The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-04-15
GOVERNOR FOR
DRY MITCHELL
SKATE EXECUTIVE ATTENDS
MEETING AT CITY HALL AND
is CHIEF SPEAKER.

Governor Frank M. Brine, State
Senator G. S. Bobb and w. S. Glass.
of Watertown. were the speakers
last evening at the meeting held in
the city hall auditorium by the tenn
perance forces. in the effort to make
Mitchell dry i'll the spring election
Tuesday.
Music for the meeting was fur
nished by the Dakota Wesleyan Glee
club under the leadership of Mrs.
w. C. Hunter. The chairman of
the meeting, Chester Ruth, introduc-
ed Senator Bobb as the first speaker.
The effect OF liquor ON heredity was
considered by DR.. Bobb. who gave
statistics showing that only from 6
to II per cent of the children OF
drinking parents e normal and
pleaded for the adjustment of an in
stitution that lowered the standard
Of the human race.
Governor Byrne said he hoped Nit
chell would go dry, and continued, 81
want You to understand that | be-
lieve in the water wagon. | never
heard any one offer what seemed to
me a single reason for a saloon. |
know a good man reasons why We
should not have it. We look upon the
saloon as outside of legitimate bust
ness. an outlaw, that requires special
regulations. and a permit which has
come to be ter . license.
During the time / have been gov
ernor / have given a great deal of at
tention to these unfortunate people
who are in the p~enitentiary. I have
discovered that only a few of those
people have real criminal tendencies.
most of them are simply unfortunate.
| say to you tonight that on my best
Judgment and honesty, three-fourths
of the people in our p%enitentiary to
day are there because of liquor in one
way or another.
"Just the other day | granted 4
pardon to a young man who wrote a
plendid letter, pathetic and earnest.
He accepted a position with a lum-
Der company in one of the towns OF
our state and for a time held out,
btu he saw older men, men who seem
ed to be respectable, going to the sa-
loon. He fell into ii. Then came the
attendant evil, gambling, and then
taking a little of his employers
money thinking he would make q
winning and put it back. lost all nor
al sense and ended with a term in
the p~enitentiary.
81 am pleased to see the growing
sentiment in this state. ! believe the
young people are coming TO look or
it from a business standpoint. To
day no young mar who has any am
bition to lead a successful life can
take any chances with drink. it is
too h;u ~ riSl. 10 MN In yrnot u
handicap to assume voluntarily
The state of South Dakota appro-
PIRATES money to sustain the univer-
sity and the agricultural college and
other state schools. and the state oil
South Dakota wants to wake up tC
this. that it is wasteful to spend
money to build schools and then per
| nit saloons to be placed close to then,
to entice and attract the attention oi
the boys who go there for education
and undo the work of the school
You have a state school here. for
while the state does not appropriate
money for it it is recognized as 6
state school. The people of Mitchell
ought to have appreciation enough
for the benefits of that school to be
able to say to the people of tho
state, If you send your sons here
they vii not have within a stone.
throw eleven saloons to offset oul
work hope Mitchell will take the
water road. am looking forward
to a considerable advance this spring
and shall be very glad to hear that
Mitchell has joined the precision
The last speaker was Mr.. Glass
who last evening made his appear
ance for the forces of temperance.
He declared that the traffic in liquor
was the greatest agency threatening
humanity and humanity will event
ually DESTROY this traffic. He quoted
at length figures showing the eco
nomic loss caused by the BUSINESS. He
compared North and South Dakota
wherein the former state had gained
in population. wealth and school at
tendance over this state, due to the
absence of saloons.