1.  Thus far these law-breaking liquor dealers have acted, in carrying on their business, under the shadow and protection of law.  This protection is now withdrawn.

2.  The government has hitherto been in partnership with liquor dealers in the infamous business of making drunkards.  This partnership is now dissolved.

3.  The appetite for strong drink is not a natural appetite.  It is an appetite artificially created in children, boys and young men.  It is not for the public welfare that it should be created at all.  The scheme and plan of the popular saloon is to create this appetite, and to strengthen and foster it after it is created.

The whole business of the saloon looks in this direction.  To this end are its flashing lights, its glittering decanters, its rainbow tints, its jolly good fellowship and boon companionship, and the bonhomie of the portly saloonkeeper.  All these, in the purpose and intent for which they exist, mean the death of the body and the soul of the man that enters these gates that lead down to hell.  The saloon is a serpent, with the serpent’s fascinating beauty and power to charm, but with the serpent’s deadly bite.  “At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.”  Kansas has wisely ordained that it will not maintain by the public authority and at the public expense poisonous serpents to sting the people to death,

4.  Men object:  “The selling of liquor will go on, but you will drive the business into dark places and into the hands of disreputable men.”  To this temperance men reply:  “That is just what we want.  We wish to take away every vestige of respectability from the man that sells liquor.  We intend that it shall be sold—­if it must be sold at all—­in dark cellars and in back alleys, and that the men that sell liquor shall take rank among the law-breaking and dangerous classes of society,”

5.  The one potent charm and omnipotent argument that has served as a gift to blind the eyes and an opiate to lull to sleep the consciences of the municipal authorities of our cities has been the revenue they have derived from liquor license laws.  For example, the city of Atchison has derived from this source a revenue of $10,000.  This revenue was paid not alone by her own citizens, but by all men who were drawn to the city for purposes of business or pleasure and who could be induced to patronize the saloons.  And this has been a perpetual menace to the safety of families living in the country who did business in the city.  This revenue is gone.  It is hopelessly and irrecoverably dried up.  The Missouri river will turn and flow backward towards its source before this revenue, which is the price of blood, like the thirty pieces of silver for which Judas sold his Master, will ever come back again.  After Jesus had cast a legion of demons out of the demoniac that dwelt among the tombs, this man was far more impressible with regard to motives addressed to his better nature than while he was possessed by these demons; so we may charitably hope that now, after ten thousand evil demons have been cast out of the hearts of the mayor and common council of the city of Atchison, these dignitaries will be more impressible with regard to motives of morality, humanity, and of the public welfare.