The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-16
SENSIBLE PROHIBITIONISTS.

The New York State Temperance
Assembly met in Brooklyn on the 9th
and decided to ISSUE an address 10 the
Republican ProEibitionists of the coun-
try urging them to Vote for Blaine and
Logan. They say in the address:
1t is unfair to patriotic citiz'ns, to
bring the question before them il, sucu
IL shape rs not only t" require its friends
to vote for what many OF them do not
approve. but also 10 sAcratic :lIeir votes
on all other questions, however vitality
important to The WelItart ut the country.
when there is not the slightest prospect
ri success. Votes for the Prohibition
ticket are tl,reefold worse than thrown
away. THEY weaken the party. strength,
ell the enemy and en'lorse an unwis-
movement. The Republican nomi
nees are both high-min'lpd and
honorable Christians, members Of good
standing. one IL the Congregational
and the other in the MptImdist EpiSc"
pal church. They have both enjoyed
their party's implicit trust AND conf
dence. and their Iab"rs III it3 service
should be rewarded by placing them in
the highest offices in the gift Of the peo
pie. The Prohibition ticket was put in
the field without the approval Of many
of the best friends Of the cause. The
cOnve rtiOn did not represent the great
body of prOhibitiOniStS Of the country,
and even Il large part Of that conven-
ton opposed the placing OF i ticket in
the field. Temperance people in Main,
Iowa and Kansas oppose it, and oppose
it to day.
The address is signed by hosts Of men
prominent in this movement, among
them Dr.. Theodore D. Woolspy, late
President "f Yale C'll-ge. John B. Far
we'll Of Chicago. Rev. Dr. Hatfield and
Gov. John Evans Of Colorado.
The address also points out the fact
that according to the platform. q vote
for st. J,,'n is u vote for woman suff'
rage, for Chinese immigration. for taxi
ing the appointing power away from
the president, for unjust reflection on
Blaine and Logan as it is for temper.
ence.
They might hav, added that the very
first resolution of the Prohibition plat
form is Il religious or orthodox churcl,
resolution, with which many Prohibi.
tiOni,ts cannot agree, aud is al rvaSivp
declaration for Il union of Church and
State. and hence offensive to many
church people even.
We again repeat that the St. John
party and the St John movement, is Il
church party and IA church movement.
using Prohibition as blind to catcl,
temperance votes.
The statement which Mr.. Blaine
makes in his letter to VIM W. Phelps
should close all lips upon Il sul,irct
which has beer, imtr,,duced in this e.. A.
paign only where manliness was for.
gotten.-New York Times.
The Times is anti. Blaine but it is !,
deacent paper and does not brlirve that
family and private matters are lrgiti-
mate campaig" thunder. The men who
make attacks of this kind are un,nanly
beasts, and yet they think it is brave
and manly and outsp"ken to do such
things, simply because they take the
risk of doing beastly thing. Thieves,
rapists, and assassims do the same.
OF course this is no new thing in pol
itics. These men are in every commu.
nifty and they are apt t. be hyln,critical,
pious dogs who assume u virtue and !,
purity they do not have. AS rule,
they are rotten and impure Themselves,
and make \ great ado abont the cl,arac.
ters of others.