The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-09-01
ORR DAYTON LETTER.
sa1oon Politics Parties and Prohibit
tion TIL &C. G." attacked aosth
Robiee. Whisky Senators, Whisky
Ch@rohes, &c, &c.
Ed. FREEMAN:

legislature department OF the
govern ment The City Council has
two heads and they don't agree
and will not.
The Republicans have now a
majority but have been enjolned,
unVll Yesterday when the lnJnnc-
ton was dissolved. There Is q
growing conviction that courts In
this State are to say the least I'M
reliable. While the muddle con-
tinues the western part of the city
is at the mercy of the first food
that comes along, the levee having
been swept away last May. The
origin of this trouble is saloon
politics. The associations OF the
bar room drinking bad whisky and
mean beer, destroys the moral
sense and opens the way for DIS
honesty and trickery of every kind
There is no such thing as munlcl-
pll soundness in our country.
Indeed unsoundness is SO common
that to speak of honesty in munlcl-
pal administration, is to provoke
an inorcdulous smile.
But matters will improve inside
of ten years, when criminals WILL
DC longer dictate mountainous
and when decent men can attend
primaries and nominating conven-
ton without being smothered with
blasphemy and the fumes OF rum
and tobacco. A careful study OF
lead .ng i ,urnals will disclose the
fact that one OF the great parties is
feeling it's way toward Prohibition.
But thece are at least two things
in the way Of success.
First. the leaders of the old par
ties do not understand the philoso-
ply of Prohibition. This is
branch of political economy they
have not studied.
Second. Would be leaders are too
dishonest to be trusted in a move
ment of this kind. The very
atmosphere about them is charged
with political corruption.
While these things are true 1t is
also true that there are men In
both parties who could take up
this new political question and
manage its interests, but they Will
never be party leaders. That party
that proposes to champion Prohibi-
ton in any of it's phases must put
honest men i'm the front or meet
defeat. Christian men are deter
mined to be respected as such at
the ballot box. They have right
TO put their conscience into their
ballot and will.
The Commercial Gazette has an
other attack of rallies. Here is one
of its latest utterances:
There is cheering evidence that
the drift of sentiment among people
devoted TO the cause OF TEN perance
or in other words, of warfare up
on the sale of intoxicants, is
against third-party Temperance.
The DR.. Leonard notion OF first
striking down the Republican
party Is an infamy, and means
putting the State into the hands
of corrupt rings. The common
sense OF the people is telling against
the ribald madness of the desperate
doctor of old ale and dry toast"
A clearer case of judicial blend
ness cannot be found, and | for
one hope the &C. G." will keep up
this sort of attacks on good men,
until they are all driven so far
away from the corrupt parties that
they will never return.
California has just elected new
United States Senator who is
wholesale liquor dealer. / was
lately in an Ohio town of 1900
people with fifteen churches
and AZ saloons. In one of the
Protestant churches there is
board of seven trustees, and six of
them are saloon-keepers. There is
nothing said in that church against
the liquor traffic. Only a moral
coward would stand up in the pull.
pit of that church.