The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-12-13
WHIsKEY ADVERTISEMENTS

HC uSuC against SlO otA0o
fraught with many obstacles and tenn
perance people frequently disagree as
to methods, and to the probable eff
feet OF given course.
This paper is taking liquor adver-
Using at, the same rates as any other
merchandise, and has been for two
years. The liquor business is an out
law in this county in one respect and
legitimate in another. 1t is at all
times a c urse and morally wrong,
and the day has passed when any
thing can be said in its favor. But
in the days of slavery the enforce
ment OF the Fugitive Slave Law help
ed speed the day when there could
be no more slaves to be run down
and taken back to the whipping post
and to their toll. The Abolitionists
wanted to hang the supreme court
because they decided that slave
was slave and could be possessed
as other chattels. The outcome OF
the agitation was the conviction that
slavery itself was wrong; that 1t was
not a question Of how to legislate in
regard to slavery or how people
should conduct themselves in relat-
ion to it. but a question Of removing
or destroying something that was abb
solutely and fundamentally wrong.
Liquor Question like Slavery
The dry counties of Idaho have
now reached the same stage in the
question that confronted the several
states of the union when the supreme
court upheld a slave owner in kid
mapping black man in free sol
state. Slavery was abhorrent to the
people Of the free states and was
contrary to their statutes, but mer
in the slave states could own blaci
people or anyone having a drop O
black blood in his or her veins, ant
If the slave escaped into free state
and was as white as other people ex
cept under scientific test as to racia
blood, the SLAYER could take absolute
control of the body and local people
we're helpless to protect him or he
from any indignities whatsoever.
Whislsey A Fugitive.
In the case Of the liquor trade, i
is also indefensible from mora
standpoint, but the owner of whiskel
in another state, wet state, can lei
his goods come into Idaho and HI
can deliver them to anybody h
wants to. He has absolute contro
Of the body, the package, regardless
of who is to, drink it or Of the effect
it may have upon him or her. .q,
There are several means by which
this trade may be carried on, ant
the people of the dry counties o.
Idaho might just as we'll wake up tt
the conditions confronting them ant
take action that shall be fundamen
tai in its effect. The legislature II
soon to meet, and the Anti-Salool
League will ask for legislation which
students of the subject think will
\ greatly reduce the traffic until con
gress shall give that recognition u
the subject which has long been due
People are blaming officers for no
doing their duty, and at the SAM
time many of the. complaining per
sons do not furnish the officers will
the evidence they have at hand
They also blame the newspapers TO
carrying liquor advertising, and pub
fishers take the advertising knowing
that whiskey is curse that man
people object to 1t in the papers. Blu
it does not settle the fundamental
to shift the scenes from one channe
to another When some of the east
ern counties of Idaho went dry som
three years ago. most of the news
papers represented in the Easter
Idaho Press Club agreed that it wa
the duty of the newspapers to rise t
the occasion and bar out liquor ad
vertising from their columns, and Il
that way make 1t impossible for tn
liquor dealers to offer their good
by the mail order and express meth
Cd. But this plan was failure
The liquor dealers secured the ad
dresses Of the inhabitants and sen
them circular letters, paying the gov
eminent two cents each for dell
vering the whiskey message to pee
pies doors or mail boxes. It wa
simply changing the message fror
one channel to another, and the gov
eminent reaped a harvest in postag
while the newspapers suffered tn
loss Of advertising. After trying tn
matter for year or so the news
paper men agreed that their attemr