The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-02-22
introduced peace, plenty and happiness"
,uaor.Mr aPiaina . tntamnarance has stead.

HeartMr. Blaine: Intemperance has stead.
lily decreased in'the State since the enact.
ment Of the ~prohibitory law, until IL can
now be said with truth that there is no
people Ia the Anglo Saxon world among
whom 10 small an amount Of intoxicating
liquor is consumed as among the six hun.
dred and fifty thousand inhabitants oil
Maine" Hear the Republican party OF
Maine through n resolution passed In Con-
yention, June 1882: eve refer with con-
fiderce and pride to the general record Of
the Republican party in support OF the
policy OF prohibiting the traffic in intoxica:
ting liquors, the wisdom and efficiency Of
which legislation, in promoting the moral
and material interests OF Mainei
have been demonstrated in the practical
anpihilation Of thattrafic in large portion
OF the State" In view OF such direct,
overwhelming evidence, "Look at Maine"
Mr.. Editor oil the Register, and retract the
falsehood uttered through your issue OF
January 80, 1883, that there Is as
much liquor drunk there now as before
the prohibitory law went into operation"
and that "the consumption Of stimulants in
Maine has been increased rather than
diminished by p,ohibitory legislation"
Retract also the falsehood, OF Gov. Click,
OF Kansas in your issue Of the 25th Of Jan.
uary, that prohibition "has proved q failure
wherever tried" Newspaper men have a
right to their honest judgement, but that
judgement must rest upon truth. They
have q right to express their sentiments
upon every question OF the day. but that
expression must be truthful, II they do
not they are guilty before God and men OF
libel, that is writing and publishing Q lie.
We have no right to SANDER or libel the
devil himself; much less to libel prohibition
that is OF God; for he says: "Woe unto him
that giveth his ueighbor drink" Nor does
the freedom Of the press" guaranteed by
the Constitution oil the United States JUS
tify an editor OF q newspaper in writing
and publishing a lot OF libels upon a great
question OF government like the prohibi.
ton Of the manufacture and sale OF a rank
poison to be used as a common drink, as
alcohol, and then in refusing to admit to
the columns OF his paper an article ques.
tioning the truthfulness Of his views. This
the editor OF the Register is undoubtedly
guilty Of, as be filled nearly three columns
OF bis paper with libelous matter against
prohibition, furnished by Governor Click,
OF Kansas, and then refused to publish an
article showing that Governor Clicks
statements were false. "Truth is the foun-
dation OF all knowledge and the cement OF
all societies. '-Casaubow. Speak ye every
man the truth to his neighbor. "-zacha-
riah. A lying tongue is the worst OF tame
beasts; a lying pen is the most ferocious oil
wild beasts.
Since writing the above article the
weekly REGISTER fell into my hands. 1tcon-
tains an article against prohibition under
the caption, "As others see it." Why
does he not manifest some common
honesty by inserting my answer to Gov.
Clicks dipatch. That review Of Governor
Clicks message shows how ''others see it"
But the present testimony Is sufficient to
decide the case iayorably to prohibition in
any competent court. Why does not the
editor OF the Register send q dispatch TO the
Governor OF Maine for facts in regard to
prohibition thereP Why dispatch to the
whisky Governor Click, OF Kansas, whose
election was partly secured, as a writer in
the Presbyterian Banner OF Pittsburgh, says,
by the $780, 900 sent to Kansas by the Liq.
uor League Of New York. But how explain
vest usuIes. 1nln btho eAPiaha
ton. The liquor dealers and saloon. keepers
pay for permits to sell there brandish them
In the face OF the public with the cry, 'look
at your prohibition"-'more liquor sold in
Maine than ever before" An eminent
writer in a late number Of the Banner OF
Pittsburgh, says: "Ever since the passage
Of the law lin Kansas the National Liquor
League has flooded the state with paid up |
UnitedStates licenses, oferingthem freely to
any one willing to violate prohibition" The
devil bats his hook, with a ham OF meat
for one, 9 $1,000 bill for another, &c, but
sometimes he holds out the naked hook TO
young editors and the poor souls lay hold
Of it. Go ahead Mr.. B., but remember
there is u newspaper bell.
REV. 10. Heuch, NJ. A.
Demos, Ohio February6 9.