Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-09-08
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9Is seems now as il Temperance aa6
the struggle between CapitaF and Labor
would form the basis of the next politi-
cal parties.sHit sa57'ia bg-5 s5llaa -t:;'sssfi
AT one time whether woman should
have the ballot seemed likely to ethe
next tpoiitical question:. And noidoubt
that movement is writing its own rapid
victory on every Statue, Book.4t.eStiH No
separate politiealparty for that purpose
is proposed taiiyWhere.s n.ahy. new and
Infamous outrage on woman, like the
Contagious Diseases Laws Of Great
Britain, should irouss popular aifaeling
here, possibly on sueh q Ways III u III ose-
nlent might rise -immediateiytet6 dis
tinct political aeharaeteraalIs Is .more
probable that gradual changes. in the
laws VIII render any such 5hl.iseerihg 6
into political ranks UNNECESSARY 5s,.s .,9s,5
Meanwhile several angry. .issueswflf
crowd out old questions and make the
National l-eIeetions OF 1872 turn ! largely
on the clafnispf the working men, This
year Massaelfusettswille efoliew1 the bld
lead of Maine and divide ;atItIies balhb4
box on the question Of .sproRibltipp.s'' ~ .
Itlis fulltinle that.itsliouid-Bes 80? The
Temperance movement lies atlthel very
root of popular government. This vice
is the tool by which bad men WELD our
cities for eyery7yile purpose .@sHF he mon
ey power buys UP Legislatures. In
corperated wealth is the great danger
in time to come TthreatenIhg t6iBwal-
low up LegisiatiseIndepeDdence.l / The
struggle between that and the masses
will yet be terrible, and how mulch pop
ular vietoryin that struggle may. ades..
troy, beside its single enemy, will de-
pend on the education and sell; control
of that day. Unless. We arc to be a
calmer and more discriminating n mass
than any history shows, the victory
will be mad one and a wide ruin. The
grewf of Reputation few years ago
is indication enoughito warn the most
listless. The Government, or anysottier
"cock boat built of bank, .notesp will
find it hard to, =. ,...,-.. .....s s..i.i .is
sail those fiery seas.'. .ita' -
But there is lower Tier. than Leg
islatures,-th masses at the ballot box
The grog-shopis the readiest' sIneans.to
manipulate these. n Yoa.ucarRotn rest a
ballot-box on adrunken people. Neither
the wealth of New York nor its; virtue
will ever redeem that, city from the
control of its criminal classes while
these last can undermine lazy, defyjus-
tice and monopolize office by making
an election drunken riot : Without
the help OF ten thousand grog-shops
Crime could never put its, agents, into
the City Hall and Police Office. Paris
is ruled by despot, and London by a
company7of titled cousins. New. Y ofk
is ruled by drunkarts. = Mem whom
murderers serve that they insy, and. be-
eauselthey have, escaped, the gaflo@s4: -
rule the city. The rihald crews which
holds them up could neither, stitfe its
own conscience nor rally ITS, sreffnne
but for the help of.the .grog-shop. IRE.
publican institutions, :. uhdermiped by
this social vice, are obliged to ,confess
that they have never governed ia great
city here on the, basis of universal suf-
frage in such way as to preserve order,
protect life andsecnrefr sahg> y
Temperance men in smaller cities
have failed to see what goes SO shame
lesslY up and down the stfeets ,ih New
York. Hence. they, have toll ed to- Bring
nowione aud new snotiier party to adopt
their cause The.lnpVeInent has been,
always cheated. At last it wakes up to
the fact that It isl Waffing l.wlth that
which inlpa y ayipases isthe sple sssfis nd n ]
in all cases is to some extent the basis,,
of party strength, The people have
two enemies, Wealth and Rum. The
first grinds them up into dividends.
The, second betrays thenlshorna tostheir.
enemies. The battle against :thiss.has
begun. But the truth will ,ifever get
frankly spoken till we launch the. dis
cussion i tie i icaH rsaas fEeI
Anti-SEave cause We
and shaiiowness of what styles itself the
education class here. No social ques-
ton never gets fearlesslyitre ited till we
make political turn NpT-ik- SAow1ps
the scholarship that. his seseHi nGfuc I'd
the American people on great ques-
ton. Pinchbeck culture, snobbish
arguments such as are used to
frfghtenchildren in the dark these are
our literat are.A 0nesw 10 has not moral
seHseenoughEdo$s $sase &hinr from pro-
himse under his own hand
in a Daily Journal, getter of goods un-
derfalse pretence,- professor of Ethics in
a Divinity school and dogmaGzes on
morals at the head of a weekly literary
Journal. Ourpilfered science, ,sPoih iMI
the stealing. begs us to wait ill it proves
that slavery is only one stage of human
and that Intemperance never
beggared one man or.murdered ahpthsF,Jj|
because Alcohol is not technically a
poison.
One of the first three or fQurof Amor
lean writers-poetaud critici 1no-2after
doing put to US in. the pages Of What is
called 0hrlbest Msht My, I tiseI ffon-
places of a Virginia dreameF'sd diaEy--an;
exceptiopal.character anywhere, adpubt:E
iy so there-gratlfies his Sumncrspieen,S
betrays his shallow loyalityand stuiifss
his own iorie nv I,iDanino, forth isA nh