The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-05-20
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casting about to zee what shall or shall
not be done this fall on the temperance
question. For ten years it has been
unlawful. for saloon keepers to sell malt
or spirituous liquors in the state.
The Clark law, under which we have
been attempting to enforce prohibition,
is n Of the best contrived statutes for
the purpose that it is conceivable to
make.
Its penalties have been almost unpar-
alleled in their severity. Our jails have
been filled with those who have been its
transgressors.
Hundreds Of thousands Of dollars in
fines have been collected and as much
more has been laid out" in Jail.
We presume there is not a saloonkeep-
er in the state who has either standing
or wealth. In fact q man engaged in
the business is looked upon by people
generally little less than a monster,
Agreat party, willingly OF unwilling
ly, has given prohibition its support,
while onother party a little less numer-
GUS has willingly or unwillingly fought
it. In both political parties men have
been compelled by the very fact that it
was in politics. to assume positions con-
trary to conscience or judgment.
The editor Of this paper was an origin
al prohibitionist. lie believed it was
right and did not stop to count consc-
Quences. He has lived right here most
OF the time the law has been on the
statute book. With perhaps two or three
exceptions he has been engaged in every
prosecution either as justice, prosecu-
ting attorney or prosecuting witness.
Without a single exception the state has
won every case. He has neuer asked or
received q cent for his service except
when acting as justice Of the peace. He
has watched the workings of the law
very carefully and gives i: as his deliber-
ate opinion that nowhere in the state in
a town of its size has the law been more
faithfully enforced.
The result has not been satisfactory.
frequently do we see men who are the
worse for liquor on our streets, and we
do not think it is hard to get the liquor
either.
Our pharmacists are neither better nor
worse than others in the state. When
the liquor business was put solcly into
his hands by the Clark law, which
virtually says to him: "In all cases Of
calls on you for liquor, you are to be the
sole judge OF the necessities of the case;
if you decide against your customer you
are to receive nothing; if you decide in
his favor you may claim any fee your
conscience will allow" It is more temp
tation than should be put in the way OF
the angel Gabriel, much less in the
hands OF men who are assalled by their
customers whose rage for drink equals
the misery OF the lost, and at the same
time by his own necessity and cupidityl
While this is the condition in DaytoI
in other towns it is worse. In For.
DuuSo uOlo giluA UWcuCy SdlOUuS art
running wide open. Judge Hinormed
informed us recently that in his charge
to the grand jury at the last term OF
court he laid down the law to them III
the plainest possible terms, and appealed
to them to indictthose who were wanton.
ly violating it. What was the result:
There was not q single Indictment found
Lehigh, we understand, has taken the
same course as Fort Dodge.
1t is notorious that in large sections
of the state the Clark lawis a dead letter
The prohibitionist who deludes himself
into the belief that prohibition prohib.
its to any lasge extent in Iowa is equal
In his simplicity to the calf that flatters
himself that he has had a full meal after
sucking his fellows ears.