The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-04-12
Nor. remperance Rubbish.

EDIrORs FREE TRADER-Plcase give
place in your valuable jourpai for some
more prohibition "rubbish,N and oblige
some of your many readers agree with
YOU in the sentiment expressed in your ed
torial of March Goth, il which you advise
republicans "to VOTE as they talk and pray
and spout in their lodges, etc That is
what we are trying 10 get them 10 do. And
they will never again have sacce,s until
they come to it, 1t is unpleasant in many
respects 10 belong TO party in the minor
| ity, but Il that miHOrdy is sure il is right,
why we will stand with the Sainted Lin
coin. that iii is better to be right than to be
| Prestd,nt." Again, what would the world
be- without enthusiasts fanatics if you Will
Let us remember Columbus, Calico, New
ton, Stephenson Watt, Patrick Henry, Tom
Paine, John Brown, John &. Whittier,
james G. Birney, Gerritt Smith, Wendell
! Phillips and host of others. How much
the world is indebted 10 Cyrus Field for
an ocean telegraph, unsuccessful four
times in laying the cable, successful the
| fifth trial. Remember Ericsson with his
monitor, which revOlutiOnized modern ma.
val warfareJ And later, Edison with his
Improvements in telegraphing, telephone,
photography, electric pen, multiplex trans
mission and Improvements in electric light
etc. So YOU see the world would move
slowly if we were ali quiet, co"serratice
men, we would stdgn"te were it not for the
enthusiasts, fanatics and fast folks
spoke in my last of Father Ireland of Wis
consin, he is of Minnesota Hear him and
wonder at his boldnesS:
Bishop Ireland of Minnesota, is becom-
ing more radical and outspoken in his eX-
pressed opinions on the liquor traffic. Last
winter he delivered two excellent lectures
in Chicago in favor of total abstinence.
He had little or nothing then to say about
the traffic, although the natural inference
would be that what one man ought not to
buy another ought not to sell. In IA recent
lecture in Minneapolis Bishop Ireland took
more advanced ground. He called the
liquor.dealers themselves To account He
account to saloon keepers In his address,
as reported in the Minneapolis Tribune
Bishop Ireland is rapidly nearing the point
where he will advocate thorough prohibi
ton. He said rs the liquor traffic to be
allowed to rule as sovereign over our fair
country and to deluge it with drunkenness
and vice. This is the question upon which
citizens of America ought seriously to pom
| lar INA ~ iuIgpI,uv. n n,IfJnrJfl
10 unrest the ecH The state alone has the
power. The enemy is organized, deter
mined; individual efforts are as bubbles
thrown against well fortified citadel. The
traffic conscious of the power of the state
; has striven to wrest it to its own ends, and
the state must hurry to free itself from its
upon its own life; the liquor traffic threat
! ems destruction to our republtcaR nstttn
tions, and even now it has in many places
made manhood suffrage a meaningless
word The state cannot now be silent an(
pause while this traffic fills its jails ant
poor houses, increases fold its tax-list
robs its subjects of virtue, honor, and life
The saloons will raise the cry of persona
liberty and personal rights the state mus
not be frightened by vain words from thu
Clcui puth vi oulv' ihCiC u
no right, no liberty for men to prey upor
the bodies and souls of their fellow men
> and to level blows at the very pillars of SO
, ciety The claim of the traffic in the name
> of personal liberty and of personal right
is the bitterest irony-a deadly insult t
true liberty and to the true rights of men
The liberty which the traffic demands i
liberty to ensave us, and to dip out to III
its beer and whisky in exchange for GU
liberty, our possessions, our manhood, on
purity, our eternal hopes. Away from u
this demon-like liberty
: How is that for Catholic priest? Loci
at our recent riots at Cincinnati At frs
on Saturday night they only wanted thu
murderers that they might give then
speedy justice. But on Sunday night the.
were crazy mad with drink, and they de
stroyed million dollars worth of propert,
in few hours, and shot three soldiers. 4
I mat is terrible thing but a drunhen mol
is HE'LL. let loose Hoping that all tru
Americans will see alike pretty soon, an
Yours very truly,
JOSHUA PUsEY.