Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1907-04-04

city Of four Or FIVE Thousand inhab-
itants, and, since the suppression Of
the beer-pigs, another whisky. pig
preparing to 90 into business there,
not one Of which has any intention OF
observing the provisions OF the pro-
hibitory statutes which require that
not more than pint OF whisky shall
be sold to the same person In the same
day: that authorize and require drug
gists to administer oaths TO their liq.
uor customers that lin the language
OF the prohibition law the liquor s'is
necessary and actually needed for the
particular purpose-by the patient to
be named; that It is not intended for
beverage or to sell or give away"
and, finally, that mo druggist shall
permit the drinking on his premises,
nor in any apartment connected there
with and under his control, Of any
intoxicating liquors purchased by af-
fidavit or otherwise 1T may easily be
seen how the cause Of temperance In
the Capital City is being aided by
those pure and holy prohibition con-
verts and sober-minded teetOtalers,
Messrs. Jewell, Asa Patterson and
Andy Miller.
AS matter OF fact, the Tribune
hullabaloo in Bismarck is made for
political effect. 1t is said that Byron
once remarked OF Moore that Little
Tommy dearly loves lord" This
should be paraphrased into the state
meht that Marshall jewell dearly
loves governor. The gentleman Is
always first to cry. sThe king is dead!
Long live the king All this maud
lin gush we read in the Tribune about
the democratic executive rising up on
his hind legs and blowing from his
nostrils fire and birthstone at the
blind pigs amounts to nothing IL one
pauses to think while reading it.
Without the new laws Governor
Burke, even when aided by the Jew
ell bunch of political turnc0ats, could
do no more than did the republican
Governor Miller or the republican
Governor Allen both honest believers
In prohibition) toward closing the H.
legal saloons. The laws passed by the
recent prohibition majority in the
Legislature are the cause Of the substi.
tuition OF the drugstore whisky sell.
ing blind pig for the beer-selling pig
In Bismarck. 1t is not q matter crea-
tive of surprise that the Tribune has
had occasion recently to apologize for
the increase in the number of drunk
EN- men In the streets of Bismarck.
To put 1t briefly, the Tribune and it's
coterie of whisky -guzzling ''reformers"
have closed the beer dealers, and those
who dram. beer have been driven to the
drug stores for whisky, except where
they keep it near at hand at all times
for the purpose Of personal soaking.
That's all there is to 1t. The exigencies
OF the political situation in Risma rex
required the anti-pig crusade and the
selection Of single individual for
prosecution. This Tribune hurrah
coupled with the fact that the old.
er prohibition laws had closed the old
time responsible dealers like Quinlan
and kuntz & Fischer and put the sale
IN the hands Of multitude OF IRE.
sponsibles, to the disgust Of people
generally-did the business and placed
q democrat in the mayors chair, de-
feating the only politician in town
who turned a hand to procure good
majority in his ward for the repub.
lican nominee for governor last fall.
AS far as Governor Burke, the Trib.
une's guide, philosopher and friend. -
is concerned, irrespective of the Trib.
une's nauseating ''guff' regarding
him, he Is simply an ordinary politi.
clan who Is willing TO forget his form.
er resubmission convictions in ex.
change for the laudations of the pro.
hibitionists, and through their sup
port possibly secure a reelection. Al
the session Of 1891 the Record editor
sat at the House press.table during
the entire session, reporting the pro
ceedings for the Bismarck Tribune.
Mr. Burke was member Of the
strong demc-pop minority OF twenty
one, In membership Of sixty.one.
lie was not the minority leader, by
any means; James v. l.sJimmy'')
Brooke being the floor man OF the al.
lies. That Burke is not man broad
enough for the state leadership Of his
party was shown by the democratic
stump speech he inflicted on the peo-
pie OF North Dakota last winter un.
der cover Of All inaugural address.
At the session Of 1891 Mr.. Burke wa
an out.and-out resubmissionist. voting
ana talking for that measure on the
iioor OF the House. Why he should
now make such a hue-and.cry about
the enforcement Of the appetite law.
while remaining silent as to the en-
iorcemcnt Of the compulsory education
law, the noxions- weeds law, and MANY
other laws as much fractured I'm soma
parts OF the state as is the prohibition
law, we leave to the imagination OF