The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-03-30
PROHIBITION IS
SUCCESS in N. D.
JUDGE POLLOCK, FARGO TELLS
DuLUTHlANs THAT DRY "LAW"
IN THIS STATE DOES PROHIBIT
SAYS HEINL ARTICLE IN Les
LIES coNcEALs TRUTH.


Charles A. Pollock. Judge Of the dis
trict court of Fargo. N. d., who when
district attorney of Cass county, N. D.,
drew up the prohibition law which
led to county option and later to
state wide prohibition. was in the
city yesterday while on his way to-
the upper peninsula of Michigan,
where he viii deliver series of 10
lectures before next Sunday, says the
Duluth News Tribune. He commented
in an interview on the action of
Governor Stubs of Kansas, in "call-
ing down" those who said that prohi-
bition is a failure. and referred to his
own state as a place where prosperity
has followed the wiping out of the
saloon
"The liquor business is fettered by
greed" said Judge Pollock. "Greed
grows fat on selfishness Self inter-
est has always been a stranger to
truth, hence the inability of the people
to learn the facts concerning the liquor
problem.
i undertake to say that if the people
OF Minnesota could know the exact
conditions about the splendid success
OF the prohibition law in North Dakota
Kansas and other prohibition states,
they would demand the immediate re-
tirement Of the saloon in their state.
In North Dakota our people deposit
their money in banks, grocery and dry
goods houses instead Of the saloon. AS
a result our banks have increased in
the past ten years from about 100 to
over 500, and the butcher. baker and
dry goods merchant has been made
correspondingly happy.
Because the law is occasionally
violated, there goes up cry from the
selfish interests that prohibition does
not prohibit.
THAT phrase as applied to the pro-
hibitory system of dealing with the
liquor traffic is simply an inconsisl
tent untruthful, illogical slogan, used
because of the alliterative nature of
the words. The statement, If intended
to convey the idea that the law is a
failure is absolutely false.
''In some places enforcement comes
harder than an others, but it is rap
idly increasing as the records of the
courts in all parts of the state show.
''At the present time some old Of
tenders, especially in the western part
of the state are studying behind the
bars the logical effect of law break
ing. In fully four-fifths of the state
the law is well enforced.
Fargo, the metropolis, is the big
gest little city in the country. 1T
contains now about $4,000 inhabi-
tants and is increasing with wonder
full rapidity. The business men who
were there when the population was
Txvo of~ =
forty-five saloons, where now we have
none, all say no more saloons for us.
Upon economic grounds they oppose
the return of the saloon, while the peo-
pie generally would oppose the return
to saloon days in our city and state.
Replies to Magazine Article.
81 have seen Mr.. Heinrs article In
Leslie's Weekly of March 8. He told
some truths and concealed many,
necessary for a proper conclusion. His
conclusions were simply erroneous. For
example, he stated In substance that
over $4,000,000 worth of liquor was
shipped into North Dakota last year.
Therefore prohibition is a failure tt
is an extremely fallacious deduction.
because (if true, which very much
sale of liquor to our people has been
reduced by fully two thirds. MIR. Gill
more, president of the Model License
league, is authority for the statment
that on the average last year the peo-
pie OF United States drank 100 gallons
of distilled and 20 rallons of fermen-
ted liquors. Figuring the cost OF the
former at $500 per gallon and the lat
ter at 60 cents per gallon, our popula-
tion OF 100000, under a license system
would have drank about $4,000, 600
worth. Therefore, say-prohibition
has shown itself to be an exceedingly
dry remedy"
Judge Pollock said he was in Du-
buque 80 years ago, and was at that
time offered the site of the Spalding
hotel for $4,000. He marveled at the
great strides made in recent years by
the city and predicted a great future
for it.
He will leave this morning for Iron
wood, Mich, where he will deliver his
first lecture in the interest of the coun-
ty option movement which is to be
voted on this spring in Michigan