The Forrest City times., 1890-12-06
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 I waitcsl auxioasly for the nppeHr- xncs Of last weeks TINns. hoping tO scc In 1t something ln the opposite di- rs-cti0n t0 yuur editevial OM the QMes- tiOr Of license. AS mthing appeared,
 l hope you will excuse an Olsl lady for giving her views on the subject. This question of license involves the happi- ness, mOrs or less. of every woman in the county, be sl,c mother, wife or sis- ter. From past experience we know and can testify tO what open saloons have done and will do in our little city. God help us and our boys and girls if We are to nave these places opened again. shudder when think of the past, and gladly, if it were possible, would draw veil over the saloon days of Forrest City. Is there no helpy You cannot expect the women of Forrest City to look at this ques- tion from business standpoint. It is not a question of dollars and cents with us. but how best to preserve the purity of our homes. If 1t takes open saloons to improve our city, to build splendid brick bl,Nks and elegant side walks, then in mercy let us rsmaip KS we are. We all know that there are those who will dripk--we cannot help that, but in pity do not open the fiood- gates to these boys, and also to good, noble, generous-hearted men who have drank until 1t has become a disease with them and they do not possess the will power. to resist the temptation. I knOV that sOHle say, ''lf men are deter mined to drink they will get 1t in spite of all laws" But the fact Is few drinking men are determined" to drink. They have a thousand times determined not to drink. but appetite within and temptation without HAVE been too strong for them. They loathe and curse the cup while they clutch and drain it. Keeling staggering down and down. they wildly shriek for some one tO deliver them from the monster who has enslaved them by capturing their wills, which now no longer obey the dictates of conscience and reason. If we have saloons. will 1t help this class of meny No; for if these men re- form they cannot go upon our streets without encountering the red lights. the old deadly fumes and the long familiar lettering places. Think what it will be for them. With enferbled moral nature, diseased body and shat tered nerves, would it be strange that these men, with such temptations from without. fall again. Our hope for the entire suppression of the evils of intemperxnce is in the direction of prevention rather than of cure. We may not hope to reform all the drink CTS of the present. but if we can pre- vent others from forming the habit We shall soon free the country from it's greatest curse and shame. If we remove these places of temptation from the streets and take away the garb of responsibility which a govern meDt license gives to the deadly traffic the oncoming generation will be com paratively free from the evils which SO opprcss us. A great nrmy of bays innocent, bright, buoyaDt and full of hope. just from their mothers warm kiss and benetiiction--,s now moving into the field. taking their first experi- ence in contact with the world, and unless these places of temptation are suppressed great numbers of them will soon be swallowed up by this great vortex ot ruin, which already has had too much of our best blood and brain.
 l believe that the right to prohibit any business That IS injnr,ous to the welfare al ih- community k every where conceded. lilackstone says: Common law requires that \ man should not use his property to the in- jury of another; the consent of the party injured tmark thisl is no mittgt- tion of the offense." In accordance with this is the long established law Ctyx. kt.tAv xa,tx t,.l such Il manner as not to injure that of another.
 Upon these principles. SO obviously just, all our laws limiting and regu- lating the business of the country are founded. Our laws prohibit the publi- cation and sale of obscene literature: they determine in man, places the night and location of cur buildings and the materials of which they are to bc they prevent the stelns of explosive materials in cities: ine dammipg up of water on ones own premises when the health of the com munity is injurd by il; in short, the welfare of the people is the supreme law" to which all statutes are expected to conform. If it is found that the liquor traffic endangers the peace of society, that 1t dethrones reason and fires the passions of large numbers. turning them loose like wild beasts to kill and destroy at the caprice of their dis,fdered minds: that it is the chief source of crime and pauperism; that il wages constant war upon the purity and peace of the homp, corrupting the sexes in their relations ta es,cl, other. tiamplng upon the rights of women and children. defl'ng and sundcring the most sacred relations of life; that it is the greatest cause of personal sor- TOW. domestic unhappiness. public vice and waste of life and substance, then society has not only the right, but if true to itsslf is bound to anath- amatize and exterminate 1t,
 Except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build It: except the Lord keep the city the watchman waiketh but in vain." ~s
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