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Enforce the statute and thousands of officials in Kansas would soon
be behind prison bars. When the officiary administrative of any government
become corrupt, it is on the highway to disruption and ruin. Greece
and Rome are notable examples. The sworn government report is
that nearly eighteen gallons of liquor to every man, woman and child, is
consumed by Uncle Sam's subjects every twelve months. This republic
cannot long survive half sober and half drunk. The immortal Abraham
Lincoln in a speech at Springfield, Ill., Feb. 22nd, 1842 said: "Turn now
to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage
broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed--in it, more
of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged. By it, no
orphans starving, no widows weeping; by it, none wounded in feeling,
none injured in interest. And what a noble ally this to the cause of political
freedom! With such an aid, its march cannot fail to be on and on,
until every son of earth shall drink in rich fruition the sorrow-quenching
draughts of perfect liberty! And when the victory shall be complete--
when there shall be neither a slave nor a drunkard on the earth--how
proud the title of that LAND which may truly claim to be the birthplace of
and the cradle of both those revolutions that shall have ended in that
victory! How nobly distinguished that people who shall have planted
and nurtured to maturity both the political and moral freedom of their
species!"
William Windom, when Secretary of the U.
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