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Show JOHN MARSHALL IT TABERNACLE "Kansas is the only state In tho union that has a penitentiary o rent,' 'thundered John Marshall, as slstant attorney general of Kansas, in his speech at the Tabernacle last night, which wag delivered beforo a large audience. The speauor was enthusiastically en-thusiastically applauded throughout his address. When he reached the building from the street meeting where he had spoken briefly to hundreds hun-dreds of laboring men it was already packed The Tabernalce choir and quartette sang at their best David O. McKay presided, and after a brief opening address bv Hon. John Seaman, Chairman Chair-man David O. McKay said, "I introduce intro-duce to you tonight the representative of a state that has 90 counties. In which there is not to bo found a single Inebriate; a stale that thirty veara ago passed through the experience experi-ence that we arc now passing, the embryotic stage of prohibition They have met success, the falsified statements state-ments and lnuendos of tho opposition, notwithstanding Ladies and gentlemen gentle-men I take pleasure in introducing to you an honored representative ot the state of Kansas, one who knows the facts as they exist. I take pleasure pleas-ure in introducing the Hon. John Marshall, assistant attorney general of the state of Kansas. Mr. Marshall then spoke In part aB follows- "I am glad to be with you. good friends. I am glad to say a word to you concerning the abolition ot the tra'ffic of Intoxicating liquor. I onght to be able to say something to you that will rofute some of the sLate monte that are sent (broadcast oor vour state and throughout the United States of America. Why are these statements so often made concerning tho failure of prohibition in Kansas by the brewer and the distiller and tho sellers of liquor? Because the life or their business depends on it that Is why IT the browers would tell the truth about Kansas, there would not bo a saloon left In the Llnlted 9tntcs of America in five years. They know it. They act on that theory. If the brewer or distillery distil-lery or saloonkeeper flrdc a law on the statute books of your state or of any other, that will restialn the liquor trnfflc.'tho saloon keeper vill not hes-itate hes-itate about making false statements concerning any Individual, church, any city, or any state 1 will tr, after af-ter a while, to tell you something about prohibition in Kansas, and Just before I begin my argument, after making these opening remarks, let me tell you you may think ot getting out of here in half an hour, but you won't This afternoon, down In Salt Iake, or up or over, I don't know which, a fellow by the name of Vernal J Rose was talking He Is from Kansas; so am I. 1 understand he talked here last night, telling about the failure of prohibition In Kansas. I don't Intend to abuse him, but I want to tell you a thing or two. In Kansas we have not always enforcod our law. But fhe or more years ago a number of our cities thought they could not get along without revenue from the follow that Is a saloon keeper, keep-er, and they made a collection from each of them once a month of 5100 to ?200. The saloon keeper"; promptly paid their flno and wenlback to selling sell-ing liquor again, until tho next month So theso cities collected from 51000 to $2,400 per year from oach of theso saloons. Kansas .'ilv, Kan . had a population of about 100,000 people then and thoy had about 2G5 Joint3, from which they collected at least $1,000 per year, making $2G5.000. Quito a sum or nionev The- thought they could not get along without this revenue. But tho people of tho stnte got tired of having cities defying the laws of tho state Citlos of Kansas did not run Kansas. They can not do it; thoy never navp doue It; they never nev-er will do it. The attoruey general's office said to Kansas City. Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Wichita and Pittsburg. --on. ' and they said "We won't, we will appeal ap-peal to the court. The courts said "stop." Pittsburg said she would not stop, but tho court Bent six of her officers of-ficers to jail, then they did stop. One W W Rose w-as major of Kansas City, Kan. Ho said he would not. May I quote his words? This house is dedicated to the worship ot Almighty Al-mighty God, but I sa what I do sav In reverence; he said "dam tho Inw." Within a week after he made that statement he was in the supreme court of our state contesting his right to continue in office. The supreme court said "You must gel out of office." of-fice." Pie resigned the day before tho judgment was pronounced in order or-der to oscnpc tho judgment but the court said you get out any way. Thoro necessarily followed an election to fill tho vacancy. He came up for re-olcc-Hon, and was elected. He convinced his peoplo thnt a town could not run without the Joints. Ho undertook to run along as before but was taken