Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1893-05-05
More Reasons for Prohibiting the
Sale of Intoxicating Liquors

"They burden sober people with mil
lions for the support of paupers." and
the prevention OF crime.
They burden the country with enor-
nous taxes.
Drunkards want the temptation re-
moved.
Sober people want the nuisance re-
moved.
Tax payers want the burden removed.
The sale exposes our families to
destruction.
The sale exposes our persons to
insult.
The sale upholds the vicious and idle
at the expense of the Industrious and
virtuous.
1t subjects numberless wives to
untold sufferlngs.
1t is contrary to the bible.
1t is contrary to common sense.
We have right to rid ourselves OF
the burden.
Our law says these wrongs need not
be borne. There is ample provision to
rid every town and county of this de-.
moralizing-demonizing traffic. But
the people, say in effect and practice,
''we prefer to suffer these ills rather
than incur the discomfort of enforcing
the law" ''There is no finer flower on
this graen earth than courage" Would
that it blossomed more abundantly and
universally in the interest of the tenn.
perance cause. 1t truly demands gen.
nine courage OH the part of Its adher-
snts involving as it docs, questions of
principal and conviction on tho one
haad, and discontinue and disaster to
our neighbor and friend, it may be, on
the other. But discontinue and dis
aster is the inevitable result whether we
have part in it or not. By refusing
to act every citizen becomes party to
the ever widening circle of ruin which
is the only end of this traffic. Many
communities are making heroic 1T.
tcmpts to remove this reproach from
them, and the ranks are being added
to day by day.
Lady Macdonald, wife Of late Prem.
ier OF Canada, is an earnest temperance
advocate. 1t being noticed that she
took no wine at dinner, she was asked
if she did not serve wine when she en-
tsrtaiaed the Marquis Of Lorne, to
which she replied: Never!
"But did you not feel that you must
apologlze:"
"Csrtaiaiy not, she replied, wine is
not natural beverage, and 90 should
rather come In than 10 out with apollo.
gy." The answer and example led the
hearer to become an abstainer.
-.
Prohibition may not always prohibit,
water does not always put out fire; but
we know it is good thing to fight fire
with and do not despair of using 1t be-
cause it is not always successful.
Other things being equal it will extin-
guish fire; likewise, other things being
equal, prohibition is sure extinguisher
OF intemperance. A gentleman travel.
ing through Iowa noticed on the bill Of
fare twenty-five or thirty kinds Of
liq.or, and thought that didn't look
much like enforcing prohibition. and
resolved to put 1t to the test. Saying to
the porter, ''get me = bottle Of Old
Bourbon"
''No sab, couldn't do it sah." We
can't sell it here.
"Well but you have it on your bill of
fare"
'Yes sab, but We can't sell il in pro
hibitien states"
At the top Of the bill Of fare he read:
mo liquors sold within the limits of
prohibition states" Couldn't you get
me bottle Of beer anyhow! He in
sisted.
"Oh no, boss, couldn't do it mellow" ;"
mo one would know anything about |
II, the maa still argued.
why, sab, dey counted every bottle