The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-16
VICIOUS IN DEATH.

! The. course of the Republican part,
towards the Prohibitionists during ant
q since the late campaign has been vindic
= tive to the extent of brutality. TIL
f temperance people are charged with tn,
2 defeat of Blaine and Logan, an &C
I which is held to be an unpardonablt
( sin. Not only has st. John been abused
without stint, hung and burned il
efigy, and subjected to the severest
and naStiest newspaper assaults, but
Christian men and women have been
assailed in the vilest manner, and thei1
honesty and sincerity called in question
because of their efforts to reform one OF
the great crying evils of the age. I'm
doubtedly it was the withdrawal from
Blaine of the temperance vote which
defeated the Republican ticket; but the
temperance people not only had
the right to vote as they pleased
but it was their conscientious
duty to oppose the party which
had been false to them in lending all the
encouragement of its great power to
an increase of the liquor traffic. The
ProhibitiOnists saw they were engaged
IN hopeless struggle while allied to the
Republicans, for while gaining victories
ter the g. o. p. their own cause was
either stationary or losing ground. The
only way by which they could advance
the temperance movement was bv
bringing temperance into national pol
ltics not as an adjunct to one of the
promising but non-fulflling parties, but
as an independent factor, operating by
itself and for itself. Considering the
aims and objec tsl of the Prohibitionists,
their course was marked by the truest
wisdom, and all who concede to
them sincerity in their work must
also yield to them full credit for
what they have done. If the same
good Judgment shall hereafter charac-
terize their operations in future it will !
not be long before the Prohibitionists |
viii not be suppliants at the feet of Dem
oeratS or Republic ans; they can dictate
terms and others will be too glad to
accept the conditions, yielding what
ever may in reason be asked. No one
will say that by working with the
the temperance people
would have made any advance; money
and power are what the Republicans
are after, and both these are with tt e
liquor business.
In connection with this matter of the
abuse and maltreatment of
st. John and the cold water people gen
orally the following indignant protest
from Miss Frances E. Willard, of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
IS full of interest. 1t shows up the Re-
publican attacks completely, and shows
up the infamy and ingratitude of the
party that has proited so much from
having held the temperance people I'M :
Ter its wing through holding out false ;
hopes and making promises it never ex-
oected to fulfill:
These are the times that try women's
souls. 10 be tolerant toward the in
Olerant is a difficult grace. and vet its
exercise is iInperiously demanded of us.
A party long accustomed to success is
II defeat. Thousands of leading men
ZEE their hopes blighted, ambitions
,verthrown. perhaps their occupation
zone. Party journals denounce the
orohibitioniSts as having caused all s
his. and fellows OF the baSer Sort
lang Ex-Governor St: John IN efigy. q
The w. c. T. L. is termed political Y
party" and subjected to the sharpest C
riticisrR by men who found no fault b
With our societies in Iowa. Kansas and t
,ther States, where they lent their in il
iuence" to the Republicans. Free q
peech and free ballot have, within Il y
ortnlght, cost many a voter dear, In s
he good VIII of business patronage of v
lis nelghborS, while obedience to the t
most profound convictions has called
lown bitter imprecations on many an U
lonest Toman's head. Our own fami-
lar friends, in whom we trusted, have :
ttered these words in public print and
'riyate reprimand. Not from the ig-
orant or base but from cultured
cholars and Christian gentlemen have
ONE these words and deeds. Not in r
eneratiOn has such a cross-fire of de-
unciation whistled through the air as
hat now aimed at those of us who lent
heir influence to the Prohibition party. Ii