Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-22

tire Mahommedan empire, and far-oh
India, before the British lion Get his
foot there, prohibited both by law and
religion the use of all intoxicating
drinks. Even the Mormons in our own
country have successfully inhibited
the sale of all intoxicants within the
jurisdiction of the church. Shall it be
said that the half civilized govern
ments of the old world, the worship
pers of Buddha and Josh and the SUI
perstitious and lecherous Mormons in
our own country have made prohibit
ton grand success, while enlighten-
ed Christian America is unable to en-
force such grand and philanthropic
laws. For one / am not prepared to-
make any such concession. Ibelieve
that we can and will enforce prohibi-
ton and the day is not remote when it
will be the law from Atlantic's rock
bound shore to the golden sands of the
Pacific slope, and from the Canadian
line to the sparkling waters OF the
beamy gulf.
| We have many instances in ourown
country of successful prohibition.
Vineland, in New Jersey, with its
twelve or fifteen thousand industrious
and prosperous inhabitants, is astand-
ing monument not only of the triumph
of prohibition, but of its inestimable
advantages to the social and lndustrl-
al interests of the people.
| The town of Greeley, in Colorado,
with its three or four thousand sobers,
temperate and peaceable citizens, is
another practical exhibition OF the
truth that prohibition does prohibit.
1t is the stock in trade of the rum
ties to repeat that the Maine law is a
failure, but the statement has been
proven false so many times that none
but the ignorant and unprincipled will
repeat the trite falsehood.
/ Let us hear the testimony of the
| men who live in Maine, and who have
watched the operations Of the law, and
whose opportunities for knowing as to
whether it has been failure or not
have been ample and see if they pro-
nounce it a failure.
i Hon. Neal Dow, the father of the
Maine law, in letter to the New York
Sun, under date of Feb. 10th, 1881.
| saws: From the day of the enactment
of the Maine law of 1851 to this day,
| no incident has occurred to justify the
declaration SO often made that it is a
failure. On the contrary, it has been,
and is now in every way a great sue
lcess.
! In April, 1868, Hon. James G..
Blaine, speaking of the prohibitory law
said: The law is now as easily enforced
as that for the prevention and punish
ment of any other and similar crimes,
and can sincerely affirm that it is a
success.
One more witness must suffice, al
though we have many more. Under
| the date of August Sd, 1880, Judge
Joshua Nye, one of the ablest jurists
Ill JllS Stllc Vi udillC. ottiN- hes'N AAO
doubt that in three fourths of the
towns in the state no liquor is sold
| All political parties acquiesce in the
law. Weknow so well here the bene-
fit of the law and of its almost entire
success that it seems like a joke to us
when we hear of its being said in dis
tant states that it is failure. We
know better.
i There we have not only the opinions
lof eminent men thoroughly qualified
to speak, but the deliberate utterances
iof state organizations, both declaring
prohibition triumph. How can men
protesting to be honest deny the prac-
ticability of prohibition in the face of
such high authority as the foregoing !?
| Until the enemies of prohibition can
show that it is wrong in principle to
prohibit the manufacture and sale OF
ardent spirits, and that such laws can
not be made operative, we shall settle
down to the pleasing conviction that
| we vet hold the fort.
T. NJ. STEWART
| July 18th, 1886.