Wichita Eagle

To the Editor of the EAGLE.

Were you not a little sarcastic, maybe extreme, in your editorial yesterday morning in which you alluded to the prohibitory enactment as being the only law on the Kansas statutes?

Yours,

PROHIB.

Probably. The idea we meant to convey or enforce is the fact, apparent to all, that Kansas, in her political conventions of both parties, in her legislative halls, in her executive offices, in her grand juries and in her judiciary, seems all taken up by that single law. It is the great question, and often to the exclusion of every other one, in our terms of district courts throughout the state, and in our police and justice courts. As it has been for years in the past so it will be next winter, the most of the time of the legislature will be taken up with that question. The last Republican convention reaffirmed, the last Democratic convention re-repudiated and the governor in his next message to the legislature will dwell more extensively upon it than upon any other. It is the question of the average politician and of all office seekers and not a few newspapers, and all, we believe, and we are sorry to say it, are more or less insincere; that is the majority of the men who enact the laws for the enforcement of prohibition and the officers who adjudicate and the officers who execute, are all, more or less, unsympathetic and insincere in their attitudes, votes and actions. What we tried to make plain was that for the enforcement of the prohibition law we want less resoluting, less buncombe, less law and in their stead the election of executive and law officers who will not only as a duty, but as a matter of conscience, enforce it as they would any other law.