Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
JOB WORK.
A Few Words on Local Option.

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A Few Words on Local Option.
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II Ed. Regfster-In your REGIsTEF
January 5th l noticed two articles in
opposition to local option. The firsI
one signed "Wets," holds up the scare
crow of increased taxes If that law is
adopted. He seems to think that there
| is but one side to that question, but let
me show him there is another phase
to be looked at. In the breast Of every
habitually sober man there dwells All
innate love of home; some spot in this
wide world that he can call home.
Now while men can swallow down all
OF their earnings in Intoxicating liquors,
the "tempter," who himself felt SO
wealthy that he could offer TO give the
whole world to the Creator of it, makes
these men feel so rich that they do not
need-a place to call home, for the whole
woAd aud the fulness thereof is theirs
already, but let us take away these
devices of the devil and men will feel
as did our first parents, when they
were turned out of the garden of Eden,
| they will feel nakedness that will
| make them bestir themselves for a
coyering-a home. If there could be
| no intoxicants procured AL men Tor
nearly SOY would go to work to pass
away time. if for no better purpose and
some money would accumulate and this
would be laid out in buying home,
and soon all of these wild lands which
are now lying idle and bringing in
nothing, and also those which arc
bringing in only trifiing revenue,
would soon be brought up for improve
ment, and then taxes would be levied
on them which would bring into the
treasury i've times the money that they
do now, and besides this many men
who now have larger farms than they
find profitable to carry on by them
selves, would sell part to some one
who had never owned farm. and so
the land would be better cultivated
and improved and thus enhance the
value aud of course heavier taxes TO be
paid upon the whole. In this way the
State and county taxes would be made
complete without destroying the souls
and bodies OF men, but by making
those men fit citizens for civilized
country and at the same time making
the desert places to bud and blossom
as the rose.
"Wets" also say "there are a large
number of people in Iron county who
would vote for local option, If they
knew they could get liquor for medical
purposes, after its adoption" I hope
they understand J. p Woods article
Immediately succeeding Vets -.
But supposing there could be no liquor
procured for any purpose whatever.
how long would IL be before something
better would be found for suhstitute.
Necessity is the mother of inventiou.n
In the meantime there would not be-
half of the deaths caused from the lack
of the Viie stuff as there has been In
the same length of time by the use of
it. Forty-five years ago the treatment
for stubborn Gu Sc of sore eyes was Ia
have quart of blood taken from the
patients arm every other day and u
blister on each wrist, and croton oil
blisters on the temples and setons in
The hack Of the neck and each arm,
also to have the face under the eyes
,upped every day to extract the blood
rom the eyes. I have witnessed this
upon girl not yet in her
teens, and experienced part of 1t my
'elf. Now. were doctor 10 use such
,reatment in these days, he would be
,stracizel and hooted at. So there UiEi
'ome time. and it is fast approaching.
when liquor will be thought no more
necessary as a restorative than a seton,
The medical fraternity have only been
what they were taught, but
hey will be taught better way in the
1ear future. Some physicians in
France, and also in the United States.
are already successfully treating all
kinds of diseases without alcoholic IL
luors. All of this talk about fanati-
.lsm is mere bosh. Who would not
ather be a fanatic than fool?
Any woman who does not think
enough for her father. brothers, hus-
oand and sons to work the best she
IAN for their temporal and spiritual
Welfare, is devoid of common sense at
east. How can any one say that local
option is political question? We
night as well say that the question Of
. Gordon around city or town or any
,ther part of the country, in time of
,holera or plague. is political ques-
ion, or the question of q quarantine is
policai question. In all such political
questions as these all right minded
people are interested regardless of par
y name. Will some one answer this
question: Why do people who pub
ish articles in opposition to local option
withhold their real names? Is it pos
ible that they are ashamed to have
heir names attached to such a cause 3,
q they espouse? M. r. SMITH.
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