PROHIBITION IN IOWA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1686, 15 May 1884, Page 3

PROHIBITION IN IOWA.

Tlio prohibition law of tho State of I lowa has been signed by the Governor,'] and will go into effect on the 4th of July of the current year, This delay is to givo the saloon keepers an opportunity to close, up and arrange for other means of .livelihood. Tho claim | is made now that the State should remunerate those whose properties arc virtually confiscated. This is right, and no reasonable person will object to this proposition, I presume that the Stalo of lowa would be only too glad to settle, upon equitable terms,- with all her saloouists and brewers. Tho amount of their claim is estimated at LBOO,OOO. To offset this the State can present tho additional Court expenses for twenty-five years, LI ,000,000; and loss of time through drunkenness, LI,000,000; tho loss of homes mado dissolute; the loss of widows and orphans; the loss of character; the loss through imprisonment, .disgrace, poverty, and death caused directly by drink, and tho existence of drinking saloons. Arithmetic is quite inadequate to express tho amount necessary to meet these. Tlio saloonists of lowa are unable to express the amount necessary to meet these, Tho saloonists of lowa aro unable to settle, with the State, Can ' they settle with God, the final Judgc 1 The State of lowa has been, ■ and can afford to be liberal and lenient towards her erring children. But the books must bo squared by the 4th of July.