Jefferson County KS Archives News.....About that Temperance Situation.... December 13, 1879
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The Oskaloosa Independent, Jefferson County,Saturday,  December 13, 1879 December 13, 1879
In the temperance reform "a half a loaf is better than no bread." If you cannot
kill off all the evil, destroy as much of it as you can.

Which side of the temperance question are you on, for the illegal sale of liquor
or against it? If you have any doubt, you can easily know by the company you keep.

Every man is responsible for his influence in the temperance movement whether
that influence goes to aid the great evil of intemperance or to check it. If the
drainseller consults you as a friend you know where you belong.

If you in doubt as to which side of any particular effort for the suppression of
the evils of temperance is the right one, notice which side the dramsellers are
on and take the other. Men do not work against their own interest if they know it.

The day will come when the advocates of temperance will be regarded with as much
detestation as the slaveholder and slavedriver are now regarded; and the aiders
and abettors of the evil will be despised as are the doughfaces who pandered to
slavery.

The saloonists say they can prove that the druggists sell liquor illegally.
Well, why don't they do it? If they know of a crime and conceal it, they are
guilty of the crime. Prosecute the druggists like men or hold your peace. Let
the guilty be punished whether druggists or a saloonist; any one and every one
who is guilty.


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