The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-01

dence. 1t is application of the search
warrant for the discovery Of stolen
goods. When intoxicating liquors in
quantity are found in the custody of
an individual in prohibition state
jury would not go far wrong when
they found the person who had pos
session of the same guilty of selling
the same. 1t would be sufficient cir
cumstantial evidence to justify such
verdict.
With these and the other laws
which were passed by the late legis-
lature and which are the result of
the experience of the past and the
needs of the present, the temperance
condition in this state is bound to
improve and the laws enacted for its
enforcement will become something
more than a joke. The serious thing
which confronts the temperance cause
in North Dakota now is whether or
not, when the ideal is just at hand,
the whole structure may not be
tumbled to the ground through the
medium of the initiative and referen-
dunn measure which was passed by.
the legislature recently in session.
We believe that the only way to
save the state for prohibition is to
defeat every democratic candidate for
both legislative and state Office at the
next election. 1t is true that such
matters are far in the future, yet it
must be remembered that the foes of
prohibition never sleep, and that they
will not wait until the opening of the
next campaign to begin the work of
electing the men who in the next
legislative assembly will vote the Sec
ond time for the initiative and refer
endum. Naturally the anti-prohibi-
ton element in the state will look
to the men who are the most nearly
in line with that doctrine. The open
resubmissionists-the tested thirty
need not be taken into account, for
they will be found ready to support
the measure the same as they did in
the last session, because it affords
them the means of securing resubmis-
sion, The initiative and referendum
is a democratic doctrine, advocated
for years by that party. and inherited
by it from the iefunct populistic par
ty whose grave clothes the democratic
party inherited at its death.
This measure was a part of the
platform upon which the democrats
who were responsible for its passage
were elected. 1t is true that Gov
ernor Burke on the stump, during the
campaign stated that it would not be
so passed as to affect the constitu-
ton and thus leave prohibition in
tact. But it was passed, and one of
two conclusions can only be reached
from the governors initiative and re-
ferendum speeches. The reader amy
draw them himself. It is useless to
tell some of the temperance leaders
of the state that they helped by voice
and vote to elect those who are re-
sponsible for the present condition.
It is not the time to say II told you
So" 1t Is time for those who be-
lieved that prohibition salvation for
this state lay in the success of the
democratic party to open their eyes
and read the emphatic evidence to
the contrary, and then join with the
only party which has ever stood for
the principle and see that fanaticism
and demagoguery are not permitted
to again work its defeat.
The devil gets lots Of people no
body else would have.
Silent watches of the night are those
We neglect to wind.
When man knows his duty, he
puts OF doing It by asking advice.