Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-06

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the city. 1t is staying i'll ihe city and sprena-
ing out , like srea. fostering sores into The
What the, shall we do? lie; the Government
so" Shall We then surrender the llsti buttons OF
our ihIners? Away With the man VINO VIII
l'ralse Washington and never nit Ean'i I" &c
lend the institutions for which he fought.
what we want is iiot only i!ien Y ho can speak
words of praise for he oss Of other days, but
men who can themselves te heroes
sources. The old Calvinistic church OF tho
South and the New England town meeting. The
New England town meeting was llod'ltd from
the cradle OF local sell government sell govern.
ment has been abandoned. The good people of
the city found that if the police force was np-
pointed by local power it always went into the
hands of the Joh,, l., sullivan crowd So they
peGtioned the State totake the Job of governing
the city off their hands. Cincnnai dcesn !
supply, nor appoint It's police nor light the
city, nor regulate its sanitary affairs They
found they could not undertake any public
expenditures without incurringa lob and they
successfully appealed to committees of 500,
committees of loo and law and order leagues,
until finally the good citizens went TO Columbus
and asked the State Government TO take the Job
Of running the city and they did. Indianapolis
mas followed her example, and her police is mp
pointed by the STATE. For the same reason The
local government OF Washington city has been
under the control OF a committee, and citizen
OF our National Capital can vote on any qleS-
ton. In every instance where this transfer of
iuthor1ty has been Il necessity, the rcttenness
OF the municipality, the pollution OF politics
that caused it, had its source inthe grog shop.
We protest against this abandonment of local
government The idea of American government
means public law made by public nlajorities.
Ii we surrender al! these things to the saloon,
it means that American liberties, q constitu-
t1onal government, the institutions for which
our fathers persisted. are to perish under our
this tgho is to put the accused business so fur
1I ground that it can't carry on the fight.
The future OF the temperance warfare means
thatlt will last us long rs the grog- shop lasts.
But some say there are millions coming to rs
1rom across the ocean. Are you going to take
their liberties away from them? No, we do
not But before the god of nations we swear
,hat they shall not be permitted to take our
liberties from US.
But over in Germany We had all the beer we
Yes; did you have all the liberty you
-. NO, we had TOO little liberty and too much
Bismarck
Over there they had more beer and less lib
erty In America we propose that The people
shall have less beer ard more liberty.
II Is urged that the traffic should be restricted
by hlsh license. License applied 10 the saloon
means tllat The saloon brings important bena-
nus winch we tax 10 defend the public against
associated evils. We are told that license is
always wrong ] take Issue with that state
meht. Every Ne .hoGist preacher has To take
OUT IL license. ana Methodist preachers are no.
always wrong. The question. is. is il wrong to
apply license to The saloon? y business partly
, ard partly good may be licensed, ii the
licensing will restrict the bad a drug store
sells dangerous medicines, that il pat up by al!
lsileran, man Lay Fill quicker than they aye
only such men shall sell drugs as vii! do away
WITH the injury and keep the benefits The law
also saSs 10 1l snail 20 into tine cutting bust
ness until he has pruc,iced on deal men long
enough 10 Know now lnHn Is put to.et her
Teachers aad preachers must be licensed to
protect tle put lie ssainst injury and fraud. So
II you lusGfy licensing the saloon you must
prove mat tha saloon is TN Institute, II of such
publc benefits t4n5 the STATE shall iye justified
i'll licensing it.
