The Iola register., 1900-10-26
W. c, 7. U. COLUMN,

Pes. j. H. Seelye says, 81 have no
dispute with one who tells me that law
is not sufficient for virtue. l know
very we'll that good laws do not make
goodness. Evil remains in the human
heart and In society under Tie best
law. But it is prodigious mistake,
therefore, to argue against all con
straint of human conduct except by
moral means. One ignores the actual
facts of human nature who denies the
necessity of physical coertion among
men. License. high or low.
takes away what ought to be. and in
a healthy community would he, an i'm
portant moral restriction from tie
seller. 1t removes from him the con-
demnation of the community, and jus
titles him. 1t makes his act legal.
While l do not believe that
prohibition alone will stop the sale of
strong drink any more thanit will stop
the continuance of gambling or oftheft,
or of any other crime, would make
it clear by statue that 1t is crime,
believing with Mr.. Gladstone, that 1T
is the duty of the government to make
it as hard as possible for man to 90
wrong, and as easy as possible for
him to go right. "
Says Rev. Charles F. Deems, "Any
mode of licensing or taxing keeps The
business lawful. The keeper of the
worst groggery in New York, who
sells under license, is pursuing as
lawful business a the editor and
publisher of the North American Re
view. In court in this ity, | was
present wh-n clergyman was con-
fronted by "a lawyer with the statement
that his client was engaged in busi-
ness as lawful as the clergyman :.
And the lawyer told the truth"
Hon, Neal Dow says, Looking the
ground all over carefully, we 'fnati-
cal temperance men and woman have
come to the conclusion, unanimously
and irrevocably, that under no cir
cumstances nor for any consideration
will we consent to any policy giving
, legal status to the saloon. So far as
our voice and vote are concerned. it
shall have no standing under the law,
but shall be put under its ban. If we
cannot have itforbidden and suppressed,
we will not consent that it shall have
legal permission or protection. What
ever evil to society may come fr IN it,
let it be without sanction of the state. "
Hon. G, F. Stewart says, Having
the power to suppress the alcohol
crime, government assumes the re-
sponsibility ofits existence; and every
voter, as an integral part of tie gov
ernment, bears his part of the guilty
burden. AS Fox said in the British
parliament of the slave-trade, Gov
ernment must either abolish itor plead
guilty of all the wickedness which
has been shown to attend it. 1t could
not be regulated, because there could
be no regulation of robbery and mur-
der Thus TO license, regulate, tax or
in silence to permit the existence of the
far greater alcohol-crime, is to in
volve government and people in its
perpetuation as the aiders and abet-
tors of it's wrongs, and authors of its
miseries. 1t is by force of the implied
more than the express santions Of
gov ernment that the alcohol-crime
has built up its causeway OF human
guilt and wretchedness over the broad
highway of religion and laws"
BY Senator II. w. Blair: "The
question of enforcement, which de-
pends upon the public will is of
course important for without enforce
ment any policy is void. But no law
is ever fully enforced. But the better
a law in any state of society the more
good will be obtained from it. and
from prohibitory law half enforced
more than from the most strin-
gent license law enforced to perfec-
tion Besides prohibition always
holds up before the public mind the
loftiest ideal of absolute right in the
law Thus the -statute-b book, like the
Bible. becomes an educator. although