| Show LIQUOR legislation 10 J the question to beer or not to leer beer is becoming of a great deal more than local importance it will ivill soon form a prominent factor of national politics although we do not believe that either the democratic or republican publican Ec party will insert a prohibition plank in their platforms this year the issue will be raised strongly by the opponents of liquor and in many states a fierce battle WH will bo fought for or a against zo ainest prohibition i more ore and more the disastrous consequences of indulgence in the ardent arc are making themselves perceptible especially asto as to the young and thoughtful are theoretically ayerst s to any legislative interference with individual tastes and habits arc are in in clini dining ngat at least toward a restriction of tho the public traffic in intoxicants the evil must indeed have assumed alarming proportions it if such a journal as the denver tribune comes out with editorial paragraphs following alimo has hot not as yet been advanced a single argument to show why t hose crime factories Oie saloons should not have their benses censes ad ads danced to a thousand dollars a year dideo indeed 1 there here is no real reason why th they y should id have a license at all the more one thinks of the matter the more a moderately prohibition campaign appears to bo be the proper thin tiling it is true tho the tribune n abune discriminates between liquors and beer evidently choosing of two evils the less says it places which deal lea purely in beer bee r can be let oft more li lightly than the places that sell liquor there is a chance for gradation here hut but colorado might do a new and sensible thing by prohibiting the sale of liquor and allowing allow ipg only tho the gale sale of beer hold the tile seller of the latter liable for all damages this would be more sensible than that lan nn absolutely re measure colorado beer must muot be of a more wholesome nature than the bop and malt extrac in kotlier places tho the tribune had not tasted any of that ithaca ithica N Y beer of tho the effects of which h ja a dispa dispatch ach of the 3rd ard ins gave the two following account jolin john kilstrom Ril strom drank drauk laser inger beer in pat Shee haya itys this loo looming and died two bours later fred hoffman drank beer at tho the same place this afternoon and now no W lies ICS in a comatose condition condition without hope of recovery A statistician in the see bec figured out that there were 1697 murders committed in the united states during 1883 the causes of 0 cl these tour murders ders were quarrels jealousy caused murders and liquor the years suicide suicides foot up and liquor is held acs countable foronjy for wily only 87 of them the kee bee man must have lost the keenness of his sting 1 Is it not likely that a great many of the murders caus edby quarrel had the smell of whisky or themire of ruin in them how many of these quarrels were cither either originated or aggravated grava ted by the ardent As an illustration to our implied argument mentho we reproduce the following birmingham ala dispatch of the 3 alt to the age thomas faulkner verbelia 1 academy fatally stabbed floyd B brooks ks a well esteemed young inan of fid roo t this i town faulkner was arink drunk an and 7 was approached apo ached by brooks br 0 oka concerning previous trouble between the former and tha the lattora latt lat cra brother ari law faulkner drew alonz a long dirk and stabbed brooks to the tho heart after which lie lied fled at last accounts a party of men mea wera war in pursuit |