HOY, How does high license differ from low license2
here is mule. He Will oi,e, kick with his Iii
feet, strike OFT with his tore rect aud rull
away. He Is so vicious he is Of 10 use wlat-
ever. Every pound of hay and grain fed 10
INN IS tht@wn away. iina mule 500 is low
hcellse Inc same animal ut II $50 is high Ii
ognss. we ella III that the saloon is continually
ll"ays a:d everywhere evil and only evil uld
Ili.l 70 sHch al extent as 70 justify prohibition
fof tils reason am a Prohibiionist
l'ut some one says: Don't YOU think q man
ought 10 llni1age his own stomach
NGS. 40; believe there are Il good MANY men
~ Wisconsin who ought 20 Legin right OFF to
nlanase their own sonacts ANA not let their
sfoaachs MaAage thsm any longer
i, b .!. con ! you think n!aa should say what
4e puts INTO Lis stomach z"
I les. He is responsible for what he nu+s ;nro
ms stomach. hut the public is responsible for
Mhat II permits him 20 put III The ln,lrket Let
Ihe p'iDilc Go lis duty ana private drinking will
decrease. ~
some one says: Prohibiting the saloon is all
i M! SO is prohibiting The northwest wind.
me saloon exists by demand OF the nppetitcs of
men, ana II Will last as long rs these rel!nn."
You are not responsible for the northwrs-
wind. 1t will blow on without your per,nis.
SION But the saloon Won't 90 on without voUr
permission. Don't Try TO shirk your responsi-
WI, Oily ny any such comparisons. SO long us
passions are in the hun-,n body. somebody will
50 wrong but it is the office of law TO help them
TO 60 right.
II the drink business has its roots in the ap-
pe'ltes and passions OF III. IL. so has murder
ana burglary. Ii we abandon the fight AGAINST
me saloon, then we must abandon all ,rohi!li-
tory legislation. and let the bad side of human
nature sweep the earth. AS long as the n.s-
slons and nppettes remain so long probibiIorv
legs station will remain necessity.
The saloonists Of Penns ylvania published n
HasJ n on on which We're the words 1T must
you don't need to side with the devil to make
F, ne ne Lore a true prophet. You lnHso remember
me NE, other 1i side OF that deea:aton: But woe
saloon exists i'll this country remember that
! lhe curse OF heaven reses upon the man Who,
by force of ballot or example or legislafion
susains that saloon
don believe there is n man az
woman mere who faTors hig:l license because
they favor the saloon. believe that yo,, fn vo1
II because you believe in prohibition But is it
"a oAiipit!oll. olEuua lttS mad
hleh license longer than any other ciiy and II
outranhs all other cities of our nation in iuve;,
lie crime Omaha received $4,000 q wear from
her saloons, nad last year increased her direct
tax assessment 80 per cent. Chicago has had
high Incense seven years. For every lUC glasses
OF beer drank then there are 1877 drank now
The arrests for drunkenness have incrsnsel "a
per cent. while the population mas incren Sod
but IS per cent. Vice. infllny gambling Gov
rnption and murder are Increasing fas1e. 1hon
the population. There were eighty rnrrlsn.s
committed in the city last year
But some one says prohibition is Il fai,,,re
Hnow 1t; who says SO? Why my cousins first
w1les brothers uncls's mother-in-law uu,,t
saw 1aan who had been III Maine and declared
that prohibition didn't prohibit And +, doesn't
prohibit in Kansas. VINO says SO? The same
man. '''N
But who says prohibition is not a failure in
Maine? General Neal Dow, ex-Vice President
Hamnn, senator Hale. Senator FRYE ex-Goyer-
nor nlnsley, James G. Blaine.
u VINO says prohibition is u failure in Eausasp
It631lnl1nson, man who w,.s paid $50 II night to
tel III pennsylvania shat the saloons had so in
creased in Topeka that they were Obliged 10
nave Two grand luries i'll session all the time to
bring indictments against them. When he re-
turned to Topeka he was brought before the
only Grand Jury and asked if he had auv
knowledge OF any illegal sales in the CITY. and
ne declared th@t he knew OF no such sales.
collector Webster. of Iowa. declared that he
had sold 800 more federal licenses during the
past year than the year before When asked 10
show his books he refused The husband of j.
Ellen Foster looked up the record and found
that Webster ha sold 800 licenses yfss than HE
year. So this man was either a liar