The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-01

admiration of his open hearted can
dor and f~rankness. There is no dou-
BILE dealing or fence straddling about
Gould. You know right where to
find him every time. We are sorry,
however, that he should so decidedly
plant himself on the wrong side of
an important question, and seek to be-
come the champion of the most in
famous business hat curses our coun-
try. We are doubly sorry that he
should think it necessary to sheer at
such noble workers in the cause of
humanity. and right, as MI. Kalbfus
and Mrs. White, and we pity him in
view of the fate hat awaits the de-
tenders of the run traffic which when
the rising tide of public sentiment
shall overwhelm them, as the hosts
of Pharaoh we're buried in the sea.
NEW PARIS MIRROR.
In the above Bro. Bloom seems to
have stumbled into the same error
about our temperance, as that of Rev.
L. e. Brown and others, and which
is the mistake of nearly all blatant
temperance apostles and prohibition
claquers, toward those who oppose
them. There are political cranks, re-
ligious cranks and temperance
cranks, any of which willsinjure the
cause they espouse, and we are
against the inc as we'll as the other.
How to best deal with the liquor
traffic and the crimes resulting from
it, was a problem proposed at the be.
ginning of political organization. II
was as difficult to solve it in the past
as it is at present. The present mode
and the one which the ''cranks"
would have us believe to be 'the sove
reignest balm or ALL" is to forbid
by law the m tnufacture and sale OF
alcoholic drinks, and although this
plan has been persistently tried in
Maine for years, and other States,
and proved a failure, these prohibit
ton "cranks" will continue to de-
nounce all who object to it, and brand
them as champions of the saloon
business" and advocates of drunk
enness." Only "cranks" attempt to
dictate and say what men shall put
into their stomachs as food or drink.
We hold that each one should be the
judge of his own, but that an unre
lenting war should be made on drum
kenness is not only proper, but we
would say. needful. Legislative en-
actments, unsupported by public
sentiment, has been tried and failed;
empty assertions that are without
truth to sustain them won't do. in an
enlightened community, neither will
abuse of all who doubt the power or
propriety of the sovereign BALM of
the cranks and fanatics. Doubtless
these men are honest in their intent
to mitigate the wrongs flowing from
the pernicious use o alcoholic drinks,
but an experience of thirty or forty
years, with only an aggravation gifts
evils, ought to suggest to them some
thing more practicable.
The prohibition claquers remind
us very much of what Macauly said
about the old Puritans and their op
position to bear batting. 1t wasn't
because of any sympathy for the bear
they forbade it, but because they
hated to see the spectators enjoying
themselves so well. So it is with the
prohibition cranks-it is not sym
for their fellow-men, but they
do hate to e them enjoying them
selves over the convivial bowl, when
they don't want to do it or dare not.
The drinkers are in a majority all
over the United States. Suppose this
majority should turn around and ask
for a Law to compel these "sick
stomached' gentlemen to drink beer,
wine and whisky? Has not-one the
same right to say to his neighbor
you shall. as the other to say yod
shall not?