Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-13
A WORD TO TEMPERANCE ZEN.

0 me Edd0f o. Inc SW:
The day for your municipal election has ar
rived This day you exercise the high priv
elege of American citizenship. If true to
yourselves, to humanity, you will cast tenn
perance vote, though you should thereby
commission many officials with the honors of
a wholesome privacy. Suffer not yourselves
to be the tools of wretched and bloated rum
mics, who inspired by the damning fires Of
the STILL labor to secure the official sway of our
city. Have not vice. profanity, vugarity,
and drunkenness, borne rule long enough in
our midst! Is it not time that virtue, hon
esty, industry and temperance should hold the
reins Of government! If so, the duty of the
temperance man is plain. If he is sincere in
his protestations of love for the cause if he
ever moves from the promptings of conscience;
II he is not an arrant hypOcrite, he will vote,
and vote only wherever a vote has the
slightest reference to law making or law ex-
ecuting, for true man. No party consider
alton, no palaver Of Office seeking demagogues
should prevent it. He is bound to Garry the
matter into politics" or to renounce his pro
tessions-not by forming new party ncces-
sarily, but by purging and purifying each
party alike
We are told by the trembling sustainers of
ahotly assailed and lettering traffic, that moral
questions should not be spoken of in our State
or city relations. The enunciation of propo-
sition so ridiculous and so heathenish is its
best answer. Piracy and murder and every
misdemeanor are moral questions, and must,
under the same principle, be excluded from
politics. The apologists for liquor selling
are driven, step by step, towards destruction
of all their strong holds. a few years ago,
they stoutly maintained that a man violated
his personal rights by signing the pledge
Next they held that it was tyrannical and uncoa-
Sttt'dtonal to pass laws regulating or restraining
the traffic in liquors Or beverages. Driven
from this position they are saying the same
things of laws for prohibition, and lauding the
virtues of license laws. But these efforts are
alike futile
When taxes are not paid to support jails,
PRISONS and aims houses, that are peopled by
not marred by its ideness and yagabondism ;
when the personal rights of innocent thou
sands are not invaded by its "reminiscences :;
when its fumes cease to be nauseating and
poisonous, a foul and stenchful nuisance in
crowded population when it hampers no more
with youth, the hope and glory of a young
Republic when it interferes no longer with the
purity of the elective franchise; when its fires
die out in the brains of our legislators then
and never till then, may it be absolved from
our State and city elections. Till then it
can never be an impractical question ,-"How
shall temperance men vote z" We will not
attempt to decide for you which of the two
tickets at the head of this page you can most
consistently cast, but simply say-rally for the
suppression of this gigantic evil in your midst
this burning Ena, whose molten tide is
sweeping fifty thousand souls to a drunkard's
doom in our fair land, by every round of the
circling year. HH.H.