The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1893-01-13
Consolidated April II, 1890

HVe drinks make a man drunk how
drunk is he when he takes one drlnk?''
This proposed provision means that YOU
may sell liquor to man until lie reels in
to the gutter, then you must stop-until
he sobers up. Nor to anyone who has
made an effort to refrain from the drink
habit Gan these salared barlenders
read the human heart and know the
efforts made TO overcome this awful habit
A drunkard's life is one long history Of
pledges made and VOWS unkept. There
bilities as liquor.
name shall be put on the black list for
six MONTHS" continues tins interesting
| outline ot the ne S-fangled experiment
of municipal saloon" Rather let US
have white list and let all names be
placed there forever. This is what our
prohibtory laws helps to accomplish.
The letter further states that our law
does not prohibit corporation or
municipality from selling lntoxcants,
but simply person. This might hold
good II corporation or municipality
could conduct their business automat--
lcally without the assistance or inlerven-
ton OF human being, but everyone
knows that corporation must have an
agent and an agent must be a person.
Beer is not included in the Gothen-
burg system. DR.. WeisseIgren, noted
writer, says: Nothing is clearer than
that the wall which the Gothenburg
system has set up against intoxicants is
in good way to be broken down, not by
spirits, but by beer.
In the Forum for December Prof.
Brooks declares: drunkenness traced
directly 10 beer shops has grown at a
frightful rate from 44O cases in Gothen-
burg IN 1882 to 1853 in 1889 It is plainly
seen in reading Prof Brooks writings
that lie is by no means convinced tha!
this plan is a success, for he says: The
master stroke as we have seen lies in
de2riving the individual Of profit, but
the temptation to have much liquor sold
is not therefore removed. We have only
| substituted u group seltishness for an
| individual one. 1t is still tor the direct
advantage OF the taxpayers of the com
| muntlty to have the proceeds from
! liquor sales as large as possible in order
that taxes may be lower, and asks this
significant question: us the selfish ad-
vantage Of a collective body less danger.
GUS than that oi a single individual who
who compose that body?' He further
adds: I'm any plea that is made
tor the Swedish plan difficulties must he
admitted. The sober and more critical
attitude that is now possible to make,
shows us that the best hope here offered
Is rot SO much in any actual achieve
ment in lessened sales, and says that he
would try it, mot as a solution, but as an
experiment.
The Sioux Falls letter refers to Ber- .
gen and quotes the following: "There is
not IN Bergen or III any other Norwegian
town tlthe OF the wretchadness,
squalia misery, poverty and drunkness
| which is alas, to be found in British
towns of similar sze.' In the last
thirteen years. says DR.. Wilson, "a town
III Norway Of $4,000 Inhabitants has spent
81 100000, profits received from liquor
sales, for various philanthropic and pub
lie objects"
Money may keep in repair the finan-
cial destruction caused by liquor drink
ing, ,lbut gold cannot give back lost pur-
ity, manhood and broken hearts. Where
did the "a 100000 come from? Much ot
it came from drunkards' homes, money
that should have gone for ioodtxnd cloth
ing for wives and little ones
At the very best, such a scheme, fnan-
cially considered, is a robbery OF Peter 10
pay Paul
One would think by reading the let
ter that civil service reform SO tar as bar
tenders are concerned would reach an
ultimatum in municipal saloon," but we
know to the victor would belong the
bartender.
With an active partisan politician ap-
pointed by the party in power. clad with
white apron behind every liquor hnr in
the stale, we would get a panoramic
view OF political corruption gone TO seed.
We are long way from Sweden and
possibly distance lends enchantment.
Friends of sobriety be not deceived. A
municipal saloon is still a saloon. A rot
ten egg can never be made palaiable.
When = community is educated up to
the point Of voting prohibition it is too
far along to trifle with new-tangled ex-
perlments of Goubtfnl utility. A "mun-
lcipal saloon as well as "resubmisslon
is a device Of the enemy. All that is
needed in South Dakota is more back
bone in the enforcement OF our -prohib;-
tory law.
EMMA A. CRANMER,
President South Dakota VIC. L. Z.
In the snffocation which occurred il
the north part Of the county we lenin