Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-09-07
Helpiu the Enemy.

ness with the Milwaukee brewers in theil
usual systematic manner when bent or
humiliation. BY their s~ensitiveness and
laundering misinterpretation of the
situation these gentleman have placed
the temperance movement in a position
in this state which through natural
causes it would not have reached in
several years even if then. As allies OF
the temperance crusade they are a sue
cess, as opponents of the prohibition
movement they have so far proved q
lamentable failure, for which undoubt-
edly the leaders of the latter movement
are truly grateful. They have sowed
threats and already a heavy crop of OPP
position is ripe for the harvest fostered
in the hot house of indignation. When
it comes to The question of who is rule,
the liquor dealers or the advocates of
temperance, nine-tenths Of the people of
the state will chose the latter. This is
a natural sequence of advancing civiliza-
ton.
Yet if their opponents are stuck in the
mud of a mistaken policy, the prohibit
ton element is not far away, equally
fast in the mire Of the same mixture.
All they have even received in the past
has come from the Republican party.
Granted that the party has not always
acceeded to the demands of faction,
granted that even now it docs not see
its way clear to the desires of the pro-
hibition heart, it is then as far as in adj
vance of the Democratic party, with
reference to the temperance issue as
daylight is in advance of darkness. The
hope of the prohibitionists is in the flu
ture action of the Republican party.
The leaders themselves acknowledge
this when they endeavor to force the
party to make the issue their own, by
acting as allies of the Democratic party.
1t is natural that they should turn to
that party which has been the friend of
reform. of advanced ideas. of noble
works from the date of its inception to
the present time. That this faith is well
founded is proven by the results in
Kansas and Iowa. Yet to-day this fac
ton is acting rs the alley of that party
which has always been upheld as the
especial advocate of all that IS base, all
that is corrupt, all that is devilish in the
liquor traffic. Still, these be honorable
men, in their own cOnceit. They have
good, plausible reasons, for these misty
doings. Doubtless SO. B~eelzebub him.
self was never known to be at a loss for
an excuse with which to justify his
treachery. The acknowledged object of
this faction is to force the Legislature to
allow the question of a prohibitory
amendment to go before the people,
where it rightfully belongs. An analy-
sis of the vote on this question in the
assembly last winter shows that forty
Republicans voted for and nineteen
against the amendment, while on the
Democratic side but three votes were
east for the amendment and twenty-nlne
against. But in order to convert these
nineteen Republicans from the error of
their ways the prohibitionists would add
to the power of the twenty-nine Demo-
Gratis who voted against the amendment
by giving them the seats of the forty
Republicans who voted for the amend
ment.
If any party can advance their cause
in the face of such as this
it will be through the method adopted
by the crawfish. They rail at political
honor and honesty vet where is there
a more depraved example than this. If
such faith is to be taken as a standard
of loyalty, ~disloyally will soon become
fashionable.