The Dillon tribune., 1885-04-25
TEMPERANCE TOPICS.

AS the liquor interest is united prospect
i've of parties against the people, the peo.
ME. irrespective of parties, must oppose it
and hunt It to its death. This to be done:
1st BY the decent men uniting, ire
spective OF party, and electing legislatures
that will submit amendments prohibiting
the manufacture and sale Of liquor.
I'd. BY every man who hates tine Rum
Power voting for the ratification Of the
amendments.
I'd. The organization Of the decent peo-
ple into leagues to see that the amend.
ments are enforced.
This is the only way to pulverize the
Rum Power.
The rumsellers are thoroughly organ
lied, and always have been. They have
money to use in protecting their nefarious
traffic, and it is very easily gotten at.
When the president Of State Liquor.sel.
lcrs' League wants money to carry an
election, corrupt Judge or interpose legal
impediments in the way of prosecution, he
simply levies so much upon every brewer,
SO much upon every distiIler, SO much on
every wholesaler and so much ON every
retailer, and they all pay promptly. $780,
600 was raised in the state Of Ohio to de.
feat Judge Foraker, within ten days Of the
election, and 1t did it.
While temperance men have not a
money interest in forwarding their cause,
they have an interest, nevertheless, that
should induce them to something like lib.
erality. They can at least give the time
for organization, and money enough to de-
fray the expenses of organization. This is
all that is necessary. The common sense Of
any community is enough to induce con.
cert of action in the matter, and the cost Of
maintaining an organization is very little.
Organization is all that is needed. The
liquor interest is vulnerable at every point,
and there should be but little trouble in
killing it,
The cry Of "Solid South" has little ter
ror for the w. &. IT. u, who know nothing
but "a solid country against the liquor
traffic." The twenty-five or thirty South.
ern delegates who sat with us in conven.
ton, whose hearts are as our hearts, whose
hands are firmly and lovingly grasped in
ours, are as earnest Prohibitionists as any
We have no other "Shibboleth" than the
natural expression Of mothers heart
"Save my boy"--and this like the love
that prompts it, is the same in all lands
The politicians who have tears only for the
woes Of the negro in the South, and deal
ears for the cries Of women and children
IN all sections, who are beaten and sho,
down by brutal, drunken men, remind US
OF an old cartoon of Nast'>--wherein Mr.
summer is pictured as walking on one o.
the streets Of Washington, and, meeting a
little colored girl, gives her penny. A
little white child comes along directly
AFTER and looking up into the face Of the
noble man of somewhat one-sidcd philan.
'"ropy' says piteously: "Pleath thir, give
"'e TOO penny. it amt my fault that l
amt black"
yesterday morning, in Georgia, a man
.tazed with liquor, shot his wife and then
MS w'fe's sister, killing 10th. 1.-THE vic.
o"s OF this dreadful curse had been ne.
s'oes' and the ani,nus could have been
tortured into political one, the entire
country would have resounded with the
cries OF outraged republicanisu,. Breth-
'en' when will you lit up your voices in
osoait OF the tortured and murdered ones
:" your own household: