The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-06-16
Judge Nehemiah Davis
Delivers Excellent Address
REVOLUTIONS Of Methods Of Treating the Liquor
Traffic" Topic Of Speech at Recent Meeting

Last Friday evening before the
meeting Of the w. c.. T. U. in this
city Judge Nehemiah Davil delivered
an excellent address on the "Evolu-
tion Of the Method Of Treating the
Liquor traffic"
The address is an excellent one and
should be read carefully by all inter-
ested in good citizenship.
may not say much to you about
'the evolutions Of the liquor traffic" "
but | have some few ideas about the
When our friend, Mrs. Connors, first
mentioned to me that she would be
pleased to have me speak to you, she
did not state the subject upon which
I was to speak. 7 considered it Il
great homer to be invited to appear
before you and felt it my duty to &C.
cept. The time / had to prepare what
few remarks l shall make, has been
limited, and especially so because of
the fact that l am, and have been,
very busy. One would assume that
there would be but little work for
your great and noble organization in
q state where the constitution and
fundamental law of that state forbade
the manufacture and sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors, and especially in a demo-
cracy, where the people make their
own laws. One would assume that
when q majority Of our people make
laws, that such laws should be orserv-
cd, not only by the majority who
enacted them, but by the minority who
must have necessarily acquiseced In
them, and the minority does asqiesce
In the laws under our form of govern
ment. 1t has become a law Of the
land, rule of conduct, if you please,
and it should be observed and en-
forced to the letter. Laws that a
majority are opposed to should be
repealed, and not allowed to become
. dead letter.
That provision of oul constitution
prohibiting the liquor :aftic within
our border is one of the most benefi-
Client provisions ever ado pied by this
or any ether state, and >lm proud OF
the fact that as voter, { aided in
Its ratification. And l am proud that
I am a resident and citizel of state
whose people have had the moral
courage to place themselves among
the foremost in stamping their dis
ilnproyal on this nefarious tratic.
The time is fast approaching when
this traffic will be recognized by all
we'll meaning people as crime IN
fact, and If the signs of the time an
be rightly read by me, it Is at no dis
tant day when the sale and distrtbu-
button OF intoxicating liquor will be
made a crime in every state In the
Union. 1t is crime, made so by law
in this state; 1t is q crime against
God: it is q crime against the human
race: am opposed to the manufac'
ture of intoxicating liquors In the
state, first; for the reason that 1t Is
a damnable traffic, and the use OF 1t
causes more distress and sorrow to
our fellow men than oil other agen'
cies combined; and second. because
II il 4 violation of the law. All who
love the home and purity, and who
are opposed to the degradation OF
their fellow men are opposed to this
monster of evil, the sale and distrt'
button Of intoxicating liquors. The
opposition to 1t is becoming wide
spread in this country. and there ap-
pears to be q determination on the
part of the people to stamp out and
forbid this awful traffic. Maine. Kan
sas, North Dakota, Georgia, Alabama,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma
and Mississippi now have statewide
prohibition, and more states will vote
upon the. question at the election
this fall. Other states have local op-
ton or other laws lessening the traf'
nc, The antt-siloon movement has
made wonderful stzddes IN recent
years, and TO such an extent has the
movement spread, that the dfstiller