The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-29

the hydraheaded- monster, some almost
to prohibiting its sale, as in Russia
lately. Court after court has declared
the power of the State to control the
traffic, even TO prohibit its sale. The
next step will be that the courts will
declare that one who engages in the
sale of liquor as a beverage has no
right, that an aggrieved person or
community has any right that any one
is bound to respect.
Let us argue the case little. Sup
pose the law-makiug power should de-
termine to license say house of i'll
fame and one is started next door to a
man with family of girls and boys
growing up. He communicates with
the occupants, they show him their
license, he appeals to.the officers, they
say 'Oh, we can't do anything, they
have permit" The man appeals to
the courts for redress. Does any one
believe for a moment the courts would
refuse to grant the relief asked, saying
that it was against good morals and
an invasion of his rights as citizen to
be practiced against that which would
be detrimental to his peace and the
morals of his family? You would say
in breath that the court not to give
relief would be monstrous, and so it
would. And almost any father would
say eff none of them will abate it,
will do it myself"
Are you the one to say that in doing
so he did not do what was his duty?
Yet saloon, when you consider its
effects on a community at large, is
infinitely worse than the last men
toned it only effects the few, while
the Joint even reaches out to the tax
payers without returning anything to
him for it, but pauperism.
Hence we hope and believe that, not
in the far distant future, the,courts of
our beloved land will hold that no
law-making power has a right to
license the sale of Intoxicating liquor
as "A beverage, but will enact laws for
its suppression, and the quickened
conscience of the people will elect
officers who will enforce them. without
recourse to violence. In that day the
individual and the world at large will
be better for it, | wish | might live
to see it, but it will surely come.
suppose / shall be called crank for |
holding these views, butthen if it were |
not for cranks the wheels of commerce |
would not go round, neither would the |
world progress. Isaiah was crank |
when he called the Jews nation of |
wine bibbers and said: "Look not on |
the wine when it is red, when it moveth |
itself Alright, for it stingeth like SER
pent and biteth like an adder"
On January |, 1901, when Sheriff |
Pearson, elected by all parties in Cum
berland, Maine, because they believed |
he would close the joints, took his
Office there were l49 prisoners in the
jail. On February |, one month later,
the number was down to 81, a decrease
of 50, or 3S per cent.
j. w. French, of the cement plant,
who used to be the warden of the
Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth.
Kansas, said to the writer hereof in |
talking about what brought most of |
the prisoners there, that he used to |
tell the authorities there that if they
would let him lock up all the intoxi-
eating liquors, he would turn out |
of the prisoners. Mr..
French's long experience and his abil-
ity to judge ought to give great
weight to his opinion.
Bishop Ireland says 30 per cent of
the crimes come from the use of
liquor as beverage.
In Allen county it costs four dollars
to prosecute other State cases to |
where it costs one for liquor cases.
Then if three-fourths of the crimes
come from the use of Intoxicating |
drinks, then three-fourths of the costs |
of other State cases should be added |
to the four dollars, which would make |
seven dollars, and three-fourths of the |
whiskey costs should be taken from it,
which would leave twenty. cents to
seven dollars, as the relative cost of
the two,
Oh, why should any one be in favor
of the sale of liquor as beverage? 1t
is evil continually, and nothing but
evil. l.. b. PEARSON.
ROCK CREEK.
MARY POWELL Correspondent,