Evening journal., 1908-06-03

skillful counsel learned in our pro-
fession who seem willing thus to plot
crime and treason TO the law and to
the government they took oath to up
hold-h only their fee is big enough.
These things encourage and incite the
ignorant and vicious to violence and
crime.
You people who live in Kent and
Sussex counties, where the population
is more scattered and police perfection
Is less, are deeply interested in main
tanning a condition of obedience to law
and authority. Protection Of your
wives and children demands IL. Oriy
thus will life and property be secure
Just to the extent that any law is
ignored, anarchy is invited.
No matter what one may think Of
drinking, or of local option, if he is
good citizen, an honest American. a
true Delawarean, he will want enforc-
ed the expressed will Of the peoDle
when 1t has been deliberately ascer-
tanned by majority vote. No one vii.
publicly challenge this reasonable ana
just position. 10 question this view
would be to urge the right of tho
minority to rule over the majority
That would be force, a substitution of
mob rule for orderly government and
law.
Our State has too proud a history
has played too prominent part in the
struggle for the establishment of this
Republic, TO now tolerate reputation
Of the great American principle on
which depends the freedom and liberty
we all enjoy.
Local Option in Congress.
Unless you of Kent and Sussex are
to be robbed of much of the fruit Of
your hard-earned victory, you must
carry the tight for local option into the
Congress of the United States.
Local option is a local regulation
adopted under the police power of the
State for the protection and welfare of
people of the locality 1t is an out
rage when such a local option law can
be nullified under sheltering national
authority, by citizens Of other states
who use as their criminal instruments
the public common carriers-and this
after the law has been adopted by ma
1ority vote Of the only people con-
cerned.
Are we going to drive our own citl-
zens out of the business-and then per-
NIT the money to be made by ciuzens
of other states in defiance of the laws
OF Delaware? If not, you must send
men to Congress who will demand
that national laws no longer shall over
ride local laws as to these purely local
matters
1t is your fight. men OF Delaware!
And until it is won, you have no power
to protect your own homes and fnan-
cial interests, even by unanimous vote.
against the dangerous effects of poi
sonous liquors sent into your counties
in contempt of our local laws-by law
breakers remaining safely beyond our
borders and conducting their crimiua,
traffic by aid of the laws of the United
States.
It will be a battle royall The op-
position is powerful financially and
politically and is we'll entrenched.
Delaware is so vitally interested in the
outcome that it's representatives in
Congress should make an aggressive
and intelligent fight for the benefit Il
this State and the welfare of the en-
tire country-more than half the area
of which is now without a licensed
dram shop.
Only actual members Of Congress
have the right to the floor and a vote.
We who are outside have power 10
do but little, and must absolutely de-
pend upon the skill and courage of our
official representatives.
Delaware welcomes the struggle and
will enjoy its part in settling this great
moral crisis on the lofty plane of the
common good of all the people Of our
Republic.