The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-09-20
The Good Fight.

way, 1000 having signed the tenn
perance pledge lately at Sedalia, where
the work has taken on the character
OF religious revival. Eleven gospel
temperance meetings week are
now held in neglected portions OF
Chicago by the Y. NJ. G.. A.. In Indi-
ana one of the Pittsburg reformed
men, DIR. Conway, a practising ply
sician, is working with great success.
one-iiith of the whole people of New
/. Hampshire, and one-third of the
voters have signed the pledge. The
"Old Granite state will catch up
with Maine soon, at this rate. For
many year the White Mountaineers
have considered their neighbors over
the eastern border trifle fanatical
and engaged in wild goose chase
after total abstinence as popular
thing. Nous FERROUS, Mr.. Murphy
begins operations in New York city
in September. The arrests of unli-
censed dealers are going on there and
the liquor men of all grades are alarm
ed and furious, looking round for
every sort of dodge TO hold only till
they can brihe the next New York
legislature to change the law. A recent
table report shows that from so to
| 30 per cent of the criminals i'm New
England connect their cause of crime
to intemperance," and the proportion
Is doubtless larger in New York, The
police report 1900 places where LIQUOR
is sold, 5000 of these without license
1t is the society for the Prevention
Of Crime Rev. Or. Crosby's, that
is efowding them, now not the Prohib-
tionists, and they are applying for
| licenses. Army correspondents in the
East write fact that may have to do
| with the Turkish victories. At
Shumla, Rutschuk, and Varna the
streets are quiet, all Turkish soldiers
being perfectly sober; in the Russian
camps drunkenness prevails and
staggering men march with every
| company. Drunkenness is the nation
al vice ofthe Russians as of the Scotch,
and may be their military ruin. Does
anybody notice that during the riots
in this country the city authorities in
many cities closed the liquor shops
and established temporary prohibi-
ton? That tells the story of the rela-
tion of 1.-The trade to crime, and
peril from crime TO property and pop
ular rights, and the public peace. On
the other hand Boston grants l., $50
liquor licenses, and in Washington
City hard times help the liquor trade
Men who cannot find work take to
drinking, (having so much more mon
ey, of course, to throw away and not
a saloon has had to close while places
that failed in other businss have been
turned into liquor shops. Moody and
| Sankey connot go 10 the National
| Capital day too soon. A friend Of
| mine long a resident there says of it:
within my memory there never
was time when excessive indulgence
in Intoxicating drink was as common
as now.'
The Maine Republican Convention
gave an uncertain sound. 1t said
Temperance among the people may
be greatly promoted by wise prohibi-
tory legislation, and ii Is IA source of
congratulation that the principle of
prohibition, always upheld by the
Republicans, Is now concnrred IN by
so large majority of the people, the
Democrats fof scotrai .years kaping
Declined TO coatest Il or dispute H."
A lesson there's for Iowa Republi-
cans. The only way for Republicans
to destroy the license-capital of the
Democrats il to stand by prohibition
till it Is well nigh success, as it il in
Maine. /. e., To do exactly the con-
trary to the advice of weak backed
Republicans, and don't-prohibit
Republicans and license Republicans.
The whole crowd hasn't a thimble-
full of foresight. The only way, Oh
the other hand, for Iowa Repubil-
cans to make capital for the Democ-
racy is to be shakey and inconsistent
on this subject. When the Maine Re-
publicans had passed that strong
declaration, they put an out-an-out
Prohibitionist, Gov. COnnor, On 1t Ivy
reclamation as candidate for Governor.
That's the way TO conquer, and hold
the State steadily. And Iowa Re
publicans will fare the same way
when they have back bone enough to
nominate for chief magistrate such
manas Hiram Price. Any ether course
will steadily weaken them. More.
over, in the Maine Democratic con
yention an anti-Prohibition resolu-
ton was voted down. There are
II, 800 reform men In Maine, of whom
three-fourths are Democrats" said
one speaker. [rhe Republicans were
reformed good many years agol
About the sheritis going into houses
TO seize illegal liquors he told his bro
ther Democrats, "Iou needn't have
any there for him TO seize and all the
disasreeabIe things spoken Of will be
avoided" The Christian Mirror of
Portland says: A drunken man is
one of the rarest sights obtruded upon
public view i'll Maine. The liquor
traffic here, save as the other crimes
are committed, In EXTREMIST secrecy,
is annihilated. There il not a
known barkeeper or saloon pro-
prietor, who sells intoxicating
drinks, in the commonwealth. And
this j. not casual state OF things
which may not last Il week. 1t is per-
manent. 1t is the settled policy Of all
political parties. Even the Democrat
ic State Convention, held in this city
the present week, rejected amid loud
cheers, q resolution favoring license,
aud declared itself in favor of legisla-
tion which shall be in accord with our
bill of rights and best promote temper
ance.n
God save the commonwealth of
Maine.
Yours, NATIVE OF MAINE.