Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-12-15
Holp, Of WATERFOWL, Talked on
the Above Subject on Last
Sunday.
No More Sumptuary Laws For
the Citizens OF This Glor-
ious Country.
The Press Is Mighticr Than Con-
grcSS---SOmc odd Ancient
Laws.


zeal panaceas. The ivory shoulder
of Pclops was said to possess The
power of removing every disorder
and healing every complaint by its
touch After this went the way of
all the earth, then the famous lncdi-
cine, Thcriaca Adromachi, consisting
of squills, opium, pepper and dried
vipcrs, was thought for centuries To
bea vcritab!ecurc-all.
Men have just as zcalouslv sought
FOR panacea for the body polite
The majority of the worlds physi-
clans have claimed legislation 10 be
the thing sought for. They seemed
really to think that legislation was a
real Pclop> ivory shoulder or Il Theri-
AGA Andromachi that would remove
every disorder and heal every COM
plaint that our civilization was heir
To. But verify believe no panacea
ever will be found either for mans
ills. or the ills of the state
! do firmly believe we will discover
some remedy for every disorder Of the
individual and the nation. rather
incline to the belief that God has
given twenty remedies for every dis
ease rather than that He has given
one remedy for twenty diseases
Nothing. says Goethe, is more zig
niticant Of mems character than what
they lind laughabe." ] ann inclined
tn think that what they lind legiSla-
tive just as significant of mems char
acter.
DoacS, the first legislator of tile
Athcnians. passed laws Furnishing
murder, adultery and idolatry with
death. Scion passed laws forbidding
men 10 Spcah i'll OF the dead; also
against rcvlng the living in tenn
pie, in a court OF justice, III the great
assembly oi the people prat the pub
lie games. Also a law declaring the
man infamous who stands neutral in
the time OF >edition. The man who
refused to maintain his father and
mother was according "a law. iltam-
Gus and So punished. liza man WAS
guilty OF >acriiegc he was put Ia
death. ldleness was punishable by
death. There was once Roman law
requiring that no senator should con
tract IA debt over $500 Another Law
required that no woman should have
in her dress above half an ounce OF
gold nor wear d garment OF different
colorS. nor ride in carriage in the
city. or in the town, n within Il mile
or it, unless upon occasion OF Il public
sacrifice.
In the celebrated city of SybariS it
the city any trade, the practice Of
which was attended with any noise:
for this same reason there was an
edict passed against the breeding Of
cocks. ltiS very evident there We're
no democrats in that city. for how
could democracy live without lis
growing cocks.
In Sparta there was law which
puaishcri those who continued in a
state Of cclibacy or married too
late. or married i'll, especially those
who married for money Why. Rome
went SO far as 10 punish with life
Punishment the man who kissed his
own wife in daylight. or at night in
anvoncS sight.
The British parliament has in the
past passed laws againts wearing
shoes over Il certain length or width.
In Georgia. L. 5. A.. no man was
permitted to own more than fifty
acres of land, and even this he was
not allowed to sell or rent or divide
among his children. In 1910 the use
of tobacco was prohibited by law in
the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Men in South Dakota. Iowa, are
saying: Give our prohibition laws
"A fair chance before condemning or
resubmitting." Bless me, how much
time does any one want in order to
test law? From time immemorial
it has been tried. Georgia in her
earliest settlement had law
prohibiting the sale of liquors.
More than this Scion punished
drunkenness with death. Pttacus.
one of the wise men of Greece, Csc
b. c.. passed a law subjecting
drunkards to double punishment fol
any crime committed in a state OF
intoXcation. Long prior to this
even, Zalcusus. a lawgiver in
Magma Graccia, prohibited the use OF
wine except in cases where it was
prescribed as a medicine. Moses
himself had the drunkard FURNISHED
by being stoned to death. All law
givers of all ages and nations have
tried law as a panacea of the ills OF
intemperance and all have alike
failed. Isn't it high time to give ul
this experiment? / have otter