Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-10-04

soA "eku N tu0 purity petIOrm.
i ASK o. 1HxN
in return: If prohibition is eliminated
what will there be lett 10 fight Overt
There are NO national party issues. The
old question OF slavery, reconstruction.
manhood suffrage, civil righte, repudis-
ton, DC have all been definitely acted
upon and the results at least oeteusib,v
accepted BY the Democrats. Upon ali
important questions-such as the tariff
currency, banking, control of corporations
clvli service reform, &c, each psrty in
divided. The only square issue is (which
party shall till the otfices," ard apar. from
personal likes and dishkes, partisan PREM
dice and free Of hsbit, the thinking yotar
nas but little to guide him except the
general character" of the organ;x,,ion
asking bis support. Uader such citcnm.
stances, 1t is inevitsble that new issues
shall force themselves t, The from. snd
unless existing parties accept them. new
ores will be formed to advocate and on.
pose. There ere many indications tbst
constitutional prohibition will soon Ia.
come the all-absorbing National question.
and Kansas will have been the leader.
And now want to ask our opponents
| to look at this mat n from our stand point-
Your demand is that we shall helm von
| TO win q victory in contest that has for
Its chief, If not its only aim, the film, of A
few offices with men about W HON wa cara
but little end to do this we must cesse 10
labor in what We believe to be the most
effective way, against the giant evil of the
age. On the one side is the Cause of a
lew office seekers, and on the other that
OF mnl itudes Of suffering men. women
and children. The success of the first
will crafty the pride of the party. and
The success OF the latter will add 10 the
glory of the State. The euccess of the
first on your platform, sacrifices that of
the best, but the success of the last
secures that of the fret also. You ask us
70 unite with You In planting apples of
Sodom that turn to ashes on lips. while
We propose an orchard every tree of
which shall bear fruit that will helm tn
sustain the body, strengthen the mind
purify the heart. If We should under.
take to go to you, conscience would rise
up to bar our passage, and follow US with
never ending reproaches, but the mos, of
you In coming to us, would find nothing
out pride In the way, and at every steD
would b. cheered by the conscious nees
that your arrival would help preserve the
purity OF the innocent, strengthen or
protect the weak, anu alleviate the suffer-
ings of the desclste. Even MAJ, for man.
yod must admit that you are asking us TO
make greater eaor fees for harmony than
are asked Of you, and to this must be
added the further fact inst there are FIVE
or six Of US to one of you.
IN coNcivDING
upon this head let me still further
impress few facts. Yyu asked US not 10
organic prohibition party, out to flight
il out inside the party" l. It right for
you to refuse to abide BY the result of a
contest Of your own inviting? And is il
not a little che eky 20 ask us to surrender at
to these we have vanquished?
However, be this as it may, the prohibit
uonists have control of the party and
intend TO retain it, lsi the consequences be
uaat they naoy. Thsre are two practical
questions for you to settle.
l. Have you decided that if the Re
publican platform is not 80 changed as to
make it more acceptable to dramselling
outlaws, you will leave il? Ifyou.have,
the honorable course would be to 20 a.
soon as you are able 10 read the hand
writing on the wall that is already 30
p sin to most people.
2. II you expect 10 remain in the Re-
publican camp, even IL the majority does
not ask the minority TO write its platform,
will it not be be 81 to announce It once lard
that means nov, right off to strengthen
the party by strengthening the cause of
law and order it is eonteEding for, by
trying to diminish instead of increasing
the bitterness Of disssts fed Republicans,
BY making the law more instead of less
efficient; by supporting honest officials
instead of diehosts. ones; by synplthiz-
Jag with the wives and children Of drunk
ards, instead of wi b drur kards makers by
m akIng clear 10 al you come in contac,
with that the responsIb lily for violation
D. law, where il docs ISL lies at the door
IF criminals and their siders and sbettors.
In short, even if you DO not like the situs-
lion, make the beat Of Il. Do rot be Click
any logger even il you were
ast year.
Ii you believe that pro hibition is wrong
in principle it mav De well Tor you 10
study the subject mtre careful by reading
,ome such mastery works as Judge PIT
mans Alcohol suc the State" always re-
that the test Of the business,
and eIpediency Of law, does not always
IL pend upon the alacri.y with which it is
obeyed BY the criminal class. Finally let
ne say n few words to the Young men who
are just taking a position In political life.
There is
VALE OF wRETCHRDNIss,
d,led with wrecked men, hopeless women
and worse than fatherless children. 1t il
= moral quagmire into which some rush
others lnred by thousand de-