Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-09-13
Common-sense In Temperance Reform.


An editorial in the September Cent.
ury discusses "The Temperance Out.
look with tho following conclusions
THAT the temperance question should
be made political question is IN ost de.
sirable. No question more vitality con.
Germs the whole country with respec;
to its highest welfare. We should have
temperance men in Office and temper.
ance laws enacted. But temperance
must be temperance. 1t must be q
sensible and practical scheme that
sensible and practical men will support
which shall bring about tie desired
reformation. 1t must be q scheme
which the great majority Of moral men
will recognize to be sound in its logic
and even in its justice. Anything else
than this may, under pressure of an TX.
element, achieve a temporary success
but only this will be permanent cure
of the rampant abomination. The
liquor men are now more defiant anC
more numerous, in proportion to the
population, than in any former period
They work their criminal mills openly
in the face of all, and we SEQ the
streams of vice and crime pouring fortl
from these sources to lay waste tn,
community and overwhelm the dixie.
which philanthropy has erected. The
court, the police, and the public officer
generally, seeing the bold mien ofthes,
disturbers of the peace, find it easie
for their weak natures to humor then
and connive at their wicked work
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majority of the community are thu
oppressed and tyrannized over b,
this minority, who laugh at law an,
hound the defender of law. Tn
only end of this enormity will be in tn
union of the majority, and this cal
never be effected by extreme measure
or fanatical pronunciamentos. Dis
elimination between liquors that ar
hurtful and those that are Gin moderat
use) healthful; Discrimination betwee
modes of drinking, as treating an
drinking at meals; discrimination be
tween places for lunch or dinner; dis
elimination between drinking on tn
premises where the liquor is sold an
drinking it at home; discrimination b,
tween day and night in the sale,
aud other like determinations are to |
made in place of the sweeping demand
of the ultra men if union of tempe
ance forces is to be consumated. Witt
out this union tho evil must go O
propagating itself daily, and on the 81
called temperance leaders must re-
the blame. They have constituted a
unreasonable shibboleth. When the
abandon that the enemy will be col
quered, unless meanwhile the cnem
shall have conquered all the grour
and made our land moral deser
Admirable laws, exactly suited TO d
minish the curse and destroy the polit
cal power of the rum interest, hay
been introduced into the New Yol
legislature, and would have been e
acted but for the solid vote again
them of the so-called temperance mer
: bers, directed by their Temperate
constituency at home. This class
retormers will have their zeal intenS
fed by the action of Kansas and low
aud they may carry a few more of Il
states. Would to God their succe
: were really success, that the rum i
tereSt were stricken to the heart by
But not until the reaction takes plaC
and these men are convinced Of the
error and are ready to build on tru
and not on impulse, can we expect tn
: union Of all good elements which W
finally dig the grave of Rum and bu
him beyond all resurrection.