The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-06-17
LOCAL OPTION.

Petitions election the option question
in Lincoln county There is little doubt that the petitions will
be largely sgnedenough that they will get the required 40
per cent of the total VOTE and SO bring the election.
1t easy say and believe such laws the proh
bon of alcoholic liquors ought to be necesary that is
weakening to moral nature to make him dependent
the law for protection against himself of that
the man who really can take let alone and chooses to
let 1t alone that does not harm him his family society
at large is the better morally than the who needs
prohibition to help him. The one is serean the other
weakling.
But there many weakngsl So many men, who with
their inherited appetite their plant natures their love for
ciet though be the society of the bar not
their masers 1t may be that they strong
or so valuable to society their brothers who No
Yet there would not be enough left bury the dead if all
who need the boserng from the of the law
turned loose iii this and other fatal lines with legal restraint
IL IS not true that the only men worth saving are those who can
save themselves The who SWIM mortaly bound to
his child his brother who not wm the fireman
who climb the ladders and not lose his head in the face of
fire. is bound to those who cannot do The who
less at home-the wife and the little children and the
aged father and mother is not true anywhere life that
the only worth the strong and efreant who
themselves What damnable world it would be- if
society tried for ten minutes to live out this creed
This brings out the point Of the local option law there
are men, or women or children who need protection against
themselves and against the sale Of liquor society bound
protect them There is million men, to whom it
is worth as much individually collectively to be able to
booze when and where they want it, it is worth to society
The lover that his sweetheart is worth to him than
all tn rest of the world the mother would sacrifice everything
fe gladly Tor his family But who that booze is
worth this saeree Who would all the of the
world the OF
Only mankind is worth the final sacrifices for fellow
we can and should give up all things else. It harms
for the lover the parent the friend sacrifice the linn
it for his love- and his sacrifice would be the theme of song
story for all time But sacrifice of life the altar Of
noble appetite ridiculous how impossbei The compare
tive worth of the of the weak the weak
the weak child compared with the giving Of free
booze that would have damned ones princ
pie which the prohibition laws built You could give up
the pubic sale OF liquor and harm restrain its sa
for the benefit of the myrad weaker ones who suffer be
of it. humane and the duty of everyone We can't al
them to be killed off because they weak society must
them the individual would his loved
wen though they weaand be done through keep
ng the dangers away from them. ID
The local option law Americana gives the people the right
control If the majority say they liquor it gives it
hem If they want liquor cutting off for the sake of those
whom it INJURIES the law gives them the privilege of doing
Surely this is not bad awi a
1t may be predicted in advance that the will put
nut OF business Lincoln county when the ballots counted