The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-08-26

way Train person can stand on the hind
end and look back on what they have
passed. Then they have full view OF all
around. Coming to our country we have
to look all around to see what has been
accomplished. Both political parties are
having wrsngle Ia see which
will be the first to introduce reform. But
neither reforms.
In Georgia ninety-two out of one hun
dred and thirty-seven counties have prohi-
bition and how was it accomplished &?
Through the aid Of the dominant party
vote. Kentucky and Tennessee also have
many counties which have pro-
hibition. Arkansas has what no
oIEer state has. Over one hun.
dred and sixty-6Se miles of reilroad on
which not drop of liquor is allowed to be
sold. The Arkansas traveller truly must
get very dry. In the south the dem
ocrats upheld it and the republicans fought
it. The republican party taught the ne
groes to believe that prohibition was q new
method Of slavery. Across the Mason and
Dixon line the matter was re-
versed, the republican party up
holding prohibition and the dem
ocrats bitterly opposing it, probably be-
cause the leaders were forced to do SO by
the whisky faction. States have been adj
mitted TO the union and territories formed
but nothing was said about the restriction
of the one great evil, nothing about regu-
latiDg it.
The whisky bill for one year amounts to
$500, 0G0, 900, Of which the government gets
SS6, OOO,000 and tbs states So
100000, and still the traffic is allowed
10 carry on business, because it is legiti-
mate. One hundred thousand men and
women are made to pay for this and the
government gets 81 900 for each drunkard
per year. This is the first cost, not the
cost of crime, the penitentiary, the work
house and the grave. The insane asylum,
disrupted and dismantled homes, and the
sad-eyed women who set within. A cry OF
agony goes up TO God because of the
liquor traffic God only knows its
misery. The little children reduced to
beggarS, crying for the actual necessities Of
life. All this simply shows the cost OF
drink, and this too, under the administra-
ton Of the dominant party, the party OF
great principles and ideas. Look at it and
ponder over it. Tobacco, too, is one OF the
great curses Of the human race.
Five hundred and FIVE million dollars
are spent annually for bread and nearly
$500, 100000 for liqaor. Not much is re-
quired to sweeten US but it requires a great
zeal 10 stimulate US. Still less is spent for
puDlic education, state universities, normal
schools and the like. Now get your opera
glasses and look for how much Is spent for
benevolence. Very little indeed, and when
compared with the drink bill, what little
there is, sinks into insigni1cance.
When the great dominant party was in
session cat Chicago a memorial from
thousands of homes was presented, but it
was totally ignored. 1t was probably laid
on or under the table for that was the last
heard of it. Monopolies, railroads, sheep
growers, and the like were the only things
that gained recog nition. The whisky in
terest holds the power a1d the people dare
not speak. The head of the ticket propos-
es to divide the revenue between the states
aud the next man on the ticket proposes to
educate our children with this blood
money.
The other party, when ii met, was also
presented with a memorial but it said
1--WE are opposed to all sumptuary laws
which harass the people"
In Connecticut petition was presented
to the legislature praying for submission
of the prohibition question to the
people. These petitions were tied
with white ribbon and laid on
each members desk. They were opened.
Some were torn up and thrown into the
waste basket while others of the members
in 6t of playfulness SHE'D them at the
speakers head. Some old white-headed
mothers had gathered in the back part of
the capitol building 10 see what would be-
come of the petition, and one speaker
arose and moved that the floor be cleared
of al intruders.
They say the women should be at home
with their children. / admit home is the
place for them, but must they remain
there and see their children dragged from
their very arms by the liquor traffic and
hurled to distractions. We appeal 10 you
for aid you who control this great nni-
verse. What shall we do?
A small boy was recently found in
Kansas City with a whisky flask in his
pocket He would not tell where he got
it but by diligent inquiry the ladies
found out the name of the
man who sold il to him
and had him arrested. He was fined S25
and costs This the woman, thought, was
pig thing, Dut shortly aIterward man
fed giraffe some tobacco in one of the
parks and it died. The man was fined $500.
But then ;hst was giraffe and the other
was only little boy.
Again / ask what shall we do? Shall
we let it go on until the whiskey bill in
creases and the children are all ruined.
The mother instinct is strong In every
woman and she would protect her child
but how is she to do il when the courts,
the judges and the juries are against her?
They can only appeal to you who con-
troll the government to see that the laws of
God and man are enforced. They come
with their children in their arms and ask
you, to protect them, but you say the time
is not yet. You must gain
this presidential contest and the question
must not oe brought up now. 1t is case
of Goodness against sin.
am not here to advocate any man but