. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. asion your drunkenness—a pleawhich would have to be sustained. How much longer will the courts be deprived of authority to do completejustice between their fellow men? An enlightened and long suffering public willsome day, and that very soon, rise in the majesty of their power, and demand thatthe Legislature strike out the words by fraud, contrivance or force and for thepurpose of causing him to commit any crime, and boldly declare that he whoin any manner sells intoxicating liquor to another as a beverage, under themfluence of w
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. asion your drunkenness—a pleawhich would have to be sustained. How much longer will the courts be deprived of authority to do completejustice between their fellow men? An enlightened and long suffering public willsome day, and that very soon, rise in the majesty of their power, and demand thatthe Legislature strike out the words by fraud, contrivance or force and for thepurpose of causing him to commit any crime, and boldly declare that he whoin any manner sells intoxicating liquor to another as a beverage, under themfluence of which a crime, whether of murder or of some lesser offense, is com-mitted, is equally guilty as a principal in any crime so committed. Such a lawwould distribute the blame and place it upon all those responsible for the crime. The persons who, for business or other reasons, vote to permit the continu-ance of a traffic which robs men of their reason, increasing the liability of crimebeing committed, are in a measure responsible. Away with your mistaken notions. HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 469 of business necessity. It does not exist. Treason against the State stalks abroadin our midst. How mucli longer will the people permit both treason and murder,in order that there may be continued a system of dealing with the liquor trafficwhich preys upon the appetites and passions of men? A quarter of a century agothe good people of our state dissolved partnership with the accursed licensesystem. The State of Minnesota still permits the evil. Her splendid westernCity of Moorhead, well located for business and containing some of the bestpeople on earth, seems blind to the great wrong of the traffic in rum. We mustsuffer because of their inability to see. Most of the persons sent to the peniten-tiary by this court would not be deprived of their liberty, and our state would notbe burdened with heavy expense for their care, had they not gotten drunk in thesaloons of Moorhead. The time has come wh
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