The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-08-21
Short Temperance Talks.
l'Y MISS q. ). BURNETT.
SOME or THE MISTAKES Yov MAKE.

SOME OF THE MISTAKES GOU MAKE.
by YOU mean the very large elias, of highly
respectable people WHO claim to be temperance
men and women and yet are not prohi5itouj,t>
You were well pleased with THE mistakes wc
make" and frequently said That's So while
reading it. BE Just as candid now, aud YOU
will see that there j. al least Il mote in your
own eyes. First, you make a mistake when
YOU cali prohibitioni>tS fanatics" intending
thereby to bring reproarh upon them and the
cause DO YOU not know that leach ace builds
monuments to the fanatics of the preceding! -
Iauaticism is not OF modern origin. Paul WAS
a fanatic worthy of imitation. Wilbrrforrr
WAS ! fanatic, and 50 We're Garrison and Gtee-
ley and Lincoln and Il host of others who We're
IN earnest over the determination of Il crime
not % great as that which we are li@hting. If
GOV. ST. John. Neal Dow, Miss Willard. and
their h0>t of followers are fanatics We viii say.
II would that You were not only almost, but
altogether such as they" You make Il mistake
in thinking the prohibiouists ought to abandon
their party ana Vote for such men and meas
ureS seem best calculated TO promote the
cause of temperance. The very insignificant
''thrd party of fifty wears ago freed the slaves
by closely Hdhering t. principle until the
"splendid minority" saw their principles inaul-
Gated in tho platform OF the great Republican
party, and the minority was merged in the ma
jority and the right conquered and oppression
ended The temperance people will gladly give
up their organ zntiou just a> soon Il, the great
reform party" will insert a plank in its plat
form plrdging the party to constitutional pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic We say, This
one thing do,' and that one thing with what
ever party that expects to receive the yo," of
the religious element Of our country much
longer must De prohibition of all that can in
toXicate. The day of moral >uN>ion alone is
past.
My honest voter, YOU make a mistake when
YOU suppose that the cpG-c Of temperance can
be promoted and the liquor traffic suppressed,
or even restrained by license. our country
has had license two hundred wears, and with
what result: The increase OF intempcrqnrranI
consequent vice plainly tell is. The license
system justly assumes that the traffic is wrong
and must br controlled. The objection to the
system i Chat It dos not control the trade. 1t
does not limit the >ale Of liquor, 1t helps to
make this systemarized crime respectable Ii
involves the right to license other vices. never
could understand, though | have given much
thought to the subject, how the putting thing
that is wrong ON the statute book, makes it
right The licensing Of crime is itself a crime,
and licensing saloons by the voter makes every
such voter a partner in the saloon business aud
guilty accessory of crime, resulting from the
traffic. License is partial prohibition. If liq-
uor selling is right make it free to all; if wrong
prohibit It. No other course : reasonable.
My brother do not again make the mistake of
voting for license. Union Signal.