Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-14

iota to the sum OF human happiness
when / invite oblivion over the rim of o
glass. If one moments forgetfnlness or
lnattention to duty while drunk brings
defeat to the least OF labor's plans a
lifetime OF attention to duty alone can
repairthe loss. / promise never again
to put myself in ssch u condition.
Htevery member of the knights OF
labor would only pass a resolution To
boycott strong drink 80 far as he is con-
cerned TOR five years, and would pledge
his word to study the labor question
from its different standpoints, we would
then have an inyincible host avrayed on
the side OF Justice.
'FANATIcALa CORPORATIONS AND COM.
MsRcIAL ENTERPRISES CoMBINEn
AGAINST LfQUoR.
lntemperance 10 under the ban oil
many powerful influences. Its evil eff
fects areSdeclared in d hundred ways,
and mere and more clearly every day.
Great though the strength may be Of
the interests combined in the manufac.
ture and sale Of intoxicating liquors, it
is being undermined and broken. Selfish
- = n EhoAlOfSo z tcmpCIulC HDU
associated evils for profit, but there are
manifold greater interests endangered
BY intemperance, and these are steadily
acting for their protection and defense.
Railroads and banks and manufacturers
and telegraph companies and all the
great business and commercial interests
are not fanatical, nor called so by any.
one, but they are combined against the
results Of saloon work.
Nearly every raifroad corporation is
9 o temperance agency. They will
not permit intemperanca among engin-
ears, conductors, tra,nmen or other EN-
ployes. Masters and pilots and other
steamboat men are under similar rules
while In service; and in tho banking
business almost without exception,
while all responsible commercial, manu-
iactnrlng and large enterprises Of every
sort apply q rigid rule against intern.
perancs. The class called common
iaborers, who may #ork ia the lowest
grade of almost any business is the only
one thai is fres to any large degree from
this business law. Bot there the law
works against promotion, and no olass
suffers so much from the bad habit.
Thus all business interests recognizes
the evils Of ternpperanea through bust
moss experience. practically, and not
through mere fanatioal opinion.
The evils arc equally recognized IN the
civil service OF the nation and the state
They ere 50 bad thar Legislation and
rules against them area matter of
course. and are applied more and more
riRidly. Removal from Office or employ
inent fof intemperance is authorized BY
nearly every code of laws in the United
States. Not only this but the evil is DO
great that i large number Of the states.
and Dakota have ylaw required that
IN all the public schools the youth
shall be instructed as to the bad effects
Of alcohol upon the human systam.
This work is going on now in u
schools; and in Dakota and elsewhere
teachers have their certificates annulled
Tor intemperance. Many men who
drink, on who have done SO, are most
severe in ~denounoing the evisa of in.
temperance; would gladly ace those who
suffer from the habit reform, and above
all would q their own soma and
daughters from its bad effects. The
churches are now Happily ali fairly ia
line upon the same principle, We do
not know mn order. fraternity or brother
hood OF considerable numbers or reeate
that is not among other things sub
stantially Q temperance organization in
sonne way. The socialists are not; but the
legitimate labor organizations are, and
this is n Of the best features of recent
events. In private and public employ
mont 4hic.is now a general test, and us |
growing yearly more c.p
The effects of intemperance upon
individual and public welfare ore con-
clusiysly settlsd as bad. The studies Of
crime and poverty show il unmistake-
3 ] IIaAe laws, therefore, restrict by
penalties, bonds and other Limitations
and provisions the range Of that bad
inausnce, and more practically upon
the youth. Az to these Va now
have practical prohibitory lava; like the
best laws upon other mstters not abso-
inteiy effcotual but intended to be.
should not all right minded people.
therefore. league togsther il necessary.
20 secure the enforcement of such lawsol