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Show Most Forceful Speaker of Campaign Holds Attention Atten-tion of Large Crowd for More Than Two Hours Tells What Prohibition Is Poing 'in the Sunflower State in Causing Big Business for "Blind Tigers" and "Bootleggers." With the election less than one week off, tho "wet" and "dry" campaign cam-paign has assumed an earnestness which resulted last evening In a double-barreled mass meeting within the city hall square and with opposing campaign oratore addressing hundreds hun-dreds of Interested votors on the subject sub-ject which will next Tuesday demand the attention of theso citizens at the polls Vernal J, Rose, ex-chlof of police of KansaB City, Kan., held tho central position on the campaign stage and from tho steps of tho city building this orator delivered a stirring address in faor of tho rogulated saloon ns against prohibition. Over in the northeast corner of tho square, Alfred Saxoy, a "dry" campaign orator, stationed sta-tioned in nn automobile, held a meeting meet-ing earlier in tho evonlng, but ho was still talking when tho oppooiug speakers speak-ers over in front of tho city hnll had opened their meeting. Thus within u space of one hundred feet or less one could hear whatever campaign argument argu-ment he chose to listen to. Both Sldee Are Active. The near approach of the election is resulting in much activity on both sides. Public meetings were held In overy voting precinct in the city by the "dry" workers last evening The "dry" meeting in the business district has been held almost nightly for a week past. While tho "wets'' have held but two or throe public mass meetings so far, there will be no dearth of their oratory from now on. The campaign committee of the "Manufacturers and Business Men's Association will not bo idle from now on In addition to Mr Rose there were brief talks at the "wet" meeting last evening by Mr Rathbun, a campaign speaker from Chicago, and Judge J. E. Bagley, the latter acting as chairman chair-man of the meeting. Most Forceful Speaker of Campaign. Mr Rose is one of the most forceful force-ful speakers ever heard In the city and In the estimation of a great many who heard him last evening he surpassed sur-passed In knowledge of his subject' and persuasiveness of nrgurocnt any orator that has been Introduced by tho "wet ' organization during the preBent campaign Inclined to be liberal lib-eral rather than dogmatic and sarcastic, sar-castic, the former Kansas official won his audience with his fairness He did .not revile tho prohibitionists, he credited cred-ited the anti-saloon worker with being a good person, working In the Interests Inter-ests of what ho sincerely believed to be right. Should Be No lll-Foellng. A strong point drawn by the Kansas Kan-sas speaker was that in reference to what was coming after the election next Tuesday Ho adpaonlshcd his listoners to boar in mind that Ogden and also the state of Utah would still be hero after tho votes had been cast on the Isbuo under discussion and that whatever the result there should be no enmlt engendered, as It would afterwards prevent a getting together on matters of general civic betterment. better-ment. Throughout his argument Mr Hose was at all times Tcady and willing will-ing to give tbo prohibitionists the ben-oflt ben-oflt of all that was duo them, especially especial-ly In matters pertaining to tho state of Kansas, on v.hlch the Bpeaker claimed to havo given his audience an unbiased statement as to conditions. condi-tions. Bootlegging In Kananfi. While on the subject of the closed naloon in Kansas the speakor painted a condition which ho assorts Is vastly vast-ly worse than the open saloon with llttlo or no regulation Ho told of the closing of bootlegging Joints by means of the Injunction, which gives tho prosecutor $200 for each and every ev-ery closing brought about by this method, which is prescribed by tho state law and which gives the right to soil tho property in which such JolntH may be locatod In order that the prosecutor ma collect his ?200 per Injunction Prosecutors, he claimed, claim-ed, would surround thomsolvos with a few prohlbltlonl-sls. oIobc up twenty oi thirty Joints, collect $3,000 or $1, 000, then rotlro for a "rest," and the bale of liquor would go on much tho aanjo as it had before Turkey as "Dry" Country. In his general talk on prohibition Mr Rose pointed to Turke as tha only nation in the world whoro thy drinking, selling or eon handling "1 Intoxicating liquoi Is punishable by death. He asked his audience If the piohlbltlonlst ever cited this country ab tho bright and shining Btar In thu saloonless zenith Some of tho conditions con-ditions which prevail In Turkey and with which every man and woman are more or loss familiar were mon-t'oncd mon-t'oncd by tho Bpeaker The aboraln-nble, aboraln-nble, vile-smelling Turkish cigaretto, as the speaker preferred to refer to it was offered as one of the stellar products of this countr which would not tolerate the uso of intoxicants. Sox Jealouoy Causes Murders. In the'matter of tho industrial problem, prob-lem, Mr Rose presented an argument Which showed that he had given tho subject much thought He preferred to give a man an opportunity to earn the necessities of life rather than tell him what ho might eat or what he might drink Weaving this pirt of his argument In with the rause of crime, the former poller official presented pre-sented Instances which came to him during the discharge of his duties In Kansas City which proved that crimes charged to the use of liquor Torc due to the lack of emplojiuont In this connection he assorted that four out of every five murders wero tho result of sex Jealous) Recounting from his own experiences as police chief, Mr Rose Bald that of nine murders with which he had to deal, five wore due to JcaloiiB over women and of the four remaining two had been directly di-rectly due to liquor 8tubb8 Is All Right, but Tho fairness of the upeakor was shown in hia statement that In suUc of the fact that he was -a Domocrat he was a staunch supportor of Governor Gover-nor Stuhbs of Kansas, who Is republic con and a prohibitionist. Ho claimed, howevei, that Govnrnor Stubbs has an object In bclns a prohibitionist and that object may pac the pathway to a scat In the United States senate. bmk i m .ii.iipTgmjnMn Buu Mr. Rose likes the Kansas governor gov-ernor bccaiiGc, as the speaker claimed, he stands out for those things which are of greatest Importance to human life The Kansas governor la endcav orlng to bring about legislation which will prevent child labor In the slate, hu wants ail cmplojers' liability law and he is for the referendum, the Initiative Ini-tiative and the right of recall. In conclusion the Kansas man corn-pared corn-pared the past and present Agitation on the liquor question to the agitation which, resulted In the crucifixion of Josub Christ, to the agitation which resulted In the residents of Salem, Mass., burning witches at the stake and to tho more leccnt agitation which brought about the freedom of the col-oied col-oied man In five years, he predicted, predict-ed, tho people of this nation will look back upon the present agitation with sincere and profound wonderment- For two hours Mr Rose held the attention at-tention of an audience of several hundred hun-dred people who stood, unmindful of fntlguc. and listened to the powerful argument of tho campaign orator. |