Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03
ALL IS SERENE IN IOWA.
Prohibition Sentiment Is Invincible and
the Law Is Invulnerable- The Rum
mics in Tight Quarters,
[Des Moines cor. of the Voice.

The liquor men of Iowa never were in SO
tight place as now, and with the cool inn
pudence that they have been pleased to
assume whenever very hard pressed, thew
are causing dispatches to be sent out over
the country claiming that tie saloons are
again getting the upper hand, and are
about to wipe out Prohibition at one fell
blow. The dispatch from Council Bluffs
to the New York Tribune, asserting that
the Clark prohibitory law is in serious dan
ger Of repeal, because it is "odious," was
evidently inspired by the liquor ring and
not by the facts.
OF course, the usual desperate efforts
will be made by the rum party to induce
the coming Legislature to repeal the Clark
law. A few Republicans who have joined
will fail. Prohibition has never been SO
powerfully intrenched in this State.
The decision OF the United States Su-
preme Court was hailed with joy by all
friends of law and order, strengthening
their hands while carrying dismay and ut
ter encouragement into the ranks of tho
saloonists, distillers, and brewers. Brew
cries and distilleries are suspending opera
tions and removing their plants to other
States. High-license Nebraska is the
chosen place of refuge of many Of the ex-
lies. Petitions are being circulated in
many localities asking the State to reim-
burse the brewers. This loon will not be
granted by Legislature strongly for pro-
hibition to men who have for years persist
emily defied the law, and who have MUIR
dered Or. Haddock and others who sought
to enforce the law.
BY the use of money provided in i'm
mense quantities by liquor dealers and or
CARNATIONS, mostly outside the State, and
the consequent subornng Of witnesses and
other methods, John Arensdorf was ac-
quilted. But he will carry the mark of
Cain as long as he lives, for there is little
doubt in the minds of the people that he
was fairly shown to be guilty of the MUIR
der of Haddock.
Judge Shiras of the United States Dis
trict Court has remanded all the brewery
and saloon cases before him to the State
Courts. This renders the enforcement of
the prohibitory law a comparatively easy
matter, for it means that it such cases are
hereafter taken to the Federal Courts they
Will be at once remanded, and thus final
judgment will not be delayed by appeals.
1t is generally conceded that large ma
jority of members of the Legislature are
pledged to 80 amend the prohibitory law
as to make enforcement possible in every
part of the State. Temperance workers
from different parts of Iowa are in session
to-day to agree upon the amendments
needed. A demand will be made for the
repeal of the odious pharmacy law of two
years ago, under which many drug stores
have become saloons. There is some
division of opinion as to the kind of law
that should be passed to provide for the
sale of liquors for the excepted purposes.
Some favor placing the business in the
hands of County or Town Agents, and this
seems to have the most support; others
favor authorizing the sale by few drug
gists, under proper restrictions.