Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-08-19
EXAMPLE AGAINST PROFESSION.


The GlObe-D Democrat betrays It's
uneasincss respecting the position OF
the future political course of the Ger
mans. 1t franticailv seizes upon cranky
individual u~tterances of democrats,
for which nobody but the Individual
who spoke them are responsible, and
makes u hysterical parade of such
sentences MS it hopes will be offensive
or alarming to Germans. As people
generally do when they are alarmed.
It does the most foolish thing posi-
BILE. Germans will not fail at once IL
see that if this tort of'evidence is the
strongest which can be produced TO
show that the democratic party holds
the position this republican organ at
tempts to place it in. the effort Is
worse than farcical. They will iD-
stantly ask, why is not the platform,
the declaration of the party through
its authorized medium of speech,
cited on this subject, instead of a
sentence from the speech of blather-
skite whose counsels were then and
there and Immediately rejected ? They
ask, why does not the republican or
gan cite any democratic platform any
where on this subject9 Why is not
the action of any democratic state at
any time raised in judgment OIL this
subject? Germans recur at once to
the 'tsumptuary'' legislation of one
republican state after another, but
they fnd nothing of this kind in the
history OF democratic states. Ger
mans are eminently practical aud are
not at all likeist to be Influenced Oh
any subject direstly affecting their
Interests aud habits by talk aud pre-.
tence.
1T is to be observedtthat the demo.
cratic party is not fishing for German
votes If At all byAity new and speciols
methods suggested by the present
agitation. Its platfOfths hold the
same tone now they have always
held. Democrats haveknot added u
line nor omitted one on this subject
on o of the seeming chance 10
II strong voting element
Whom ninety-niue out of every hun
fred German vptefs in America Voted
sen afetysagaiifateth them they proclaim
always Opposition TO sumptuary
tn democratic states,
especially those of the south, where
Lheresis,much less liquor drunksshan
n republican states. and the votes to
be influenced by Conservatism on this
are fewer than in the north
anu west, and where there are liter.
ally no Germans TO speak of, the ut
of The democratic party and
OF democratic legislatures
have uniformly been against sumptu-
AIRY legislation. There has been mol
or changing on this subject
10 catch Or to hold votes. Does the
organ of republication in St. Louis
imagine the Germans have not intel
igence enough and observation enough
o have noted and to appreciate these
important facts
But neither the Germans nor Others
expect the democratic party To
the champion of relsxatlon
license on any subject affecting
he public welfare. The liquor traffic
III be regulated BY rigid statutes and
ave imposing the heaviestsresponsf.
.ilftfes will be m~siiItained. sSobriety q
viii besencour1gedani inebriety anu
pfnfshed, and ttfs@without
reference to the votes which will
~ gained or lost In consequence.
Democratic states aud communities
re those which consume the smallest
mount of spiritnous aud malt liquors.
this will 10 doubt continue to
e 30. The returns of the internal
evenue bureau chow this fact ; aud
he conservative tendency of demo-
ratio principles, 80 far as political I
pinion affects the habits of the peO-
lie, is toward moderation aud mor- J
lily,