The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-25

IDLY IWp0A0tgV0 Va 4OW0 WIFI tII8 d otBt6H
where saloons are recognized, during the past
eight years. he will be astonished ct our advan-
tage In this respect.
10 regulate railway companies 10 all right,
and to provide just revenue laws and election
laws 10 all right, but what are all these things
worth to Iowa, compared with the law which
corruption; for Intelligence, not ignorance; for
Go where you win today, and in many Of our
the saloon, and smell the .perfumery Of whisky
on the breath oi the adult travelers, but You
can rarely md this state of affairs In Iowa. We
are proud OF Iowa, progressive We would
not give up one Of her grand institutions for the
saloon. Prohibition 70 an Iowa Institution, and
I submit to the people Of Iowa whether they
want to substitute the saloon institution OF
Chicago for the prohibition institution Of Iowa.
say that the saloon is essentially corrupt
TSst y Y G Ssao = e Eye Sasa sn WIN ths Witch sai sId It d deals.
In polittcs in which 1t thrives. I say that in
any community where the saloon prospers It
controls politics T. controls the School hoard
police force 1t damns and disgraces that COM
munity; it overwhelms tho city with debt; 1t
breaks 6,'e Ks down the holy Sabbath day and drives
tian religion.
l appeal to Democrats who believe tina pro-
htbition 10 Q success In o W and that 1t is doing
good In our State, aud who know that the saloon
ts q curse, to vote for the ticket which will stand
by our established institutions. l appeal to
Democrats who Know by their Intelligence that
VAO SAO Ss4xA 4AAAO4 Vk@L1o 10 kAkO V1uoo "a
with us.
l will ask these same Democrats II they desire
to vote for o man for Governor land say 1t with
respect. now W years old. who has been q Re-
publican all his life, and who now comes out ON
the Democratic ticket because he cannot in
dorse prohibition. I say to temperance Demo-
crats. will you vote for one who has always been
2 Republican, and ts now. and 10 in favor of
keeping the saloon out of our State; or will you
vote for one who is q Democrat this summer to
bring the saloon back to Iowa?
We trust that Republicans Of Iowa will not
be deceived by 9 sensation which the opposite
party tries to stir up because prohibition has
not yet been established In Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, and Massachusetts. The whisky and
beer trade has become so rock rooted there in
past years, and the distractions to the ballot
are 30 complete, that 1t is q hundredfold more
difficult to subdue this power iii those old States
thsnit was IN Iowa or Kansas: When you con-
slider that there is invested in breweries, dis
t%illertes. gilded saloons, n great Wholesale
houses. outside Of Iowa. Kansas, Maine, New
aamp psha s,, and Vermont. in the United States
the income therefrom affords q profit twenty
fold greater. than any other business In the
world, II 10 then we have some faint idea Of tho
Island, and Massachusetts,.
What could We have done in Iowa had the
~creasing in this State fifteen years longer?
Where we had one brewery and saloon or dis
ttllery or q Wholesale liquor house. at the end
M Ss d1 t@a y yea ahsa from W Shss time na s. We NV wo %dSI. have b I've
vested then in the nefarious traffic, at tho end
Of fifteen years from that time We would have
successfully met the monster evil. But we took
1t In hand not a day too soon, aud now I would
ask the good people Of Iowa, where is the whisky
capital In Iowa to;day9 There is none worth
naming. Let Us keep matters in this shape,
The same comparison applies to Kansas.
know Q city Of lows where two large brew
functions. To-day one is running as a canning
factory and the other as an oatmeal mill. The
produce Of the country is sold to these mon,
and the price for this produce has gone upto the
benefit Of the farmer, and what Is better still,
the mon who were the owners Of those breweries
are now the owners and pr0prfetors Of the oat-
they live and prosper il the wish Of every good
citizen Of Iowa.
The evil Of high license may be show by this
tteriy opposed to prohibition,, has this to to Say Of
high license in the city that is so often held up
TO- t,n,, iowa pI%eoplSS as . ,, model I,a, for them to
success in Omaha. The whole system Of Ii
cense has corrupted our police force and lower
courts until 1t is a mockery to call them courts
they are a den OF thieves"
b Sioux City Journal Of August % SAYS
the great city Of Sioux City, there are found
lenses. one charged With ! it's ,an aaiaere embe es-
element, and two boys likely to be sent to the
reform school. Their court is likely to have
and this is the story from almost every other
county In the state where prohibition is on.
forced f9T;osd. .r9s;nsq ;sa1s T.. keeping ss,p down those
In Pennsylvania, where they are crying high
license. the recent Democratic convention In
session there PASSED q resolution %denouncing
md SI shoaid 'h Se rs ~ Sns imYR aa nee6 no 1ni tsss
my word for It. Get that platform Of that party
IN Pennsylvania and read It. Take up the pub
find low doggeries and saloons springingS up. and
constant complaint is made that even those who
had their high license are violating the law un-
der which they hold those licenses.
Prohibition IL to-day, at q wonderful rate. re.
ductng crime and taxation IN Kansas. Senator
John j. Ingalls,, in Q recent article, uses this
traordinary results IL the diminution Of crime
In this State. At the January term Of the dis
trict court Of the county in which Topeka, the
criminal case on the docket. Many State and
county prisons are without q tenant. The
number and percentage Of the convicts In the
State Penitenttary have been remarkably dimin-
Good for Kansasi This State and the State Of
Iowa today are making more rapid strides I'm
tie credit 81 Il the two States ss, stands da high sas o1 TSey
are drawing to-day within their borders the best
class OF people from many quarters ofthe Onion.
their present condition.
to DO deceived. This age Il wifds awsEe. Sober
tint tiniss w q Tia 81 st State sS sana % Hssio % o0 All the en sy oss.
lions Of this life will be nlled by these men.
This is what prohibition Iowa viii have. The
saloon is your enemy. Be true to your State,
to yourselves. Lot us be united as citizens Of
Iowa without regard to party on this question,
and with malice towards nonea and with charity
for all 90 forward to preserve the work we have
begun "
THE TRANSPORTATION QUESTION.
In looking over the broad fields Of legislation
OF the Twenty-second General Assembly, with
very many measures proposed, out OF al the
great list Of plans to provide for railway con.
troll, the present law was adopted, and I believe
know are claimed by railway of6cials to be too
unytelding, too arbitrary, but I think It may
safely be said It contains no principle not here
cannot be found in the law Of surrounding
States. think. too, that some of those laws
Will prove tbs fact that ours 10 less severe thar