The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-01

cal market"
What Nelson Says.
Judge Thomas A. r. Nelson OF
Knoxville, Tennessee, dry city, says:
III larger attendance at Sunday
school and other church services; II
larger and more regular attendance at
day schools by better shod, better
clad and cleaner children; If $4,000
more money for increased room and
better equipment and larger pay for
teachers; If 60 per cent decrease In ar
rests; II decrease in even greater per-
centage in homicides and oil grades of
crime; il million dollars annually
spent in the necessaries Of life, which
were formerly spent for liquor, indi-
cate failure, then prohibition has
failed"
W. P. Chandler, chief of police, says:
I'VE have had q dry town more than
year and this city Is better off in
every way. Our city is one hundred
per cent. better morally than when
saloons were here. It is true we make
arrests, and some for drunkenness;
but where in days OF the saloon we
made from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred and fifty arrests a week
we mako now rarely fifty including all
manner of cases. There are hundreds
OF children In Knoxville with clothes
and something to eat, who formerly
went hungry and almost Naked"
The Knoxville Sentinel says: The |
hire prophecies made for Knoxville !
have not been accomplished. The ia
places formerly occupied by saloons |
arc all Occupied now by other business. |
The business Of the city has gone
ahead In spite OF the general depres-
sion Of last year"
The Supreme Good.
Government must stand for the
greatest good. This Is the supreme /
principle which has been Incorporated |
in the common law. It Is on this
ground that the supreme court has de-
clared that there is no inherent right I
in citizenship to sell intoxicating IL
Quors for beverage purposes. Such
right can exist only by statute, presu-
mably safeguarded from danger to
public welfare. II wrong could be
q
might stand. But experience has dem
that wrong can never be
regulated. The rights of
the public are greater than statute
law. They will find expression in rev.
olution II revision does not meet the
intelligent demand for recognition Of
the right. Right and wrong precede
and statutory law and
can not be superseded by them.
Basis Of saner Laws.
Whatever Is injurious to the COM
munity to the extent Of taking life,
Repriving men Of liberty and destroy
ing the pursuit of happiness can not
remain lodged in the law. Its tempo
rary Judgment does not alter hurtful
results. nor does 1t insure against adj
vanced legislation. Wider experience
md self preservation become the basis
II saner laws. We are now at this
stage of human progress in solving the
liquor problem.
Tried upon the tests Of constitution
Il government which must promote
,eace. insure domestic tranquility and
,rotect lie and property the liquor
raffic stands condemned and will
n0ete IT. death.
Prohibition only can accomplish the T
destruction Of this greatest foe Of civil n
Eation. Nor will 1t be the first time a
hat prohibition has accomplished O
THAT compromise had failed to do. Il
human slavery met it's Waterloo, not 8
n the field Of compromise, but in the q
lot arena Of prohibition. 81
Compromise is hope deferred and
naketh the heart sic1k." It ought to.
here can be no rest until question T
{ right and wrong is settled by pro-
ibiting the wrong. England's OPP
and taxation without repre- IL
had no rest under compro-
1ise-Theft no law OF COMPROMISED