Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-10

civilization refinement and home life us moth
ing when compared with dollars and cents.
Hence everything has to be put into 81 basket
1 bidder, and from that sale the value is to be
/ known. With these mon it is nothing if SIS per
cent OF the insane are the result of the drink
! traffic. no matter ii seveI-tentls of all the
criminnlity OF the land is caused by this bust
! ness. Ii it can give dollars and cents, then it
is to be desired. The use OF common sense
says 1t is impossible for the liquor business to
| increase the wealth OF State If the State
made the s2S,00000O worth of liquors it has
| used in single year, and then drank it, how
! much would have been ghined by the industry?
The use of the liquors has been of no value;
| 1t has Increased court expenses made many
men idle, committed many blunders in bust
ness and the whole lossbs not less than $50
| otO,ODo, and not one cehtin gain. Buttthen
many of the people of the State said to be
moving out Of it on account of prohibition.
| We have lost most of our saloonkeepers and
brewers; We have lost few drunken sots.
| Rlacklegs and pickpockets are becoming dis
gusted with Iowa and hunting u more con-
genial home, and the wall comes up from the
lovers of rum. but the decent people of the
State do not lament. We willing to part
company with the rum-dealer and all his SYM
pathizers, and would be vastly richer after tho
separation than before. But while. we have
sent awGya few hundreds of this kind, it is
fair to say that many good peopla have come
to our State because Of prohibition.
A few months ago there were many false
hoods made respecting the damaging effects OF
prohibition in this county tPolk, that COM
mittee of fourteen of our most reliable citizens
was appointed I'd Take the matter under DuSiSe-
1nent and report. 1t has been claimed by the
opposition that there We're several thousand
men who had gone elsewhere because of the
prohibitory law: that business was at u stand
still, and everything was on the verge Of ruin
because the saloons had been shut up. The re-
port of these representative men of our city is
long, and l can find room but for II single
quotation
DESPITE the continued crop failures. aud not
understanding the emigration to Kansas another
prohibition Statel. California and elsewhere,
| III search of cheaper lands or miller climate,
onr city has enjoyed u healthy aud gratifying
growth The deposits III the savings banks are
here worthy OF note, We give them:
-.prii o. 1872 -
Aprii . 1888: 391 ,2ll.57
April a. 1855. SIT S6992
May $, 1856. 733,92917
May lS 1851 ou3, O51
We have not been able to learn of single
desirable citizen who has left our city because
good name the city sustains for temperance,
morality, and intelligence is doing much to
draw most desirable class OF citizens, who
come here to rear and educate their children in
IL prohibition town The present year has wit
! messed the establishment of large carriage
and wagon nunufactory, capable OF employing
12' OF more mem the Introduction of another
starch factory, the constructions OF of the
largest elevators in tile West, the erection of q
| magnificent hotel and the building OF o superb
editlce by strong financial institution. In adj
diton, there have been erected in the city and
its suburbs some twenty five blocks for bust
ness, besides $50 dwelling houses 1t has been
found necessary to provide increased school ac-
Communications. Within the past two years
| fifteen additional school-rooms hnve been
opened in the city, eight last year and seven
this, an increase of some u per cent in the
two years. In addition, there have been
openod in the same time some eight OF ten adj
ditonnl rooms i'll the suburbs Immediately I'D
Joining the city.
Iknow that i'll the city OF Des N1oines the
number of INDECENT persons has decreased one
half since the coming CT prohibition. In many
quarters whore our charity committees nave
been obliged to render aid for suffering women
and children there is now need OF help.
The money that used to go into the tills OF
saloon-keepers goes to the grocers and
clothing houses for the things that are needed
ut home And, Notwithstanding the stiffness in
money matters. because of the protracted
drought there is less poverty here than the
place has ever known before On this subject
L wish to bear personul testimony for the dis
charge of my duties have qualified me TO know
and testify.
But what do we yet neci for tho realization
of the best possible results of prohibition? L
must number these for the sake OF clearness:
/. Loyalty among our people. Anarchy is
ruin to civilization and all the protection that
helpless Innocence demands The no-Godism
and no-lawisn is with the saloon element
And the whole of it as much opposed to virtue
and the punishn OF vice as against prohibit
ton respecting the traffic i'll liquors. The
question bids fair to become one of brutality
versus humanity. Let our people know that
law is made to be observed. and they must
obey it's demands or emigrate, and We will
have made splendid progress all along the line.
| .. If it is possible perjury must be properly
punished till witnesses on the stand. jurors in
| the box and JUICES on the bench will deal hon
estly and fSirly with the question of the hour.
B. The penalties for the violations of law need
to be increased.
L. Our pharmacy law is very imperfect. We
have 800 druggists i'll the State, and many of
them have been doing semi-saloon business.
This Gun be stopped, and it will be in the COM
ing Legislature
S. Perfect prohibition is not expected till the
government whole shall indorse it and we
shall have political party III power pledged to
it's Endorsement.
g. To accomplish these things it will be nee
essary for every man who iayors law and order
to cease supporting rum men and rum PARTIES.
ID. r. DUNCAN.