The Ottawa free trader., 1885-08-22

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EDITORS FREE TRADER will you be
kind enough to give me room for little
Prohibition Rubbish" as you have been
pleased to name some of my effusions. 1t
is customary, they tell me, on ship board to
post the daily run, for the encouragement
of the passengers. All who can gather
around the bulletin to read there the rec
ord of miles behind and miles yet to con-
quer. We are a little folk " and yet we
have travelled miles enough to be dOubly
damned " by the republican party for their
defeat last fall. Whether that be true or not
the accusation has brought us prominently
before the werld and the GREAT QUESTION
now before the American people is How
shall we get rid of King Alcohol" who is
Staying 100000 men and women in the
United States alone, every year, and cost
ing the good people 70O0OO,OOO of dollars
annually, besides heartaches, groans, wild
ow's griefs, and orphans tears, to say moth
ing of taxes through courts, and by pau
per's expenses. But to our text. We have
so stirred the public mind that fourteen
states have adopted through their legisla-
lures, temperance physiology to be taught
in all of their public schools.
A County, State and National ticket in
the field in nearly every state in the North
and Mississippi, Tennessee and other states
of the South, to say nothing of local option
laws in Georgia, South Carolina and Ala
bama. In Ohio the temperance people
have been fooled several times by the re-
publican party, and now they have EN-
braced prohibition, pure and unadulterated
The same can be said of New York At
ter promising that the people should have
the privilege of voting on the amendment
forbiding the manufacture and sale of In
toxicants in the state, they,-the Legislature
forgot or ignored their promises, and re.
fused to submit the subject to the vote of
the people, thereby inaugurating monarchy
or tyranny, instead of democracy. st. John
stands higher before the people than ever.
DR.. Leonard, of Ohio, will command a
large vote for Governor this fall. How long
before we shall win? In about 1896 We
shall not only elect our Legislatures, Gov
ernors and Senators, and President and
Vice President. l cannot say that it will
be under the name of prohibition party.
hibition of the Liquor Traffic is the corner
stone, or main plank in in the platform Of
the new party. Call it NATIONAL REFORM
party if you like. The best men of all
parties, the clergy, and the religious and
part of the secular press are in for prohibi-
ton. Society is stirred to its foundation on
this subject and will not down till this
question is definitely settled. Straws indi.
cate which way the wind blows. Read the
from the North Western Chris
tidn Adeocdte, of August 12th, from the
pen Of DR.. Edwards, one OF the strongest
men in the NJ. f. Church, east or west:
Is there anywhere now more vital issue
In politics than prohibition The presi-
dent though not chosen as republican, is
a better republican than Andy Johnson, and
he is so conducting the administration that
old party issues are appearing daily to de.
minish in importance. The republican
party must get new and popular issues or
go down. The democrats must win their
right to rule by good government, or they
must take back seat. He Is q wise man
who can tell what issue will draw larger
number of votes than prohibition In 1888.
Yours very truly,
JOSHUA PUsBY.