The Kansas Prohibitionist from Osborne, Kansas • 2

THE KANSAS PROHIBITIONIST Kansas Notes. for tho Republican nomination for Congress in the First District. You're on tho right road, Tom, but your party in the nation is still off in the swamps of liquor traffic politics. Better quit 'em! Entered second clans matter December 12,1005, at th poatotlloe at Kama City, Kaunas under act of (tongreas of March 8, 1870. his beliefs are correct, every man would stand upon tho samo footing, and why tho need of a church or a newspaper to promulgate tho idea, unless merely to lino the pockets of tho "promulgator." Happily for tho human race he is not correct.

Published weekly by Edwin 0. Had ley but to a man who has an average amount of gray matter in his cranium, it appears that it is not necessary to wait one day to make a try for what wo want in, that lino. Five saloons in Kansas City, lost licenses last week becauso of selling on Sunday. We presume, however, that tho more than COO saloons remaining will be ablo to take care of tho thirsty of the town, and that a drought is not Subscription 60 oenta per year. Advertlxlng rates on application.

Editorial Briefs. Add rent all oommunlcatlonH to THE KANSAS PROHIBITIONIST 648 Minn. KaoHaa City, Kan. Human Prohibition Committee: Chairman, E. C.

Hadley, KanwsClty Secretary, Ilev. O. S. Morrow, Topeka Vol. 7, No.

21. (June 25, 1000. Our raid In Advance List. Subscribers January 1, 1008, 712 (Subscribers January 1, 1000, 1423 Subscribers May 1, 1000, 1450 EDITORIAL. Now Yrk, Juno 15.

Each of 3,500 employes of Smith Sons Carpet Factory at Yonkers received $1,000 in cash yesterday. They were bcncliciaries under tho will of tho late Mrs. Eva Smith Cochran, who was tho principal owner of the factory. When she died in February last she left an estate of eight million dollars and willed that each employe of tho factory who had been working in it for twenty years should receive $1,000. Three million, ono hundred thousand dollars given back to the men and women who helped to accumulate it is far better than establishing free libraries for an unappreciativo public.

All reforms have been accomplished through tho self-sacrifice of some few who had a vision of the future benefits to the human race through tho reform. Tho real reformer not only has tho vision, but ho also has the spirit of sacrifice, a willingness to put aside selflsh interests in tho interest of tho common good. Many, have had the vision, but few make any real sacrifice. Tho same applies to the Christian religion. Many are converted regenerated, if you please but few get tho soirit of sacrifice, few do real work.

Tho need is for working Christians, and for working Mrs. Howard Gould says that a New York society woman needs $40,000 to spend for dress annually. Chicago society loaders say that estimate is ridiculous that $3,000 a year is ample for the purpose. Wo know tho wife of a certain Prohibition editor who doesn't spend more than a hundredth part of tho latter sum, and she always looks nice, too. Richmond, Juno 15.

Trustees of Earlham College, a Friends' institution, today refused to comply with tho request of tho Dublin, quarterly meeting that they dismiss Prof. William N. Trucblood becauso ho voted "wet" in the Wayne county local option election. What's tho matter with tho Quakers? They used to bo pretty near solid against tho saloon. Swat the saloon! Swat it unto death! Swat it at tho ballot box! Keep out of tho camp of tho Perpctuationists.

Voto for civic righteousness via a Prohibition ballot. Let not your opposition to tho saloon bo expressed in ballots alone. Thero is work to bo done, and every member of the party should do his share. Thero is money to bo given, timo devoted, sacrifices made, and every lover of God, homo and country should assume his part of tho responsibility. Don't bo a drone! Don't vote th ticket, doing nothing else, and then sit down in tho enjoyment of your self-righteousness and on the day of victory exclaim, "See what I havo done!" Bro.

M. W. Ashmore, of Pittsburg, is visiting in Okla-homa, and may conclude to remain in that state. Whenever I let a preacher know what Wilson's Prohibition Year Book contains, he wants C. S.

Clark, We must announce the loss of another Prohibitionist from Kansas. Mr. Joab Stanfield, of Alton has gone to the orange groves of California. I hope state after state will come our way until we have a nation standing up manfully for righteousness and the Prohibition of the liquor traffic A. L.

Evers, Ottawa. The men here seem satisfied with what we have in Kansas. Some say if the question of national prohibition was submitted, they would vote for it but still they vote the old party ticket. I talk Prohibition, but it don't do much good here. I hope and pray for success.

L. T. Hitchcock, Whiting. 1 1 like The Kansas Prohibitionist very much. I have taken every Kansas Prohibition paper since I have been in the state, and this is the best one of them all.

I like it as weil as the National Prohibitionist, and that is good. Every Prohibitionist in Kansas should take both papers. G. W. Marley, Parsons.

We regret to announce the death of William Coughenour, of Pittsburg, a veteran Prohibitionist. His daughter, Mrs. Frances Scott, writes us as follows, under date of June 20: "I think one of the saddest moments of my life was when the paper reached us Monday morning, and there was no dear old father to read it. He passed away from us quite suddenly on Friday morning, the nth, in his 85th year. He loved the cause intensely, and was delighted with every victory won." Bro.

Coughenour had long been a good friend of this paper, and he will be missed from among the editor's correspondents, A Puzzle and a Prize. A letter addressed as follows was promptly delivered to the party for whom it was intended, through the United States mail WOOD JOHN MASS Boys intending to enter the U. S. mail service might practice on this. The first boy under eighteen sending us the address in full will receive The Kansas Prohibitionist one year free.

Tho Kansas City, council recently passed an ordinance providing for tho people to vote on a proposition to take tho control of tho police-saloon department out of tho hands of the police commissioners appointed by the governor Tho "Candle Light Club," a Republican organization, denounces this as a "mean Democratic trick" and the meeting of tho club was held in a wine garden. Another case of the pot and the kettle. How very tolerant the American people are, to submit so quietly to the insolent and dictatorial spirit of tho saloon! One saloon, and largely becauso of its insolence and aggressiveness, exerts as much influence in an election as a half dozen churches. That is a shame, when wo remember that in destroying the works of the devil and in extending His Kingdom in this world Chi ist must work through human agency, just as Satan docs If in tho spiritual domain ono Christian "can chaso a thousand, and two put ton thousand to flight," wo ought to buckle on our armor and mako ono church equal to a dozen saloons. Let us try it and see what we can do in His name.

POSTPONEMENT. When we first announced our Special Edition to be issued July 2, we did not realize the immense task we cut out for ourselves in securing the copy for it from the only sources from which it could be secured. We have now learned from experience that tthe time at hand was far too short, and so we are compelled to postpone the issuing of the Special Edition for four weeks. It will surely be issued on July 30, however, and we are hoping to make it the best, most interesting and the most instructive copy of a Prohibition paper ever issued in Kansas. It will be better in subject matter than we first planned, but we shall probably be compelled to omit the illustrations planned for, as we cannot afford them on the small number of advance orders we have received.

Our advance orders amount to only about 3000 copies, when we had hoped to receive orders for 25,000 or more. We hope those friends of the paper who have not yet ordered, will send us an order for some number of that issue. The price is 2 cents per copy, $1.75 per 100, or $15 per 1000. We had advertised them at a higher rate, but have made this reduction in order that we may get a much larger number of them circulated. We trust that a number of our county committee, and also individual Prohibitionists, will order at least a thousand copies each under this reduced price.

To those who have already sen in their orders, we will send to them a sufficiently larger number to make up the difference in price. We will mail them to individual addresses when the purchaser wishes Judge Kyle, of tho Kansas City, police court, assessed lines of $3,525 against bootleggers and drug store joints at one session of his court last week. Oh, yes; roguktion of tho liquor traffic is a beautiful rogulatorl "The present exhibition which is being made in tho United States Senate by senators calling themselves Democrats and assuming to read out of tho party all those who do not bear the mark of their approval is shameful. The party as now represented at Washington might as well pass out of existence, for it has survived its usefulness and only serves now to mako a humiliating spectacle and to make honest Democrats hang their heads in shame. I believe that men who believe as wo do would rather see the party die than to see it further prostituted to serve tho uses of the base men who seek to control it.

