Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-10-24
Candidate Boles on the Stump.

course and license upon the traffic In
liquors.
Speaking in an agreeable tone and
suave manner, without attempt at ora
tory he introduced his remarks with
pleasing fiction to the effect that wheth-
er his candidacy should prove successful
or not he would remember it with sat
isfaction because of the opportunity it
had given him of seeing his state and
meeting its people. Launching abrupt
ly into presentation of the free trade
theory he fiOundered hopelessly, with
only the evident object of establishing
his sympathy with the democratic party, |
but apparently without faith and with
very limited knowledge. OF course he
attributed the present reduced prices Of
farm products to the protective tariff, |
a conclusion which is unreasonable and
unjust, and which the speaker could not
account for. He did not give our coun-
try and its people credit for over pro-
duction, nor did he claim that the mar
ket is restricted. The simple surplus
which our country has produced is for
sale and the buyer for the foreign mar
ket, of whom Mr.. Boies prated so vol
ubly, may now step in and pay all that
fruitful" market can afford. Mr.. Boies
absolutely killed his argument for the
foreign market when he said that the
home market is controlled by it; that
the home buyer gauges his price by
what the buyer for the foreign market
can pay. He did not antagonize the re-
publican argument that protective
tariff improves the condition of labor
and promotes profitable employment
and trade between American agricul-
ture and industries. Indeed he talked
so awkwardly and specifically that one
may well doubt the sincerity of his po-
sition on the vital principle of the
democratic party.
The work of the republican party in
legislating for the control of corpora
tions was thoroughly approved by the
speaker. 1t was explained that the rail-
way commission is simply the agent Of
the people to negotiate with the railway
managers; that the people have been
greatly benefited thereby and that it is
the settled policy of the state. Mr..
Boies did not state that 1t was all the
work of the republican party, but we
take the liberty of suggesting the fact
as foot note.
The Australian ballot system was ex
haustiveiy explained, but as the repub-
lican party has made much of this the
law of the state and as the democratic
convention approved it in resolution,
it can hardly be considered an issue be-
tween the parties. The glazing truth is
that the democrats are practically OPP
posed to ballot reform, and that in DEM
Ocratic precincts the need for such re-
formation is most urgent.
The manner of controlling the liquor
traffic Is regarded by Mr.. Boies as the
| IIOol looliS III tllS
this year. He referred with evident
pride to the fact that he was republi-
can until the prohibitOry law was passed
in Iowa. When that law deprecated
the value of breWeries and buildings so
used in one way or another he became
a democrat, because he believed it to be
unjust to declare the traffic illegal with
out reimbursing the owners for proper
ty deprecated. Later in his speech he
stated positively and emphatically his
belief that had the brewers losses been
made good the law could and would
have been enforced. Boies is in favor
of the establishment of the saloon
under the license system, under ''police
surveillance" to regulate and control
those who sell. According to Mr.. Boies'
plan those entrusted with its sale should
observe certain hours, should not sell to
minors or habitual drunkards, etc, etc.
According, however TO The condition
which MI. Boies alleged with regard to
the present sale of liquors the brewers
and distillers have nothing to complain
of, neither is any one athirst He says
that in the larger cities of Iowa it is
sold openly or on the sly while in in
terror towns it may be had by filling out
a prescription. The plan of licensing
the sale in municipalities where public
sentiment approves it and prohibition
where it may be desired by majority
of the people is unqualifedly favored by
Boies and his party. Altogether the
; plan is very comprehensive. 1t favor'
in fact the establishment of a saloor
wherever a foot of land can be fount
for it. License in communities which
desire it; a violation of law in commu
, mites which will not grant a license
l Mr. Boies regards prohibition as an in
vasion of personal rights. Restriction
of it's sale, whereby any individual wa
deprived of his beverage, would be onl
in slight degree lesser evil. Itmay b
1 concluded that he only favors licens
# because it is less restriction than pre-
Y, hibition; and that if the license syster
IS were once established he would be q
is enthusiastic for reducing the license a
'e he is now to annihilate prohibition.
D. Altogether Mr.. Boies disappointe
II his audience. In all of the question
p but that of the license plank he SCENE
'e but little interested, and would willin
ly have ignored them. He evident
stands pledged to alleviate, mitiga
and avenge the wrongs of the liquor i
terests, and from his earnest pleading
c. for the reimbursement of brewers,
le might be easily inferred that such pro
y, erty was either in the remote or imm
It date possession of his family.