before be-fore the court again and fined $1,000. While this W. W Rose was mayor of Kansas City, Vernal .1. Rose was chief of police, and when W. W. Rose went out of office, disgraced, Vornal J. Rose went with him, and this kind of people from Kansas run around over the United States tolling thnt prohl-' bition In Kansas is a failure. You have heard -certain arguments, mndo concerning prohibition. I heard a great labor leader, a lawyor by the' way, who spoke here in Ogdon a few nights ago, Clareueo Darrow. He spoke in the thonter in Salt Lake City Friday night and appealed to tho laboring lab-oring mon not to sacrifice their personal per-sonal liberty, their right to drink beer whenever they Baw fit to do so. Talk personal liberty. There was time when. It my arm waa strong t enough, I could tako your property and compel you to give It up. There was a time In the history of northern Europe whon murder was not pun lahed except by trio friends of tho murdered man. Tnlk about my right to gather together all the property In these mountains and In these valleys, val-leys, to make It mj own, because that right oxiBted In mo twenty-five years ago, and you, by law, have undertaken to tako It away .from me You know what I refer to, tho big corporations who aro operating in restraint of trado and personal liberty Twenty-five Twenty-five vears agu ou ami 1 neiguiiyr. could contract between ourselves thnt we would control tho price of certain tilings Tho statute did not say ypu should not do 11. There was a time if I wanted a wife, I would go and get her, whether she consented or not That is changed by law Tho act is that when men live separate and apart numerous num-erous laws are unnecessary When you came to settle these beautiful valleys, this country was not organized, so far -" ' ' I II' II II ' " " -U J ..J-W as government wus concerned, there were so few of jou, you did not need much government But as these valleys val-leys wero settled up thicker and moro people camo here, it was necessary to restrain your conduct in many ways, taking from you th right to do things that did do. all was brought about through the enactment ot lnw. The traffic in .ntox.ialing .iquoi. inusi men say, should be restricted, regulated regulat-ed and controlled, and some say prohibited pro-hibited But I apprehend tliat ome of mv friends who think saloons are a necessary evil. If they are an ovll, will say that these laws of which I havo spoken are all right, but this Is a moral question, and you can not make men tbettor by law. And It la generally accepted, Isn't it' I have a thing or two to say about that, and I propose to convince you that tno declaration is not correct, if you aro willing to be convinced. I know that a man, or a woman either, convinced against his will, Is of the same opinion still. Let us look at this for Just a momenL They can not make men better by law. You can not legislate men into the Kingdom of Heaven. I wlH go with you In imagination to your homes, to the homos of tho3o of you who have children growing up, and I will not bo thero but a very little lit-tle while before I seo that certain rules are observed by father and mother. Rulos that are a law for that home I will go to your church, this church, my church, or any other church, and I will find in each ot your organiaztions cortaln rules, thai for that organization aro laws. Go to your school houses where you will find the teacher and pupils assembled for instruction, and you will find that certain rules of order and discipline are there enforced Tell me what excuses ex-cuses you have for laws In the home, In the church and in the school room. You are ready to anower that they are for the purpose of making of the boya and giriB and men and women, better boys and girls, and better mon, and women And these laws In the house, ....- iii in . in. -. , in the church and in the eohool are BBB accomplishing the purpose lor which BBV they were enacted; you will admit BBV that, every one ot you. Then I will ijBVB go a step f arthor. I can not sec good 'j BBV bur. this looks like a Bible. It is the BBV statute book of Almighty God, that BBV contains tho laws written toy tho Crea- BBV tor himself on tablets of Btone. Tho BBV laws ho gavo to Moses, and through BBV him to man for their government, and BBV are given to make you and me better BBV and lcgislato us into tho Kingdom of BBV Heaven, and no one here "Kill say that BBV these lawn are not accomplishing the BBV purpose In your lrvcs and In mine. H The' arc doing IL What these lawn JBBB do, the prohlbltor laws will do. They BBj do make peoplo sober and good." BBB Then coming to the dose, he 6std, H "Kansas has 1,700,000 people. Sho Is BBB prosperous, happy, enforooa this law B as good as any law, and ovory year BBb etrengthons instead of unmaking the BBb law, aud ovory man in Kansas who BBV does not wear the making ot law BBV endorses it. BBV gggaingcgBStgirE ' 1 1 1 iiccjct |