Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-10
A COLD WATER SERMON,
pAsIsL Aovsrrs TAR sonusArros
ia III, Letter Tie says Reform wouiu Be
Bsss secured uy the Suppression OF
the whole Iiauor hrnft,e

the whole Liquor trafue.
Hon. William Daniel, nominated for
vice president by the national Prohibition
convention, has addressed q letter to the
committee accepting the nomination and
assigning numerous reasons Tor the neoes-
sity OF Prohibition party aud for its
claims to support. His letter closes rs fol
lows:
"Both of the existing political parties
have opposed or ignored this great issue
and their candidates for president and Woe
president have done likewise. Messrs.
Cleveland and Hendricks adopt the shib-
boleth of their party aud their liquor Low
ing allies aud cry out against 'sumptuary
laws that vex the citizens Ou tho other
hand, Mr.. Blaine would perpetuate the
tratfi, for the purpose of raising perma.
nent revenue to be appropriated to the
payment OF the taxes of the several states
ia proportion to their populations, and TO
joices in the probable aud constant in
crease of such revenues. He states that
this entire revenue comes from the
consumer and therefore hurts no one, aud
that it is much better that 1t should come
| from this source than from firms aud shops.
[Sse letter of November, 1888 Mon.
| strous proposition truly that II
should be necessary or proper to
wiring this blood money from the homes OF
poverty and distress TO pay the taxes OF
the iich with, who owp the farms and the
| shops, and more astonishing still that rev
enue thus obtained hurts no one aud that
General Logan would place number ol
grog shops about every school house In or
der that the former may support the latter
Necessity, conscience, loyalty to God anc
humanity therefore compel us to assum,
1 " "a ,aI nd hau
ing directed our standard We must rail-,
around it aud we shall thus more rapid,
increase and strengthen our sentiment thar
in any other way ever courageousl,
meeting the issue, opposing organization
with organization, ballots to ballots, anC
having done our oil, trust the result to
God, assured that in due time the righ
will triumph.
| with the other reforms SO well de
clared upon in our platform of principle
am in full accord and deem il unueces
sary to add anything further here in regar
TO them. Indeed success Of many, il no
oil of them, would be best secured BY tn
suppression of the liquor traffic and ca
never he otherwise, In the drink demo
labor fuds much worse euemy than Iris
landlord absenteeism and all the railroa
and other monopolies combined. 1t Is th
| great uispouer Alke OF wage earnings an
the profits of capital. Nor can we eve
have thorough civil service reform unit
the temptations to drink are removed, al
abstinence or strict sobrety, as we'll a
honesty snd capacity are made practices
tests of office holding.
Protection, moreover to the home
and the now worse than wasted resources
of the people, will be found to be pre-
lection of infinitely more Importance tina
, all the protection that can DO afforded b
. any tariff that has been, or ever can /
devised. Lastly-this movement offers
grand opportunity of buryins forever th
, sad memories aud bitter hates OF the wa
, and of uniting the best elements, Christia
, and moral, throughout the land againl
worst. and in an organization that wi
know no North, South, East or West /
greatest purpose being the protection
the homes against the saloons"