The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-03-16


psychologists, physicians and meta
physicians to analyze the causes and
to guide, people to avoid these un-
happy results is submerged in the
spectacle of increased .unhappiness,
and the reckless determination to
cast off the restrictions that bind and
irritate.
For forty years the world. has been
drifting steadily toward prohibition,
with the speed greatly increased in
recent years. and now there are two
conditions of the public mind that
are Numerically opposed in their
tendencies; the determination to eX-
terminate liquor and the liquor
trade, and on. the cher hand,
tendency to condone bootlegging and
recognize the bootlegger as re-
spectacle cog in society and hero
in the eyes of more people than are
willing to acknowledge their period
ical need for him.
Some Notable
Examples
At the present time the press of
the country have been playing up
cases of family disturbance in the
lives of prominent people, not be-
cause people of wealth and power
take the lead in violating the laws
and customs of society, but because
the same publicity about lowly
characters has long since ceased to
attract the attention of the reading
public. A wealthy banker in New
York and a prominent guide in th
Canadian woods have furnished in
teresting reading matter to the peo-
pie of many nations in recent
months. The escapades of movie
stars on the Pacific coast are having
their run in the press of the county,
and thru it all there runs the thread
of human wishes fulfilled tenn
porarily at the risk Of all that is dear
to them. Only last week woman at
Nampa, Idaho, who had been con-
victed Of leaving good home and
loyal husband to ride away with the
| husband of neighbor-a woman
| who took her nine-year old daughter
along in the elopement to Salt Lake,
Pocatello, Blackfoot, Dillon and
finally to home in Calgary, Canada,
after being brought into court with
the man in the case and hearing the
whole history of their conduct told
to them and the court, witnesses as
sembled at infinite cost to Canyon
county, this woman, brought to bay
after a few months of living as she
| wished, said that she knew she was
| doing wrong when she did it, that
| it met her wishes and that she would
do it again IL the same circum-
stances and opportunity confronted
her. She suffered the pain of seeing
her companion sentenced to McNeil's
island and her little daughter taken
away from her and Of her being for
hidden to touch her, on the theory
that she was entirely vile, and with
considerable fortitude she is await.
ing the third of April to receive her
own sentence.
Every day witnesses people of low
and high station in life risking every
thing, even life itself, for the accom-
plishment of personal wishes-they
go into drug stores and buy poisons
bearing some remote resemblance to
whisky, and drink them knowing
that it may cause death or the loss
Of reason within the hour, and we 60
on trying to legislate human desires
out of human lives, trying to make
| the penalties so certain and SO severe
that people will be afraid to sin, and
as we said in the beginning, these
conflicting pressures are running so
high and so universal, it will be in
teresting to witness the develop
ments of the next few years, to see If
humanity gets back to normal or
finds new ways of adjusting itself to
what it has been trying to extermin-
ate.