The Somerset reporter., 1901-12-05

cians Two years ago commenced taking your
Golden Medical Discovery and Favorte Pre-
scription aud took also several walls OF Doctor
Pierec's Pellets ! took eight bottles -four OF
each) and feel now perfectly cured"
DR.. Pierce's Pellets cure biliousness.
are great mass of hypocrisy. Truly
that is harsh and ugly word. To be
hypocrite is to sham. Hypocrisy is
wearing mask We pretend that we
live under prohibition; we pose as being
better than other states which license
the traffic, when the fact is that in this
town and in a great many other parts of
the State the enforcement of the law is
great farce, and am afraid that this
hypocrisy has touched the individual
and that some of you pretend to be
temperate when you are not and say
you want the law enforced when you
are not willing to do anything to bring
that enforcement about. We need to
get rid of this hypocrisy. An individual
and town that does not pretend to be
better than it is, is better than an indivi-
dual or town that does pretend to be
better than it is. Christ severest words
were uttered not against the harlot and
the drunkard but against the hypocrlte.
Let the law be enforced by our officials,
and then if public sentiment will not
support that enforcement let us repeal
the law.
Now passing to the fourth question it
was this:
What Method would you suggest to bring
about the Enforcement of the ProhIbitory
law In this Town and County?
sixteen did not know, "they were
puzzle ;" "t was beyond them" 81
had asked too much -" The following
suggestions we're made each by one man:
put heavy fines upon them, $1,000 or
$4,000 a year, enough to drive them ouo
of the business" "When IA man has
sold liquor to a drinking man, take him
out and shoot him " No doubt that
would prove effective! "flave vote at
! town meeting yes or mo" then if the
town wants enforcement let's have it,"
"Enforce the laws which fine the owners
of buildings 1.-THE judges ought to be
made to send men to jail" do away
with fines; make it imprisonment for the
first offense.n Take the profit out of
business somehow" "Open place of
amusement where working men can 60
in the evening "Get men who Will
stand out and say my name can be used. :"
Zone man suggested that the permission
to sell beer and light wines might solve
the difficulty" 1.-TWO said that the only
way that they knew to enforce the law
was to repeal it" 1.-TWO said that the
ouly way was to change human nature"
Only three thought that some organiza
ton of the citizens would be effective,
and only one had any faith in pc
titon Ten would create and build up
| III hi
way though slow was the only sure one.
However large majority, the number
amounting to 55 said that the only way
to enforce the law was to elect sheriff
who would do it. These men expressed
themselves in words like these: "Give
us a sheriff who has some backbone"
"Give us man who is worth button"
"Give us a man who thinks of the people
little of the time and not of himself all
the time" Get man who is not hand
in glove with the rum element" "Give
us an officer who will do his duty" "It
is all in the man." "Get a sheriff who
will not shirk his duty" One man
forecast the future in this way: zone of
the deputies will go in next time. The
machine will fix that, and things will go
on the same as ever" Another said
1.-THE sheriff is under a moral obliga-
ton to enforce the law AT least TWEEN
ty men said to me. "Give us a man like
Pearson One put it in this way. They
seem to be doing pretty well down in
Cumberland County Give us man
like that" There really seems to be
quite hankering after man like Pear
son At least twenty said that if the
saloons were closed during the murder
trial for one week, that they could be
closed for fifty-two, and that they were
closed then showed that the sheriff has
the power and ability to do it. The
large majority of these men desire
sheriff who will enforce the law. Now
this, puts great responsibility upon
the sheriff. but no man is compelled tC
take the office Is it too much to expect
that when he takes it.. he will do the
things he promises to do?
All this has been interesting and
instructive, now l ask you to turn to
some things which may be helpful and
constructive, but | shall keep close to
suggestions that have been made in
these one hundred conversations. There
is wide difference of opinion about the
best law All recognize the evil of the
liquor traffic but how to regulate it is a
question. l suggest nine conditions
which an ideal law must fulfil-by that |
mean an i'd cal law for earth and not for
heaven, taking into account human ma
ture as it is, and the law that comes
nearest to these conditions would seem
to be the best law.
| The Best Law.
IA law that will so far as possible
take the profit for the individual out of
liquor selling.
"A law that will prevent selling to
the minor and the habitual drunkard.
ga law which will 80 far as possible
put the condemnation of the State upon
the liquor traffic.
A law that will 80 far as possible
eliminate the social features such as
treating, making the saloon a clubroom
and loafing place.
ga law that will take the saloon out
of politics
GA flexible law that will give to the
people of every town the right to decide
yearly whether they want liquor sold or
not.