St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-10-23

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party in power and as a patriot, and
humble defender of my country in it's
former need, | cannot now let party
hold me silent while a more deadly
enemy than rebellion bids us wait and
work his will.
Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth
AS to parties and candidates: If sit
is wrong" as you affirm, '.to elect a
party to power that ignores its prin-
ciples and cvades discussing the policy
it intends to pursue,n it must be radi-
cally wrong for either of us to help
elect the republican party, since if it
have any temperance principles it ig-
nOres them, if it have any temperance
policy it evades discussing it. Indeed,
that party's chief aim now is to hold
both the liquor and temperance vote,
which purpose utterly forbids any pos
tive temperance principle and en-
courages only a practical liquor policy.
In the very same issue of the Tribpne
which contains your "Appeal to Ss-
pisblican PrOhibItionists,n aAd yeur-to5'
quest to me, | find the letter of a
Republican Brewer telling "why
brewers should support Blaine" "a
protest against the attempt to use
their association for Clevelandn-and
i'll which occurs this frank avOwal =
"Our national organization is "a
years old. During all those years the
republicans have been in power in
national affairs, aud | submit to every
candid brewer, be he democrat or be
republican, if the brewing interests of
our country have not grown to i'm
mn if inI
our interests have not been protected,
fostered and encouraged by our gov
ernment 7"
In the same letter read also the
following =
"Mr. Blaine was correct when he
said that prohibition was not "a nation
nj question or issue. This being the
case, let us not do anything to antag-
Onize Il party that has always treated
the brewing interests fairly, whose
policy is to foster. protect, and en-
courage home industries, and which
should not he held responsible for the
opinions and acts of n few men who
claim membership in the party"
And in proof that this Republican
Brewer" has full authority for this
statement of what the republican par
ty's policy is, let me remind you that
said party, i'll its national platform,
has declared for "the largest diversity
of industries" which clearly includes
the manufacture and sale of intOXicat-
ing liquors, and that Mr.. Blaine has
recently enunciated as the third "doc-
trine" in the republican party's creed,
encouragement of every form of
American industry :" which declara-
ton together with his recent letter to
the Philadelphia Press, proposing to
make the tax on spirituOus and malt
liquors permanent revenue to all the
states, fully justifies the expectation
of further encouragement" and "pro-
lection" which this republican brewer
proclaims to his friends
With regard to candidates., intellec-
tually and morally, have not a word
to say. | prefer to leave personal
abuse and villification to those who
have nothing better to uphold their
cause. But when you speak of Mr..
Cleveland's 'gross blunder while
dodging the tariff question:" common
fairness should forbid your excusing
Mr.. Blaine for his equally gross neg
lect of duty in lodging vote on the
prohibition amendment in his own
state. For the slightest analysis of
the situation would show you that it
was only as to the submission of such
an amendment that his party's nation
al convention had laid any "authorit;-
upon him, while the long time policy
of the party i'll his own state, submits
sion being granted, should have COM
manded him to vote on and for the
principle. If prohibition were not, as
Mr.. Blaine said, national issue, he
surely was not justified. because of
action or failure to act on the part of
his national convention, in dodging il
when presented as state issue purely.
| have been many years a humble
worker i'll the temperance cause, am
considerably familiar with the several
temperance organizations of New
York, and until three days ago had
never heard of the New York state
temperance assembly, from which
your request purports to emanate.
And as | observe that only three of
your number reside in New York state,
| am compelled to believe that its or
ganization is only for campaign pur-
poses, and its membership so small
that those who control it were forced
to go outside the state for cO-Opera-
ton.
In conclusion, gentlemen, permit me
to say that so long as the government
is the open partner of the liquor bust
ness, to the extent of 30 cents for every
gallon of whiskey made and sold that
SO long as men may aud do illicitly
sell liquor, in violation of state law,
under United States tax receipt,
which makes the government parti-
ceps criminus in such illicit sales that
so long as in the District of Columbia,
and in the territories, congress may
and does permit that which it might
and should forbid jnst so long this
issue of the liquor traffic will remain u
national issue, and just SO long the
prohibition party will be a national
necessity. In view of the fact that
said party presents the only presiden-
tial nominee standing on temper
ance platform, would it not be more
consistent for ''steadfast temperance
menn at once to demand the imme-
diate withdrawal of yOur own candi-
date and thus avoid all possible ca
lamities to which you refer, including,
as you term it, "a thing of snch doubt.
full propriety as to put Gov. Cleveland
into the White house, For you may
rest assured that, so far as am con
cerned, | shall neither withdraw from
the canvass, nor assume Il neutral pO-
sitiOn, but with Gods help shall con-
time this warfare on the liquor traffic
as long rs live and the flag of our
country waves its protecting folds over
legalized dram-shop. And while a
vote for any candidate, simply as such,
may be lost, a vote for principle is
never thrown away. | therefore ap-
peal to all lovers of God, and home,
and country, to burst asunder the par
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