The Labor enquirer., 1884-10-18
Observation-Disclosures.

The prohibitionists have endorsed a
portion of the Peoples state ticket in
Colorado, and the entire county ticket.
This is good, and as it should be. All
the reform elements; all the elements
opposed to the iniquity and corruption of
the old parties, who have fostered the
liquor curse, and who have legislated the
producing class into the bonds of slavery,
should unite for the overthrow Of the
corruptionists, Whatever may be the
opinion of some of the People on the
questionof prohibitory legislation, there
are none who do not recognize the right
of the whole people to settle the matter
by a direct-yote, as other subjects touch
ing:tke constitution are settled, and they
are willing it should be SO settled. ALI
the leading prohibitionists are not SO fair
in their union with the People.
At the meeting held in Armory hall on
Tuesday evening, two of the speakers
were positive in their declarations that
the "liquor traffic is the only question of
Importance now before the American
people," And these two speakers are
ministers of the gospel. If they will step
down from their carpeted pulplts and
ego out among the alleys and by-ways"
of the world, as Christ commanded them,
they will find that there are other curses,
greater than that of the liquor traffic,
bearing down upon Gods people.
Without repeating what has been
stated in these columns during the past
two years, will simply say that the in
dustrial question, the relations of the
producers to the purloiners Of the
product Of labor, is the most important
question now before the people of the
United States and the whole world and
+ it surpasses in Importance any question
which has agltated the public mind since
the foundation of the world l grant
that the matter oftemperance is part and
parcel of the industrial question, but l
aver, from the lights I have, that the
happiness of the people Of the world in
wolves the Investigation and settlement
of the whole question, and not its tenn
perance, finaneesor land portion. -
do notsay that the prohibiionists
should all vote for General Butler, how
ever much l think they should, but do
say that theiroratorsin Arapahoe county
should discard the old political habit of
leading the people astray on one wing of
the reform platform while the devils in
power are cinching them on all others,
In few words, no man is honest Gf
informed who will say, or leave his
hearers to imply from his language, that
he would vote the erepublican or demo-
cratic ticket if they would put a prohibi-
ton plank in their platforms. The pro-
hibitionlst of honest and thorough
convictions knows that the parties in
power have nursed the whisky curse, as
part of their fortifcation, and he will
not compromise with his principles by
aiding to extend that party power, which
has proved curse in every way, though
the biggest plank in the platform were
painted to bait him. t-s
Reformers, let us have thoroughness
among us; let lis say "No comprom Use
with the enemies of justice and law and
order; no atfiliation with the destroyers
of. our homes and the wreckers of bur
happiness" Then can we ask all good
citizens to stand with us, and hope for
the blessings of God. .