Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-11-13
INTEMPERANCE CORRECTED.

No liquor licenses have been granted in
| Potter county. Penn, since 1s6D, aud hers are
the grand eiiects: At recent term Of the
court, the district attorney informed the
court that he had no indictments to present
To the grand jury; the sheriff also stated that
| he had no criminals in the prison; the Girec-
tors Of the poor reported that they had no
one to keep at the county's charge.
Two classes of business are licensed.
One class comprises all branches of
Legitimate business. licensed merely to
secure the payment Of the taxes levied
on them. This class is left to the gen.
eral laws oftrade for their regulation;
no dancer is expc ted to arise from
increased production. The other
classe includes those branches of
business that are evil in their incep-
ton and wrong in practice, such as
the sale OF intoxicants as beverage,
or keeping houses Of Ill fame. These
depend for their success upon the evil
propensites of corrupt men and wo-
men; and quickly work out most disas-
trous results both to the individual
and the community. These arr liCen-
sed with view to their restraint and
control as well as for revenue. Logi-
cally then all this class is under ban of
public opinion and also of law when
ever licensed. Therefore the sale of
intoxicating liquors as beverage is
already interdicted by prohibitory en-
actments, and only needs courage
Gus and consistent public sentiment to
practically prohibit this most destruct-
i've business of the whole world.
The clipping at the head Of this ar
.ticic gives US the economic result of
prohibition in one county, at the end
Of twenty years. No indictments, no
criminals, and no poor to be kept at
the public expense. Add TO this the
wealth produced by that per cent. OF
the population which even under the
= legal restraints of the license system
; would have been rendered indolent,
criminal and pauperized; add also the
costs oflegal prosecution, and the val
lie Of the grain for food that would
have been destroyed to produce the
liquors to supply those who would
have been customers at the bar. and
you begin to get an idea Of the money
value of strict prohibition. Now then,
a community of Atheists with no high
er sense o obligation than that which
is based upon utility would certainly
feel themselves not only justified in
destroying the traffic in intoxicants as
a beverage, but obliged thereto by the
highest reasons recognized by Il EN-,
self protection. While christian men
who love God and their fellow men as
brethren of common family, will be
moved by the highest reasons of the
moral judgment to consistently oppose
and work for the suppression of this
DESTROYER of manhood, and blight o.
society. What has been done in one
: county can be done in the entire ma
ton. But time is an element not to be
= overlooked. Potter county was &c
: years consistently laboring for the
: grand result attained. 1t takes time
to unite the forces that favor prohibi
ton. 1t takes time to cure people
of the poisonous appetite that is her
: liable taint in the blood Because 0
II it doubtless there are some in Potte
county who never drank openly. seek
ing out the worm of the still in its hid
ing place, tnat they may feel the deleri
i um Of its bite; but 20 years more ma,
f eradicate even this corruption Of bloot
: where indulgence of the appetite i
If prevented. For its economic, social
o political and moral results prohibition
n is most desirable.
The democratic howl about'.the pop
u ular vote" being in favor of their can
IS didate,:: though defeated in the electora
If college, will have to cease, even allow
h ing the fictitious and the unrepresenta
Il tive majoritles sent up from the soil,
= south, and GARFIELD's MAJolTIEs foo
q up over one hundred thousand nor
e than those given HANCOCK. Nor
e complete returns. 1t is believed, wi
n swell the Republican column, so that
i, Will exceed the Democratic over tw
', hundred thousand. When the hun
d dreds Of thousands of disfranchise,
= Republicans in the south are taken int
d account, it is easy to see how ovelwheI
h mingly in favor of liberty and righ
: are the American people.-Inter
i Ocean.
e a dispatch from New York to tn
q local Democratic organ Chicago says
Is ManyDemocrats are throwing muc