The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-10-11
THE KIMBALL GRAPHIC.
Official Paper Of the City and County.
BY c. r. TlNAN.
If man speahs aught but his honest
eonrtetiens, pray. arhere is his honestly.
1t has often been a matter of com.

~ ~ Vstb ~gouso kNJft sUHs NfS UbIS6t
eonptetiens, pray. shere is his honesty.
1t has often been a matter of com
mon wonder to prohibltionists who
are intimate friends and personal ac-
quaintances of the editor of this
paper how the GRAPHIC could wage
SO bitter, unceaslng and relentless op.
position to prohibition, inasmuch as
It's editor is a teetotaler, never known
to drink Intoxicating liquor of any
kind, not a frequenter of saloons aud
a strong temperance man personally.
The very fact, perhaps, of his tenn
perance principles being so generally
known has led him to speak his mind
more freely through these columns in
opposition to constitutional prohibl-
, ton than would have occurred had 1t
been possible to attribute his writings
to a wrong motive. And, however
much men may have differed with
him on the proper method of hand
ling the liquor traffic, the GRAPHIC has
always enjoyed the confidence and re-
spect of all whose good will is worth
having, for the reasons given.
No man has tried harder TO become
a believer in the modern prohibition
than the editor Of this paper. No
person, we believe, has read more or
studied the subject from the prohibi
ton side of the question than he has.
Some of the best friends he has in the
world and a majority of the best pat
rons OF the GRAPHIC are ardent pro
h%ibiton,sts. He hns had evnry ea-
couragement, every ird"cna5t, every
opportunity to be mi of laem; ae
light has been held out to him with
peculiar brilliancy and unfaltering
persistence, but-well, when one can.
not believe one cannot, you know. 1t
is not an exceptional case. There
are thousands of men all over the
country who apply prohibition to
themselves, but with them it goes no
farther. Thier opposition to prohib,-
tory laws may arise from various rea-
sons. For himself, the editor of tie
GRAPHIC has a natural repugnacy
against prohibiting the sale of a COM
modify recognized all over the world
and in all but four states of the Union
as a legitimate article of commerce.
This in itself would be enough to
arouse ar antagonism to prohibiuon.
Personally he never looks at the wine
when it is red or into the muzzle of a
gun. Both may be loaded. 1t Is as
much a matter Of safety with him in
one case as the other. But because
one man less careful meets an I'M.
timely death he would neither take
the u nor the wine from those OF
greater mental balance.
For the saloon, as an institution
he has neither commentator or ex
cuse. A proposition to declare The
saloon a nuisance and a menace to the
community would receive no word Of
censure from him or this paper. Blu,
d constitutional prohibition aims at SO
much beside the saloons that he coulc
rot support it. 1t is impossible t,
leglslate a man temperate. 1t is I'M
possible to changea mans appetite b,
: legislation. So long as intoxicating
liquors are manufactured so long mel
: will drink them. So long as man
appetite for them exists SO long the,
will be manufactured. DO ava,
with the saloons and the traffic is
merely changed to other sources, no
stopped. What was carried on pub
licly before is then done secretly.
Granting that the saloon is a nuts
once, a curse TO the community,
breeder of crime and immortality, d.
away with it, but there let prohibi
ton end. Make a law that no count,
: or community shall permit any per
son to sell or dispose of any intoxicat
ing liquors to be drank on the prem
"a lses-a law easy of enforcement-an,
the saloon, that prime cause of al.
9 p%rohibitory movements, is dead
Then license wholesalers as well a
druggists for tile closing t'the saloo'
wiU not stop the sale Of liquor, an,
the community might as well have
the benefit of the event as to hav
the "bllnd pigs" and the "hcles-ir
the-wall,'' SO inseparately associate,
e with attempts at utter prohibition.
These, in brief, are the reasons tina
n y the editor Of the GRAPHIC could no
support constitutional prohibition
These, in brief, are his ideas of
better and more effective method o
: handling and controlling the trafli
+ !, in liquors. To those who think dit
~ferently he accords the most kindl,
n consideration, and on his part ask
the same consideration of them.
Il For modes of faith let graceiess 2eslo,s 6gh,
= His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right.