The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-13

against the Democratic minority at Spring
field, on the score OF obstructing and neg
Letting public business, to do the limo
cent victims of their borrowed ISLANDERS the
mean justice of also copying the above re-
traction of their leading organ at the cap
itol city. We assure them that unless they
are dead to one of the noblest sentiments in
human nature, they will enjoy the small act
as much as their innocent victims and all
fair-minded men will.
"A full text of the Harper high license
bill as it passed the the house and was sent
to the senate, appears elsewhere in this is-
sue and will be read with interest. 1t is
barely possible that the objections to the
bill, both on the ground of constitutional
ity and public policy, will cause it to be
changed in the senate, but the probability
is that it will 60 through and become a law
just as it is. This lie the more probable be-
cause this bill is machine Republican
measure, designed to harmonic the Prohi-
tionit and liquor elements of the party;
and that constitutional and legislative re-
strictions or objections are naught to Re
publican Legislators, when opposed to such
measures as this, Is amply proven by the
outrageous manner in which this and other
similar bills were advanced step by step
through the house. The necessity for this
measure, or one like it, was made apparent
to the the Republican bosses in the late
state election, in which they nearly lost the
state by reason of the cowardly attitude OF
the Republican leaders generally with ref
erence to the liquor question, and the con-
sequent disaifecton of both the liquor and
Prohibitionist elements Of the party. AL
ter a long, careful deliberation, In which
the fact that it would be political suicide
for the party to longer ignore the question
of Prohibition or no Prohibition, this dose
of legislative toddy, this fraudulent double
distilled whisky and water concoction, this
double barrelled peice of legislative stupid
ity and partisan iniquity, was perpetrated
upon the people, in violation of plain par
lamentary and constitutional restrictions.
And this is to be the yoke, thrown over the
willing necks of the liquor and Prohibition
elements of the Republican party, by which
these are to mutually and meekly draw the
Republican chariot on to victory at The
next election! If the bill were fair'in its
apperation upon those engaged in the bust
ness it assumes to regulate; if it did not do
just the reverse of what its projectors and
friends claim that aims to do; if it did not
place extra burdens upon the reputable and
responsible men engaged in the business and
give the scoundres engaged in the same
business all the advantage they could desire
over their more honorable ompetitors-if,
in short, it established uniform, reasona.
bly, high license--then it would be tolera-
BILE, for there are lot many of the better
class of citizens who are not in favor of a
reasonably high license for all liquor-deal.
ers, and the restrictions of the bill would
not then rest almost exclusively upon the
more honorable men engaged in the traffic
1t remains to be seem whether this open
prostitution of the legislative branch OF
our state government, to the furtherance OF
the selfish purposes of an INSCRIPTIONS par.
tisan majority, is to receive the sanction OF
the people at the polls next year or not.