. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ass, my home county, there aresixty-five men entitled to practice. All of our leading lawyers, with rare excep-tions, are total abstainers, and only three or four can be classed even as moderatedrinkers. When we consider the influence which the lawyer can exert for goodor evil, fortunate indeed is that community whose legal fraternity is composedof sober men. The sentiment of our business men has changed. They havefound that money can be made without the help of the traffic. It is interestingto hear those who spoke loudest for th
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ass, my home county, there aresixty-five men entitled to practice. All of our leading lawyers, with rare excep-tions, are total abstainers, and only three or four can be classed even as moderatedrinkers. When we consider the influence which the lawyer can exert for goodor evil, fortunate indeed is that community whose legal fraternity is composedof sober men. The sentiment of our business men has changed. They havefound that money can be made without the help of the traffic. It is interestingto hear those who spoke loudest for the saloon now declare their opposition toits return. Indeed, they see and admit that conditions are better without thanwith the sale of intoxicating liquor; that rents have increased rather than dimin-ished, and general prosperity prevails. The saloon has itself to thank for muchof the success attained by the prohibitionists. Liquor men here, as elsewhere,had respect for neither law, ordinary decency nor common sense. Their law- XHRESHiNG SCENE NEAR JAilEbTuW X. BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF JAMESTOWN HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 471 breaking proclivities disgusted the people, and many who primarily had littlefaith in the principle of prohibition, flew to it as a relief from what they regardedgreater evils. Law enforcement has traveled its weary way from a frail be-ginning to a point where an enlightened public conscience demands of publicofficials a full discharge of their duty. Everywhere in the twelve judicial dis-tricts of the state come encouraging reports that the judges, sheriffs and prose-cuting officers do not wink at violations of law, and are positively and energet-ically attempting to stamp out crime. It is easily within the truth to say thatin most of these districts the Prohibitory Law is as completely enforced as othercriminal statutes, and in the others the difficulties of enforcement are fastpassing away. When prohibition was adopted in North Dakota, we had apopulation of about
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