Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-06-12

s"sI I'D hooh rs any great question o.
Social Reform is brought into the
arena OF partisan politics, that moment
1t loses half its lustre, and increases tho
number and ability OF its foes. Mel.
who will always be found upon the side
Ola good measure when i, is presented
rs an Independent proposition, and i
divorced from the entangling alliances
OF party trammels, will often labo,
zcalously for its defeat, when demago
CUES make it pack horse To bear then
INTO political power. Such has been
the consequence of the ianaticlsm OF
those shallow minded and dishonest 10
liticians, who have dragged the cause Of
Temperance INTO the muddy slough Of
partizan politics. The party adopting,
found foe IN the opposite party; and
not SO much foe TO Temperance, as To
using it as apolitical hobby for carrying
out the success OF other measures OF
political economy considered really
objectionable. Temperance is tina,
which the basisofc,crytI,ingst al,lcand
upon whIclievcry moral and rcligionin
ilucncc IN the community rests. Without
temperance no people can be prosper
Gus, ''rlu"us and happy. All men
should be temperate. Iii is personal
and relative duty. 1t is the essential
prerequisite condition of man upon
which every virtue depends. But the
cause OF Temperance has been dragged
down from It's cxaltad height aud is now
laundering in the mire. Why. Simply
because bankrupt political party used
II as a political machine. The Pro
h'b'tory Law embodics principles so
dcsPotic IN their nature, So abhorrcnt to
all received notions Of natural rights
that It has injured instead Of aided the
cause. A License Law, wisely framed
and vigorously enforced, will alone
remedy the evil. All parties ought to
unite IN securing il.
The Republican monstrositics that
now disgrace our statue books, must
bc repealed, and fanaticism must give
way to that superior wisdom which
locks not to party triumphs, but to the
welfare and sa ETY. Of Society. Within
one year past, the cause of Religion
has received terrible blows from the
hands OF its tanatical friends, whose
mistaken zeal, has induced them un-
wisely TO invoke its Influence in a
political struggle, upon issues no way
involving n question Of morals. but
SIMPLY turning upon the cApcdicncy OF
allowing the people of the Territories
the rights and franchises common to
the people of the States in the adoption
and regulation of Domestic Institutions.
CIcrgymcn nave lost tina, respect which
was once their considerable auxiliary
IN preaching the Gospel. The Demo
cratic Party was compelled to fight all
its political enemies, and those political
clcrgymcn who ofliciously and imp,op
erly preached political sermons, were
held up topublic ridiculc, their vices
and crimes paraded in the public
prints, and when any of them became
the scducer or adulturcr, il was hcral-
died from one end of the Union to the
other, and reacted .tcar1aify upon he
cause Of reifq'on. IntiIclity grew with
alarming raj i,lity and in the end, I'll
that these fanatics gained was a loss of
that respect before then attached to
the Ministry, and its influence over the
conduct of men. Good men now con
fess the error, while INSCRIPTIONS
politicians remorsclcssly urge upon "a
portion of the clergy continued war
fare in the political struggles of the
Country. Fanaticism has done more
evil than will be repaired in half n
century.