Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-07-28

PROHIBITION.

they are putting forth new efforts.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union has reopened the campaign by
presenting petition to the Legislature
for the submission of another Prohib-
tory Amendment. They ask that the
Constitution be so amended that the
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquors as beverage shall be forever
prohibited within the state. If this
is adopted, on the second Tuesday of
October, 1885, the legislature upon
that day elected, Shall, at the first
session, enact law for the enforce
ment of such an amendment.
With Kansas as precedent, there
is every encouragement to work on
that line. After the law passed in
Kansas, but little effort was made to
enforce it. They forgot that law does
not enforce itself. When Gov. st.
John was defeated, and Click elected,
the liquor men were much embolden-
ed, and the people began to bestir
themselves, and what is the result to-
day? Topeka, the Capital, the most
law-defying place in the state, has at
last surrendered, and Mayor Wilson,
whose every effort favored the sa-
looms, was compelled to resign his
office, and the citizens elected Pro-
hibitionist to fill his place. In Potta-
watomie county, the law-breakers
have all been convicted, and fined
from $1,000 to $1,000, and imprisoned
for thirty days. At Fort Scott,
through the persistent efforts of the
County Attorney, sixteen saloons
were closed. In Lawrence, one of
the strong whiskey cities, twenty liq-
uor saloons have agreed to quit the
business if the prosecutions are stop
ped. The fight has commenced in
Leavenworth, with the Kansas Prohi-
bitionist, a live paper, leading off, and
they are certain of victory. Such is
the influence of the Kansas 'sfanat-
ics.'
1t is expected that, at an early
day, there will. be call for an inter-
state convention for Iowa, Nebraska,
Missouri and Kansas, to organize fol
Prohibition. 1t requires brains, pluck
and money to enforce the law, but
they are succeeding.
A petition for the National Consti-
tutional Amendment will be sent out
by the National Women's Christian
Union, and will be presented to the
presidential nominating Conventions
of the different parties. They viii
ask for Prohibition instead of the
ballot for women. The people II
Ohio find it is hard to count men;
ballots, what would it be if they ha(
to count women's also?
Thus we see the Prohibition senti
ment gaining ground all over thu
United States. 1t is spreading rapid
ly in the South. Georgia, South Car
DINA, and other southern states ar
considering the best way out of tn
difficulty. yD
The constant and effective agitation
of the subject in press and pulpit,
causing no little alarm among tn
liquor men. Their uneasiness is man
ifesting itself on every hand. The
are most assiduous in influencing th
legislature. Not long since car flu
of liquor men went to Columbus fo
the purpose of instructing the me
whom they had put in Office by the
votes, asking them to repeal the SEQ
law. They we're SO drunk and prC
fame that the passengers thought s.
riously of putting them off the trail
They are ever on the alert and pa
q man literally to see to their int
ests in Congress. Nothing will So
isfy them put free whiskey, and
be let alone in their dishonest, sci
destroying calling. Shall they CO.
tinue to destroy the youth of the Ian
and break up homes, and send six
thousand reeling into drunkard
graves every year? No; the peor
are IN earnest, and are determine
the saloon must go.
1t is evident to every intellige
observer of the signs of the time
that the great conflict is upon l
Political parties, as such, must
forgotten, and all who favor Prohil
ton by state and national constit
ton should come to the front. I'll
can be done by amendments to sta
and national constitutions withc
breaking up the old parties. Alrea
there are glimpses OF new pal
looming up, should the republic
party stand back and refuse to do
duty. Surely the party of mo
ideas will not turn the cold SHOULD
when the time comes for action.
the National Republican Conventit
which meets in Chicago in June, tn
will be an opportunity for the pa
to immortalize itself, by putin!
strong Prohibition plank in its pl
form. Why not ask at the same tir
that a clause be added, aclznowledg
God in the Constitution of the El
ed States?
Christ should be recognized Ri
and King of the nation; if he
been the first, our country would
be the misunderstanding. whisk
loving place of traffic it is tod
Christ is being robbed of his glo