The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-05-08
THE KIMBALLA
cLATE TINAN
Official Pspsrot ths City and. county

sEa ~t rE
|0niciaI Papsrot thv City and eounty
En- an, editorial upon the Muense.
Transformation we reproduce, in. an
other column-the WoonsocketH Afaldl
introduces the ,subeotby saying, that.
the. RAPHIC and Wrmillion Repsbli-
camboth lose sight:e f'the priheipaeson,
which the right to lioense certaiEaactB
depend. This>may apply to our es-.
teemed' contemporary at Vermiaiion
but certainlwi6 Doesn't fit the &AgHA
&C.. Editor Reeds conclusions, as.giv--
en- in,his editorial, are the same as
originally given, out in the GRA1,ntc-
and which the Wermillion brotheI>says,
isn't good logic. The Herald makes;
the matter more. clear-ffOm, our.
standpoint-tlAan we did,. perhaps
thab's all. The trouble with, the Wer4
million Republican-ands all off it's,
kinds. that it predisposes, the, sa-
loon:makes it ascriminal upon,its own
motion without waiting for the con-
sent Of any nation,on,eartll,' white. as
a matter OF fact the selling OF i'm
toxlcating liquors at retail-by the.
drinks no more. acriminal operation
than selling themat wholesale ordeal-
ing them out at clubs. hotel dining
rooms and such places-unless made so
by law. AS Editor Reed; points: out,
the traffic in Intoxicating liquors is
not a natural crime-to be be eiassed
with theft, biKamy, seduction-recog-
nized the world over. as offerses
against society. For.the better pro-
tectiorr OF society. most states have a
law to prohibit carrying concealed wea-
pons. The traffic in small firearms
might reach a point where it might be
deemed expedient to. curtail their sale
and place the business In the hands Of
licensed dealers-or prohibit their sale
entirely. But We don't know as this
would be either lice nsing OF prohibit
ing a crime. 1t seems rather a bust
ness proposition as to what extent
police regulations may go and one that
concerns the particular municipality
only.
Prof. Todd, state geo)ogist of Yer
million, publishes a statement deny.
ing that the government has any in.
uention Of sinking artesian wells in
South Dakota from appropriations
made by congress for retaining arid
lands. Prof. Todd says that under
the act referred to certain defined
tracts, to be selected, are to be irrigat.
ed and the expense OF the same paid
back to the government by the proper
ty owners benefited in ten annua.
! payments. He does not think ii
practicalor beneficial to tap the arte
sian basin with large wells for the pur,
pose Of filling old lake beds as the
benefits 50 derived are more imaginary
than real and it tends to exhaust the
supply of water which a be better
utilized by a number of small well.
bored for individual use. Prof. Todc
also draws attention to the fact thai
that there should be no unnecessary
waste OF artesian water. as the supply il
by no means inexhaustible. Incident.
ally, the GRAPHIC was the first news
paper-or individual, so far as we
know-to point out the fallacy Of sup
posing that an artesian we'll would
flow forever, NJ matter how construct
ed or repiped-an idea that was ridl
: culed by some at first-but which nov
is accepted as the truth by so eminen
an authority as the state geologist.