emn warning a rigorous execution of the sentences imposed in due course by the courts martial may be expected."—State Leader.—(Nov. 21, 1877.)
TO THE PEOPLE OF STORY COUNTY.
Does it pay to have scores of workingmen poor, ragged and financially ruined in order that one saloon-keeper may be dressed in broadcloth and flush of money? Does it pay to have fifty men live on bone-soup and half rations in order that one saloon-keeper may flourish and feast on roast turkey and champagne? Does it pay to have the mothers and children of twenty families dressed in rags, and almost starved, and living in hovels, in order that the saloon-keeper's wife may dress in satin, and her children grow fat and hearty, and live in a bay-window parlor? Does it pay to have a citizen in jail, to be supported at the public expense, because another sells him liquor? Does it pay to have hundreds of homes blasted and ruined, defiled and turned into hells of misery and discord, in order that one liquor-dealer may amass a large fortune? Does it pay to keep men in the penitentiaries and prisons, and men, women and children in the poor-houses, at the expense of the honest, industrious tax-payers, in order that a few capitalists may grow richer by the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor? Does it pay to permit the existence of a traffic which only results in crime, poverty, misery and death? It never pays to do wrong. Our sin will find us out whether others find it out or not. The sin knows where you are, and will always keep you posted of that fact. It does not pay. PETER BAKER.
The Watchman.—(June 5, 1878.)
In his instructions to the Grand Jury of Marshall County, last week, Judge Henderson expressed an opinion, touching the assured validity of the amendment, which the Marshalltown Times-Republican pronounces the ablest and most lawyer-like yet rendered on the vexed question.
THE RAILROAD AND SALOONS—OPINIONS OF THE MANAGERS.
GRINNELL, Iowa, May 22, 1882.—Ed. State Register:—Being requested to learn the views of railway officials as to our prohibitory amendment, I can report in part. At an early stage of the discussion my opinion was that no good railway manager in Iowa would be averse to the amendment, and I have sought in vain to find one, but affirmatively we have four great thoroughfares across the State with several branches. One company has forbidden the sale of intoxicating drinks in its buildings, on its grounds, or its use by employes on duty.
Another forbids, as manager, trainmen from entering a saloon on peril of dismissal, and is thus an outspoken servant of the public, whom I have repeatedly heard declaim on the demoralizing influences of the saloon.
A third said to me with emphasis: "I wish you God-speed—