The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-03-18

iquor crime goes on, demoralizing, ravag.
ug running.
The insincerity Of this chorus is manifest
Wy an article in the Commercial Gazette OF
last Wednesday week, where thirteen dis
tinct reasons are given for Mr.. Blaines de.
feat claiming that the absence Of any one
II them would have elected him. By way
Of variety the Hillsboro Gazette added O.
few more, and the sixty or eighty thousand
New York stay-at-home voters, that seem,
to have been overlooked might be worthy
a mention in this same solemn quest i.
is, therefore, transparent fraud to attemp'
to gag or bluff the temperance majority Of
the Republican party with the cry that Pro
hibition is responsible for Republican de-
feat, aud that having turned the govern
ment over TO the Democrats temperance
| people must now look to them to enact or
to enforce temperance laws. That identical
cry is very largely the explanation Of what
ever lazity there may be in enforcing tn,
prohibitory laws Of Iowa. Republican Of.
dcids in many places, sworn to enforce tn,
law, but smartiug under defeat, throw al
most the above words in the teeth Of thos,
who elected them. A late writer from Iowp
says in leading New York paper:
"Not one in ten Of Iowa Prohibitiouist'
voted for the st. John ticket. Fully
oue-half Of the Republican party is mad,
up Of men who are PrOhibitionists on priu
] tr,1n oVI Igrrfn tl.tH
uounces against Prohibition Aud withou
their help the Republicans can never elect
another Congressman nor even carry a Stat,
election. Neither, on division, could th,
PrOhibitionsts do either. The result woulC
be the repeal of the new temperance law,
solid opposition delegation to Congress
and practically free whisky in Iowa unit
temperance men could so organize ant
unite as to carry the State"
This was written about the first Of tn,
year. Later reports SHOW that the reaction
has set in aud the prospect for the enforce
meut of the law is Frightening, except in
few towns where the liquor men, strength
ened by the Democratic opposition, are il
their normal condition Of rebellion agaius
law.
In Ohio one year ago twenty men in tn,
Republican party alone voted for Constitu
tional Prohibition for every one vote cas-
last Fall for St. John Aud it should b.
understood that the eleven thousand tina
voted the St. John ticket was far NOR
evenly drawn from both the great partie
than many of the leaders of the day viii
admit.
But poorly as many of the officials o
Kansas and Iowa have enforced this law tn
following pathetic lament copied from
= Cincinnati paper Of last week shows tha
Prohibition in the West has teeth
"Mr Richard Katzeumayer, Secretary o
the United States Brewers Association re
ports: In Kansas the prohibition system
3 has been in operation for two years and al
the brewers are ruined. No organization
, therefore exists in that State. The prohi
bition law which has recently gone int
operation in Iowa, has made terrible havo
{ among the brewers aud many are complete
ly ruined As consequence their pOlit
cal influence has been greatly diminished
AS Thomas Carlisle used to say on inel
pressable occasions-"Ah me ~
JNo. PEARSON.