The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18

zion mas Deen 10 strengthen the lanQS
of the liquor traffic" Sd. Reforms |
which do not come through their lthe
prohibitionists) plans Of action receive
small credit To these charges I de
sire to make brief answer.
1st. "Never rendered a service" sc.
1t has made an honest and earnest eff
fort, hasn't it? Corn planted in June
hasn't much of showing of ears un-sI
til after first hoeing, but if it shows a
vigorous growth of stock the farmer is
ready to believe the ears will come
later, and keeps on cultivating. e1Arei
you not like such farmer, pron0un- j
cling sentence little early? Give us
little more time and help us at our
hoeing. The promise is a good one to
fall back upon, As a man soweth. so al
so shall he reap" God knows the pro-
hibitionist is sowing seeds of kindness
and goodwill, and the sewers are
waiting His good time, but, keep on
hoeing.
I'd. It's action has strengthened the
hands of the liquor traffic" Why, then,
have the liquor dealers of Wisconsin
organized " anti-Prohibition Leagues
(not- anti-high license)? Certainly the
fiuttering indicates that some one has
been hit, and the liquor dealers Jour-
nails size the matter up in a very diff
ferent fashion, and declare that if this
thing goes on it is "the beginning of
the end
Sd. Don't give credit to other plans
of temperance work" Not to high IL
cense, certainly. The prohibitionist is
in hearty agreement with your article
of Nov. 9th, and asks with you,
I" When shall this liberation by law he
changed?" and answers the question
as you did, The curse will continue
as long as civilized and christian
people permit and further answers,
Gas civilized and christian citizen, /
will oppose the continuance by all the
means in my power, vote included"
How little we sd1ffer, after all. We
want the same thing; the prohibition
list wants 1t bad enough to vote for it,
and others do not We of Wisconsin
tried hard to work on the non-partisan
plan, and were ignored by our Repub-
lican legislature year after year We
wanted federation by law" to, cease
badly enough to leave our friends and
join ourselves to a cause that has
doubled ita forces in the last twelve
months, and in Gods good time we shall
shout the victory is won.
Yours,
Il. G. DURANT. 4
Our friend, Mr.. Durant, will accept
our thanks for his courteous article.
Our aims are substantially the same,
but the methods differ. Space will
not allow of answer in detail. For Sthe
sake of brevity, our views will he,dis;;
tinctly stated, from which the points
OF difference may be seen. We want
prohibition at the earliest period prac-
ticable; the prohibition party. want it
now, and will accept of nothing short.
We believe that prohibition now2in
Wisconsin would be a failure; and
therefore we are not ready to dispense
with our laws regulating the traffic,
and throwing the door open for the
sale. We do not believe that strength
ening the hands of the enemies of tenn
perance is the best way to obtain tenn
peranee legislation. Tn this our pro-
hibition party neighbors appear to
differ with us). We believe if we can
not at once secure all We ultimately
aim to get, it is better to take the besaa
we can. The prohibition party say no:
we will have all or nothing
High license does not do away with
drunkenness, neither does prohibition
in any state where adopted. We have
no really high licensefxed by statute IN
this state. Our licenses, compared with
Illinois and several other states, are
low < :>z
A., If it were possible to exchange our
present license system for prohibition
on the first day of January, 1886, what
would be the result? Could prohibition
be enforced in Wisconsin in the pres
ent state of public sentiment? IF Iowa
and Kansas, with populations far more
favorable to temperance than Wiseon-
sin, find it extremely difficult to secure
more than partial enforcement of
| the law, how would it be here? . +.
Mr.. Durant says the prohibitionists
have incurred the enmity of the liquor
Dealers League. That is doubtless
so. Tile advocates of high license
have also incurred the displeasure of
liquor men. But strange as it may be,
it does come to pass in the elections in
this and other states, the prohibitions
lists do aid in electing candidates to
Office, who are the choice of the liquor
party. AZ.