Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-25

"hre-watcr.' We would move 10
amend and make il hell-fre-water,
or the drippings of damnation. or The
essence of poverty, ruin and death.
The political negatives, who drink
but little themselves, some of them
none at all, but who are brought face
to face with the work Of this internal
blight daily, and Who can point out
among their associates and fellow citi-
zens the brightest examples Of manly
worth that have already been ruined
spiritually, already been ruined mcn-
tally, aud who now, physically, are
toppling into cheap pine cofiins, will
look you in the face and tell you that
they are going TO fight the Republican
party, go;ag to vote the Democratic
ticket, because the party of freedom
aud progress shows a disposition to
put forth helping hand TO save mer,
because it asks the privilege of pro-
tecting friends, and brothers and sons
against themselves. because il begs
and solicits of the majority of the peo-
pie the constitutional right and the
power TO shut Off from those cnslaved
their greatest enemy and the greatest
enemy of humanity.
Against the German and his beer,
and as TO light wines for Americans,
we have nothing 10 urge. Ii was upon
that rock that our faith in a prohibi-
tory law went to pieces when the
proposition was first submitted, and
we have never been able to make il
whole since: but as for that liquid fire
called whisky, brandy, and the thous-
and Understanding decociions combin-
ell of these, we are opposed to them rs
much as can he any prohibitionisis
The German has been raised for gen
erations-been taught 10y precept and
example-ihat beer was no more harm
full rs daily beverage than tea and
coffee. II is eqally well known that
the average American is just ms much
lover of, a slave to. coffee rs the Ger
man is 10 his beer. Which OF the two
is the most injurious we cannot say.
We do know that coffee and tobacco
have made Il dyspeptic of him who
pens these lines, and that to deprive
the men and women of to-day of this
narcotic would be 10 unnerve one-half
of their number and TO put large per
cent. OF the balance 10 bed with sick
headache. Deny them. by law, this
beverage and they would loudly pro-
test. Ii the German could have had
his beer and the American his wine.
if he wanted, then a combination of tea
drinkers, coffee drinkers and beer
drinkers might have successfully en-
forced the law against the internal bey-
erage to which the American peculiar
" has become addicted and fer which
the German has but little more use
than the slave of coffee, against this
beverage that few saloon Keepers will
even indulge beverage which such
indignant protectors as Governor
Click will not drink himself, which
level headed men generally, will not
swallow but occasionally, and which
such Democratic oracles as Judge
Amos Harris, and other prominent
Democrats who are pulling the wool
over the eyes of Republicans, will the
the cry of personal liberty" and
down with smuptuary laws :" never
drink. These men who are trying to
destroy the Republican party by call
ing it prohibition party, are them
selves not only prohibitionists in prac-
tice but teetotlers. And these
prejudices, which they have thus Great
ed, is being used by the deserters first
alluded to in dragging men after them
and into the.lines of party. which, if
il ever comes into power, is to be run
and governed by the men who made
secession and rebellion possible in
America.
Watch these renegades and time
servers, and see who they are and then
take note of what they say, and tell us
if we have not faithfully drawn their
pictures. In the mean time, let every
Republican, who is a Republican from
principle, and who, if he was sol
der, fought for its principle, and not
for pay or shoulder-straps, think for
himself and vote for himself, assured
that the Republican party will be on
the right side, and for the best inter-
ests of our common country, assured
that if prohibition is a failure and not
the best way 20 save the flower of this
land from the clutches of the whisky
hunger and devil-appetite, that that
party will not only find it out, but act
the most directly aud efiectually in
the interests of humanity.