The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-02
Absolute ProhibItion Enforced, with
Cruel and Oppressive Conhscation.
"A Voice of warning to the Germans
of the Buckeye State.
Special Dispatch to the Enquirer.

LIES MONIES, IOWA, september "A. -
The Independent German voters of Da-
venport, Iowa, have issued the follow
ing appeal to their brethren in Ohio:
We, the undersigned citizens of Iowa,
feel that it is the solemn duty of the
German voters of this State to warn the
people of Ohio of the danger to personal
liberty, threatened by the candidacy of
James G. Blaine, Of Maine, and the
triumph of those men who caused him
to be nominated for President of the
United States.
We do not speak as partisans, and we
ask you not to hear us as party men,
but only as citizens desiring good gov
ernment. To remove any doubt as to
our position in political matters, it
should be stated that every signer of
this address voted for Mr.. Garfield as
President in 1880.
We do not think it possible for you to
fully realize the extent to which fanati-
cism and the rapidity with which it is
travelling at the hands of those who are
backing Blaine. and who will triumph
If he is elected President, and, there
fore, we state to you the facts now oc-
curing in Iowa. There. is in Iowa a
distinctively Blaine party in full control
of the machinery of the Republican
party of this State, and identical in
sympathy and aims with the same party
IN Kansas, Maine and Vermont, ard
wherever it has full sway.
You will recollect that at Cincinnati
In 1876, at Chicago in 1880. and again
at Chicago in 1884, the Iowa delegates
were all for Blaine, and the Blaine fac
ton rules this State. We ask you then
to consider what Blainism has done for
the people of Iowa, and what it will do
for the people of Ohio and the nation If
it can win at this election. That party
has not only enacted absolute prohibi-
ton here, but has accompanied it with
most cruel and oppressive confiscation
of the property of our citizens. It pays
premiums to cowardly informers by
allowing them half the fine, and is now
daily following it up with the arrest
and prosecution of scores of innocent
men and women.
The Blaine party and the Blaine men
have done these things in Iowa. This
party, in the year 1873, made prohibi-
tion their creed by pledging in their
: platform that the Legislature would take
steps to make prohibition a clause of
the Statei Constitution. Under this
party pressure the Legislature did act,
and the constitutional amendment was
submitted and carried. Blaine men and
managers were foremost in advocating
and securing the adoption of this meas
ure. Because of q bungling defect in
the form of submission, the Courts de-
clared the amendment not legally adopt
ed, but the party promptly ordered the
Legislature to pass laws to accomplish
the same result This was done last
winter, and on July Of this year the
law went into effect.
The following are copies of some of
the clauses of the Blaine laws forced
upon the people of Iowa:
Chapters. No person shall manufac-
ture for sale, or sell or keep for sale as
beverage, any Intoxicating liquors
Whatever, including ale, wine and beer;
and the same provisions and penalties
of the law in force relating to intoxicat-
ing liquors shall in like manner be held
and construed to apply to violations OF
this act, and to the manufacture, sale,
or keeping for sale, or keeping with in
te1t to sell, or keeping or establishing q
place for the sale of ale, wine and beer,
and all other intoxicating liquors
Whatever.
Chapter 14S, relating to sale of intoxi.
eating liquors:
Section 8. That section 1889 of the
code be and the same is hereby amended
by adding thereto the following, to wit
One-haf the amount so received shall
go to the school fund of the county.
Section IL. No person shall own, ol
keep or be in any way concerned, en-
gagged or employed in owning or keep
ing any intoxicating liquors with inten
to sell same within this State, or permi
the same to be sold therein in violation
of the provisions hereof, and anv person
who shall own or keep or be concerned
engaged or employed in owning o.
keeping such liquors with any such in
tent, shall be deemed for the first of
tense guilty of misdemeanor, and OF
conviction for first said offense shall pa,
. fne of not less than $50, nor NOR
than 800, and costs of prosecution, ant
shall stand committed to the county jai
until such fine and costs are paid. Fo
the second and every subsequent offens
he shall pay fine of not less than $500
NOR more than $500, or be imprisone,
b the county jail not more than 81,
months, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment, In the discretion of tn
Court.
seetion II. In case of violation of tn
provision of this law, the building o
srection, of Whatever kind, or the groun
itself In or upon which such unlawfu
manufacture, or sale, or keeping wit
Intent to sel1, use or give away of an
Intoxicating liquor, is carried, contained
or exists, and the furniture, fixtures
vessels and contents, Is hereby declare
. nuisance and shall be abated. An
citizen of the county where such nuit
ancs exists, or Is kept Or maiatained
may maintain an action In equity to abat
aad psspetaai saiain the same IN