Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-08-13
THEY ARE WALKING INTO THE
FIRE
The temperance question not an is

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| What one and single question is ask
~ all people relative to candidates
! for positions having judicial or eX-
ccutiye functions to perform? How
| many liquor men do you know who
| are supporting men whose principles
are dry for such offices as county
attorney, sheriff, probate judge, mem
Der of the Legislature, or governor?
Is it not fact too well known to
undertake to contradict that when
ever a name has been mentioned for
any of these offices the first inquiry
has been in substance, lis he wet
or dry'?"
Whenever any one tells you that
the temperance question is not an
issue in this campaign, set it down
Immediately that that candidate wish
es to trim and does not intend to
play fair with somebody, either you
or some one else.
1t is an issue and the issue has
been made by the liquor men, who
have at al times and persistently re-
FUSED to hear to 1t that any but
wet candidates shouldp run for Of
flee. Some of them want all laws
relating to restriction of territory
where saloons may operate repealed.
Some of them want to repeal the
county local option law and substi-
tute precinct local option. Some OF
them would be contented to have a To-
cal option law which would exempt
cities, and towns from its provisions
But all OF them agree upon the one
essential point and that is that the9
want no one elected who stands UNI
eqmyocally from personal choice and
as a matter of conscience for the en-
orcement of either local option LAY
or severe restrictive laws.
Ada county voted wet under To-
cal option; it would seem therefore
that liquor dealers and wholesa
in this district would be satisfied
would it not? But they are not. T
here is not one of them but is out
daily, from early morning of one day
until the early hours of the next day
talking, manipulating and Logging fol
political control.
Boise city has as stringent regula
tive laws as could perhaps be enact
ed You would think that those ad
laws who reside in this city would
be content Yet they are not con
tent They are most discontinued
Why?
There is a reason for it and the
reason is not far to seek. The
want political power. They cannot
stand to be Invested of that poweg
which has enabled them through y6
ars and years to dictate how and
when laws shall be enforced, and tC
that end to say who and when Gel
tain ones shall be elected to office.
The temperance question not al
issue in this campaign?
Ii would not have been an issu
hadthe liquor interests been conten
to abide by the will of the people
to keep out of politics and let III ,
people of the state runtheir own b.
siness; to observe the laws as the
find them and to prove that ohe,
are worthy of confidence.
But they have not been willing to
do that; they are not willing nov
to do it. They demand greater libt
ty to violate the law and they pre-
pose to get it by electing theirh men |
to office, If they can.
If they are put entirely out of our
siness and themselves go behind phi
son bars, who will be to blame?
Is he who walks boldly, knowingly
and petuiantIy into the fire nd is
burned to blame, or Is he who ssts
the fire for a worthy purpose?