The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-04-03
GOVERNOR BOOTH.

Here, for instance is a ticket that papers and
politicians might gnash their teeth and snarl
their tongues upon for a long while without
doing IL harm: For President, Charles Francis
Adams, of Massachusetts; for Vice President,
Newton Booth, OF California. - Springfield
und.l Republican.
Yes sir, but naught its advocates can
say for it will do it any good, either,
unless Governor Booth can prove false
the ugly report that he is rlt1l-sCllcr.
Democratic papers charge this boldly.
Republican papers maintain q discreet
and suspicious silence.
Now, let us have the truth, gentle
men, and have it we shall, for il such n
thing be true, it can not be hid. 1t is
of no use to say that Governor Booth is
strictly temperate and exemplary in all
his habits. So much the worse, in one
sense, at least. Such man can not
plead his appetite-his belief that in
/ toxieating drinks are good thing nor
an obtuse moral nature that allows its
| possessor to sink TO the same degrading
I level to which he drags his victims.
4 No, no.
He is an honorable, "high-toned, -
moral gentleman of refinement and cul-
ture, a scholar, a writer, thinker, a
rctormer, ii is said!
Stationed on this lofty hight, he
calmy deals out his thousands of gallons
Of liquid death, and receives in return
therefor the gold that belongs OF right 10
toiling wives and mothers-to ragged,
hungry and homeless children. Gold,
did / say? All, it is blood-red, the very
price of blood! God only knows how
many broken hearts; how many blasted
regulations; how many murders, sui
cides and robberies; how many crimes
of eUcry dye and grade are locked up
with the Governors gold in the massive
vaults. DO you ask why there? Be
cause they all belong to him as truly as
that gold; because they are rs truly
produced by his liquor as the gold was.
He has accumulated large fortune, il
said, in this accursed traffic; and now
because he is Icealthy and honOred; be-
cause he has risen so high that his
friends forget the dreadful foundation
upon which his fortune is built, the peo-
pie of these Uuited States are asked Il
ignore his murlerous trade-because o
its magnitude-and joyfully hail him
as the chieftain of reform, and place
him in the second, some say the
first, place in this enlightened Christian
nation. God forbid!
Is he less guilty, think you, be
cause score or more of men deal ou
this poison in his stead, at his com
mand? Because he has the power (,
send misery, disease and death int
thousands of homes, shall we look upo
him in his elegant ease and leisure us
superior being, who is above criticism
and TO whose actions we must not ven
ture to apply the rules by which w
judge the men who retail in hundreds o
gay saloons and vile wretched rum-hole
the body and soul-destroying poisol
they obtained of him? Wherein is h
better in the sight OF God than the ma
who is only able to buy of him a fey
hundred dollars worth Of fliquor, aud VIII
only causes q small number of crime
annually; only few broken hearts ant
= lives; only few lost, ruined souls?
All, Governor Booth, do you neve
think OF the fearful balance footing u
against you above while complaeentl.
gazing at the earthly balance in you
! favor? OH that you would answer tn
: prayers of the women of San Francisco
| and forsake your sinful business, AM
! throw the weight of your great infuenc
5 and example OIL the side of the right a
5 strongly as it has hitherto been given {
the wrong! VIII you do it?
} OF one thing these Presidential stat,
D makers may rest assured: The wome
: propose to have something TO say AS to on
, next President, and even have hopes O
t voting for him. Be that as it may, W
/ will most certainly defeat any man 70
e that Office or for Vice President who i
: guilty of the stupeudous wrong Of de
grading and running thousands of hi
: fellows in order to enrich himself
= We have suffered enough from Ia
direful effects of intemperance at tn
4 National Capitol, in the Legislative eve
Z more than in the Executive department: