The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-12-24
3OOZE MUST co,
S EDTCT-

Wlnnemucca's wholesale and re-
all liquor district has been the
Gene of much discussion during
ate days. The lairs where jags and
headaches are dispensed have suf-
erred from the intrusion of the Off
,ers of the law and the normal out
low of the demijohn has been very
eriously interfered with, if indeed
t has not been stopped altogether,
Regret is expressed in several quar-
ers that this is to be a cherries
Christmas and that booze hounds
ire not to be privileged to drink
themselves into totally maudlin
tate in celebration of the passing
# the old year and as bully well
ONE for the new year.
The profit takers who found booze
ending a lucrative pastime, or vo-
alton, or avocation, or whatever
Use you want to call the unlawful
falling that has been practiced by
everal of our citizens, stand aghast
1t the intrusion of the officers who
IS rank interlopers interpesed to
top the debauchery that has pre-
FAILED without license of law, with
put license of leave taking from the
rood, wholesome people of the COM
nunity or without license from the
moral code.
Many of these vendors of illicit
liquor had doubtless come to look
lpon their vocation or avocation, as
she case happened to be, in a very
light manner. The profit of the
moment was the big thing in their
minds. 1t doesn't matter, according
o their conception, that laws were
being broken, that manhood was be-
ng debauched, that men who are
weak were being made the prey for
4 form of debasement and expendi-
'ure which they could not afford,
physically or financially. They held
nut an alleged good fellowship, a
rec and easy way of doing things
hat appeals to the weak, and capt.
allied unfortunate human predelic-
ion in manner that is repre-
iensible to say the least.
But every man who breaks the
prohibition laws is a lawbreaker in
act. He is a parasite who thrives
lpon human misfortune. Without
he man, or woman, suffering from
alcoholic psychosis, his business can
iot thrive and he is willing to break
odes, legal and moral, inflict misery
md beggar the victim for the finan-
:ial gain in sight.
This editorial is written for the
nan who reads and analyses; the
>ne who maintains a clear perspec-
i've and entertains a due regard for
community welfare, with a full
knowledge of the fact that there
IRE others, unfortunately, in con-
'iderable numbers, who would dis
eegard the law and allow the sale of
strong liquor to continue, because
t falls to their lot to be numbered
among the unfortunates who smack
their lips over the prospect of al
Ewig at the demijohn that stimulates
and may carry perpetual blindness
pr paralysis within its sinister eon-
lent.
Thirsty folk and critical who
reside hereabouts were engaged in
Ehe not so long ago in picking flaws
lin the prohibition act, and were
limiting that it was farcical, and
charging that its enforcement was
s1alf-hearted. It is, indeed, a re-
rfreshing novelty to take note at this
lime that the same DISCLAIMERS move
about town with grave looks on
their faces and are plainly disturbed
over the turn events have taken.
& 1t is probably occurring to their
primitive minds that booze must go,
here as elsewhere, and that the time
Is not far away when Winnemucca
will be so dry that the suns rays
will simmer and wiggle with the
mercury standing at zero. Too bad,
boys, but tits true.
i Sheriff G. w. Brady, Under Sher-
If C. w. Muller, Chief of Police
* G. Lamb, and Night Watchmen
Perry Boyd and Joe Sparks form
formidable crowd of law enforcers
who are committed to the enter
prise Of Kidding Winnemucca of its
Wholesale booze establishments,
cwhile District Attorney L.. G. Will
bon. as the prosecuting official of
The county, stated yesterday he is
Fiust as intellectually committed TO
he same laudable objective and can
De depended upon to make the way
|bf the transgressor very hard in
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