The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-15

10, The prohibition, by law, OF the employ
nent Of children under flteen years Oh age Ill
MINES, shopg and factories:
II. 10 prohibit the hiring out OF convict
Iabsr.
Some Of the expressions Of sentiment
by prominent delegates to the Sunday
observance convention, held in Des
Moines, Iowa, show the reasons why
prohibition becomes unpopular soon al
ter its adoption in SO many places.
There is a class OF people who seem for
ever to be looking Through blue glasses
and who are always sure that the world
is ON the verge OF destruction. Instead
of devoting their time to their own bu-
siness they are forever seeking new fields
for conquest in the moral world. Sue
cess in one of their attempts only whets
their appetite for more. That the use
OF alcoholic stimulants is a social moral
and physical evil, both public and prl-
vate, is admitted and urged by thous-
ends of men and women who don't think
that a man ought to be executed be-
cause he uses profane language, or goes
fishing on Sunday. But to these crank
reformers all ills are alike. They start
at prohibition Of the liquor traffic be-
cause it is the most popular, as soon as
they succeed in that they want an iron
clad Sunday law. They want to make
the world a veritable grave yard for sill
ence on Sunday except for what disturb
ance is caused by those who attend
church and they may soon modulate
and regulate, by law, the voices OF min
listers (of rival denominations) so that
thew can be heard only a certain dis
lance. This class ofpeople are supreme
ly selfish and are q cons tant menace to
prohibition legislation. The strength OF
prohibition lies in the fact that drunk
ards are dangerous, that a man addict
ed to drink is an unkind husband, a cru
ell father, Il bad neighbor, a. dangerous
citizen, and is liable to become a public
charge, either in some reformatory insti
tuition or the poor house. Thousands
oil men vote for prohibition who would,
MT care a cent if all the adult sots in the
country drank themselves to death in a
minute, If their habits affected no one
but themselves. This class OF people
fail to see the harm done by a mar who
goes out with his family and friends fora
picnic in the woods on Sunday. Even
1.-THE fishing tackle is taken along and an
attempt made to entice the finny deni-
zens to leave their native element they
fail to see how the people have injured
the state, consequently deny the right o
the state to make any fuss or laws
about it. These broad minded peopl
realize that the use OF tobacco is a filthy
habit, and to a certain extent Injurious
but they are aware that even a larg'
chew OF tobacco don't make a maj
crazy, don't make him any less capable
to saw wood or sell dry goods, ant
some people even think that a good rea
after-dinner cigar, tends to promote
digestion and consequent good nature
Acting on these ideas they fail to SEE
why the state should impose a fine OF
80 much a chew or puff on those who
use it. The fanatics say that the Sun
day picnic, the Sunday excursion, the
Sunday paper, the Sunday lecture, the
Sunday visit, along with the use OF
tobacco and profane language are ter
ribly immoral, endanger the salvationo
souls and consequently ought to be leg
islated out of existence. AS soon as
prohibition IS carried in a state, efforts
are at once made to carry the other lie
form measure to success and the mass
es say that every liberty and privilege il
to be taken away, that blue law era o
New Engalnd, with it's numerous petty
fines and hordes OF fanatical informers
will soon obtain if the brakes are o ap
piled. They recognized in the leaders o
the Sunday movement and the anti pro
family clubs, and the anti tobacco cru
SADIE, many OF the leaders in the prohi
bition movement. To punish them an(
assert their independence they go bacl
on prohibition and the result is failure
When people who are SO anxious abou'
moral reforms will be consistent in thei1
methods, will learn to discriminate be
tween habits that injure the public ant
acts that affect only the private individ
ua;, they will have made g mighty strid'
toward permanent success. Until thel
prohibition will always be in DANCE
from its friends.