The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-11-15
BY G. &. TlNAN,

ne causes leading to the defeat
OF the Republican party in Iowa are
not difficult to find. The revolt Of
the Farmers Alliance against the al.
legged railroad record Of Hutchinson
cut no small figure in the result, the
tariff was an important factor, and
chief Of all was prohibition. Else.
where in to.day's GRAPHIC will be.
fonnd somewhat lengthy history of
the workings of prohibition in that
state. Too lengthy, perhaps, but we
have given space to it in that 1t can
be relied on as being as reliable and
Trustworthy information as is possible
to obtain in these days. No news.
paper publisheiemploys more reliable
news service than the New York Sun.
The narrative as toldb by the Sun cor.
respondent is interesting and instruc-
tive in the extreme. A perusal of 1t
will fully corroborate what the
GRAPHIC has 81 often maintained:
that prohibition was directed against
much more than the open saloon. and
once given a foot-hold there was no
knowing where it would end. It's
workings in Iowa is a very pertinent
illustration of tho Arab, his tent and
his camel. This modern camel.
aided and abetted by the Republican
party, has entered the homes Of the
people of Iowa and ueurped their
rights to An extent that has become
unbearable, and the protest which
went out from the ballot boxes on
Tuesday of last week is but the fore
runner of what is to come later on.
Prohibition in Iowa ~ dead, and be.
fore a half-ycar rolls around will he
buried IN a grave from which there
will no resurrection. There is no
question in the miAds of anyone
fully conversant with the sita4.
ton of affairs in Iowa, today, that if
the question of prohibition was sub.
mited to the people Of that state, out
side of politics aud apart from any
other question the result would be
overwhelmingly against it. The ais.
tory of Iowa will be repeated in Kan
sas and the Dakota. 1t may take
some years but it will coma-and
when it does come the people of
South Dakota will have found that
they have paid dearly Tor their bit Of
experience. Iowa never had the law
chat Dakota had for the control of
the liquor traffic. In the former
state, before the present prohibition
law, saloons were operated with little
or no license and the state was over
run with the lowest class of doggeries
running practically without restraint.
1t was not to be wondered at that
prohibition was eagerly grasped by
the people as a means of relief from
the vicious liquor traffic. But in
South Dakota it was different. The
law which the people of this state re-
pudiated at the polls last month is al
most identically the same as Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Illinois, New Hampshire, Con
nectieut and nearly a score of other
older settled states have found to be
the best that can be devised for the
purpose intended-and with most of
them, after a thorough trial of prohi.
bit;on. It would seem that the ex-
ample set forth by these great states
would not have been without its
effect and which the mere contiguity
o. one loan prohibition state would
not annul. Now that this state itself
has repudiated prohibition, South Da-
kota's folly seems all the more con
spicuous.