The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-03-29


hpIy amazing, and to many law
ding and God-fearing people their
IDLY avowed program is worse than
ensive. 1t is idle to try to avoid
issue which they have raised.
ey simply line themselves up on
side of disorder and disot edience
law. In the election Of next Tues
there is absolutely no question as
whether Occur d'Alene shall be
'open" or a "closed town." The
sumptuary question land that is
ely Incidental to the main issue)
be question to what extent, if any,
new city council may see at to
nlate the management of the sa.
b business I. g., whether they
ll or shall not close such places
some hour of the night. The
} of the business is accomplished
the statute of the state of Idaho,
everybody knows it But in
meantime nobody is proposingto
egulate" the saloons any further
b. the general statutes regulate
IN. Nobody is crusading
inst saloons on the theory that
must be, or ought to be, sup
ssed. On the contrary, every
" recognizes their right to do
iness, and the only question is
ether they shall. do business on
days and 365 nights Of the
endar year, in open and disdain-
defence of the law of the state.
D Scallonites say that they shall,
that the laws of the state we're
made to be obeyed, aud that SC
as they are concerned they will
er lift a finger to enforce the
utes that we're designed to make
good government. The Varnam-
say that the laws of the state OF
ho are entitled to respect and
pstantial obedience and that as
Ardians of the welfare and morals
the city of Occur d. Alene they
hew to the line in the matter o1
nday closing. That is all there
TO it, so far as the liquor traffic lie
hcerned. Nobody is talking about
sin and wickedness of a Dutch
hch with wet trimmings. Nobody
throwing bricks at st. Paul because
wrote Timothy to ''take little
be for his stomach's sake" No
dy denies the constitutional, OF
en the moral right, of business
u to go up against the copper bot
% whiskey of Kentucky two Oh
Zee times a day, il he thinks that
system needs the jolt. Nobody
nies the right of the laborer or the
mberjack to flush his interior with
bootleg of Spokane beer, If ht
inks he needs the bath, and car
lord it, the settlement of the CUES
an being left to him, as it ought to
bat is the use, then, of all this
bible about the amount of the rake
that Scallon got from the gamb
IS in the way of ''flnes" aud left il
i city treasury when he went bacl
private life and the peddling o
lis? What is the use of all thi
Atter about W. A. Andrew and hi
Editions, the amount of his pay
ents for legitimate services, and tb
rchase of rock quarry for stree
Fing purposes, instead of the pur
Ase of 'tWo city lots" where ston
ght have been excavatedP 1t is
plish and corrupt attempt TO OBJ
ire and befog a 1.-Two issue, and M
dy knows it better than ScalloI
d his his motley crowd If hackers
! March Is, 1907, the Journal pub
'hed on its second page the full tex
the Sunday Rest Law, that hat
st passed both houses Of the Legis
ture by q practically unaminou
pte. In due time the Governor
Idaho signed that bill, and 1t ]:
pw a part Of the general statute la'
the state. By that law the frs
~ of the week, commonly GALES
Sunday, is hereby set apart a day n
hblio rest. - lie there anything
fOng about thatl And If there is
bo is it that challenges the Law
racticaIly nobody, unless it be th
Rner of q Rin-mill, who wants to d.
nsiness when the rest of the worl'
As suspedned operations, or is peace
lily sleeping in it's bed. The Law me
he wishes and moral convictions o
le great mass of the people of Idaho
nd 1t is universally recognized as
Iep in the right direction. At tn
me time. Ii Was recognized tia