The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-28

the Murphy meetings was reached
tonight, when nearly fifteen hun
dred people thronged the hall.
There was great enthusiasm. Mem
bers of the Salvation Army signed
the pledge. Over $50 persons have
signed the pledge to date.
There is one outspoken politician
in Ohio, as the following will show;
HE HAS IT STRAIGHT.
Special to the Commercial Gazette:
NEW YORK, July 14.--Ex-Con-
gresham Amos Townsend, of Ohio,
gave Mail and Express reporter
to-day some points about the fall
election in his State. He said:
"It will be a great victory for the
Republicans and gain in Congress
sional representation. Hamilton
County, the center of fraud and the
stronghold of the Democratic party,
will go Republican. The methods
pursued by the Democrats have
cause revulsion, and the voters in
tend to rebuke them. The Prohi-
bitionists have dwindled into
miserably weak party, noted only
for it's cowa-dice and lying procliv
tiles. They go with the Demo
Gratis and try to do all they can
against the Republicans. Some
years ago they made professions of
uprightness and won over a good
many Republicans. They soon
showed the cloven foot, and we raj
lied and showed them under, with
the Democrats thrown in. The
Republican party has great many
temperance voters, but they are
not to be caught by such chaf as
the Prohibitionists hold out"
This is exceedingly low and
mean but very natural. Christian
men are expected to follow the lead
Of this vulgar fellow and others
like him.
There is another man at Atlanta,
Ca, equally frank and vulgar.
Here are some of his ratings:
The Atlanta Constitution is as
fervid for free whisky as the Rich
mond Dispatch for free tobacco, and
denounces the whisky tax as
can infamous system of oppres-
sion, which is not only undemo-
cratic, but un-American, shall be
perpetuated in this country-and
all because it is to the interest of
the swindling monopoly known as
the whisky ring that there should
be tax laid on spirits.
What has been the result of this
infamous system? For twenty
years the premises and possessions
of thousands of innocent people in
this country have been in a state
of siege. 1t has led to the most in
human cruelty and oppression. In
nocent men have been taken from
their dependent families and
dragged off to die dogs death in
Jail. Innocent women and chill
dren have been insulted and NAL
treated, and thousands of comfort
able and happy homes have been
broken up. Men who knew they
were committing DO crime have
been shot down in cold blood by the
United States officials"
This extract will bear a great
deal of study, as voicing senti-
ment more widespread than many
are won't to believe. The outlook
of Prohibition is inspiring to the
Christian and patriot. Public sem
timent is crystalizing around
the central thought of Constitu-
tional Prohibition.
The sermon of DR.. Pente-
cost, in Brooklyn, few weeks ago,
win ring all along the lines about
New York, and other ministers will
fall in with the rising movement.
SOLDIERS HOME AND SALOON.
In West Dayton there are num-
Der of saloons, almost entirely sup
ported by inmates of the Home.
These soldiers spend for whisky
over 100000 year, all Of which
goes to support the criminal who
runs the saloon. q. WARNER.
ScOtt'S Emulsion of Pure