West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-04
Prohibition Notes.

Gently resolved, "That we will do
all in our power to create demand
for the constitutional prohibition
of the liquor traffic.
Grand Temperance work is be-
ing done IN Georgia by Rev. C. H.
Mead, of n. Y. and j. n. Stearns
of the National Temperance Soci
ETY.. The Atlanta Constitution saws !:
Rev. Mead, recently helped
Clayton county to carry Prohibi-
tion by a vote of six to one"
Calhoun county. Alabama. follow
ing an active compaign, during
which meetings were addressed hy
Rev. c. H. Mead and Luther Ben
son, Esq, voted for Prohibition by
vote of 2, 100 out of a total of
5000.
Speaking of the decision of the
Supreme Court of Iowa, declaring
the Amendment adopted bv so,
600 majority of the people, the
Iowa State Register says:
THE people of Iowa will never
admit. and never need admit, that
the Supreme Court, created by
them and established by their con-
stitution, have the power to veto
them in their sovereignty in max
ing oramending that constitution.
That would be allowing the created
to be higher than the creator"
The magnificent State of the
West, Kansas, takes no step back
wards. Gov. Clicks recommends
ton to re-submit the Prohibition
Amendment to vote, found little
favor, the Senate defeating the
measure by vote of Is yeas to 10
nays.
The Topeka Capital says:
"Prohibition is stronger in Kan
sas to-day than when the Amend
ment was adopted.
Chicago has 1899 licensed liquor
shops. New York has 9,065 H.
censed grog-shops.
Says John Stuart Mill: "The
liberty of the individual ends, ho,U-
euer profitable to himself, when it be-
comes fatal and ruinous to anoth-
err" There is obviously, therefore,
no such a thing as personal liber-
ty" for dram-shops liquor-sellers as
such. However profitable to them
selves, their business is runious to
others.
A Berlin telegram of the Dist ult.
says: The Bundesrath has APP
proved unanimously the bill pro-
hibiting the importation of Ameri-
can pigs, pork, and sausages."
Alas for the outraged cause of
personal liberty"
John Kenny, the Brooklyn bill
poster who was sentenced to State
prison for life for murder, shot him
self in Raymond Street Jail last
month. In his cell, beside his
dead body, was letter to his broth
err in which he says: Tell Matt
and Mike that it is my las. request
on this earth not to drink any liq.
uor in their lives. 1t doomed me-"
The Illustrated Christian Weekly
says truly: "The supineness of
the great majority, in view of the
aggressions of the liquor-traffic,
not only upon the peace and well
fare of it's victims, but upon the
property of the taxpayers, is in
comprehensive"
In the late State Temperance
Con 7ention at Des Moines, Iowa, a
letter was read from the venerable
and beloved poet, John G. Whit
tier, in which he writes:
"Say to the workers for temper
ance not to feel disheartened by
the seeming failure of the prohibit
ton effort. The failure is only
seeming. Great good has been
done-the good work is half accom-
plished. We must not relax an eff
! fort, but work on in faith. Believe
me very truly thy friend,
JOHN G.. WHITTIER"
The Tennessee Good Ten,lar prints
the following:
"' | am a temperance man-yery
much in favor of the cause was
l.