The Good Citizen from Topeka, Kansas • 2

2 THE GOOD CITIZEN. Che Good Citizen. Topeka, July 15, 1899. Published Monthly by THE GOOD CITIZEN PUBLISHING 115 East Eighth Street, Topeka, Kan. Official Organ of The Young People's Good Citizenship Federation of Topeka.

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Per year, by mail 25 cents In clubs of 10 or more 10 cents H. R. HILTON, Editor. Like the cuckoo that lays its eggs in another birds nest; and its young that pushes the foster birds offspring out of the nesit before ready to fly, some of the office-seeking Republicans have been nesting in the Democratic preserves, and got the inside track with the joints.

Now the Democrats are thinking of leaving the cuckoo's in full possession of the jointist following, and appealing to the law and order element by putting up candidates favorable to law enforcement. Truly party politics finds strange bedfellows. The refusal of F. M. Stahl to be a candidate for sheriff leaves the Christian citizen at this hour without a candidate put forward by any party for whom he can conscientiously vote.

If he is to exercise his privilege of voting for sheriff at all it will be necessary to put forward such a candidate as he can support. There is a growing sentiment everywhere in the state just now that this business of law officers deciding for themselves what laws they shall enforce and what not, and especially with the interference of breweries in our local politics, and on this important office of sheriff in which no national or state politics are involved, there is a large part of our population ready to vote for a man for this office. This demand for a faithful officer should be met, and there is still good material in Shawnee county to select from. MISS FLORENCE VAN TASSELL, 1113 West Eighth Street, Advertising Manager. ADVERTISING RATES.

LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION AGENTS. Guy Houghtelin, 901 North Jackson, North Topeka. Frank Stephens, Read Estate Building, for Central Topeka. Edward Shultz, 14 State street, for East Topeka. Sherman A.

Willard, 1357 Dillon st-eet, for West Topeka. Judge Dolman of the probate court finds evidence that the joints are running briskly from the fact that the sales reported by the drug stores are low. The reported sales are regarded as a sort of beer barometer. When the joints are closed or restricted then the drug stores do a larger trade in intoxicating liquors and vice versa. This will undoubtedly be true of a limited number of drug stores.

The trouble is that many of the drug stores are simply joints with a drug store front, and when the joints are selling freely they are doing the same thing. This class does not report many of the sales they make. The probate judge does not and probably will not claim but that the drug stores reporting last month sold all they were legitimately authoried to sell. If the joints are closed and the drug store sales suddenly increase, that is, if the business is simply transferred from the joint to the drug store, then these increased sales are illegitimate and the druggists are in danger of having their permits revoked if the probate judge is doing his duty. Officers and Committees of the Young People of the Good Citizenship Federation of Topeka.

President Geo. B. Harrison. Vice President H. W.

Page. Secretary W. C. Ralston. Corresponding Secretary T.

Stephens. Treasurer Frank Stephens. Agitation Committee Guy Houghtelin, chairman; W. C. Ralston, P.

B. Van Nice, V. G. Johnson, H. D.

Cornish, Miss Lula Moore. Sub-Committee, Music Mrs. W. A. Coats, chairman.

Law Enforcement Committee H. W. Page, Chairman; George E. Gillies, John V. Abrahams, R.

C. Osborn, A. E. Collum, William Boies. Crime.

As sure as night follows clay, crime follows the open saioon. For a thousand years governments have been putting laws on statute books punishing criminals, without materially lessening them. The last half century has witnessed many efforts by governments to prevent crime instead of punishing criminals. The prohibitory laws of Kansas and other states are among the most practical and beneficial of these, because the saloon is the greatest promoter of crime. Topeka has been greatly b.

essed in the past by this great preventative measure, and is being as greatly cursed at this time by the failure of county and city officers to enforce it. Crimes are increasing, stabbing affairs, broken noses, free fights, always in saloons. After a crime had been committed at Larry Sheahans place Chief Ramsey ordered it closed, and it stayed closed about forty-eight hours. The time to close all these places is before the crime is committed, not after. If a law officer has authority to close a saloon after the crime is committed he has before.

The Uptown Saloons. A new bar is being put in over Keenes drug store near the Transfer Station. The entrance is through Burg-harts cigar store. The equipment cost money. The proprietor is not a man who would start such an institution if he feared more than a fine occasionally.

The two Fred Hodgins saloons, one upstairs in rear of 634 Kansas avenue, and one upstairs at 724 Kansas avenue, are still running undisturbed. The biggest saloon in Topeka, the Resubmission club, in Crawford opera house, was closed the day before Mr. Mulvane discovered its presence there, but reopened in ten days and is now running wide open. Mr. Mulvane needs a new agent.

The present one is placing him in an embarrassing light before the public. The joints from Sixth street north are having their ups and downs, but many of them persist in thinking that the officers dont mean anything more by it than to get fines out of them. There Were Prophets in the Land in Those Days. Could language better state the conditions existing in Shawnee county today than the following extract from the resolutions reported for the committee by Dr. F.

