Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-04

lightened public opinion is demanding
the overthrow of the tyrant who has
placed upon society a burden that has
become unbearable. Many farmers of
regulation have been and are being
tried but people are awakening to the
fact that the liquor traffic cannot be
regulated, that it is a lawless institu-
ton and just as readily defies or evades
the license law as the prohibition law,
and already over 70 per cent Of our peo-
pie live under some form of prohibition,
the most satisfactory plan thus far be-
ing constitutional prohibition for the
state. The testimonies Of state leaders
where this has been tried are almost
universally in its favor. Ex-Governor
Glenn Of North Carolina says I come
from state where we have driven
the liq:,or traffic out and there is no
grass growing in the streets of any
of our cities and towns-now the state
IS entering upon an era of prosperity
the like of which she never has known,
she is gaining in leaps and bounds and
this is attributed to state wide pro-
4AlC1IlOI SIlIlc ucC1GdSCu u1Iy per
cent as she is shown by the fact that
forty prisons in the state are empty
and idle" Governor Lee Cruce of
Oklahoma bears this testimony-"The
prohibition law is desirable law from
every stand point. Looking at it from
the moral view point, it tends to better
the economical standpoint it is clear
citizenship and better government From
ly demonstrated that it means homes,
better food and better clothing for
thousands Of women and children in
this state.''
Governor Stubs of Kansas says:
| Prohibition serves the child as well
as the man: it is for the wife as we'll as
the husband; it is for society as well
as for the Individual; it is for the gov
eminent as well as for the governed.
In Kansas 1t pays the doctor his bills,
the lawyer his fees, the pastor his sal
airy. It helps the milkman. the farmer
the baker. the butcher, the grocer, the
newsboy. the dentist, the bookstore,
the Vailor, the dressmalker. the mer-
chant and the manufacturer Opposi-
ton to it has practically ceased In every
quarter Our own good governor
John. Burke, who has 80 staochly sup.
porteu our prohibition law says, Bust.
ness reasons alone are sufficient justi,
fication for the enactment Of such law
but there Is the greater reason that Il
elevates. the moral tone Of the coun
try and removes temptations from tn,
path Of our weaker brothers, who, OF
Iar ~ \H.nf~ ~
J use of all their God-given faculties ii
the great battle Of life." Testimonies
such as these and they might be mul
tiplied again and again did time per
NIT, are strong evidence Of prohibitions
growing popularity. Three states. Yves
!, Virginia, Arkansas and Colorado vot,
on the question at the November ell
, ections with good prospects of success
for prohibition.
So closely allied Will the liquo
!, traffic that it may we'll be considered
part of it is the social evil which sap
the life hood of our nation and fatten
on the despoied virtue of boys an
: girs. DR.. David Starr Jordan. Presi
dent of Leland Stanford University, i
an address before the National Educa
: tional Educatio,a al Society said Il
we are going to keep this Civilization
Of ours, we are bound to fight to til
death this whole White Slave trafh
and the whole red light district, whic
: are both Immediately and directly con
: nected with the liquor traffic Becaus
: nine-tenths Of the saloons are simpl
! open doors to the red Hight distrdc
t is one Of the greatest reasons why "
: should fight them as public nuisance,
: There 10 no duty more pressing in GU
: great cities, there Is no duty moro pres
3 sing throughout the country than t
: prevent this spread Of infections. The
I we have to meet the question Of com
8 mercialized vice. None Of the grea
evils would long exist were it not fo
: the money back Of them. Will ut tn
: financial backing there would be n,
t saloons, no red light districts. There
t fore, all our great battles of reforr
must be against commercialized wron
e and commercialized vice. You mus
t teach these things in the schools" TIL
: National Superintendent of Rescu
\ Work report that according to autl
V ortative estimates some $1,000 daugl
i tors of American homes and 1900 allie
: girls are the prey each year Of ii
4 procurer in this shameful traffic i
@ women. They orc hunted. trapped i
: thousand ways even marriage heir
: resPrtcd TO "brea,s them into life
h shame" they arc sold for less tina
a swine and held in slavery worse tina
death" There has been great activit
i against this shameful disease. drasti
laws by the federan government and b
: the various states have passed and a
: ready much has been accomplished but
| tremendous work remain to oe don
e We are Just beginning to realize tn
S widespread prevalence of infection
c diseases due to i:nmoraity and the tel
: rble dangers, moral and physical, tn:
I threaten the children in the rulli
S schools. Three causes contribute to u
e fearful extent OF this evil; First it
commercialZed. the saloons are feede,
t for the red light districts and ofici:
: grafters encourage their existence an
n share in their profits. Second, GU
t double standard purity that demand
! virtue of W nan and laughs at it /
: a man that scorns the fallen woman a
!: an outcast and with rankest incor
] sistency receives her partner in sin 8
r respectable member Of society. Thir,
k the criminal negligence Of fathers, mi
| theirs and teachers in failing to impo
}, to boys and girls the knowledge ths
d will prevent them from becoming cor
n taminated. Nlne-tenths Of tho bog
e and girls who are impure become &
| through Ignorance for which their a,,a,