CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-02-28
DOZIER g. Mckenzie


wrested from King John at Runne
mede Magma Charta, which was the
beginning of our Anglo Saxon liberty
From that time to the present it has
that government is regarded as bes
which gives the widest possible de,
gree of liberty to its citizens com,
patible with sound policy. Charles
the First of England endeavored tc
restore the doctrine of the divine right
of kings to govern and to raise reven.
ue by royal decree. He paid the pen.
atty by going to the block, where his
head was severed by the axe of the
public executioner.
| Many things that are impossible al
one time become by agitation anj
education perfectly feasible at anoth-
er. For instance, the slave trade was
for many years a perfectly legitimate
business under the law and was pr
tected on the high seas by the flags OF
all Christian nations. Now the slave
dealer is in the same category with
the pirate-the enemy of mankind
and may be punished without process
of law. Just a hundred years as
Wilberforce in England began to cry
out against the iniquity and wicked
ness of slavery. The conscience OF
England was aroused and in 1903
slavery was prohibited on the high
seas under the flag of Great Britain.
The United States followed year or
two later and France in 1915 by a
decree of the Emperor Napoleon.
Heretofore it has been impossible
to extirpate the licensed saloon, bu.
by agitation and education it is going
the way of slavery and will soon tc
looked upon as relic of barbarism.
like the slave block and the whip ping
post. Canon City does not want the
saloon after the experience of the
past year. 1t is a curse and re-
proach to the community. 1t has
started out on a career of civic In
ploNelncHt anu IL WOuiu DE TedcllOEdiA
to go back to the licensed saloon with
all of its attendant evils. 1t is a fes-
tering sore and has no right to exist
and we are confident the people CT
Canon City will not vote this sp-. ~
for its restoration. In its trail is de-
bauchery, death and destruction. 1t is
a destroyer of prosperity and a men
ace to the home and it should be
fought as a plague.
We have enacted laws for the pro
lection of animals, both wild and do
statutory safeguards about our busI-
ness and property, but have done
nothing to protect our children and
our homes from the saloon, which Is
infinitely more important than any
thing else. An enlightened and
quickened public conscience will in a
few years drive the open saloon from
our land as a menace to the well be-
ing and happiness of the nation. VIII T.
we need in this country is a great
campaign of law enforcement, and
this we will have, for there are a
thousand agencies at work that are
leading men and women to a higher
plane of moral and spiritual life.
At the close of Rev. Wilcox's ad-
dress it was stated that some money
would be required by the temperance
people to conduct its campaign pre-
| liminary to the city election to be hell
on the second of April and five hun
dred dollars was suggested as the
least that they could get along with.
A blackboard was taken to the plat
presenting dollars had been written
and as fast as subscriptions were re.
ceived numerals corresponding to the
amount of the donation were erased
by Rev. Chaffee. The first row OF
figures represented the twenty-five
dollar subscribers, the second row the
ten dollar subscribers and SO on down
to the end In few minutes the en-.
tire five hundred dollars had beer
taken, but the audience was not salts
fed with that amount and continued
to call out its subscriptions unit
nearly six hundred dollars was reach
ed.
1t was one OF the most enthusiastic
anti-license meetings held in Canor
| Cify in many yearS and gave an i'm.
petus to the temperance cause tina
presages disaster to the saloon psopl,
in the coming city election.