Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-04-17
Liquor Excitement at Dubuque.

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The temperance movement has
reached Dubuque, and in such a
shape as tolerate decided sensa-
ton. The liquor men of that city,
great aud small, have heretofore
deemed themselves secure in the
traffic in liquid damnation, entrench-
ed as it is behind tho heavy foreign
vote of the city, and supported by
q certain class of business men,
who make commercial commodities
equally of their goods, their consci-
ences, and their principles. But
it seems the security was not we'll
grounded. There were few right
eous men in Sodom, and so there
are men in Dubuque who think that
the prohibitory laws of the State
should be enforced, and they pro-
pose to test the possibility of such
enforcement by commencing on the
nabobs of the traffic, the wholesale
whiskey dealers of Dubuque. The
latter, alarmed at the aspect of at
fairs, on Wednesday commenced
sending their stocks of liquors
across the river to Dunleith. This
was followed by panic, and meet
ing of the business men" was has
tily called to take measures to avert
the impending war upon whiskey.
The meeting was addressed by
those representative business men,
Gen. Jones and Dennis Mahoney,
aEd'a string of resolutions were
passed, the gist of which was that
the liquor. trade was worth half a
million of dollars to Dubuque, in
fact, the only interest worth men
tioning in that city, and that be-
cause of this money interest, ire.
spective of the crime, misery and
ruin of which it is productive, ii
should be protected and defended
to the last extremity. The meeting
had its prototype in the gathering
of "business men" at Ephesus, some
hundreds of years ago, at which
Demetrius the silversmith assailed
Paul, who was there on a crusade
against idolatry. The speech Of
Demetrius on that occasion was Of
the same order as those made at the
Dubuque meeting, and being much
shorter we give it entire, as a fail
sample Of Jones and Mahoney's
efforts:
"Slrs, We know that by this craft, Ina
king silver images we have our wealth
Moreover We hear and see that not alone
at Ephesus, but also throughout all Asia
this Paul hath persuaded and turned
away much people, saying that there be
no gods which are made by hands. Sc
that not only this our craft is in DANCE,
to be set at naught, but also that the
temple of the great goddess, Diana, [Du.
buQueJ should be despised, and her mag.
ni6cence should be destroyed, whom all
Asia and the world worshippeth."
If the justification for opposition
to the enforcement OF the law, offer.
ed in the Dubuque speeches and
resolutions is declared sufficient.
and the booksellers of that city
should establish profitable trade
in obsceue publications, and be
threatened by prosecution therefor,
we may reasonably expect to see a
meeting of the "business men" head.
ed by the mayor, solcmnly protest
against such assault upon the bust
ness of the book merchant, and
pledge themselves to prevent it by
all means in their power.
SOMEBODY suggests Wilkinson of
lama county, as the Anti-Monopo-
ly candidate for Congress in Will
sons district. Among the broken
down, seedy politicians who are
running the Grange solely for their
own selfish ends, and as stepping
stone to political preferment not at.
tainable by any merit they possess,
Wilkinson is one of the most blat-
ent. He is demagogue of the first
water, and when the Anti-Monopo-
ly party acknowledges that such is
its only timber for candidates, its
decomposition will have progressed
so far that its burial will be a mat.
ter of sanitary necessity.