S. McCabe and A. B. Jetmore at the annual meeting of the State Temperance Union held on September 18, 1883: We, the temperance people of Kansas, in convention assembled, trusting in God for the rectitude of our intentions, declare, as the sense of this meeting: 1. "That the effect of intoxicating liquor as a beverage is drunkenness, and is a public and private wrong, injurious alike to the citizen and the state, the great cause of pauperism and crime, and to aid to rid the people of this curse is the duty of every philanthropist and patriotic citizen in the land.

4. That the will of the people expressed in the constitution is the sovereign and supreme power of the state, to which all citizens owe unconditional obedience. To refuse such obedience in the citizen or a failure of any law officer to execute is treason to the state and should receive the condemnation of all good citizens. Resolved, That the issue before us in this state is, "Shall the will of a majority of the people as embodied in our constitution in our prohibitory amendment and in the law to enforce the same, be carried into effect, or shall the will of the minority prevail in repudiating both constitution and law, that we promptly accept the issue forced upon us declaring our belief that under a constitutional government nothing can be more hateful than the tyranny of a law defying minority and our immovable purpose to resist to the uttermost and the last a doctrine that strikes down at one blow the supremacy of law and the sovereignty of the people. "That we will not aid the election of any person to any office, who, by word or deed, opposes the execution of the laws on our statute books, including the prohibitory law.

"That we express our severe condemnation of officers, jurors and witnesses who violate their oaths in order to shelter and protect criminals, and our hearty approval of the course of those who preserve their personal and official integrity by the discharge of their sworn duty under the law. He serves his party best who serves liis city or county best. The Good Citizenship Federation and committee of 200 are indebted to the Flambeau club for the use of their hall in the old court house for their meeting of lune 24. It is the duty of the sheriff and county attorney and chief off police to enforce the law because it is the law, and not because the temperance people or the attorney general, or even their own political party, want it enforced. Republican Platform of 1886 John A.

Hartin Governor. "The people of Kansas have adoptped prohibition as the settled policy of the state and have deliberately decided that the saloon, with its corrupt and demoralizing influences and associations wherein every form of vice and immorality is fostered, must go, and we are in favor of carrying into effect this verdict of the people by such amendments of the present law as practical experience has shown to be necessary and by the election of law officers who will so firmly and faithfully enforce it as to render it impossible to sell intoxicating liquors in this state, except for the purposes specified in the prohibitory amendment to the constitution. This will be an important Federation meeting. Short talks by prominent citizens on live issues now before the people. Election of officers for the ensuing six months.

Read details in Presidents message. Turn out. GEORGE M. NOBLE, FINANCIAL AGENT. Topeka, Kansas.

Buys, Sells and manages Real Estate. Buys, Sells and collects Real Estate Mortgages, Municipal and Corporate Bonds. 27 Years experience and residence in Topeka. THE PEOPLE'S STORE! A bushel of corn makes four gallons of whisky. This sells for $16.00 at retail.

The government gets the farmer 40 cents; the railroad the manufacturer the vendor $7.00, and the drinker all that is left delirium tremens. What does the wife and children of the drinker get? The probate judge reports that one drug store is in doubt about renewing its permit to sell liquor, because the joints are taking the trade. It were well if a dozen or more drug stores surrendered their permits since the legitimate drug trade of the town does not justify the existence of more than half the present number. Rossville Joints. Two saloons are reported to be running wide open in Rossville one by William Howerton and Scott Stroup, with Charles Heslet as bartender, the building being rented from J.

H. Miles, agent for the owner who lives in Kansas City. The other by Dick Faulkner and C. L. Berkey (constable of the township), building rented from W.

Stumbaugh, owner. The good citizens of Rossville and vicinity are very much incensed at this flagrant violation of law in their midst. If the sheriff and county attorney will interview some of the Topekans who visited Rossville on the Fourth they can secure some valuable testimony. Surely it should not be necessary to call the attention of the attorney general to the open defiant violation of law in Rossville to secure the citizens of that vicinity the protection of the law. Mayor Drew has no jurisdiction in Rossville, but the sheriff has at least under the law.

As a matter of fact these two saloons are running the town and woe betide the man or woman who dares dispute their sovereignty. Is not this a humiliating sight in the great county of Shawnee? Wanted A man in the sheriffs THE PEOPLE'S PRICES! When your pocketbook feels lightest try THE NEW MODEL. Nobody attempts to undersell us; nobody CAN undersell us. Our prices will make you feel rich. You can get EVERYTHING here, and nearly twice as much of it for the same money as anybody else will give you.

There no place like THE NEW MODEL. The NEW MODEL SUPPLY STORE SIXTH AND QUINCY. Probate Judge Dolman complains in the Evening Journal that the failure of the officers to close the saloons reduces the receipts of his office from the drug stores; that if the law enforcing officers were more diligent itf pursuing the joinit-ists, then the whiskey trade of the drug stores would be increased and his office receipts make a better showing. Small sales of liquor by drug stores may be an evidence of vigilant supervision by the probate judge and large sales are apt to be evidence that his supervision is woefully weak..