THE GREAT KANSASMISSOURI MUDDLE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43090, 9 May 1907, Page 1

THE GREAT KANSASMISSOURI MUDDLE.

A FINE OBJECT LESSON IN STRAIGHTFORWARD TEMPERANCE POLITICS.

By William Durhan, B. a.

(Continued from last issue,)

Home rule Rule prevails in perfection in these forty-six federated republics under the one banner of the Stars and Stripes, and as one of the most intelligent af American ministers recently said to me, u Home Rule works splendidly.” Well, even the brightest conditions have their corresponding dark sides and no picture is possible

without shadows as well as lights. So it is with Staje autonomy in a colossal Federal Republic. And the wonderful Prohibition movement is largely effective by this very condition of State Rights, which, as all students so well know, long hampered the effoits of the emancipationists who aimed at setting free the negro slaves. And now here we have one Kansas City fighting the other, and at the same time one Kansas City trying to help the other! Could any situation be more singular? It all comes of . the marvellous success of Prohibition in Kansas State and of the peculiar facts connected with State Rights as affecting Missouri and Kansas. Kansas is a Prohibition State; Missouri is not yet in that felicitous social and political condition. Let us now see how this all works.

lIOW ~ MAYOR ROSS HAS BEEN OUSTED BY PROHIBITIONISTS. One of the most interesting and instructive of personal histories is that of Mayor Wilburn W. Hose, of Kansas City, Kansas. This clever civic dignitary is an apt personal

illustration, in his conduct and experience, of the application of genuine Prohibition in a real Prohibition State. Now,, anything re uu. Liable that happens in Kansas is eagly noted all thorough America. It has been the fashion both iu this country and in America amongst

ordinary politicians to sneer and jeer at Mail e, the “Mother ot Prohibitin'!,” because that

romantic and beautiful Highland State is not, comparatively, important or wealthy. It is coming rather to be regarded '.A

'$ a moutain holiday But Kansas is one of the key- ffl States of tlie Union. It “ sets the pace ” in the centre the Republic, and is a pivotal | territory on which immense

issues may turn at any inomeu'. Therefore, we never hear cheap f sascasm as to Prohibition in Kansas. It is being most siriously regarded, and is a ;f chronic scarce to the big brewers and distillers. For in Kansas | nobody disputes that Prohibition really and prodigiously does : 1 prohibit. Mayor Eose thought he * “knew his Kansas City, \ but he was self-deluded. He imagined that this Kansas City, 3

Kansas, with its eleven urban I square miles, and its citizens, could be trifled with, if

It is the metropolis, of Kansas -jJ

is the seventh city in importance of the Union as a manufacturing centre, and is second only to | Chicago in the meat-packiug, which is its principal industry. In April of last year W. W. .Rose assumed office as Mayor* ' He did so with the expectation i of devoting most of his attention 4 to the settlement of the water $ franchise question. But certain Sjj unlookcd-for complications made I the whole situation difficult. I The State Prohibitory law had M been rigidly enforced in mo-t I parts of the State, but not in I the city.

be Continued,)