Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-10-27

favor either, or that as a national
body it will ever support the national
policy for which | stand and in be-
half of which the national prohibit
ton party has declared? Uncom-
promising hostility to that policy
cannot so surely and fatally delay
its success as can covert enmity
cloaked in friendly disguise.
Ninth, Tenth and Elevenh.-You
are not republicans, [ may assume
simply because you expect to elect
your ticket. We cannot forego be-
ing prohibitionists merely because
we have no sure promise of at once
electing ours and while it may be
unreasonable, as you insist, 'to favor
a change from bad to worse SIMPLY
for change it is always reasonable
to favor right and to stand by prin-
ciple regardless of what change may
be brought about as a result. | have
loved my country we'll enough to
carry musket in its defense and to
risk life in its service | hold its OBJ
legation to every brave defender, or
to those now representing such, as
forever sacred; the national credit
and the material resources of the ma
ton would not see impaired, and
all that was gained for God and hu-
manity by years of war | would see
preserved through years Of peace;
but 200 legalized dram shops
| imperil our national credit and i'm
pair our national resources to an eX-
tent more alarming than any other
danger which now threatens us;
protective tariff on the liquor traffic
loses to labor SO for every dollar
which labor gains by protective
tariff on imports; the education and
elevation of our entire people, white
and black, are more dependent upon
the prohibition of the saloon than
upon the perpetuity of any party in
power, and as patriot, and hum
BILE defender of my country in its
former need, | cannot now let old
party attachments hold me silent
while more deadly enemy than re-
bellion bids us wait and work his
will.
Ttoelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth.
AS to parties and candidates: If
'it is wrong, as you affirm, 'to elect
party to power that ignores its
principles and evades discussing the
policy it intends to pursue it must
be radically wrong for either of US to
help elect the republican party, since,
if it have any temperance principles
8 it ignores them, if it have any tenn
perance policy it evades discussing it.
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Indeed, that party's chief aim now
is to hold both the liquor and the
temperance vote, which purpose ut
terly forbids any positive temperance
principles and encourages only {
practical liquor policy. In the very
: same issue of the Tribune, which con
| tains your appeal to Republican
: Prohibitionists' and your request t.
me, find the letter of a Republican
Brewer telling why brewers shoulc
support Blaine protest agains
the attempt to use their association
for Cleveland and in which occur
/ this frank avowal: Our national OF
: ganization is twenty-four years old
: During all those years the republi
e cans have been in power in nationa
0 affairs, and submit to every candi'
e brewer, be he democrat or be he re
: publican, if the brewing interests O
!, our country have not grown to i'm
Y mense proportions, if our rights an
: our interests have not been protected
d fostered, and encouraged by Gu
e government In the same letter
), read also the following: 'Mr. Blain
y was correct when he said prohibitio
was not national question or issue
i This being the case, let us not d
It anything to antagonize a party tha
n has always treated the brewing in
). terests fairly, whose policy is to fos
d ter, protect, and encourage home il
e dustries, and which should not b
7. held responsible for the opinions an
le acts of few men who claim men
If bership in the party And in proc
% that this Republican Brewer has fu
d authority for his statement of VIII;
N the republican party's policy is, Il
ID me remind you that said party hs
IS declared for 'the largest diversity {
rs INDUSTRIES which clearly includes Il
L manufacture and sale of intoxicatlr
Id liquors, and that Mr.. Blaine b;
u. recently enunciated as the third do
Of trine' in the republican party's cree
encouragement of every form
as American industry which declar
t. ton, together with his revenue lett
ed to the Philadelphia Press proposlr
ny to make the tax on spirituous al
to malt liquors "a permanent resour
1T to all the states, fully justifes t
er expectation of further 'encourag
y. ment' and protection which this |
ur publican brewer proclaims to
We friends.
tic With regard to candidates. int
lectually and morally, | have not
lat word to say. | prefer to leave pt
Ike sonal abuse and vilifcation to tho
a.. who have nothing better to uphe
Ike their cause. But when you speak
in Mr.. Cleveland's gross blunder VIII
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