The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-02

injunction granted in such proceedings
shall be punished as for contempt by a
fine of not less than $500 nor more than
81 900. or by Imprisonment in the Coun-
ty Jail not more than six months, or by
both, such fine and Imprisonment in
the discretion of the Court.
Section 15. Every person who shall
directly or indirectly keep or maintain
by himself or by associating or combin-
ing with others, or who shall in any
manner aid, resist or abet in keeping
or maintaining any such club room or
other place in which intoxicating liquor
is received or kept for the purpose of
use, gift, barter or for sale, or for dis
tribution or division among the MEM
bers, shall be deemed guilty of q misde-
meanor, and upon conviction therefor
shall be punished by fine of not less
than 800, nor more than $500, or by
imprisonment in the county Jail not less
than thirty days, nor more than six
months.
What are the results upon the prop
erty and homes of the people of this fair
State from the operation of this Blaine
fanaticism and magnetism 1t had
twenty-five years in Iowa been lawful
to manufacture and sell lager beer and
wine from native grapes. Under the
protection of this law thousands of peo-
pie, mostly Germans, have In
vested their means in vint-
ages and in brewing houses.
It is estimated that the aggregate
value of the property thus invested ex-
ceeds the sum of $4,000, 600. With one
stroke of the pen the use of all this vast
property is made criminal, and hence
the property itself in fact confiscated.
No provision whatever is made for COM
pensation, and thus hundreds of worthy
and Industrious citizens are robbed
without mercy. Many have been driven
from the State. '.In all our cities scores
of business houses are made vacant
Hundreds of men and women are being
arrested, fined and imprisoned for the
offense of having in their possession or
giving away a single glass of native
wine or beer. The Court dockets are
filing up with prosecutions, crowds of
sneaking informers will soon appear,
Court costs will greatly increase, and
we have all over the State reign of
bitterness, injustice, greed and oppres-
sion it is impossible to adequately de-
scribe, and it has but just begun. What
is to be the outcome no man can foresee.
At Iowa City, the former Capital of
the State, a serious riot has already
occurred and the bad consequences
will surely multiply with time.
Who can measure the harm to property,
the injury to personal liberty, the gross
wrongs to the rights of individuals in
yolved in enforcing these fanatical ideas
upon people unwilling to receive them
and not in sympathy with them?
Are we not justified in calling upon
good citizens everywhere to join hands
in preventing their further spreadp In
Maine, after many years of foolish and
Intellectual attempts at enforcement, the
Blame men, associates and co-workers
of the same class in Kansas and Iowa,
have just forced prohibition into their
State Constitution, lest the people may
some day escape their party clutches
and repeal the law. Blaine is their
champion and representative, and heart
lily favored this prohibition amendment.
He represents many bad elements and
tendencies in our politics, but none
worse than this.
How long will it be before the same
spirit will make the same laws for OhioP
If policy of National prohibition is de-
termined upon, will it not be while
Blaine is in the chair of PRESIDENT Is
there any doubt that he will favor and
promote it? Is not Senator Blair, of
New Hampshire, the official head of
that movement, one of the Blaine man
agersp The tendency is plain; we ap-
peal to you, speaking from our own
bitter experience, to resist this tendency
by word and effort and vote. The de-
struction of our property, the disorder
of our neighborhoods, the injustice and
loss to the thousands of innocent heads,
the growing crops of lies and deceits,
all impel us to this appeal. which we
make in sincerity and for the sacred
cause of truth and liberty.
The first signature is that of the Mayor
of the city of Davenport, Ernst Claus
sen, elected over a member of the
Blaine party by an overwhelming ma
jority. Mr.. Andersen Is the cashier of
the German Savings Bank, the largest
institution of its kind in the State. Mr..
fischer is the proprietor and Mr.. Sti-
bolt the.editor of Der, Demokrat.- the
leading German daily of Iowa. The
Messrs. Petersen are the proprietors of
the largest retail dry goods store in the
city, and one, perhaps, second to no
other in the State in the amount of busi-
ness transacted, and SO on through the
list we might particularize by naming
bankers, lumbermen, manufacturers
and merchants, all holding high places in
business circles. These men are not poll
ticians, but they are careful observers.
They see danger ahead, and believe il
to be their duty to give timely warn
ing. This they do with both sincerity
and earnestness.
As an illustration Of the effect of this
fanatical tendency of the Republican
party upon the German vote of Iowa,
it should be stated that Scott County,
in which the city Of Davenport is sit
| uated, gave over two thousand majority
for Garfield. Last year it gave twenty
| five hundred for the Democratic candi
date for Governor. They confidentally
expect to raise that to four thousand fol
Cleveland. While in past years the
German vote of Iowa has been solidly
Republican, German Republican il
now indeed a rarity.
Ernst Claussen, G. G. Carstens,
H fischer, J. H. C. Peterson,
Chr. Mueller, II. PAIL.
| n A. Runge, G.. A. Reimers,
| P. Il. Gruenau, Ferd. Schlapkohl,
Louis P. Best, John Schwerdtfeger,
| H. n. Andersen, ]. P. Stibolt,
| w D. Peterson, p T. Koch,
George OFT, F. 7. Biemeck,
1 John c. Branch, II. L. w. Corstens,
| D. Eckhardt, W. Cabel,
| Aug. Hass, Gustave Donald.
Merely Temporary.
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asked to invest in 1.-The Florida & Gul
Railroad & Navigation Company" wit
headquarters at Palatka, sent an &C