Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-19

pockets, handbag and trunk. We may be sure
that the brains and enterprise of that State
Is going to get out. and the brains and enter
prise from other States will decline to come
in. We have an instance of this in our own
town-a citizen is disgusted with this reform
policy inaugurated by a certain class Of re-
formers within the last year-he gathers up a
few dollars, goes West, launches out in busi-
ness, comes back in few months and in
vests his money in a business block, refits it
up to the envy Of all his neighbors.
A few years or months ago this town was
the resort of all the young people from neigh
boring towns on Sunday. Where are they
now? Ask these would be reformers, who
are never 30 happy as when they are certain
they have made somebody else miserable.
This Picayune policy in business, religion
and politics, is the death of any town or
State. Social and business liberty builds up
State, and any other policy drives its best
blood from its coast and repels settlers
from abroad. The sbsurdity of this New
England legislation is shown by cases cited
by the Boston Herald, where u man was ar
ra:Rned for non support of his wife and
child. The lazy reprobate would, under a
reasonable state of affairs, be set to work and
compelled to do 30; the law, on the contrary,
comes in and fines him twenty dollars and
costs, which probably his industrious wife
will pay-if there is the usual infatuation
that is seen among hard working women for
this class of scamps, and then to complete
the grand farce the fellow is shut up for six
months, where If he had all the dispositions
to amend in the world, he can not do any
thing for the support of his family.
The Massachusetts law is stupid enough,
but it does not compare with the legislation
in some of the other States where prohibi-
tion has full swing. In those states the local
prosecuting officer prosecutes poor wretch
who has sold glass of liquor or two from q
bottle, if convicted, and the man cannot pay
his fine, why he goes to Jail, his wife and
children lacking support, 60 to the poor
house. The State does not get a cent and
has to pay the prosecuting officer his fee in
addition to the expenses of the trial and no,
a single drop less of liquor is consumed. OF
course since the State pays the bill every i'm,
| pecunious officer prosecutes right and left
because it feathers his soiled nest. Then ther,
is the culminative sentence that is fol
number of offences. 30 that women hal
to be sentenced 81 years imprisonment
| for selling liquor, and that women was only
relieved by the pardon of the Governor. NJ
wonder people are trying to get out of thest
States and go west or some other sea port il
search of fresh air and social freedom.
A somewhat similar case happened in thii
town some time last fall. A well-to-do farm
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farm produce. Taking a few drops tot
much Cor man in his physical condition
being afflicted with an affection of the blad
der and kidneys, in trying to answer the call
of nature, is arrested and flung into the cor
poration lookup and let out in few hours OF
making deposit in cash for his appearance,
on the next Monday. This man, tax .paye
and always has been rated a good citizen, ant
is only one of the many cases of arbitrar!
arrests of an every day occurrence in differ
ent parts of the country, this making an or
dinary marshal or his deputy or police Office
a Judge of a citizens mental or physical con
dition is something new, or would be to tn
founder of what used to be called constitu
tional government.
These facts ought to make Oregon an,
some other Western States appreciate what
frightful, social, and civic calamity they ca
capped, when in November, 1887, they vote
down prohibition. Nothing to-day wins pee
pie to the Pacific coast more effectually tina
the fact that they have escaped the straight
jackets of New England and the middl
State cranks. Who are never so happy d
when crapming their dogmas and religio
down somebody elses throat.
Il o. THOMPSON.