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nor Boies ptys:' '/] '['■ .1;“Experience has demonstrated it is iu couilicb withthe wishes of ‘a 'large majority of tbe citizens of mituy of the inunieipaltfes of thestate, and that it cannot possibly be carried into effect except through the insttumsntality of agencies that are foreign, to our system of government and at variance with the fundamental principles on winch it is founded'.It is now plain beyond controversy that we must abandon prohibition as a means of controlling the liquor traffic in many localities in the state or we must substitute for “a government by the people,” in a large number of our cities and towns, some outside force whose ministers are selected by others than those they are commissioned to govern.Between the two, it is the imperative duty of every citizen of the state to choose for himself, lie is wilfully blind who has ‘ not already discovered that an honest demand for the enforcement of this law in localities where public sentiment is strongly apposed to it; a demand that means what is said, and that is not deslghed to mislead any one, is a demand for the suppression, iu part at least, of popular government in every one of these localities, and for the substitution iu lieu thereof of a system that has its principal if not its only counterparts in the administration of affairs of the most despotic governments on the face of the globe,”I agree with Governor Boies in believing that the rights of man are paramount and should beheld Bitcred, and that ‘government by the people’ must not be jeopardized in pursuit of any good, for there is none higher. Democratic institutions are an end abovo the abolishment of the saloons. Let tlio peoplerttle though the waters of the great lakes become pure lager bBer and the rivers run pure whisky. The less of coercion the better. We want more teaching and less shooting; more books and fewer revolvers; more temperance lectures and fewer constables; more moral suasion and fewer penal laws.The people want to rightly understand the position of Governor Boies-one of the most upright, conscientious and patriotic governors Iowa has had— ami she has never had a governor she has nut had good reason to be proud of. The governor 1ms in no place and at no time, to my knowledge, said that he desired to see saloons re-e si nidi shed in any locality iu this stale whence they have been in fact banished. He basoo his opposition Lit state prohibition mt the ground tliai it is inadequate to accomplish the desired end of destroying saloono in localities where a majority of the people uru in luvor of their existence wilhout, ut the saute 11 me, destroying popular government; or rather, ‘•homo rule” la those localities, niul la fact revolutionizing our institutions of fret'dum bequeathed us by our fathers, and destn ying or abrogation rights won by the humus of Kaglan i from King John, iceoideil in tnagun chavttt, ami Immlud down to us a sucre 1 lalieiitinee that wo had hotter die lighting to retain than to relinquish it in pursuit of a jack o’lantern. That in his position, ub i under-stand it, and it is an impregnable one.A. auamef u 1 'abuse- Of -ithe'■ pardoning ; power; ” rdo -f you:tsay? ' ‘‘A .ofSriiniriaL abuse of ft;A f atalabuae 'of fte-f atbl 'to the welfare of the'state-Shd the prohibitory'cadsa I’’ 'Sd the *pfohlbitdry latv had become a dead; letter before Governor Boies came ihtb dfflcafail’d.' there was no tiling Governor -Botes could do to make it any deader; Sotrie; nails were driven into its'coffin by'tliV State Register’s mad warfare agaiiist the constables who hatV enforced' the-law amiseeured convictions of saloon keepers that Governor Litrrnbee pur-doued.Now I believe Governor Larraboe did only what be thought was'right; He is a noble man. He is a true ‘ patriot. He has never failed, I think, ''to do-what he believes-to be his sworn duty,! He is a philanthropist. No call of humanity will fail of afespons§ In his great and feeling heart. He is a believer iu man. What did he do? He; did right. The’prohibitory’ liquor law 1b not, in its penalties,' in harmony with the benevolent Spirit of the age. it Is wrong to shut a manupihatllthy jail for months,' running, it may ■'be, into years, for doing: what deacons of the churches thought it hot wrong to do and did, whenTw’as a boy, and good church members had an interest in—to manufacture and'sell whisky. When I was'a boy school masters north of tlie Ohio' and west of th8 ' Alleghan-ies treated their schools to whi'sky ’ahd sugar ’ on Christmas, I wdk witiiess to tills and the teacher was a‘ justice of ym peace and a deacon of tlie Biiptlsf church and the people of. the ylllagq found no fault with the' teacher' for doing so, and they were nearly' all of them members of the ' Methodist.. and Baptist1 churches. This'is a fact to: which I will iuake oath and can bring other living witnesses to swear tblt; Now to lock a mail up in jail for six months for soiling ii drink' of whisky to another is too great'a stretch of tyranny for tlie people to bo guilty of. Hence the governor's pardons.What can be done?.Give up coercion, The state should furnish, pleasant,: useful and remunerative employment to all who cannot or will not thul It titemselves, That is its far as coercion should go. Give all tin opportunity to barn tin honest living by iimiest toil. Then there will be no excuse for loot-leggers ami; vagrants. There will bo none or that sort. Judges will then enforce the laws and there will bit no pardons, for it. will be a kindness to give the idle employment niul to direct lire into useful diminels. LiiONAKD Jlnowx,To Uie’Des. iluines Lt tuler.Tt.a Great Benefit Wliicli pooplo in run down .state of hoiittb derive from flood’s StiranparlUa fuiit lusivaly proves that this niHdteine •‘makes the weak strong.’’ ‘ It. duos not act like a stimulant; imparling ttctiti-tins strength, hut llnod'a Sarsaparilla builds up in a pel fi'etly uattmti way all the weakened parts, ptVvilies the bjood, and assists to healthy action those important organs, the kidneys nun liver,x. v worm, .Quay is gone, but his uertUicmto plan Of ussetistpen t reuuii us. The uicuopor list sends'in Ids .-ihack and receives; In return a proportionate lieu on the law 1 tnakiiig power. : ••
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Ackley Enterprise
Ackley, Iowa, US
Fri, Aug 07, 1891
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