Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-15
The Moral Feature of the Liquor
Prosecutions.


Prosecutions.
Ina recent issue of the Howard
County Times, Mrs. Adams demon
strated to her satisfaction that LIQUOR
prosecutions were a source of financial
profit to the county. So is horse steal.
ing and burglarizing stores to the in.
dlyidual who pursues that vocation
until found out and caught. Then it
/ becomes source of anxiety, NORTH
cation, sorrow, grief and humiliation.
The clergy of the county who have
been mixed up in these disgraceful
proceedings, and the temperance
league by recent exposures have ar
rived at this stage and have not even
the assurance of money therefrom, as
balm for their wounded and lacerat.
ed spirits.
| 1t has been developed that con
spiracy to extort money was formed by
the temperance league, and reports
implicate Rev. Lynn of Lime Springs.
Attorney Acres of DEBORAH and their
hired witnesses imported from the
slums of Minneapolis as parties to
this unholy triple alliance of liars,
knaves and hypocritcs.
/ The man who was arrestedand fined
for being drunk and disorderly, was
visited at the jail by Rev. Lynn and
ID. X. Jones and perhaps their attorn-
ey. He besought from them some s1l
to pay the fine and costs adjudged
against him that he might be released
from jail. They declined to pay his
line and costs, and nowan Indictment
is hanging over his head, procured by
one OF the Pharmacy board, with fair
prospect before him of reposing in the
county bastile until the next term of
court when a fine probably awaits
him, with more trouble ahead. With
this gloomy prospect before him he
diyulged one of the money making
scheme, which so gratifes Mrs. Adams.
These hired witnesses were to receive.
each, four dollars day and expenses
ii convictions were procured, if not,
only their expenses, the portion of
the line going to the informant to be
divided equally between this man of
God ~ and this mercenary attorney.
Was there ever more villainous, COR
rupt and diabolical scheme concocted
than this for robbing DR.. Connollys
j. G. Love and Fred B. Lowry, through
the subornation of witnesses procured
for the special purpose Of these suits?
And of the informant in the proceed
lngs against DIR. Clemmer, not much
better record of moral character can
be written. Several years since his
wife was sent to the Insane Asylum
at independence for treatment where
she died. He was telegraphed the sad
news and asked what disposition
should be made of the remains. He
replied by telegram to bury her there,
he remaining here and refusing to
allow his son to go to see his dead
mother, whose bones repose in an I'M
marked grave in the potters field.
Circumstances might exist to justify
such course, for instance the poverty
of the party whose wife had thus died.
In this case no such paliating circum-
stances existed. This member of the
temperance league then owned and
and now owns fine home in Cresco
and farm of 100 acres within mile
and half of the corporate limits
worth from $40 to $50 per acre.
This is a faithful portraiture of this
protested christian ~ and worker in
reforming the morals of the commun-
ity and softening their hearts toward
the relief of suffering humanity.
The temperance league and it's CO.
adjutors are entitled to all the glory
and to all the odium of the dis
tinguished associates we have men
toned.
During more than sixty years of life
we have been a close observer of re-
forms and reformers of the class des-
cribed and have never seen any good
results from their work. Moral re-
forms that rest solely upon criminal
law for the correction of evils growing
out of human conduct, as an agency
in the development of the higher at
tributes of noble manhood has uni
versally resulted in failure and evil,
while appeals in the language of per-
suasion and conviction have been po-
tent factors in every great reform
throughout the world.
No greater calamity can befall a
country than what these people seek
to establish-a system of spies and in
formers, with courts organized to con-
vict. with the system fully estab-
lished no mans life, liberty or proper
ty is secure.
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