St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-01
WOMAN ENDORSES 1T.
She Thinks the Scheffer Law Is
Right, and Thanks God She
Lives fn SEQ If

DIG Iklc SCuCutT 1ldW rs
Right, and Thanks God She
Lives to See 1t.
Special to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, June 22.-Perhaps
it is out of place for woman to touch
upon political matters, but reading COM
plants of the "Scheffer law" measure,
placing the drunkard among criminals
and Furnishing him for the offense,
as well as making extenuating
pleas for him as, being drunk,
when he committed criminal
act while nnder the influences of in
toxicants. Being drunk is the plea used
most vigorously when he is on trial for
out of his trouble with some light pun
drunk and did the same deed would
be sent to prison, and why not the
drunkard? Why make the saloon
keeper responsible for the drunk
ards criminal offense and let the
offender himself go free2 The saloon
keepers, so far as l know, do not drag
men in, but do keep iItoXlcants, and
every man that lives has right to stay
away, and never enter into saloon,
unless he feels disposed to do so. If
he has lost all manhood and made
beast of himself, why not call him
criminal and make it crime punisha-
BILE by the law of the land, just as
thief or any other criminal is made to
suffer?
No one complains of the merchant
that displays his wares that tempt the
thief to commit an Otfense against the
laws of the land. and so we do with all
criminals, and only the drunkard is held
al MI in hic no
half, and another man is made re-
sponsible for the crime. If the man
that is drunkard is not responsible
being, then place him in some asy-
lum and teach him to be a man
among men, for drunkenness is nothing
but crime against the laws of God that
read to the effect that we shall not COM
NIT murder, and we have all the COM
mandments for guide, and our Bible
tells us that we have the law that the
maker of heaven and earth gave to us
as a guide, and Christ said: 1.-The law
is so plain that man, though fool,
need not err therein"
If man that gets drunk whenever he
can raise funds enough to do so, and
wanders from one saloon to another
/ until he is finally refused any more
whisky, for he is getting ''boOZy," does
not know any better than to do so, then
| call him the ''fool' that Christ meant,
and shut him up as one that may prop
erly be termed irreparable idiot.
any crime in the catalogue of
criminal offenses, and should
/ be dealt with as an idiOtic person is.
for he is taking In death at every
draught of whisky that he pOurs down
/ his throat, even If he does not inflict
murder on some one else, for he is sup
| posed to be irresponsible. and the Sa
foonkeeper is condemned, and must be
punished for another mans crime. The
/ drinking man chooses his own path
/, and refuses to walk in the right road,
{ despite persuasions of parents, relatives
and the entreatieS of wife and children;
+ often pouring out his wrath upon their
devoted heads even to the deadly blow,
and he stands murderer. while some
sentimentalist will plead his irresponsi
BILE condition, and in no measured terms
denounce the man that sold him the IN
toxicant. If this is justice, then what
is injustice? Why not call all evildoers
irresponsible and place the blame on
some other person? Oh, yes, know
that parents are often blamed for the
wrong-d doing of their children, and that
too. when it is possible the parents have
done all they could to have their chill
dren do what was right and good.
No one can tell how many and how
often the prayer has been breathed
forth for the erring one who has not
manhood enough to stand up in his own
strength and let the destroyer alone,
but goes on the downward path to an
| ignominiOus and diShOnOred grave a
self-murderer, if nothing more, and
knowingly at that. And he knows, too,
| that there are maudlin sentimentalists
! that will keep his memory green by