Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-04-04

TEMPERANCE COLUMN
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License or 10 License.

License sr no License.
MI. Editor: I was glad to see
your position in last weeks issue
on the subject Of license. / like it
and think with you, that most Of
our citizens are Of your mind. Your
editorial recalled the following ex-
tract from 4 late lecture given in
Exter Hall London:
The liqm,r-licensing systems Of
our own day remind me OF a little
story about hydropholia legisla-
tion. When it was first found out
IN d certain town that dogs could
get mad, and that just then there
was one in their midst, oil the wise
men gathered together and debated
for a long time. Meanwhile the
mad dog bit people and other dogs
and people were falling victims to
the terrible madness. After a while
the wise men come across 4 law in
some OF their court books which de-
clared that a rabid dog must have
his tail cut of. The wise men laid
their discovery before the towns
people, who wagged their heads
angrily and cried out, "What's the
use Of cutting off the dogs tail? He
doesn't bite with his tall"
The wise men admitted this re-
monstrancc was reasonable, but as
the law didn't say anything fur
Their, the dogs whether tailed or cur
tailed must needs 60 on biting. But
at last a Daniel came to judgement
in the person Of a rebellious towns
man. 1--WE cannot stand any longer
said he." Evidently the law Gays
no more than the dogs tail should
be cut off, I propose that it be cut
off just behind his ears!" Now we
are
TROUBLED WITH MAD DOGS
in our day, and last year for fear
that some one should be bitten all
the dogs throughout the great city
| Of London were muzzled, and those
who were cnught unmuzzled we're
put to death. When hydophobia
was ringing in New York the press
took it up. Said the Mail and Ex-
press,"If tho mad-dog epidemic con-
tinues long in this and adjoining
cities the dogs will have to go. Bet
ter that all the dogs in this city be
killed than that one human being
should die from the bile Of a mad
dog Said the New York Hefuh ID:
Men, women and children are
our first care, and what ever sacrifice
Of animals is necessary to the hn.
man welfare should be made with
out a second thought" SufferiHgs
and death from hydrophobia are
terrible, but, they cannot be any
worse than those from dc3irium ire
mens and while death from the bite
Of a mad-dog does not cut a person
off from heavenly Inheritance, we
are distinctly told that death
from drunkenness does If then it
would be right to sacrifice all dogs
rather than that only one human
life be lost through hyrophobia,
how much, how infinitely much
more it is our duty to sacrifice all
tue drink, lest even only n soul
be damned!
Hydrophobia is raging in our
midst. The dogs that have infect
ed US with it are the liquor-shops.
The great drink bitten masses of
people are suffering from it and
from diseased aversion it causes to
the very thing which alone can
cure it-pure, clear, sparkling, in
MIGRATING, life sustaining. youth re-
newing water. The hydrophobic
fume and foam rapidly against Pro-
hibition, and all their protests are
tainted with the mental ard moral
virus which springs from their mad
ness. The mad dog must be
killed, their tails must be cut of
just behind their ears. The liquor
producing establishments must be
abolished. Now how can this be
done2 We have seer that the
power Of the traffic centers in its Ii
cense. We must withdraw the Ii.
cense prohibit the manufacture,
handling md use.