The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-07-31

dren. Ia the founding and growth. nm
DEF God Of our videlT extended conn.
~, and winch ls imperiIling the per-
petuitS Of olE civil ana religious libt;stv.
eze bsrsiul fruits By which Ne Know
mat these law ars alike contrsrv
20 Gods Laws and contravene fur han
plness, ana we cali upon ouE fellow
citizens to aid IN the repeal of those
laws. and in the legal suppression of
this baneful liquor traffic The fact that
during the twenty four years in which
the Republican party has controlled the
general government, and that of many
Of these states, no effort has been made
20 change this policy; that territories
have been created from the ma
tionsl domain and governments for
them established and states from
them admitted to the Union,
| and In no instance has this traffic been
forbidden or the people Of these terri
tories or states been PERMITTED TO pro-
niDit IT; that there are now over 10000
dlstilleries, breweries. wholesale and re-
tail dealers IN these drinks holding Ger.
| tiicates and claiming the author
| itY OF the government for the continue.
ton of business so destructive to the
moral and material welfare of the peo-
pie together with the fact that the Re
| pubiicans have turned q deaf ear to
remOnstranc eand petition for
the correction of this abuse of civil
| government are conclusive that the Re
] publican party is Ensemble to, or impo-
tent for, redress of these wrongs, and
should no longer be entrusted with the
powers and responsibilities of govern
ment; that although this party IN Its
late national convention was silent on
the liquor questions. not so with the
candidates, Blaine and Logan.
Within few years past Mr..
Blaine has publicly recommended
] that the revenue derived from the liquor
traffic shall be distribeted among the
states and Senator Logan has by bill
proposed to devote these revenues to the
support of the schools, thus both Yirtu-
ally recommending the perpetuatIon of
| the traffic, and that the states and citiz-
ems shall became partners in the liquor
crime. The fact that the Dem
ocratic party has in its
national declarations of party
policy arrsyed itself on the side of the
drink makers and sellers by declaring
against the policy OF the prohibition of
SUI h traffic under the false name OF
"sumpturarY laws" and when in power
in some of the states, il refusing to
/ remedy the evil and in congress
refusing to permit the creation
of board of inquiry TO investigate
and report upon the effects of this traf,
fic, proves that the Democratic party
should not be entrusted with power Oh
place; that there can be no greater peril
to the nation than the existing cOmpeti
tiOn of the Republican and Democratic
parties for the liquor vote. Elk
perience shows that any party
not openly opposed to the traffic
will engage IN this competition
will court the favor of the criminal
classes; will barter away public morals,
and the purity of the ballot box and
every trust and object of good govern
ment Tor party success, and patriots and
!, good citizens should find In this prac-
tice sufficient cause for immediate with.
drawal from all connection with these
parties.
That we favor reform IN the admins
tration of the government IN the abolition
OF ali sinecures and useless offices anC
the election of postmasters by the PEG
pie instead of their appointment by the
president, and that competency, honesty
J aud sobriety are essential qualification
from holding civil Office, and We Oppose
the removal OF such persons for mere
administrative offices except so far as i
may be absolutely necessary to secure
effectiveness; that the COLLECTION
OF revenues from dlCOlOIlC 1lQuOTs
and tobacco should be abolished al
: vices of men and not proper subjec
for a taxation that revenue for custOnl
duties should be levied for the supper
! of the government economically admin
} Istered and when SO levied the foterinl
} Of American labor, manufacturers and
. Industries should constantly b
held in view; that the public lands
, should be held for homes for the people
; and not for gifts to corporations nor Il
y be held in large bodies for speculation
that all money, COIN and paper, shall bt
? made, issued and regulated by
: the general government and shall
; be legal tender for all debts, public
and private; that grateful care and sup
, port should be given % our soldIer
3 and sailors, their dependent widows anC
orphans, disabled in the service of tn
country; that we repudiate as un-Amer
t lean, contrary to and subservIV
: of the principles of the declaration o
, independence, from which our cavern
e ment has grown to be a government o
e $4,000, 900 of people and recOgnIze'
, power among the nations, that any per
e son or persons shall or may be excluded
from residence or citizenship, with al
Others who may desire the benefit which
our institutions confer upon the op
pressed of all nations.