The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-09-17
The I.wo nsl..lnE rnrlls. ana Pro.

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hition.
To the Editor of the CARBON ADVOCATE:
hyour family.party newspapers unhesita-
tingly declares of your temperance brethren
10 Ohio, that they care idiots and fanatics
equally proportioned," !" and that the head Of
the temperance ticket is stsrtingly eclosely
allied with fine old Rambo and crab elders.
and Catawba, Concord and Isabella wines
in private cellars" and advocates "non-par-
tisan moral suasion warsp as The best means
Of accomplishing the most good, you can
rest assured that your family party news.
paper Is an enemy Of prohibition, and cam
not command the confidence of men who
hold that the legalized liquor traffic must be
prohibited.
The Democratic and Republican parties
are antagonistic. 1t is not the mission of
the Democratic party organs to applaud The
principles and candidates Of the Republi-
can party they withhold the good in the
party and present to the people that which
/ is bad. The Democratic organ cries, thief |
thief stop the theft The Republican par
ty organ does not applaud Democratic can
didates and principles. They are profound
ly sileut about anything good in their op.
ponents, and very loud about that which Is
bad. The Republican party organ cries,
rebel rebel don't trust the-rebelsl Both
of these parties are tho common enemy of
prohibition, and prohbitionsrs must expect
that they will withhold the truth and too
many lit may be your family party news
paper) will studiously endeaVor to misre?-
resent, and place temperance candidates and
principles before the public in an unfavor-
able light. Prohibitionists must expect that
those who are antagonistic to them will
howl The music Of thief, rebel, idiot, fa-
matte, beer and whiskey will never harmon
ize.
The apology for the liquor traffic is, that
the moderate drinker desires it, Moderate
drinking then is the cause; drunkenness is
the effect Of the liquor traffic. In all law
ful industries the demand produces the sup
ply; but in this abnormal traffic the order
is reversed tie supply produces the demand.
There never has been Il glut in the whiskey
market. This one fact alone proves that
the supply leads to The demand The liquor
traffic creates and fosters depravcd appetite.
Moderate drinking leads to drunkenness,
and produces poverty and decease All
agree that the effect should be prohibited.
This can be done only by prohibiting ire
moving) the cause. The question Of fright"
TO prohibit, and all talk about keeping the
question out of politics as unmitigeted non
sense 1t is in politics ever since the first
license law tprohibitury in spirit) was pass
ed. We have prohibition in spirit, but any
thing short of prohibition in fact, is nade-
quate in dealing with the liquor business.
is the Democratic party an enemy to pro-
hibition ? Yes it makes no pretentions OF
friendship. Everybody comedies the fact
that in this respect it must be acknowledged
honest Is the Republican party an enemy
of prohibition Yes, wherever it is under
the manipulationsof ofthe whiskey politicians.
But it makes great pretentions. True, the
whiskey politicians wants votes. He must
have votes and in order to get votes makes
great pretentions to piety but the convIc-
tion is fast taking hold of the temperance
element, that in this the party is ue,y pious
4 Jraudi What evidence have they?
1t has repealed the prohibitory laws in
I Massachusetts,, Connecticut, Rhode Island
1 and the local option law of Pennsylvania.
/ IT has never made any attempt to pro-
lhibit the traffic in the District OF Columbia
nor in any of the territories over which it
had absolute cbntrol.2't-
/ 1t formally declared in its platform adopt
ed June, 1872, its adhesion to the interests
Of the rum power in the 10th resolution:
"The Republican party propose To respect
the rights reserved by the people to them
selves as carefully as the powers delegated
bv them TO the State and Federal govern
mcnt. Ibdisapproves of'a resort to uncon-
slitntional laws for the purpose of removing
, eyils by Interfering with the rights not sur.
rendered by the people TO either State OF
! Natioual government
MT. lleEiilUn tDc uulnOT OF Hls
resolution, aud editor Of leading German
Republican journal III Chicago, declared
that the purpose meant To be expressd, was
, that the right 10 drink what one pleases
and the right 10 look upon the Sabbath day
as any other day, were among the rights
not delegated by the people, but reserved
TO themselves"
I! The Chicago Tribune, a Republican pa
per, says: Z" Prohibition must be prohibited
by the Republican party" The New York
Times follows in the same strain. Harper,
Weekly, good Republican authority, says
"The Republican party is not prohibition
party but that the subject shall be Leg.
islatively treated by authorizing a license
system )" and "unless The Republican party
ready to announce its own death, it can.
MT consent to legislate adversely to the in
terests Of this class of people"-referring To
the liquor dealers.
1t recognizes The various organized liquor
leagues within the party as power, and
bows its knee te them.
1t refused the christian people OF Ohio
U"S lilNiSS5S Vi NoelHS ph pIouIoItOI1 meas
ures
The Republican Senate, of Pennsylvania
protected the liquor business by refusing
the people to express themselves at the
polls on prohibition.
The Committee on Resolutions, at tho Re
publican State Convention, held at Harris
burg, on the sth inst. rejected the prohibi-
tory plank offered by Senator London
who said the people of Brad ford demanded
1t, and hoped it would be recommended tc
the Convention.
In North Carolina, the Republican party
through its State Executive Committee of
which Mr.. Mott is Chairman, and also Col
lector of Internal Revenue, with thirty
four counties in his district, Eve hundred
distilleries, and about Eve hundred and
fifty subordinatos, called upon the colored
people to defeat prohibition. They sue
eeeded. The Republican party not only in
North Carolina, but in Ohio, Pennsylvania
and elsewhere, through the whisky politician