Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-10-31
LANCER SHOULD
4. R REMOVE Il J LID, | IS
ROBINSON CLAIM
.We.Are Fiddling While Rome
Burns Declares .' NJ, Venerable
League Justice.

League Justice.
Declaring it the duty of Attorney
General William LANCER to publicly
proclaim the removal of North Da-
kota's bone-dry lid, in order that al
coholic liquors may be obtained for
the prevention or treatment Of in
fluenza, Associate Justice James E.
Robinson today gave to the press his
fourth letter on the subject of Flu
and Booze" which is as follows:
Have we no governor, no attorney
general, 40 judges? A great calam-
ity is upon calamity as disast-
rous as the Minnesota forest fires
and we fiddle while Rome burns.
The cry is what must we do to be
saved; how may we get liquor and
quinine to ward off the pestilence
that is upon us?
Now the question is up to the at
torney general. and his duty is to
speak and to act promptly and in a
way to save the lives oft,the people.
With the greatest zeal and rigor he
has carried on prosecutions to en-
force the fake, bone-dry statute
which never passed by the senate.
The result is that liquor has been ex-
cluded from the state and the express
companies refuse to carry it, and the
people are denied the best remedy
against the pestilence. -ss
'sNow the attorney general must
no longer keep mute. He must either
proclaim that the dry-bone statute is
a pure fake and that it was never
passed by the senate, or declare that
the senators are all liars, because at
the extra session last January the
senate passed a resolution, without a
dissenting vote, declaring the. sup
posed act a fake, and that it had, new
er passed the senate. The truth OF
that resolution is. well confirmed by
the journals WHICH show that on
March !. 1917. alta p. M, Senator
Pullman offered ten amendments to
the bill known as House Bill s39.
These amendments were adopted by
the senate. 25s.is,..f5.5s
'oThe hill as amended permitted
any person within each period of 80
days to receive and possess for his
personal use, four quarts of spirit
uous liquors, five gallons Of wine, or
~ quarts Of beer or malt liquors. In
| lieu of that amendment it appears
that there was substituted, engrossed
and filed a fake amendment max
ing crime to receive, deliver or pos
sess Intoxicating liquors for any pur-
pose whatsoever. On March Q, 1917
at the close of the legislative session
near midnight, when the members
of the house were fatigued by long
continued, hurly-burly work and by
the taking of a yea, and nay vote on
70 bills, there was presented a grand
opportunity for some fake work
Then it was that few members OF
the house caused the bill with the
fake amendments to be engrossed
and recorded as passed by the house
and senate. L. N. I. Il;
Nov it appears that since July /
1917, the attorney general and all
his forces have been at work to en-
force the. fake statute. or course it
was done innocently, hut it was done
without proper ii care and caution.
And the result has been q sad calam-
Iity, and now it is for the attorney
general to use all his force and pow
er to undo the wrong; and to pro
claim that the bone-dry statute is a
pure fake, and telegraph the express
companies to- receive, carry, and de.
liver liquor for any person to-, any
part of the state. The emergency
permits OF no delay. We, must not
fiddle while Rome burns When a
person is bitten BY "a rattlesnake Of
Il Il
fu germ. he has no time ossend OF
for liquor. Everyone should have on
hand and keep supply and know
how to use it to counteract the fiu
poison. The antidote must be used
before the poison has time to do ita
deadly work, 3sS5
The attorney general knew how
Ltossave the life of his own good wife
by securing 3 friend 70 rustic for him
: bottle Of good Rhiske and \ N
THAT he { did risht, regardless of any
fake statute tel the CONTRARY But
there are other Ives snd mothsr,
ana chill ldrepS / e protec against the
Ind len attack q the dea al pesti-