The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-04-21


Murphy says absolute prohibition is
impossible, and third party all nonsense
He pa Scott law man. He believes that the
lawpf love and charity is the only re-
former, while E. s. thinks drunkards
should be taken by the neck and choked.
MoIal suasion is Murphy's battle.axe,
while E. s. would knock rum out of time
with some "old city ordinance or bylaw"
Muiphy is converting thousands to tenn.
perance, while L. s. is running headlong
aftei a butterfly. E. S. is stranded on the
shoqs of theory as intangible as the rail.
road ghost, while Murphy is doing pract.
cablh work. Murphy's crown OF rejoicing
glittSrs with hundred thousand stars
E. s is happy, basking in moonshne.
PeoH lie are so different in free America.
Bot E. s. has made a startling discov-
ery-I startling TO Democratic it wasn't
moopshine. His last appearance is in the
role pi political Christopher Columbus.
He las cracked the political chestnut and
found in it Republican Congress. This
is sad discovery to Democrats, and a
glad one to Republicans. But why will
the next Congress be Republican, Is it
because Democracy is SOLDERING up?
Schade," says Z. s., 'has no doubt al
ready sent the names of twenty Demo
cratic Congressman in close districts TO
liQpsr dealers of their several districts,
with orders for their defeat. What if the
Democrats should nominate new men not
darkened by Schade! What then? Sup.
pose these twenty spotted Congress.
men should do as Il. s. says Blaine did
"Postrate themselves at the feet of the
rum power, and eat dirt by going back on
the finest sentiments they ever uttered ~
Would the rum power withdraw its boy.
cott' Would the sunshine dispel the
SchadeY The threatened calamity to
Democracy may be reduced TO mini
mum in this close district. Let Democra.
cy and Prohibition pool their issues and
nominate L. S. for Congress. Sweet re-.
venge might be wreaked on the rum pow.
er by electing rampant Prohibitionist.
II would teach rum not to "spot Demo.
Gratis" in close districts. Let the boom
be let loose at once, II not, why notG L.
S. would be racer on the Congressional
turf and would leave the Republican nag
at the quarter post. Let somebody second
our motion.
But Prohibition grasps the hallucina.
tion that it is to be a fixed tact. "An ava.
lanche started from the top of mountain,
and after wandering all over the noun.
tain side and adjoining counties, went and
chased a COW out of barn and buried her
under half mile Of snow. She immedi.
ately began eating her way out, chewing
up and swallowing tons of snow as she
went along, and finally came to the sur
face and walked away" So with prohi-
bition ii is too ETHEREAL to be a permanent
destroyer Man will not be chained with
theories coming down from the clouds.
Hq lives on earth and believes that God
peAr gave him IN uppeure which he Gid
not intend should be honestly, moderate.
ly and temperately grati1ed. Why, God
himself, in order TO increase the hilarity
of a wedding feast, miraculously convert
ed water into an intoxicating beverage,
which the guests drank and were merry.
The people don't want prohibition, and
will not have il; and reformers, so.called,
IN attempting the impossible, lose sight of
the practicable and accomplish nothing.
So prohibition will be obliged TO bow its
crown Of stars to things on earth while
time lasts and men live.
When prohibition compares itself to
abolition ii is chasing phantom. Aboli.
tion had great principle underlying it;
prohibition hasn't leg to stand on. Abol.
ition was war on enforced despotism, rob.
bing man Of natural and civil liberty; pro.
hibition is a crusade against legitimate
business. Slavery was involuntary; in.
temperance is voluntary. The Negro
slave was a chattel; the drunkard sells
himself. The abolition leaders were great
statesmen, to the manor born; prohibition
leaders ure mostly political soreheads
There is no way under heaven by which
prohibition can be tortured into parallel
with abolition.
Prohibition means annihilation. II is
nonsense TO say the things which tempt
depraved heart must be destroyed, for
many of them are indispensable to hu.
man life The law forbids murder, but II
does not abolish guns, pistols, powder,
bullets, dirks, arsenic, and "Rough on
Rats" because they are used TO commit
murder. The law forbids theft, but II
does not forbid the manufacture and sale
Of articles which tempt the thief. The
law iorbids adultery, but 1t does moi, there
fore, abolish man and woman. The law
fjrbids drunkenness, but it does not fol.
low that 1t should destroy the things which
men abuse when they become drunk. To
say so, is one Of the impracticable follies
Of Prohibition.
Prohibition don't hesitate to exagger.
ate whes II wants to make Its crazy theo-
ries count against the uncodly. II says; {;
" 5000, 100000 is annually wasted in the