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Show MOVING ON KANSAS. Kanta city Liquor Men Starting Original Package Saloons. Kansas Citv, Mo., June 21. Numerous Numer-ous agents of local liquor men Jeft the city this morning to establish original stores in various parts of Kansas. One Union avenue firm sent representative representa-tive to Paola, Kansas, with instructions to write at once should he have trouble. In that event another agent will be sent to assist him in the disposal of wet goods, and legal talent will be forwarded for-warded to prevent his incarceration. At least thirty agents left tho city with similar purposes this morning, most of them bound for tho smaller towns of the state. The indications are that it will only be a few days until whisky and other intoxicants are again every day beverages bever-ages in Kansas. The wholesale firms with an eye to business and the evasion of the law and which are getting Ju on the ground floor, expect to make a mint of money out of their operations. They say that if they are allowed to dispose of their goods under the original package pack-age law with their own agents in the various towns, they can make a bigger percentage of profit than if the liquors were handled by saloon-keepers. All the firms are industriously praying pray-ing that the new law, which prohibits pro-hibits original package shipments, may not be passed, and they are besieging besieg-ing Missouri representatives in Congress Con-gress to delay action upon it. Lobbyists Lobby-ists have already gone from here to Wnshinort-nn for that, nnrnnap. Should the bill now before congress be passed, an attempt will be made to prove it unconstitutional, un-constitutional, on the ground that intercourse inter-course between state and state cannot under the constitution be restricted. It is predicted that the failure of the prohibition law will make more prosperous pros-perous times for Kansas and Missouri. Among the agents is a well-known local politician, who said: "The dealers will, no doubt, suffer considerable annoyances and expense at the outset, for the prosecution attorneys, attor-neys, who are prohibitionists, will fight us whether the law is with them or not. I hardly expect to escape being arrested myself, but with a supreme court decision decis-ion backing us, we have no real danger to feel." ' |