The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-09-11
SPECIAL NOTICE =
Violation of Any Law Leads
to Violation of All Law

To the man whose mind is not closed
to reason and that intellectual quality
which is sometimes referred TO as
horse sense" the editor Of this paper
can show-even to the saloon man who
wants TO continue in business-that
his worst and most insidious enemy is
he who counsels him to break the law.
1t is all one whether that advice takes
the negative form, as when Council
man Woldenberg advised the non-en-
forcement of the Sunday closing law by
the saloon men, or whether the advice
is put in the positive form, as when
one would say, violate the Sunday
closing law 1t amounts to the same
thing. 1t is a distinction without a
difference in meaning.
The truest and best friend OF the
saloon man, is he who favors the en-
forcement of the laws. Not the en-
forcement of the Sunday closing law
against the saloon man and the viola
ton of the law against druggists selling
liouor for other than medicinal pur-
poses-not the enforcement of the
first, third, fifth, seventh and all those
laws on the statutes that are made for
the protection of OUR person and
property, and those that we may have
to invoke tomorrow; and the violation
of the second, fourth, sixth, eighth and
any others that WE find irksome, or
that interfere with OUR particular way
of making money, but all laws. The
only way to have those laws respected
and enforced which inure to OUR par
ticular benefit and which WE want en-
forced is 10 stand for the enforcement
of those laws that the other half Of the
community want enforced so that WE
may have THEIR help to enforce those
laws that are in OUR favor. In other
words, to stand for the enforcement Of
all laws alike.
1t is almost impossible for a law to
get on the statute books unless one
half, or more, of the population favor
the law. It is equally as impossible
for an unpopular law to remain long on
the statute books when one-half or
more OF the population oppose it. Now,
can the saloon men not see that II the
majority of the people favor Sunday
closing that they can enforce the lawF
They cannot only enforce those laws
that are already on the statute books,
but if the saloon man says he will not
obey those laws they will make other
laws that will put him out Of business
altogether. Remember, this is not an
idle prediction. 1t is just what is hap
pening all over the country. Many of
the saloon men of Spokane are out
spoken in the belief that Jimmie Dur
kin's methods are responsible for the
prohibition wave which is now agitating
that city.
For three years the saloon men of
Texas fought the laws, and every year
more counties voted prohibition until
nearly two hundred Of the three hun
dred counties in that great state voted
prohibition. Then Mr.. Adou, wealthy
banker of Galveston, interested in.
breweries, took charge, and said, The
saloon man must clean house. He
must himself advocate respect for the
law. He must say, l will not be
classed with law violators-with house
breakers, thieves and robbers by selling
liquor to minors, to Indians and to
habitual drunkards, and l will not
violate the Sunday closing law or any
other law that knew to be on the
books when took out my license. I
will not be constantly pointed to as the
one man in the community that stands
for the every day violation OF five or
six laws. 1t shall not be said OF me
that l violated every day six laws to
Carrie Nations one. l will go into the
courts OF the country with as clean
hands as any other man. This was
the crusade that Mr.. Adou and those