The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-20
Another View of The
Prohibition Situation

mile sewage for each 33S population,
city debt of $3.50 per capita. ration
city debt to assessed valuation. 7.s
per cent. city tai ration. 1898 mills.
Moorhead. Minnesota. just across the
river. with As licensed saloons. had
one mile Of paved streets for each
1852 population. n mile water
mains for each 702 population. one
mile sewers for each S5S population.
city debt to assessed valuation eos
per cent. city tax ratio 21.S3 mills.
Prohibition Is Best.
There is not a business man Of any
standing in the state who will not
business asset Of North Dakota. The
people of North Dakota are intensely
practical in their. ideas. and If pro-
hibition had not brought us a better
civilization and a higher type of man
mood and ~womanhood,' the Law would
have been repealed long ago. Ask
the lawyers. the Judges Of the SUI
preme bench, the district Judges.
some Of whom were previously OPP
posed to prohibition. and with one ac-
cord they proclaim 1t a success. Bus
mess men who opposed IT, thinking
1t. would ruin their business. are now
Its ardent advocates. These men see
the improvement. not only in their
own business and city. but in the
material advancement of the entire
state. A proof Of this is seer in the
fact that in the last ten years, the re-
sources oof U banks have increased
from $4,000, 900 to $3S,0oo.o 900. The
total valuation of property in our
young state Is over a billion and q
half dollars. The average real and
personal wealth for every man wo-
man and child in the state is. over
$4,000. 1t has been said that North
1 nQkNfo TO a 0fota vryitSNrk a r,o11l}N~
aire and without a pauper.
Pollock said: Added experience in
other state brings into larger view
the excellencies Of the 'prohibitory
over the license system Of dealing
with h liquor traffic. The question
has long since ceased to be even de-
violations of law can he noted does
not alter the fact that the general
trend Of public thought inc action is
in favor of complete enforcement in
so far as that condition Is possible in
human government.
What a fine record u state has!
Think Of it-every young man. born
his first vote this fall, can truthfully
say that he has always lived in a
] state where not n drop Of intoxi-
eating liquor has been lawfully sold
as a beverage"
The Murder Record.
Viewing the subject further from a
Civic standpoint, let is examine a rec
ord which was kpet for year, of
the murder cases in the United
States. 1t was found that there were
$3.50, Of which only three occurred in
Maine. and only two in North Dako-
ia. Three thousand Of these MUIR
ders were cases where men killed
their wives while they. through alco-
hol. had been debased to a worse
than brutal state.
Judge Louis Sulzbachcr. a United
States district judge. before whom
n Of these cases was tried. said in
giving his charge to the grand Jury:
"Intemperance is one Of the most de-
testable vices cast upon the human
family. and any law prohibiting the
use of intoxicating liquors should be
welcomed and supported in a COM
munity of peaceful citizens to their
as a result of in~toxicants. n the In
nails of statistics establish the lament
able certainty that the origin of
crime. in most cases, was caused by
the turbulence of inebriation.
Homes were made destitute. life
became u~nbearable to the faithful
wife and to the devoted mother. and
SHI1UIen WeIc SiHGH d nOTrlDl0 0X
ample. Prison cells were filled and
the gallows exhibited its most terrific
E~spectacle. Carry u and apply this
law to the farthest and you will be
considered as benefactors of this
commonwealth.
"At the recent term Of court at
MuskoEee. 1 was present at a murder
trial which exhibited a crime OF
which humanity at this age should be
Ispared. The times of torture or tor
ment. to which we. at the present
stage Of civilization and %enlighten.
ment. look back with horror and con-
sternation were reproduced.
"a mana human being-return.
ed to his home at a late hour; to the
place where love and kindness and
affection should dwell, He beat his
defenceless wife and struck his harm
less children. Their screams. their
tears but increased his drunken an
ger.
He seized a can filed with coal oil