The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-08-31
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
EDITED ny THE
Womsns Christian Temperance Union
sox ror0Ll. vox DEr.

No principle has ever Jet been en-.
acted into American law embodyino
our true ideal Of popular government
more than prohibition in Iowa. A
Democfatic legislature years ago (sbou.
1866 passed clean cut prohfbitory
liquor law in there, and though not
needed Ia snska IL hiadi.ae, lI.st sast..4. /.
was submitted, for confirmation, 10 the
popular vote, and the people Of the
State, then living largely in the river
counties, said BY large majority, 10
t0us right and 1sstst Be oLs>rDef, mi IL
soas.
Shortly afterward Republican leg.
islatnre yielding to the lager "bier',
delusion, and the then prevalent ignor-
ance Of the effect Of the lighter alcohol
lies, declared that Intoxicating Iiquors'
IN the Democratic prDhibitory Law must
not be taken 10 mean wine OF beer,
and passed wine and beer license
Law, under which the saloons Of Iowa
have ever since claimed their privilege
OF making paupers and criminals, and
doing Satan's work generally.
Verify, "history repeats itself" Eng.
land, thirty years ago, tried tapering
OF her intemperance on beer and pro.
vided more ready facilities for It's
consumption, and one Of her greatest
Statesmen shortly afterward said that
che taPsring process had sent the gov.
ernmoht "spraaclipg" where il bad bot
'reeled' before; and her profound
thinker and historian, Dir. Leckie, says
to-day, that her drinking customs are
the "master curse" of her people. That
truly is ''tapering" ssiA reageanc>.
Last year the people Of Iowa, by .
large majority. said that vine and beer
license, and any kind Of = saloon IL
cense, was failure. @Ks lace Eried it
aud u scoa'k dO.s. at don't protect
anything but crime, or anybody but
the criminal" Every anendment
prayer. aud song, and banner. and bal
lot, AID glad hallelujah in Iowa last
year said 80. And now comes the
Republican party into court. to answer
the summons Of the sovereigns for
having thus laid violent hands npon
that Democratic prohibitory l4S, and
no canse TO the contrary being shown,
they bow t. the popular verdict and
promise TO restore 70 the people the
benign protection vouchsAfed to their
homes, when "trust the people," not
trust the saloonkeeper," was the idea
Of Democracy 10 the North.
The Republican party says that i
viii jas. undo what they had no righ,
to do years ago in their "wine and beer
special legislation. That they vii
stand from under and let the saloon
drop into the pit dug by the Demecrac,
Of Iowafor them years ago. Yes, droI
below the hope OF resurrection. The,
have found that Inherently and dread
fully wicked as it is, and freighlsd Wit
the accumulatiOns Of the popular wrat
and it's own iniquity, It is too heavy
: nonstrosity for any party longer {
: hold up, unless that party wants to b
: buried along with it.
II the mind and heart of Iowa kno'
how to decide matter lying 50 near {
: its home and individual life, upon uu
disputed facts and unquestioned test
mony, then prohibition Is rigks. II rc
> right when the Democratic party thel
Z said so it is just as right now. Il ,ct
: rigls thundered from Sinai when Il
world was young, and it. viii be rigl
as the divine reverberatisn shall con
from Iowa this fall and City thousar
Q majority shall more emphatiealiy tbs
u ever and once again and for all time
come, say to the saloon keeper, "7'hO
shah not."-Signai.