River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-04-02

, against Incense.
6. Lincoln said the Lord must
have loved common people
he made SO many of them. Some
man said of himself that he was
born of poor but honest parents,
moderately poor and tolerably
honest. We of River Falls are
just mainly common people. There
is some good in all of us and not
too much in ally of us. We live
| and learn. Sometimes we learn
that what we permitted yesterday
ought to be abolished to-day.
Progress is through change from
good to better and from better to
| best.
And some plain common people
are beset with t he idea that the
saloon hardly deserves the label
good" And sometimes thew are
so common they protest. A few
protest all the time, others wait
for favored opportunity. Most
of them believe it is better to fail
in an effort of protest than to
succeed in doing nothing. They
wait for next Tuesday to protest
against a legalized evil. Whether
they win or not their ballot says
by my vote, protest against
the continued existence Of h a
which is not even good, but which
exists only as permitted by tn e
license system in River Falls"
Z. A startling decision was rem
dered by South Dakota Judge
not long since. The decision held
that as the business in intoxicat-
ing liquors is detrimental and
dangerous to the public welfare,
any attempt to give it legal
standing is unconstitutional. Per-
haps that Judge overshot the mark,
but his aim was right. For tenn
perance proverb reads,-"W h a is
morally wrong can never be made
legally right" 1t must follow then
as surely as no-license follows Ii
cense, that every effort at regula-
ton is no more and no less h a n
trifling with the truth. And the
one-eyed pig and no-eyed tiger
are proof that is seen. The evil
I is simply driven from cover. Lii
/ cense simply allows the same til
ger certain prescribed rights"
that's all. The disastrous results
so apparent in the open, may be
! and doubtless are, more disastrous
within the prescribed "ri g h 8"
of the license system.
8. Every man who has a son or
daughter holds in his own hand
and home the supreme reason for
his vote against license next Tues
day.
8. Because it is a challenge to
the best in the hearts of our peo-
pie. 1t gives us new hope and new
ideals. 1t makes us Disconnected
with conditions that would be in
tolerable if our senses had not been
dulled by long years of endurance.
The presence of intoxicated and
besotted men on our streets is
disgrace to our community. Vote
| for clean town and conditions
favorable to clean living.
10. Because a no-license law
can be enforced as we'll as any law.
That does not mean that perfec-
ton can be secured for all laws
are frequently broken. Thieving
and even murder may be commit
ted in law-abiding community.
Regulations under which licensed
saloons operate are violated ev-
cry day by the same persons that
would violate no-license regula-
obedience even under the bad con-
ditions now, and that measure of
obedience would be just as great
under regulations that would make
Any good law can be enforced
anywhere under the American flag,
or representative government is
failure.
These are surely reasons which
appeal to every fair-minded, in
telligent voter. To him must be
left the choice of such candidates
as will in his Judgment best exc
cute his wish as expressed in his