Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1889-09-20

mont Ii has not succeeded in llc large /
cities of Name. 1t has been once tried in !
Massachusetts, and igUomiuluu-ly failed. /
Ii is, according To all accounts, "A failure |
in Rhode Island And the law has re.
Gently been repealed by vote of the pco. 4
pie Of that state, ED. RECORD 1t is I
almost certain that it would fail III the !
mining and manufacturing cities of ,
IcnnSyivnni@. Al the recon, election III
the X ystone stnte ppohlbItnn was de /
featcl ny nearly wo hundred Thousand |
majoIily--Ep RECORD In Ohio II sim !
liar provision in the constitution, prohlb- (
iting license, gave over the state for years
to free liquor and made Cincinnati by
word and II rcploach. Is il wise for tenn
pcrunce men. WHO desire TO abolish thr
saloon altogether if they can, and TO rc-
strict it where abolition is Impossible IT,
incorporate in the constitution Of ia"
state so doubtful All experiment? We
can give put one answer To that question:
An answe, in the negative.
Providence journal Rcp) The com
mnnity of Rhode Island is much NOR
concerned with the question of prob b.
ton itself than with the doings OF til"
prohibition party, and it is very gray
and serious matter indeed The state no"
- practically III n condition where rum i
sold openly and without restraint whcr
ever there is market for it. A consti,n
| tional law forbds It's manufacture ana
sale, and there never was a time when !.
was manufactured and sold to such an
extent. Saloons have multiplied anp
manufactures have been enlarged and
the traffic goes on without restraint and
| mithuul revenue to the state, who's.
finances are already crippled by the los,
Of income from it. More than this is tho
effect Of wholesale violation Of law upon
the community. and the contempt for the
system by which society governs and re
strains itself. Such a condition Of things
must he OF very grave consideration Ia
| every good citizen, and it is no wonder
that various movements have been made
aud various organizations begun to crys.
tallizc public sentiment into some folm
of practical action.
| Washington Post Dem J: The prohibi
tIoniSts set themselves up as regulators o.
the personal tastes of the ciliZ and de-
clare that if they can prevent II no per.
son shall ever have the opportunity al
home or abroad, in public or in private,
alone or in company. ut his own house ur
in any public plnca, anywhere or AT any
time, to take Il drink Of whisky, or vine
OF beer, or even hard cider. These p2o-
pie should be the last to complain Of tn
principle and practice Of the boycott.
| II
| we are against DOth.
San Francisco Chronicle Rcp): 1t j.
the habit Of the emotional politicians in
pctticOats and those who do not bui
ought to wear those garments, to ussal ns
enemies Of Temperance those who are op
posed to prohibtory legislation. In thi.
they make one Of their many mistakes
An overwhelming ma joriIy of the advu
Gates of temperance. including mnnl
thousands of total ubslaincrs, are opposed
to what these fanu,lcal people are trying
to fastcn upon the country.
Philadelphia Record There is muc!
talk on the part Of people with fecbh
memories, or who possess limited infnl
nation, in regard to the prodigiuH,
strides which the cause of prohibition l.
making in this county. The fact is thai
prohibition was far stronger thirty Years
ago than it is now, and was in practica
operation in more states then than now.
Lcavenworth (KaMsAs) Times Rep }:
Kansans have II knowledge of the work
ings Of these laws that comes only by cx-
pcrlcnce and kansans who are cOnscrva
tive thinkers and close observers are
ready to admit that so far as results ar,
concerned, probbitory laws are failures
in communities where public sentiment Is
! opposed to the prohibItory idea.
Christian Unicn: When ministers I'm
. deriakc to frame laws for the protection
of society by their sermons, and leave tn,
secret sin alone, and when legislators un
dcrtake TO frame laws. not for the protcc.
lion OF society, but for the cure of tb,
SIN when, in other words, statutes anG
sermons change places--thc result is both
poor law and II poor sermon.
Orthodox Journal (ReligiOus): Prohibit
. tion is a grievous mistake in moral phi
losophy. an act Of dcspotisIn in CIVIL gov.
:, crnmcnt, and an open declaration of inf
} deity in the truth and wisdom Of the Bl
bic. Viewed in its true character it Is nc
wonder that none but the uncIviliZed anC
heather nations OF earth have ever sue
cessfully attempted to enforce it.
Atlanta Daily Capital: AS a prohibition
paper that has fought for that side be
, cause we believed that the people of At
, lanta had the nerve to carry it ont, anL
that If properly carried out it would
prove a blessing, we now feel it our duty
after few months trial, to pronounce it
to all appearances, dead failure in At.
lanta.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette (Rep.)
A proh!biiory amendment in the consti.
tuition of Ohio would mean free whisky
in Cincinnati and many other evil
equally fragrant
Atlanta Constitution, Nov. 81, 1887
There are as twice as many houses vacan'
tO-day, under prohibition, as there wcr,
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