St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-12-04
The Liquor Men Aroused.
a WARNING LETTER FROM MISS Will

A WARNING LETTER FROM MISS Will
LARD.
Miss Frances f. Willard, the elo-
quent woman of the West, writes as
follows to the Union Signal The |
Champion is the representative paper
of the beer, wine and spirit trade of
the United States. 1t is also the official
organ of the Liquor dealers and Man
ufacturers state protective association
of Illinois, Its editor and publisher
is Paul Schuster, IL noted German beer
champion. The paper was established
in 1873 and goes weekly to the brewers
and wholesale and retail liquor dealers
of nearly six hundred cities and towns
in twenty two-states. Upon its title
page are the following notices: ''Use
Il little wine for your stomach's sake"
(the apostle PauD. constitutional,
personal and civil liberty" "No pro-
hibition, no sumptuary laws" 1t gives
as the chief plank in its platform, lat
the head of its cOlumns,) this: eve
demand for the manufactures and deal
er in beer, wine and alcoholic spirits,
the same protection aud privileges
which are accorded to every other
branch of industry and commerce i'll
every state of our union" This paper
is printed in German and English and
is widely read.
Immediately after election, when it
was known that the st. John and Dnaicl
voters would probably aggregate 300,
900, the following remarkable editorial
in this whisky paper. Let
every white ribbon woman read it
carefully. With sharp criticisms com
love, and denunciations from an en-
ragged partisan press, it will be of great
service to us if we ponder we'll, aud to
Our cause if we circulate carefully,
these remarkable admissions from the
dragOn-poWer against which we have
so long contended. When the liquor
dealers find the same principles that
are embodied in resolutions Of confer
cnces and synods written into election
returns, they take the alarm and not
till then. Shall the children of Hight |
be less wise than the children of this ,
world Stay all our souls steadily
upon the God of battles in this day of
strife. Yours for the conflict,
FRANCES f. WILLARD.
WARNING To TIE LIQUOR TRADE.
Although the complete returns of
the election are not at hand, this much
we know that in every state of the
union the prohibition candidates have
received thousands of votes, and with
one or two exceptions due allowance /
being made-the vote for the cranky F.,
st. John throws into the shade the !
self styled workingmen's or peoples !
candidate the irreprcssible Benjamin
f. Butler. 1t reaches total of over
200, 900 votes. A similar strength of
the prohibition element was developed |
by the votes cast for congressional. |
state executive and legislative candi- !
dates. What of it What is that to
the liquor trade 1t is exactly what
the firing of the first canHOn of Fort
Snmpfer, on the 18th of April, 1861,
was to the United States government
Il solemn, foTcible, defiant declaration
of war, by the simultaneous opening of
hostilities. There is no backing out
now for either side. The prohibitions
lists have shown at this election that
they now are enlisted for the war to it's
bitter end. They propose to crush
the liquor traffic ont of existence, hy
fair means or foul, and they have good
reason for being Sanguine of success.
Look ut their sweeping victories in
Kansas and Iowa, at their progress in
Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee, Ken
lucky, and Illinois. where local option
and high license prevail, aud at their
steadily growing strength in IA dozen
other states, such as Indiana, Ohio,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and
others. Are you blind? Are You
deaf Are you the fools of whom the
Latin poet said Quem Deus perdere
roiGH, prjUS demeRtGt. Whom God
wants Ia punish, he first makes mad
(crazy). 1t would seem so indeed
The prohibition food is now sweep
ing over every state in the union,
threatening some of them, ruining
others. 1t undermines the very foun-
datiOns of every distillery and brew
cry and shakes like an earthquake ev-
cry liquor warehouse and every saloon
in the land. Do you not hear and
feel the prohibition waves beating
against the very walls of your stores,
your business places, your family
dwellings.
When the Ohio and Missouri rivers
rise and overflow their banks and
cover the lands on both sides with
debris aud ruins, do the riparian in
habitants stand stupidity by to witness
the falling down of their houses, barns
and stables, the carrying off by the
Hood of their hens, cattle and grain
Do they smile, stick their hands in
their breaches pockets and say to one
another: well if my neighbors can
stand it, can
Yet this is exactly the condition of
the liquor dealers and saloon keepers
of almost every state of the Union to-
day-this is exactly how they act, how
they speak. They can't help seeing
the wave of prohibition rolling onto
them. they can't help foreseeing the
destruction and ruin which will follow,
and yet They quietly look on with
their hands in their pockets, a cigar or
pipe between their lips, saying "Well, .
all we can do won't help us any.