News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17

Another party VIII DC lOfmeu on the
, basis of temperance and prohibition,
! and sometime it will be the ruling
party of the nation. Will politicians
: understand it in season to save their
e party which has made such an honor
= able record on the slavery question,
t and in putting down fiendish rebel
8 lion, or will they go blindly on to ruin
5 by their love of office and by their
, base appetites till there is no redemp-
! ton for the party? Will this party
2 allow itself to place in the Presiden-
tial chair wine-bibbers to the disgrace
: of their high office and as an offence
, to the temperance and religious ele-
, ment of this nation, or will it place
: such men as the immortal Lincoln
there, who never maddened his brain
or the brain of others by vile intoxi-
: cants, or such men as President
Hayes, who follows in the illustrious
footsteps of Mr.. Lincoln on this sub
ject? We have men" in this nation
), every way qualified for the response
BILE and honorable Office of a Presi-
dent who are right on the temperance
question and let the people demand
that they shall serve them as the Chief
Magistrate of the nation, and when
the people say it, 1T will be done. In
view of these facts and many others,
millions of the American people are
perfectly Indifferent on the subject of
their imminent danger. They drink
and carouse, laugh and swear about
temperance and temperance advo-
Gates, and ask with derision "what do
they expect to do?" "this is q free
country and we will sell and drink as
we please and whose business is it,"
If a set of men counterfeit our cur
rency, it is the business of every hon
est person to bring to punishment if
possible the wretches who commit
such a crime against society, and thus
rob the people of their rights. 1t is
said that the views in this paper are
too radical. Let US reflect moment
that it is an admitted fact by able |
judges that eight-tenths of all the
crimes aud pauperism of the nation
are the fruit Of liquor selling and the
drinking of it, that 1t converts thou
sands ofonce happy homes in this ma
ton into bells, makes widows and or
phans by the thousand, cost the ma
ton seven hundred millions of dollars
directly annually, fourteen times as
much as the cost of all the common
schools of the ration, converts mill
ions of dollars worth of different kinds
of grain into liquid poison, produces
idleness, gambling and all kinds of
corruption in social and political life,
corrupts the ballot box so as to rule
the nation in politics !; for it is said
liquor sellers and their allies govern
the city of New York, and that city
governs the State of New York polit-
ically, and that State the nation. All
the large cities in the nation govern
the State politics, and these cities are
ruled by the liquor power in its vari-
Gus forms. All of the States north
to-day would be decidedly for prohi-
eition were it not for the corruption
OF the cities. Men selling liquor for
gain, feeding upon the tears, sorrow,
anguish, and broken hearts of wives,
widows and orphans, and sending
sixty thousand of our once noble sons
robbed of every virtue, out of this
world to an awful eternity. How ter
rible and revolving the thought These
blighted spirits 60 often from the
highest circles in society in intelli-
gence, and once had social, moral,
and political influence. 1t not only
takes the poor but the rich. not the
obscure merely, bat honorable Sena-
tors, and representatives in State
legislatures, as we'll as in our national
Congress, judges and lawyers, ply
sicians and ministers and the wives
and daughters OF princely merchants
and bankers. The record of liquor :
vendors is dark and loathesome be-
yond description.
Let us stop sending men to Con-
gress who are at heart prohibitlonists,
so that they will pass a prohibition
law in the District of Columbia, and
see that it is executed. Men who will
second the efforts of Senator Blair, {
from New Hampshire, in his effort to
pass national law to prohibit the :
and sale of ardent spir-
its in the nation. He honors his of (
fee and his State in the position he d
has taken on this subject. 1t may
make him as popular as it did John
Quincy Adams when he first brought
before Congress bill to emancipate Z
the slaves in the District of Column
bia, though he had to face the sneers
and insults of both of the great po-
litical parties of that day, north and
south, but he quailed not in their pres
ence, but faithfully and perseveril gly
did his duty and gained his victory in
the end. 1t is sad to know that
many men in Congress are opposed to
abiding to this subject and sheer at =
those who do talk about prohibiting
the manufacture and sale Of liquors, .
or are perfectly Indifferent on this
subject, men, some of them, who dis
grace themselves, their constituents
and the nation, by their Incorporate
habits. And the question naturally
comes up for an answer who put these
men IN Congress? The answer is, L
moral and religious men help put
them there. Sometimes thew have
been deceived in reference to the hab-
its of the men they have voted for,
but Ill too many instances it is not the
fact of deception but that they have
done it deliberately with the appalling
fact before them that they were voting
for tippler to make laws. Is it not n
time for temperance people to repent !
Of such sins and inconsistencies and
ask God to have mercy upon them
and forgive this, their political sin.
Have they not been partakers of other
mems sins by putting unwort thy ones
INTO office to make and execute our u
avs Have they not put the sword !
INTO the hands of these men to slay on
every hand our noble men, and we
nave said TO them you are doing hon.
'rable business and we will promote r,
7ou to honor by our votes. Will such Fl
record read we'll on this subject A
when the books are opened; when not H
only ones prayers, but his votes will ~
appear on the record and the motives
If ones acts will be disclosed before
just and holy God, who cannot be tn