The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1880-09-16

pain, and heap Goals Of fire upon the
ashes of degradation In plain En-
glish, will you or will you not vote
for the proposed amendment! Brave
~ and temperance have ever been
foremost in the brief history Of our
State. While yet in its infancy,
when MissOuri's rufiians had nearly
crushed out the young life, there came
to her aid an old, white-haireai, tenn
perance man with q family of boys.
Pitching their tent upon the free soil
which God ordained should never
echo back to Heaven the tramp Of the
slave, they determined to offer up
their lives, if need be, as q willing
sacrifice at liberty's shrine. And
when, in after times, the story of o.
sawatomie and Harper's Ferry rang
throughout the land. hundreds Of
brave men men in Kansas, who had
been led by this noble old man, cursed
his cruel fate and cried above for VEN
geance! The principle of freedom
from oppression" has lived-is living
vet, and is tonight, in the glowing
words of our future president, "ImmOr-
history and immortal truth" They
fought against q great evil in the shape
of a gOading lash and q clanking
chain.
We are fighting against an evil. subtle
as the serpent, remOrseless as fate, I'M
yielding as death-the enemy Of all
things good and true. Joseph Cook
has said, "ShOw me what the whisky
rings Of our cities don't want. and I'll
show you what the better portion Of
our American citizens are most in
need Of" They want no prohibition
they want no license sys-
TEN; they want nothing but what
tends to their own base interests and |
the nations ruin. Carry this amend
ment and you do away with the $50 |
cial glass" one of the worst of evils. |
The poor man works hard for his |
money. That money is needed by his |
il is their clothing and their |
sustenance Friendship extends to
him her hand with a glass in it and
says, come, drink to old times. One
gers homeward, and his money, the
reward of honest labor and patient
toll, clinks in the rumseller's purse.
Wehave not only to fight the saloon
keeper but their gold. 1t is said that
1t the convention which they held in
they pooled thousands of
dollars to defeat the amendment.
Money that belonged to suffering
Money pooled for pur-
poses SO base that all humanity cries
nut against it! Abraham Lincoln, of
memory, has said, Gold Is
rood enough in its place, but honest,
,rave and patriotic men are better
wen than gold" Let US show them
hat this is no place for gold. Let us
Use and sweep the iniguitOus hand
rom the land, and prove to them that
here are enough "hOnest, brave and
,atri0tic" temperance men in Kansas
o defeat their enslaving designs. We
rave a population Of nearly o million
Ouls. We have a State debt of one
lOllar per capita, and, if am rightly
We expend annually the sum
4 SlO,O00,OO0 for liquor. Think of
his, my friends; could We but have
his annual expenditure for one year
low much good could be done with
he money. BESIDES paying the State
lebt, think Of the long neglected
ZONES that could be adorned with the
money; think of the heavy loads that
Ould be lifted from burdened hearts;
hink of the sad eyes that could be
frightened; think Of the cheeks, hol-
ow and pinched for want of proper
God, that could 10 mad. round and
ull with this enormous balance Of
line millions of dollars.
Let us work and watch Surely, if
he victory is not worth lighting for,
t is not worth having. When q "a.
Don i'm certain city was destroyed by
Ire, some time since, its owner il said
o have remarked, when questioned
bout his loss, that he'd hs ID If
ne might not as well fight fire as the
people. DO not waver my
If We can wiring such eX-
'ressiOns "a these from their lips, it
hOws that We are cutting them to the
uick. Eternal vigilance is the price
4 liberty" Remember, i'm that same
ity liquor is said 10 minors, Can you,
living in the dazzling light Of this
nineteenth century, stand idly by and
Olerate this? Can you, fathers of
run the::risk of seeing your
our children's lives wrecked upon
UGH wild, desOlate and hopeless
hOre? You cannot. Oh. yOu UW not!
appeal to every one present, In the
anne of all that is reverent ON high;
n the name of all that is dear on
arth; by every kindred tic of feeling,
{ fellowship, of pity and Of lOye, to
bin US in this great work, and prove
hat Americas sweetest singer was
ct wrong when he said, mot W holly
,st, oh! Father, is this wicked world
ours"