The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1912-01-09

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81 the Temperance Committee Of ~
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a good answer To very familiar
objection is given in the following
article in one of the religious weekly
papers: "You cant make people
moral by law" OF course not. Neither
can you make them healthy by law,
but this is no argument against law.
Laws are not designed to make men
either moral or healthy, but to pro-
tect them in person and property, in
their homes, and in all their inter-
csts. Doing this they promote NOR
atty by furnishing evil doors and re-
straining those who woa!d do evil.
They also establish conditions favor
able to morality and health.
a pure-food law may not compel
n man to eat healthful food, but it
lprevents men selling hun. under false
labels. what is unheathful. A law
against cigarettes does not take
away boys appetite for him, but
il prevents men selling them to him
and 81 protects Others from the for
nation Of the appetite. A law
against saloons may not make drink
ing men temperate. but it creates an
environment favorable to temper
ance.
The effect of good laws is to
make it easier to do right and hard
err to do wrong. We have seen
statement that in certain town in
Maine the present generation of
young men have never seen a saloon
except as they were away from home
There are no drunkards in the place.
The peorle have not been made So
Der and moral by law, but the con-
ditions under the law have been ia
vorable to sobriety and morality.
IT is so everywhere and with all
good laws. A law against gambling
houses protects against the forma-
ton Of the gambling habit. Laws
against the social evil, The sale Of
dangerous drugs, prize fighting and
other brutal sports all create, as
they are enforced, healthful en-
vironment aud atmosphere and so
promote morality.
A doctor who had lived two years
n town when il was "wet". and who
also he'd the privilege of living two
years in the same town when it was
dry, said that before the saloons
we're voted OUT he had to do twice
,s much work and got half as much
pay. "To-day" he said. 81 do half
as much work and get twice as much
pay." Do you know the reason whyf
When the saloons were open many
childen were only half fed and half
clothed. and, of course. there was
much sickness and the father could
not ray the doctor because he put
his money in the saloon. When the
saloons were voted out, the children
were fed and properly clothed. More
over, the father had money to pay
his bills. 1t pays to vote "dry".
There are those who say otherwise !;
but they are most undoubtedly wrong
The reopening of saloons in Stan
ford would give a black eye to our
splerdd graded school. Now, peo-
ple are sending their children to
Stanford for miles in every direction
When drunk men frequent our pixies
parents viii not be willing to send
their boys and girls as they now do.
| Niddlesboro has saloons and as a
rcsul; there have been seventy six
men killed in Bell county in he last
two years.
In the last two years there have
been thirty two election held in
Kentucky TO bring saloons back
where they had been voted out and
in only two cases have the liquor
people succeeded, viz: Somerset and
Bowling Green.
In Galatin county, fifty two per
cent Of the voters signed petition
to hold an election to vote saloons
hack and the "drys" won by nearly
700 majority and the county has