Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-01
THE lmpEsDIss CRISIS

They are very blind who do not reccg-
nize that we are face to face with a mighty
! struggle struggle the dimensions and all
the fatefnl consequences of which no man
can foresee, The effect of the recent cam
psign in Ohio upon the liquor question is
not couhned to the boundaries of this State
by any means. The agitation has extended
all over the nation and the people are
everywhere arrayed in opposing lines.
Everywhere a most portentious earnestness
marks the discussion OF the topic. The
old geographical lines which influenced and
guided party thought, count for nothing in
this matter. The people of the Carolinas
and Georgia are thinking as strongly and
as directly upon the subject as those Of
Iowa, or Kansas. Ohio occupies a pivotal
position IN this as she has in many other
contests. The advocates of free liquor,
the men whose means are invested in brew
cries and distilleries, and in beer and
whisky all over the land. threw their ener.
gies and an unlimited supply of money
into the fight here, because they reasoned
that success in Ohio would materially aid
in gaining success all over the nation. The
liquor men Of the State itself needed no
urging from outside TO make desperate
U&uts Inc OCNLN law WHICH taxes r-.UtOr-
600 year out of their pockets, was sufti-
cient stimulus for the most strenuous
efforts. It was = direct stake of enormous
magnitude to fight for. This they rightly
felt, too, was ohiy beginning They
bought up the corrupt old hulk of the Dem.
ocrstic party, which was, as it always is,
in the market awaiting a purchaser, and
the possession Of it has given them entire
Il IS . ~, e
of everything Supreme Court,
Legislature, the machinery OF the
State Government. Insufferably AFRO.
CANT as they were before this
sweeping triumph cannot fail to bound.
lessly increase their domineering insoleuce.
They feel that they can dictate terms to
the whole people, which must be submitted
to, and we must prepare ourselves for the
most astounding assertions of their power.
If they can grasp the whole Government of
the greatest States in the nation, they are
certain to think that the whole land, and
the fullness thereof, belongs to them, and
they will become Extensively tyraAnical.
On the other hand, the people of Ohio are
not going to permit the liquor question TO
be settled according to the results of the
recent election. 1t is moHstrous to con-
celVe OF Vne Hquor power owning, GoVern-
ors, Supreme Courts, Legislatures, and
making and unmaking minor officials at its
will. Such thing is not to be endured by
any self-respecting morality loving people.
The rule of the liquor power is even more
offensive than the Iule of the slave power
was, and will not be submitted to by free
and intelligent people. The liquer power
will insist upon its right to rule, with the
same brutal contempt for decenoy and
justice displayed by the slave power. Like
that terrible despotism it has enormous
wealth at its command, it has the Demo.
cratic party for supple tool, and it has
hosts of ignorant and deeply prejudiced
men as its abject and willing slaves. He
is blind who does not see troublous times
ahead, until this arrogant power is sub.
dued and made controllable. - Toledo
Blade.