River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-12-26
Temperance.
Restriction.


moment think of favoring the licens,
system-which grants a man a right
to injure his neighbor il he can afford
to pay the price required-there is
nothing to prevent the most radical
Prohibitionist from doing all he can
to restrict the growth of the liquor
traffic. To favor the passage of law
prohibiting saloons within certain
distance of a school-ho1se or church
is all right, although it would be still
better to prohibit saloons in tenement.
house districts. 1t is good to close all
saloons on the Sabbath Day. Amy lin.
itation to the hours in which saloons
may be kept open is just so much gain
in the matter of sobriety.
Then we should have law forbid.
of saloons who have not kept the con.
ditiOns on which their licenses were
granted. Also, to forbid the sale of
liquor to minors and to those men
whose wives object on the ground that
their husbands have lost power to con.
troll their appetites. Local option is
also correct in principle, and should
be pushed by Prohibitionists for all
that il is worth. A Limitation of the
number of saloons i'll proportion to
population is another legitimate means
of restriction.
What we want is actual prohibition;
but as that cannot be had Immediate
| ly, common sense dictates that, in the
meantime, every inch of encroach-
ment that can be gained on the ene-
my's works ought to be seized with
alacrity.
There is one thing certain: If the
Prohibitionists would gain the respect
of that portion of society who are not
fully awake to the necessity of prohi-
bition, with Prohibition party to en-
force the law, they must show dis.
position to take what they can get un.
| I'll JHcy Sdus W AOANC VI uuMUcIS. dC-
quire the earnest desire of their
hearts.
Reform goes onward step by step.
The people learn to walk the correct
path just as children learn to walk
first crawl, then toddle, and after.
wards run.-New York Pioneer.
w. Jennings Demorest says in Dem.
orest's Monthly:
Next to the platform. the numer.
Gus and effective agencies of the press
are the most potent influences to
bring to bear on the liquor problem.
"And it will be found that there is
no power on earth that can keep the
people in subsection to the rum power
when we bring the light of reason,
through the means of the printed page
to their understanding. The printed
page, like the MONDAY sun. will scat.
ter the cobwebs of selfish subscriber
cy to the liquor interests and awaken
AN enlightened conscience, that will
not be satisfied until this vile traffic
is banished from the land.
1.-The printed page is the silent mon
itor that enlightens the millionaire in
| bis secluson, the workman is his shop
the merchant IN his mart, the scholar
in his study. The father, mother, Sis
ter and brother, aud all classes and
conditions are furnished food for
thought, while none are too poor or
too low for this means to reach them.
Therefore, let the printed page he
| scatter ed broadcast over the country
as uur must effective weapon to crush
this monster evil. Let the inspira-
ton and struggle of our intellect be to
attain to higher and broader views as
to the duty and obligation we owe to
our homes and to our country, and
keep our minds in constant action to
thwart the selfishness and duplicity of
of the rum seller in his depredatiUns
on. the best interests of the people.
The press has already removed the
dust and slime of ignorance, and open
ed a mountain of light and taught the
people their broad claim to common
justice and their right to immunity
from this vile poison which so effec-
tually interferes with their inaliena-
BILE right to life, liberty ana the pur-
suit of happiness.
1.-THE printed page is the silent mon
itor that comes with its good infuen-
ces to vitalize our intellectual ener-
gies, like the evening due on vegeta-
ton, which makes no display, no
sound, but how effective, how much
like the life and vigor it imparts to
the flowers and green grass, and
which, makes all nature bloom and
brighten with color and beauty to de-
light the eye and spread the blessings
of glorious harvest for the benefit of
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