated today and it is expected that there will be at least 1,500 signers here.

It is understood that a similar movement will be made in many other counties in this part of the state. It the sentiment of the Junction City Club that the time has come when the prohibition question should be settled, if the sentiment has changed since the amendment became a law. The members believe the majority of the people of the state favors its being repealed and believe that if Long ago, When first the human heart-strings felt the touch Of death's cold fingers; when upon the earth, Shroudless tnd coffinless, death's first-born lay, Slain by the hand of violence, the wail of human grief arose: "My son, my sonl Awake thee from this strange and awful sleep; A mother mourns thee, and her tears of grief Are falling on thy pale unconscious brow; 1 Awake, and bless her with thy wonted smile." In vain, in vain 1 That sleeper neverwoke; His murderer fled, but on his brow was fixd A stain which baffled wear and washing. As he fled, A voice pursued him to the wilderness: "Wnereis thy brother, Cain?" "Am I my brother's keeper?" Cain, Caini Thou art thy brother's keeper, and his blood Cries up to heaven against theel Everv stone Will find a tongue to curse thee, and the winds Will ever wail this question in thy ear: "Where is thy brother?" Every sight and sound Will mind thee of. the lost.

I saw a man Deal death unto his brother. Drop by drop The poison was distilled for cursed gold; in the wmecup's ruddy glow sat death, Invisible that'poor trembling slave, He seized the cup, he drank the poison down, Rushed forth into the street home had he none Staggered and fell and miserbly diedj They buried him ah I little recks it where His bloated form was given to the worms. Once had he friends; A happy home was his, and loye was his. His Mary loved him, and around him played His smiling children. Onl a dream of joy Were those unclouded years; and more than all, He had interest in the world above.

1 The big 'Old Bible' lay upon the stand, And he was wont to read its sacred page, And then to pray: "Our Father, bless the poor, And save the tempted from the tempter's art; Save us from sin, and ever let us be United in thy love: and may we meet, When life's last scenes' are o'er, around the throne." Thus prayed he thus lived he. Years passed, And o'er the sunshine of that happy home A cloud came from the pit; the fatal bolt Fell from that cloud, The towering tree The world has its Pharisees today the same as it had in the days of Christ. They are yourself righteous who thank God that they are not as other people are. They bow and scrape and smile at the favorite few at a distance, but fail to see their unfortunate brother at their elbow. It is a great pity that these bigheaded, self-important, selfrighteous and aristocratic snobs can't go into a herd by themselves so that they will not contaminate the great common people with their vices.

The Baptist church of Laclede county, Missouri has convictions and is not afraid to express them. all the churches would take such 1 1 1 1 a siana me saioon question would soon be solved. At their associa the present movement to have the tion the committee on temperance prohibitory amendment repealed should be successful it would be a step toward the promotion of tem perance. Kansas City Journal. The above taken from the Kan sas City Journal sounds everything 11.

-r 01 strong arms to me. it you arc submitted the following report: "The whisky trust is one of the strongest trusts in the Unitee States, and the liquor traffic is the greatest curse of the world. It dominates the politics of the nation it controls our courts, it corrupts and bribes our jurors, it intimidates many of our ministers and so influences some of our churches so as to render ineffective the preaching of the Gospel. It assaults and murders our ministers, it robs the church of her manhood and blights sincere you are not observingand wise. A 1 AH Know tne.evil consequences of drinking intoxicating liquor.

If a man does not drink it he will not get drunk, and if it is not on his way he will not go far to get it. It is the" depraved and low minded who want to encourage the use at all. every noble influence in the souls of many who otherwise would be noble christians. Therefore, we de Meditate more on this great and good question for yourselves and your children and become wise and use your Temperance Club? for the enforcement of the best law on the statute book. When Morrell traded off his principles and pledges to the people who first elected to the saloon politicians, I wrote him an open letter which was published all over the state.

He asked me, by letter, to let up on him, but I bore down all the harder and kept him down and out forever. I believe Hoch is made of different material and will show that Kansas can and does enforce its moral statutory law. Let us wait a little. If he does he will be the hero of the nation. Just think of Kansas as a dry state, with a governor who made it dry? I was born in New York and have liyed forty-five years in Illinois, but Prohibition Kansas has always had my heart.

I have been many times disgusted, but was never discouraged and in its darkest hours had a lively hope for Prohibition. It is right and wise and progressive and Kansas will and must win out. Would you want to move to a whisky saloon town or state where the drunkards and their homes made by the saloon, the shiftless-ness, the poverty and murders they make, rather than to a dry town where a temperance and law-abiding people live to educate your lovely daughters and seek husbands for them, and your heroic and hopeful sons to get wives and go into business, or had you rather by conniving with saloonkeepers to break the law and make the poor abused and starving women and children pay your taxes for you with the revenue derived from the saloons? I say shame on the craven who would hesitate to choose, one who would surely be no true Kansan. This is a simple, honest question I put to the Junction City Re-submission Temperance Club right now, C. C.

