The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-02
the prices are much lower than those

! the prices are much lower than those
named by the regular lecture bureaus,
and often merely nominal, but the
theme is always temperance in some
phase or other. though in many in
stances the title hardly indicates it.
The calculation is that, by this sys-
tenn, effective advocates of prohibi.
ton will be heard in every city and
, village throughout the state, and that
their doctrines will get Judgement
that will stand against subsequent
campaign removal.
In the meantime the Temperance
movement, the neutrality-suspicious.
principle, is gaining powerful
hacking. The Rev. DIR. John Hall,
pastor of the weallhiest congregation
in America, has made speech de-
claring that wine is Il good drink in
moderation that it is cowardice 10
admit that you cannot be temperate
without abstinence, and that il is ty
no means the duty Of any body to re-
frain from reasonable drinking be-
cause somebody else is sot. That
is the view set forth by the Episcopal
Church Temperance S.ciety, by the
Rev, DR.. Crosby'S Society for the
| Fermentation of Crime. and by
Beecher'5 Plymouth Church Tenn.
perance Union. These influences are
back of the ,eally powerful move
ment for high license liquor law.
the bill for which is drafted to make
the fee thousand dollars for distilled
beverages, and only a hundred for
wines and matt beer. The Prohibi-
tionists deem such measure PERM
cious and wicked. and will oppose it
with all their might and main. Thus
the great army arrayed against in
Temperance, is divided against itself
and the feeling of the factions is ex.
ceedingly bitter towards each other.
Every Sunday sermons are preached
in this city on this subject, from the
one or the other standpoint, and the
denunciatiOns are so violent against
the opposition reform as against the
evil they both seek to ahate. Com
mittees from both sides will go to
All any and Stay there until the leg.
islature is brought to vote on the
question.
The beverages trade is split as wide.
ly as its enemies. The keepers of
prosperous bars, especially in the no.
tells, desire high license. and would
like to apply it to beer saloons as
well, because they wish to drive out
a good proportion of the ten thousand
drinking places in town. The dis
tillery interest is dismayed by that
propositions, which would give beer a
tremendous advantage, and they,
therefore. have engaged lobby ist
, for Albany, with fund to beat ii di--
eliminating law. Their organization
is no richer or active. however, than
that of the brewers, who are leterm.
ined to help along the measure of high
license for whiskPy and comparative
ly low license for beer. Frederick
Mex. Loesser will be the Albany
manager for the whiskey men, and
Henry Katzenneyer for the brewers
and it is understood that each will
have command of AS much money
as will be requisite. 1t will thus be
seen that, strangely enough, a big
Doodle will be there in the practiral
. interest of the Prohibitionists, to DE-.
feat a discriminatory high license, and
another for the aid of the Church
Temperance party, to further the
same measure. What degree of atfil.
ia,ion there will be is conjecturaI; hut
, in all its aspects the position of the
, state politician, from the smallest
. grabbing assemblyman to the mos,
t ambitious seeker of the presidency
, is fraught with keenest interest.