Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-09-30

Joltlly and d.faafiy ! because we be
l,leve that under license law Their
will be less lying. VIII The speake'
lie more truthful under license law?
rriury, stealing and all kinds OF i'm
morality.
| What il the position OF the opposi
tion party? At their convention n
| De- Moines they debated the sns5ec'
for four long hours, and then tabled
the whole matter. This was COW.
Iardly. Go 10 Knoxville, that tenn
perance town, and you will find two
-als,ou- east Of town. And the boys
sneak around through tire back allryr
In yj-t; these saloons and carou.e
around at the hour OF midnight.
| This il certainly not very high
compliment for Mr.. Elliott To pay
the young men Of Knoxville IN his
speeel,ps alI over the county. Let
him say this in u speech at KNOX
Vile. and let our young men hear II
from his own lips, and see how many
of their votes he will gain by IL. The
young men and boys Of Knoxville
are AZ Il class ~ sober and orderly a.
those OF any town In Iowa, AMI II IL
cowardly and ungenerous in Mr.. FL
lott 10 throw them all In a lump aud
LAY such unjust things OF them away
from home. The carousing in and In
front of the Democrat office short
time since, over keg Of beer rolled
out OF that office, could hardly be
said To have been in the back alleys.
III we had licensed saloons within
the limits Of the city, within the
Jurisdiction OF the police force. the
boys would be In their homes at
night. In PelIa, where the beer
saloons are licensed, aud under the
noses OF the police force, they have
carousing in a tenfold greater de-
gree. The carousing and disturb
apces here are In the city as much as
they would be II the saloons were In
the city instead Of outside.
One drug store In Pella, land this
drug store IL licensed ss shown by
reports In the Auditors Office, sold
eg7 gallons Of whiskey In one month.
for medical purposes; and most OF
this was sold to fictitious persons.
The record shows on every page the
same names--Sam Jones, Jim Brown
and Tom Hill. And that Is the
way license operates as temperance
measure, Is II?
The speaker here said he was cred
IDLY Informed that Mr.. Lafferty,
Prosecuting Attorney for this Dis
trict, during the recent term OF the
District Court at Knoxville, spent
most of his time urging the Grand
Jury to find indictments against vio-
lst0rs Of the liquor law. "You re-
member, gentlemen" said he, "that
he gets fee Of $20 for every ease he
tries under indictments found"
Not true, Mr.. Elliott. We have In
auired Of several members Of that
Grand Jury, and they testify that
Mr.. Lstferty was not In the jury
room more than three or 6ur times,
and then only for few minutes,
and only when hs was called In by
the Jury or was ordered by the court
to go. The statement that the Pros
eculing Attorney receives go for
each ease tried, the speaker, being a
lawyer, ought to know IN untrue.
The fee IL only SO instead OF $40, as
the gentleman may see by reference
10 the Code, See. 3775. How much
credit Is due the statements OF a
speaker who thus willfully misrep-
rcsents? ooh! what a tangled web
wo weave when first we practice to
decicveN'
When Mr.. Laiferty got to Pella on
his way home, the speaker again
said he was credibly informed he
got so drunk he had 10 be taken
from the table and put 10 bed. We
cannot deny this lust charge against
Mr.. Laiferty, ~ we know not
whether Ii Is true or false. We
never heard of il until we heard II
from the lips OF this young Demos.
themes against whom we have al
ready clearly proven so many false
statements. We can do no better
than apply the well established rule
OF law rs to evidence, "fuisus ia
mo, .fdisas ia on,ni6us'--"fal-e In
one thing, false in everything"
Prohibition Is failure. Shall IL
be kept up? Statistics show that In
the cities and towns where saloons
are not licensed these are more
drunken men than In those places
where they are licensed. Take it
rr0und here and see how il II.