Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-05-04

traffic. He who Is not against the ga
loon Is for it. Whoever feels no inter
est In a contest so mOmeRtoUs is q trail
tor to himself, his fellow men and his
God.
a business man in Sioux City, Iowa,
is credited with writing the following
to a Kansas friend: Prohibition has
virtually cooked Sioux City. Since
January nearly half a million dollars of
business formerly transacted by the
brewers and wholesale liquor merchants
has been driven out. Among the active
leaders in banking circles, who was
formerly one of Sioux City's best
friends so far as helping the general
prosperity of the city is concerned, is
the head of the leading bank. He has
openly aveTred that he is done with
Sioux City, and says: The temperance
cranks have taken the town; now. let
them run it if they wish. Business to
all appearances to a man who has been
about the world Is helplessly dead. A
number of business men are thinking
of removing their stock to some more
promising field; are looking, in fact.
toward Kansas City for location. How
does the above sound to those who
know something Of the real prosperity
of the growing young city In question
a few years ago DIR. Norman Kerr.
an eminent English physician institut-
ed an investigation for the purpose of
refuting what he supposed was a false
claim made by the temperance advO-
Gates that go, 600 drunkards die every
year in the United Kingdom" He had
not pursued the investigation very long
until hez became convinced that the
falsity of the claim was in the fact that
it was too low. His own estimate OF
the death rate Is 120, 900 annually,
40, 500 dying from their own intemper-
ance and 70, 900 from accident, violence,
poverty or disease arising from intern
perance. Taking the population of
Great Britain, France, Germany and
the United States and comparing the
annual per capita consumption of in
tOxicants, we have the following start
ling death rate from alcohol In the four
countries named: Great Britain, 120,-
600; France, 142, 900; Germany, 112,-
600; and the United States II, 000-a
grand total of 451, 600. Gladstone was
right when he said that intemperance
inflicted more injury upon the human
family than war, pestnence and
famine" combined.
Justice Harlan OF the United States
supreme court, in delivering the dis
senting opinion on the recent decision
in the Iowa prohibitory law case, on
that part of the decision which declares
that a state has power to forbid the i'm
portatiOn into it of articles which, on
,E
would bring in and spread disease, pes
thence and death, says: 1T Is admitted
that a state may prevent the introduce
tiOn within her limits of rags or other
goods infected with disease, or of cattle
or meat or other provisions which,
from their conditions, are unfit for hui
man use or consumption, because, it is
said, such articles are not merchantable
or legitimate subjects of trade and
commerce. But suppose the people Of
the state believe, upon reasonable
grounds, that the general use of intOXi-
eating liquors is dangerous to the pub
lie peace, the public health and the
public morals, what authority has
congress or the judiciary to review
their Judgment upon that subject, and
compel them to submit to q condition
of things which they regard as destruc-
tive of their happiness and the peace
and good order of society? If consist
emily with the constitution of the
United States, state can protect her
sound cattle by prohibiting altogether
the introduction within her limits of
diseased cattle, she ought not to be
deemed dislOyaI to that constitution
when she seeks by similar legislation
to protect her people and their homes
against the Introduction of articles
which are, in good faith, and not un-
reasonably, regarded by her citizens as
laden with Infection more dangerous
TO the public than diseased cattle or
than rags containing the germs of
dispuse."