So says Roger Q. Mills, for many years a member of Congress from Texas. That ought to bo expert testimony. Prohibitionists have declared for many years that the Democrtic party was moribund, and it is refreshing and encouraging to see a few Democrats acknowledging tho fact. Well, those fellows can easily bury their portion of tho old corpse by simply coming over into a decont camp.

We will welcome them. Come along boys! By Unci Sam't fftfp. Wichita, Juno 12. In order to make Wichita so completely dry that tho people would become tired of the movement, which has absolutely stopped tho sale of spiritous liquors in this city, the brewers and liquor houses of Kansas City entered an agreement not to fill an order from this city for one month. As a result, agents for brewers at St.

Joseph and Joplin immediately got busy, flooded the town with circulars of their brands of beer, and now, it is said, have sent agents hero. Now Wichitans aro drinking brands of beer they never tasted before and they do not liko it. There is a general complaint, but they say they will drink the worst beer made in St. Joseph rather than do without some sort of brew. Every train coming from tho two Missouri towns mentioned brings interstate shipments of wet goods, This movement is expected to make tho Kansas City agent remove their boycott before tho end of tho month.

If tho national government did not maintain a partnership with tho law-defying liquor traffic, through its interstate traffic regulations, tho above conditions could not prevail. Editor. For a Blue Ribbon Army. Now York, Juno 21. What is proposed to bo a great national campaign to spread tho movement for total abstinenco and prohibition throughout tho country was launched hero yesterday by tho International Reform Bureau at a mass meeting in Calvary Methodist Church.

Tho purpose of the movement is tho formation of a blue ribbon army, tho ranks of which it is hoped by tho foundors will spread through tho United States and lend an influence to tho Prohibition party. Tho members pledged themselves by tho wearing of a blue ribbon with a white cross, which moans "Total Abstinence for Clirist's Sake." Associated Press. Caldwoll county, Kentucky, voted dry by 57 votes, Juno 1. There was "either an increase in crime in Kansas City during the fiscal year 1908, or tho police department was more vigilant than ever, for there were 12,192 cases tried in tho municipal court, an increase of 2.83 over tho year 1907. Tho fines amounted to $337,931, and $03,503 was paid.

Of tho 12,192 cases brought into court there wcro 8,747 convictions. By figuring a little on this news item from a Kansas City, daily paper, it is seen that tho record is about 20 cases in polico court for each of tho 600 saloons of tho city, and it is a safo prediction that 3 out of 4 of tho polico court cases originated in the saloon and its product. Tho Jewell County, (Kan.) lie-publican acknowledges tho receipt of a paper published by W. II. Kerr at Hutchinsou, called "The Truth About God." Its object is to teach that God is a Fabulous Being and that death is tho permanent cessation of lifo.

"All that being granted, what's tho use printing a paper about it?" asks tho Republican. "If human beings havo within them tho possibility of a higher and better existence than they now know, it is worth while to toil and sacrifico to persuade them to reach out after it; but if they aro no more than gnats and motes that dance about for a brief season and are gono forever, then what's tho difference what they think? Mr. Kerr, on his own proposition and from his own standpoint, is wasting his breath." Wo havo received a copy of tho samo paper from Mr. Kerr, and intended writing a criticism of it, but tho abovcjso nearly expresses our views in the matter, that wo givo it place. Mr.

Kerr is trying to build up "tho Church of This World," upon his idea that thoro is do God and no hereafter. If William E. Duncan, saloonkeeper of Indianapolis, is ono of the latest "victims" of tho brewers' "reform" movement. Duncan was charged with violating tho Nicholson law, but tho fact that scores of other saloon keepers in his immediate vicinity nro constantly defying it with impunity, and the further fact that ho docs not happen to sell certain brands of local beer which tho "reform" brewers make, affords a flashlight on the sincerity of tho movement. "I am opposed to the general government continuing in partnership with tho saloon business, which is outlawed by the state, and, for the sako of internal revenue, helping to nullify tho sovereign will of tho Kansas people." If 0, a Prohibitionist did not say that, but Tom McNoal, state printer of Kansas, editor of tho Farmer's Mail and BrefezQ, and candidate It may bo necessary to wait a century to got national prohibition in theso United States, fooling along with experimentation on local option and other half way moasuros by tho conservative old party route, as some solf-stylod are insistent upon Order a few of our Special for distribution in your.