Daily Republican., 1884-10-13
TEMPERANCE.
AFET1AG OF THE ALLIANCE Oh
nATUBDAY-ADD8Ess TO TINE
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At meeting Of the Temperance
Alliance ON Saturday President Pur.
nell, Charles Moore and Rev. e. N,
Prettymau were appointed comm ittee
TO solicit the cooperation Of w. g. I. u.
10 the coming campaign, and adopted
the following address to the people OF
New Castle County.
Tho friends Of local option have tried
IN vain for years past 70 have the policy
OF the liquor traffic submitted to . vote
OF the people. Some members of tbe
Legislature have 40 individuals favored
local option by casting their votes for .
measure Of this character. but thew
have been In \ minority, and neither OF
the existing political parties In Della.
ware has ever endorsed tho principle.
In other States, for examp Maryland
Georgia, Kansas and Maine, the people
have, by common consent, been Al
lowed to express their will, and the
result 10 that the evil Of the liquor
trsffic has been there partially or
wholly subdued, but unfortunately for
our State the Legislature will neither
enact prohibition nor permit the people
TO do 70.
This 10 violation OF the fundamen.
tai principle Of our republican. institu.
tions, for our government In State and
nation was designed to be "a govern.
mcnt Of the people, by the people and
for the people. " Separated from party,
We believe the liquor trafic would be
abolished BY the popular vot,. But
the veice OF the people has been stified
and gigantic evil continued year af-
Yer year by the strength Of party attach.
ment and the force Of party machinery.
Tho partisan leaders crack their whips
and large numbers of Temperance men
fall into the traces and draw their usual
burden once more TO the polls They
suffer themselves to be deluded by the
appeal made TO their prejudices.
The liquor advocates, who are wiser in
their generation. cannot be caught with
such chaf. II their principles are not
respected they repudiste the party.
Hence the greater Difference paid 10 their
wishes. In the meantime the dreadful
traffic goes on. Hundreds of thousands 3
OF dollars are worse than wasted, count
less lives destroyed, and woe and
wrotchedness in every form stalk
through the land. One moments con-
alteration would convince the unpreju
diced mind that this question Is OF far
more importance TO the c0nmuni-
ty than questions Of tariff, currency,
civil service reform, assessment laws
aud the like. Itis tn o paramount issue
Of the times.
Influenced by such considerations the
State Temperance Alliance at its last
regular meeting determined to bring
the subject directly before the people.
and, therefore, instructed It's county
com mittees 10 nominate Legislative
tickets. Neyertheless, being perfectly
willing thar the respective political
parties should be afforded another op.
portunity OF setting themselves right on
this vital subject, It was declared that
In case either Of them should insert q
local option plank In their platform the
local option Legislative tickets shoulu
De immedi lately withdrawn. According
ly . ub-commtt'ee was appointed 70
make proposition 10 the State Con.
ventions Of the two parties respective
~, asking them to approve Of the prin-
ciple of local option.
This request WAS submitted to tue
convention Of the Democratic party on
the 23d Of September, 1884. 1t was
read In convention and referred 10 the
COIN mittee on resolutions, but no report
whatever WAS made on this subject.
The same request was laid before the
Republican convention, which met
one week aftsrwsrd, and there IL met
| no better fate. Without being read II " az
referred TO the committee on platform,
and tue chairman of that COMMITTEES
advised against its adoption and recon-
nended the friends of local option TO
look To the Democratic party for re-
lief.
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