The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-08-05
The Temperance Wave Rolls on.

The Temperance wave Rolls on.
Editors FREE TRADER The press of Hi.
nois is becoming aroused on the subject OF
Prohibition. How Is this for high" taken
from the Lewistown Democrat.
The Peoria National Democrat has sounded
Its hew. gag for the Dutch vote 1t is ready TO
commit the democratic party to tree whisky
and the Continental Sunday tor the Dutch
vote. 1t would see the hear, and soul of the
democracy to the devil for the Dutch vote.
Fortunately the National Democrat sounds its
hew.gag without authority-lt can neither
win to the democracy one Dutch vote nor
drive from the democratic party one American
Prohlbitionist The insolence OF the National
Democrat is summed up in these lofty words ::
"lf there are any democrats in favor of pro.
hIbiuon, they no longer deserve to be demo.
Gratis, and they will find more congenial com.
pany in the republican party. If there are
any republicans who respect their own rights
and the rights OF Others as threatened by the
impending conflict, they owe it to themselves,
TO others, to their country and to lis free insti
tutions, to desert their party and JON the
democracy In dong battle for liberty, justice
and right"
ave say to the National Democrat that a
big half OF the democratic party is for prohi-
bltion square toed. This big half, we will
conccde, does not number the pot-house poll
ticians that at present dominate Caucuscs and
conventions, but they are of the royal phalanX
that does duty in the November battle, These
be the men that ask neither for Offices nor
emoluments, but who are ready to venture all
Tor principle
"a curse on your pnltry cry abont any
mans divine right to be hog or 70 make
hogs of his nclghbors. a dozen curses on
the heads of the party whippers-in that bawl
like drlveling IDIOTS about "sumptuary laws"
"The slavery issue is dead. The prohibition
Issue is alive, very alive. The battle Is at
hand-Peoria's disulleries are IN peril. No
wonder the National Democrat howls-Peo.
rias distllleres and brcwerles are in danger!
O, that will be a sad day for Peoria's precious
whisky.ring.
LET the battle come. This paper-demo-
cratic first, last and forever, in every fiber,
sinew, bone and drop of It's blooG-this paper
begs to be counted on the side Of United States
civilization as distinguished from European
civilization; on the side Of American Sundays
rs distinguished from Continental Sundays
on the side Of American homes, school houses
and churches as against its whisky hells,
alms.hOuses and jails.
but we are not against the Germans or
Irish or Swedes-we are against none of the
foreigners who come to America TO be AmerI
cans. Whoever comes here to fasten on this
soil the weakness and wickedness OF monarch
lal Europe, we are against him and would
nterdlct the curse OF his coming
"Such is the doctrine, we firmly believe, of
Il large majority of as good and true democrats
as the dlctatorlal and gallant Col. DOwdall
and when the issue Is SET he will see that Hi
nols, rs well IS Iowa, can come to the front
with thirty to fifty thousand majority tor pro.
HI blton, leaving the National Democrat and
Transcript to quarrel over the
Dutch vote as dogs quarrel over bone"
The recent Springfield Republican Conven-
ton slapped US Prohibitlonlsts tar in the
face when it refused to enter Harts's resolution
on temperance. The republican party has
forced US TO inaugurate third party Veni,
ridt rict. ORCHARD BEACH.