The daily progressive-miner., 1917-07-14
PREAMBLE TO THE CONS TITUTION OF
 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

el such StocaS oL tA0 L4-S-- s.--o IA Of Ka,chikan not performing their duty B, the polling place as citizens of this country. MT VOTER further says it .s no- fair. the voters Of this territory have virtually agreed. by the terms or ,he ballot that the saloons be permit led 70 run until the end Of this year ,; no such inference can be drawn from the vote Of the people al the last cleo -ten. The ballot gave them no op- por,an.ty 70 ax the time when whisky selling mus stop. All they could vote or was whether il should be stopped ar the end Of this year or continue. II ,hav had been accorded the right to vore on stopping it's sale on the 3oth day 0: June there can be no doubt but thar the vote would have been practi- cally the same as it was. They were voting 10 prevent men from doing that which is wrong and destructive or health. decency. good morals and good citizenship. and why should they not stop ir as soon as they could. Further more conditions have changed since -he last election. We were not al war with the great central powers Of Eur ope. The scarcity Of labor which now exists did not obtain al that time.
 Perhaps the whisky seller should be allowed in his business (so called by him 10 carry out the things enumerat- , ed in the Preamble 10 the Constitution. f so. what part Of it; selling whisky surely does nor tend 'to form a more perfect union" it does not establish justice: it does not insure domestic tranquility" it does not promote wei fare On the contrary il is detriment- ! al 10 all those things. All then that is Jeff is the last. and secure the bles- sings Of Liberty 10 ourselves and our . Posteri-y'; different men have a diff ferenr manner Of mind. and perhaps rhe dsaIe. in intoxicating liquors reas- ons like this. that one blessing Of liber- ! v is to grant to men the privilege 10 ; sell 70 their fellow men that which makes them embeciles, criminals. 5rutes, paupers or wife beaters; when al insane man is al large he is taken into custody because the public safe - and his inability 10 take care Of him. self requires it. Yet according to Mir. 7 VOTER il will be imposing hardship on the whisy seller not 10 permit him during the remainder Of this year 70 urn men out from his barroom crazed and brutalized with poisonous drink and not capable 10 care foE themselves and also not having the capacity 10 dis
 tinguish right from wrong and decency from good behavior; when people are
 inflicted with contagious diseases they
 are not permitted 10 mingle with the
 public, nor are they when 50 afflicted
 allowed 10 land on our docks from g
 foreign boat. But it is not fair, MT
 VOTER says, not to allow liquor deal
 ers 10 turn men loose on our streets in
 q condition which may cause any citi
 zen Of either sex or any age to loose
 their lives.
 Now, Gr. WRITER. calling yourself VOTER, have this to say to you who
 ever you may be, in conclusion: Ii
 there ever was time and place when
 men should retain their sober senses
 such time and place is the United
 States of America now. And if the Ii
 quor dealer would do his duty as Joy al citizen Of this country he would he would not be talkink about educating
 American boys and girls with taintes money. but had better Carrie Natior . every drop Of intoxicating liquor thai he owns. and if by doing he should pre- . vent the urtering Of widows sigh ol the falling of one orphan's tear he vii De repaid-"The Other Side" by l; ' VOTER
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