. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. or statutory prohibition. He declared: The last bridge is burned behind me, and I stand squarely with thegreat temperance forces to drive out this hideous monster from our fairstate. A man must take a square and unmistakable stand for the right orfor the wrong, for righteousness or for evil, for happiness or for misery,for justice or for oppression. As for me, I am heart and soul against theliquor traffic. But some one says money derived from the liquor business is neces-sary to run the
. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. or statutory prohibition. He declared: The last bridge is burned behind me, and I stand squarely with thegreat temperance forces to drive out this hideous monster from our fairstate. A man must take a square and unmistakable stand for the right orfor the wrong, for righteousness or for evil, for happiness or for misery,for justice or for oppression. As for me, I am heart and soul against theliquor traffic. But some one says money derived from the liquor business is neces-sary to run the schools. I say it is not. The schools do not depend onblood-money. Wipe out the liquor business and, if necessary, the statecan well afford to increase the tax on property to sustain the schools andsave the boys and girls of this land. You have all heard the old cry that prohibition will not prohibit;blind-tigers and all forms of unlawful sale will flourish. Prohibition canbe enforced as effectivelv as other laws are. Let the officers of the law. • 1 I ft* J v HHHhR 1 m ???t^^«B ^^^^^ pq. ^ : Wo CO SYMPHONY OF THE STATES. 287 backed up by the moral sense of the community and the cooperation ofgood citizens, do their duty; let the men who break the law be sentencedto the roads, and let no government grant them a pardon, and you willhave prohibition in full force. NOETH DAKOTA. North Dakota was admitted as a state in 1889 with a constitutionalprohibitory provision. The state, largely settled by men with little capi-tal, has obtained a degree of prosperity under prohibition which is littleshort of marvelous, when the shortness of time and other circumstancesare considered. The United States census report shows that North Dakotahas the greatest wealth per capita of any state in the Union. Farm earn-ings per capita are the greatest in the nation. The state has a $100 percapita in savings banks, second only to Maine, six times the amount percapita in the savings banks of the g
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