Copeland. Pittsburg, Kansas. nounce the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages, and declare I was born and reared till I was six years old in northern New York that we will not fellowship with in a hotel, where there was a bar. I become a lawyer in Chicago in 1861 any church that has a member or members in it who drinks, votes or and in seven years made a fortune Was shivered by the lightning's vengeful stroke, And laid its coronal of glory low. A happy home was ruined: want and woe Played with his children, and the joy of youth Left their sweet faces, no more to return.

His Mary's tace grew pale and paler still, Her eyes were dimmed with weeping, and her soul Went out through those blue portals. Mary died, And yet he wept not. At the demon's call, -He drowned his sorrow in the maddening bowl; And when they buried her from sight, he sank In drunken stupor by her new made gravel His friend was gone he never had another And the world shrank from himt all save one, And he still plied the bowl with the deadly drug, And bade him drink, forget his God, and diel 'He diedl Cain, Cainl whereis thy brother now? Lives he still if dead, still where is he? Where? In heaven? Go read the sacred page, "No drunkard shall inherit there." Who sent him to the pit? Who dragged bim down? Who bound him band and foot? Who smiled and smiled While yet the hellish work went on? Who grasped His gold, his health, his life, his hope, his all? Who saw his Mary fade and die? Who saw His beggared children wandering in the streets? Speak, coward I If thou hast a tongue, Tell why with hellish art you slew a man. "Whereis my brother?" "Am I my brother's keeper? Ahl man, a deeper mark is on your brow Than that of Cain. Accursed was the name Of him who slew a righteous man, whose soul vVas ripe for heaven; thrice accursed he Whose art malignant sinks a soul to hell.

Prof. E. Evans Edwards. of $100,000. I started a ranch in 1 in any way aids in the use and sale of intoxicating liquors." Commit- A.

rrawiora' county, Kansas tor a younger brother in 1869. Up to a iee. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. This wonderful man is truely wonderful in my estimation, How can he so defend and protect the Japs in America and license th saloons in Alaska? Inconsistent, How can he dismiss three regiments of negroes and stop legal proceeding against Morton and acknowledge railroad rebater? Inconsistent! How can he wage such a war on smoke in the district of Columbia and do all he can to stop the burn- ing 01 son cuai on account 01 so little later than that I was a free drinker and had visited Europe twice and traveled much in the United States. I liked ranch life and Kansas and spent much time and money out here, Although I have a large farm of 320 acres near Chicago, where I spend my summers, I am a large real estate owner in (his county and own land in six western counties.

When prohibition was started I opposed it all I could. When I saw it work and about the same time I saw the evil of strong drink to my fellow man, changed my mind entirely, I stopped drinking myself and have since worked for prohibition, In the little village of Walnut, or near it, there were four drunkard's homes of large families, I saw prohibition make them all thrifty and prosperous, and I learned it worked the same way all through the state, except at times in the largest towns. I saw. the temporary effort of the original package law, how liquor came into the state like air into a vaCuum. I wondered at the moderation of the people, why they did not destroy, burn and even bang all of the violators of their laws? I have seen re-submission agitat UlUU 3 UJUQv OWlllU UU IUC VVIitlC House, but at the same time never raise his voice against the 123 licensed houses of ill-fame almost within gun snot distance of the White House door? How can he be silent knowing that girls are taken by the bum saloon element bribed and forced to spend their days in houses of 500 NEW SUBSCRIBERS.

THE WALNUT EAGLE, WALNUT, KANSAS. Begining with Saturday, December 1st, 1906, until Monday, February ist, 1907, we will send the Walnut Eagle to any address 'for 25 cents. Cut this out, sign your name as indicated below, enclose 25 cents and we will send you the Eagle for one year. Name, State Route No If Pittsburg wants an appropriation of $150,000 it should act in good faith with the people and clean out its many disreputable dives. Under the present condition of.

things Pittsburg is not the proper place for such a school, and if it is located there parents will hesitate to send their children there to be educated. Clean up. Let the world, the flesh and the devil know that you have faith in God and are willing to trust Him, prostitution. He could set many of them free. But he don't do it.

Why? What is reformation any way? Simplified spelling 1 I think he has done as well as those be-him. "In God 'we Trust." J. R. Roberts. Altamont, Kansas, ed two or three times and once an.