Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-15

OOul1 mas not Secedcd nor started insur-
rections. Indeed it never was so friendly
towards the North since the anti-slaverv
agitation was begun, nor were the negros
ever so recognized as now. At recent
convention of colored men in Virginia
they thanked the new administration for
its consideration of their interests. The
Mormon iniquity has been stcrnly dealt
with; the Indians, according to the dying
testimony of their devoted friend and
lamentcd "H. H." have everything TO
hope from the new President. But for
"thc fury of the non-combatant' who
stayed at home in editorial sanctum or
political caucus, there would soon be only
kindness between North and South. If
the brave brotherly spirit of Generals
Grant and Buckner. Sherman and Johns
ton, Sheridan and Fitzhugh Lee could
but descend upon the pugilistic stay-at-
homes, we might indeed ''have peace"
But we do not forget in the midst of the
unmistakable gains just recounted, that
the Democratic party is the open while
the Republican is the secret ally of the
| liquor oligarchy in the realm of national
politics. While we recognize that in
some Of the Northern States the latter has
helped on the cause of temperance even
as the former has in the South, we note
that eighteen State legislatures. the ma
jority of them Republican, have voted
down the proposition for Prohibition
| { on ST ntinna1 hn,onl,pant
the Democratic party to bite the dust,
and will do our utmost to work its final
overthrow. 1t is the enemy of our cause.
and we pronounce upon it the di,athema
mdrdndth0 of the American home. Nor
can we do less to that degenerating party
which some of us once loved. but of which
the Brewers League declared: sit has
been in power for twenty-five years and
done for us all we have asked" In Ohio
its platform would give the liquor traffic
permanent legal status; in New York
it places two men formerly connected
with the liquor traffic at the head of its
ticket: in Pennsylvania it denies the
prayer of temperance men; in Illinois it.
is interlocked with the liquor abomina-
ton as one soul. The two old parties are
natiOnly the two sworn allies of the sa-
loon. The White Ribbon army is the
open enemy of both, while the new move
ment. which from the disintegrating
forces of the old gathers out the best
material for new party, is the one that
has our prayers, our hopes our loyalty.
The blue and gray uniforms of the past
are to be superseded by the pure white
uniform of the new party "for God, and
homc and native land" which shall
move forward in a brotherhood unequaled
since the days of Washington. The old
names and war cries under which we
were divided can never marshal North and
South united. As the new army moves
to its place at the front on the great bat
tle-field of reform, behold its glittering
ensign with the words: "The Liquor
Traffic Must be Destroyed; :" national pro-
hibtion is its objective point, and its bat
tie cry is. son to Washington
How could the w. G. Il. Il. L. of Ohio
remain neutral when one party declared
for license. another for tan and third
for prohibitions; when the Democratic
platform was unequivocally committed
to the liquor interest, and in Cincinnati
600 saloon-keepers in convention assem-
bled, voted to support the Republican
ticket: 1t seems to me, had the women
of the crusade kept silent. the very stones
would have cried out against their incon-
Sistency. But in Kansas the W. c. Il. L.,
while declaring its allegiance to the st.
Louis resolutions a. defining its position
nationally, stood by the present State
administration of the Republicans, be-
cause it is favorable to prohibition.
Sisters, here we are once more, as we
shall often be again, face to face with this,
great question and its ominous decisions
ominous either way, for we can by no
means escape the strongest and the stern
est criticism 1t will hurl its missiles re-
morsclessly down on our devoted heads,
no matter what we do. The battle has
become too fierce for Us to hold the place
of neutrals. Neither has ii been ON.
call to do this, from the beoinniuc
! We are outspoken and quietly aggressive
in our spirit, and no less so in our
methods' Al first We assaied the saloon
itself with directnesS and courage un-
paralleled in history. Later, when we
found the saloon 10 be intrenched in law.
we followed it straight to city council
room and Legislative hall and last, when
its hidings of power were discovered to
be in politics, we followed it there. as
brave soldiers always pursue their enemy,
even to his forts and Businesses. We are
crusaders as truly As when the outward
and visible saloon itself was our objective
point; only now we have grown wiser,
and carry our crusade straight to the
brain, the heart and conscience of the