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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1882
Page
3
A long Iowa Des Moines debate covers prohibition efficacy, state finances, and legislative pace. Readers note Hart and Bowdish praise, Henderson praised, with coverage of floods, wrecks, fires, and a Gough lecture advocating total abstinence and moral reform.
A Des Moines sojourn reviews the wisdom of both houses with Judge Struble and Governor Manning praised for efficiency. In the senate a temperance debate arose over prohibitory amendment discussions, drawing strong speeches about poverty and drink and prompting respectful exchanges among Arnold, Marshall, Nichols, and Bills.
Representative Hert introduces a bill to prevent and punish adulteration of food, drink, and medicine. The proposal bans mixing or adulterating items in ways harmful to health, requires clear labeling of adulterated goods, and imposes penalties from fines to prison terms. It also targets merchants selling genuine goods mixed with inferior substances and allocates half fines to informers and half to the school fund.
A wary critique of temperance zeal and the need for calm, deliberative reform beyond mere prohibition. The piece defends the State Register’s measured article on post saloon society and urges rational, measured steps before any constitutional amendment.
TAK FARMERS AND RAILROADS argues against moral attacks on Congressmen and defends railroads as vital to Illinois farming. It cites Danley and Le Grand Byington and discusses social mores, then quotes TR G Ingersoll praising practical talk on railroads and farming policy. The piece extols railroads as essential to markets, notes local freights, and urges fair taxation and unity among farmers.
The article argues that any approval for confiscation of property must come with positive binding assurances of due and adequate compensation by the State. It cites brewing and beer commerce as a legitimate industry facing legal and moral scrutiny and protests against treating it as a crime or nuisance.
A late nineteenth century dispatch reports two disasters and a brewing interest plea. A fire in Bloverhill Massachusetts destroys eighty shoe firms displacing two thousand workers and causing losses around 2.5 million dollars. In Chester Pennsylvania an explosion at a pyrotechnic lab kills thirteen and injures forty four. A lengthy memorial from Iowa Brewers to the General Assembly argues against a proposed Prohibition Amendment, detailing brewery investments, property values and state protections dating to 1853.
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