Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-07-03

personal rights can. be violated will
impunity, then the rights of all th
lpeople can be violated with impunity
The greatest "pubiic good" that AM
government is capable of, is to secur,
to each and every Individual the full
and free enjoyment of all his natura
rights OF person and property.
WHAT LAW CAN DO.
The sale to child, to man who is
drunk, to sot, or to person who is
dangerous when under the influence OF
drink, is crime. The sale to a man
| who is insane, or non conapos aaentis.
is u crime. A determined prosecution
OF these offences would overwhelm the
whole horde of liquor-seilers.
But prohibitionists miss their great
opportunity, in not prosecuting adul-
teratlons, An adulteration Is fraud,
and fraud is always a crime. Off,
GERS can go anywhere in search of a
fraud, and in this movement the drink
ers themselves would cheer on the at
TACK. A vigorous prosecution of adul-
terations would give such blow TO the
ilquor traffic in year, as it will never
get from the present methods of pro-
hibition.
In another paper I will show that
there is not an essential point of pro-
hlbition in which it is like the law
against the sale of certain drugs, gum
powder, or obscene literature, all of
which laws are wise and just.
WHAT MORAL FORCES CANDo.
"fhen" exclaims the prohibitionist,
must we lie helpless on our backs
while millions of our felloW-men 90
down to perdition?"
A man who can ask this question in
full view of that magnificent revolution
known as Washingtonianism and that
amazing outburst, the Woman's Cru
sade-a man who, in view of these |
hints of the overwhelming power of [
moral forces, will say that if he cannot |
have the constable to help him cure
his neighbor's vices, that he must lie |
helpless on his back, and see them gol
down to perdition, is queer being and
a sorry sort of Christian.
Perhaps the task on which I have
entered is a hopeless one. I presented
these views to an audience OF. .clegymen
IN Boston. I urged, as best could, i
That prohibition was fatal mistake.
Immediately some one boldly declared
mat had gone over to the rum party.
In self-defence, mentioned fact-l'
we'll known to many of them-that the
Bellevue Hotel of that city, which I
lou ouiI1 auu oWucu iOT years, was AT
irst rented on long lease at twelve
dollars year with abundant1
'ecurity; that my lessee had introduc- ,
"a liquors in violation of agreement !,
hat had taken it from him and rent
ID it for six thousand dollars; that up
o the time was speaking to them / &
lad sacrificed more than forty thou t
and dollars in rental to keep out Ii
larger sacrifice than :
lad been made by my entire audience.
Nevertheless, as soon as had left J
he room, they passed resolution that /
hey 'deeply regretted that Dio Lewis
ad abandoned the cause of temper
nee, and gone over to the rum party I
ns 1en f perhaps nol j. % I sWest fe,'aa as
yould suffer as much as = . s.ses. y
lg issue with the great army OF good
,0men in the Women's Temperance
Tnion. III
I am an old man, but l expect TO
i've long enough to see the frienns OF
nmperance turn their backs upon the
onsta BILE, join hands and hearts in a
rand movement combining the Iac- 1
les of Washingtonianism and tle Wo-
nen's Crusade, and within tweive
nonths fill the most wonderful pageh
he history of Christian civilization.