The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-07-14

Complaint arises from the
rauor trade. from the saloon
leepcrs and the brewers. that
tse policy of the Governor IN in-
sistng upon strict enforcement
~ the law IS directed principally
asainst them. We 90 not so
understand il. The Governor in
ssts that the law be enforced.
bears hard upon the liquor
t,aoe principally because most
epers of saloons. and behind
them the brewers that practically
o..n these saloons. constitute the
N large body of men outside
what arc known as the distinctly
criminal class. that habitually
violate the law. 1t bears directly
"a the gamblers, but the gamb-
le-s. realize that they are
Outlaws and, there tore. DO
not publicity complain. But
the saloon keeper and brewer
have defied the law so long and
IS openly that they seem to have
conceived the notion in many
cities that they have a sort Of
vested right to violate it, and
their complaints are long and
bitter.
Never. in a square and open
fight at the polls, or in the Legis-
lature of Indiana, have the liquor
interests been able to defeat the
sound and growing public senti-
ment against the saloon. The
masses of the people are coming
more and more to The realization
0f the fact that drunkenness is
the one great cause of poverty.
misery and crime beside which
al others fade into comparative
iAsignificance. A little while ago
baiif OF Winhedon. England,
gave up his job because as soss
not endure the suffering ne Wit
messed in making evictionS for
r0n-payment OF rent. In doing
so he declared that it was not
the cruelty OF landlords. but the
drunkenness Of husbands and
fathers that caused niRe-tenths
of the poverty and distress with
which he had come in contact in
the course of = long official
Ccreer.
His observation discovered no
new truth Every constable ia
America, every charity worker.
every man or woman whose daily
slk lies close to poverty. knows
that the one great cause of pow
G u is in the drink habit. Ii is
true that it can not be cured by
.aw and that the real work OF
reformation must come through
the education of the individual
man. but the enforcement of the
laws we have viii help not a
little. and the Governor is entitled
to the credit Of doing SO much as
lies within his power toward
aoolshing poverty in the most
effective way. Ind. Star.
Pretty good. coming from an
old party liquor-license paper.
hat what a pity that il should
have been thought necessary to
tone it down by inserting the
nackneyed expression, 1t is true
it cannot be cured by law, and
that the real work of reformation
must come through the educa-
ton of the individual man..
Law seems to do some good.
however. for we are told. The
of the laws we have
VIII help not a little, and the
Governor is entitled to the credit
of doing so much as lies within
iis power toward abolishing pow
crty in the most effective way.
The only virtue in the laws we
Lave" TO help abolish poverty IS
the prohibitive features of them:
the closing Of saloons
oa Sundays and from IL p m to
3 a. m. 1t is because of the
Dovernor's insistence that these
provisions be obeyed that such a
iurore has been created IN a
number of the cities; and a
change of officials had to be made
N some instances before others
believed he was, in earnest.
Now if the partial enforcement
of these requirements of law for
prohibition during sixty hours
aut of one hundred and sixty
eight of the week are productive
y such good results. so that this
tends to abolish poverty in the
most effective way, what might
lot be expected fprohibition ex-
ended over all the hours Of all
ne week. If a few hours pro-
hbltion is thus beneficial would
[ not hp GOOD common sense to