The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-08

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or with the cloak OF false pretenses which
conccals such deformities. Let Us burst
open the whited sepui .hres and show then
full OF dead mems bones and Of ali un.
cleaniiness," and Let those who can endure
the decaying relics with which reckless party
leaders would conjurs and terrify. Toe
malortorous inposture. and will vote for she
rational progress and hcaliry v!gor TO be
found in the issues champ Decd by tho demo-
cratic party In this campaign.
No Refuge for Prohibition.
II the prohibiti0nist attempts to excuse the
record OF Iowa Ia 1899 on the ground that 1t
vas m ''original package year, reply 70 II
was in tho high license states: and the right
70 sell original PACKAGES was claimed - much
10 defiance 81 license - OF prohib tive laws.
But this 10 not all. The 0kures Tor 1890 in
iowa do MOI differ srcatly from former years,
while In tho frst hfteen days Of July. 1891.
the government tax was paid In our state by
3.4es retail liquor de Alsrs land do not thiok
that this includes dealers 10 beer). as against
a.641 during the nrss half Of July, 1890, when
the original package business was at h:go
tide. This snbterfuEs then 10 OF no avail
And Il the prohibit.oo advocate turns from
Iowa IN disgust and pins hlS faith upon Yer
mont, reply that there are six dem ocrAtic
states which By Effective licensc laws restrain
the trAflc fas better thsn Vermont. and
that, too, amoag populations far more diff
ncult TO deal With ou this question than in
Vermont. any other prohibitive states.
II he fiiess5 Kansas for comfort, there ara
seven democratic states doing better with
their license systems than Kansas with pro-
hioition; and II he looks 90 Maine for
succor. there arc ten license states doing
better thAs Maine, and all bus one OF
the ten Are Democratic: that ono Il
NnhRAnkA 80
ernor last year. And II made frantic BY the
conclusive showing shat prohibition does mot
produce the oeAk results. the prohibitiOniet
points 10 tho 81 whose liccnss systems
are less enectivs prohibition IN Iowa. I
reply that no one 70 there may bo less sat-
isfactory methods 80 lows has adopted 90
far - the mere restraint Of the traffic IL con.
csrned. Republican Ohio with no restriction
whatever for thirty pears. and with no AZ
tempt as elective restriction now, 10 q wit.
ness to this. Republics Pennsyivania,
maintaining for thirty years . system which
stimulated rather than restricted tho traffic
II another witasss 70 the bAleful effects OF
she u equally witness that the license sys-
tenn advocated BY lows democratic Il, from shs
first, more effective than years OF Iowa pro-
hioitivs regulation. And that 10 the issue.
Can . better system. and not . worse, be
found and b enfOrcedY FIFTEEN license
states. the most OF them democratic have
found, and have enforced . botter system
than Iowa with its eight years Of pate,nsl
en- sctmente In defiance Of property rights,
and the personal liberties Of the citizen. Ten
license states, all but oAe democrAtic, have
found and enforced Q better syssem than
Maine With it, nearly forty years Of alleged
prohibitions; and nix licenss states. all OF them
tor sySsem than Vermont, which makes the
best showing Of the six pronibitive states.
The democratic party OF lows proposes on
this question to Join the democratic galaxy
Of license states which have achieved the best
results OF al. and not the column OF republi.
can and doubtful states which deliberately
legislate for free -whiskey until they
have . saloon for every ninety-one people. as
In the case Of California. or for every sixty
people, . 10 the CASE OF Montana. Those
states have sought the worst methods and
have found them. - any others may do By
like effort.
But our platform PLEDGES license Of 100
to tho county treasury and such - ..,,nal
sum for towa and city treAsn-iee :. suey may
prescribe, thus onsuv...- ..censo system %
effective - Anv 10 existence. Democratic
senators ~ vSprosont Atives In the last leels.
lAtnr- &c. 1duced and voted for such Q sys-
ZEN - cur platform calls for. and IL would
be the Law OF Iowa today but for its defeat
by sspu blicAn Legislators,
assailed NOR criticizad 40 not fully. fairly and
honestly carrJins out the promises and pro.
fessions Of the Iowa democracy In their plat
form. Il has never bson called In question %
. weak. or loose, or inefficient system OF
license regulation. HAD u been enacted Into
Law Il may safely b predicted that Iowa, In
stead Of being nineteenth on tho list Of
states IN inenaciency In dealing. with the
liquor trafic, would today be Who're she
ought, Of the 'front.' with the states who are
beating ~ from twice 70 thrice over In good
results.
Prohibition has mis.rably failed. The
demonstration 10 complete. Its svowed pur-
pose Is to % regulate the traffic - to conflne
II within the nafrowess nmits. Il does NOT
do it, chosen work One-half ~ we'll 40 high
license and local option q their best, II "
consider only tho local trafio II our own
midst.
RharAsesisn Encouraging Peivats Imports
tions for Home Consumption
But whom We add 70 this the enormous i'm
portations Into Iowa By express and railway
companies for strictly private aud home CON-
sumption, NO have another feature which
may we'll concern ell who have ct heart tho
interests OF personal temperance, and theirs 10
no other temperance. The pharaseeism
which concerns itself alone with tho empty
form OF statutory prohibition takes NO note
OF this evil. On the contrary, its apostles
openly advocate Or spoloGise for these impor-
tAtions. and teach that tho citizen may drink
what he Will at mis- own table, and keep what
hs will In his own cellar for his own use,
Thus among this class OF hypocFitical moral
lists, who want to regulate other peoples
tastes, habits and places OF purchase. tenn
pefAnce has become mere dead Journalism to
be found In the empty words OF non-enforced
statutes, while for the nselves and friends,
their own drink. habits and cornwall tastes
arc sAncttnod by being nursed and erAtined
In homes rather than In saloons, and their
purchases become harmless and blessed, h.
cause made outside Of Iowa rather than OF
our own retail dealers. Such obliquity Ia
reasO 1tng - this has onormously stimulated
the importations Of which / speak. The
figures Of this trAfac are not known, and cau
not be known. because OF the conceAlments
thrown about 1t. Hut every observan 9th
ION knows that 1t 10 enormous, and will not
fall to consider 1t In fairly estimating the fall
ure of prohibition In our midst. II its details
and magnitude could be knows. II would
place us much lower on the list In comparison
with license states vhePs, ~ there 10 nothing
to build UP q trafio OF this character. Il NAV
be safely assumed that II loss not exist in ANY
consideEa bio proportions. When this an all
other facts are considered, prohibition should
not have % advocate - Iowa under the claim
that II cuts down the Number OF drinking
places. or limits the consumption OF intoxl
cants, or.diminishes the evils Of intemp erAnce.
The pretense that Is doss %, IL In tho main
dishonest cant and sham. and mono will
be deferred from seskins moro ration
al and efficient methods hy the freuzed
aud hypocritissl criass0f polite Il leaders
that all who reject prohibittos are the friends
OF saloons and the advocates Of intsmperance,
want, bcsgary. wretchednsss and crimc. 1t
IL because prohibition 10 the. prolific parent
OF this il-omend BROOD aud adds to this Us
70 less repulsive spawn Of sclf-ri. hteous big
otry. brutality and intolersAca. its Invasion
Of the personal rights And personal liberties
OF ito citizan, its spoliatSon and practical con-
fls.ation Of millions Of property In our midst