The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-05-12

add to this all the grain, hops and drugs,
barrels, packages, bonded warehouses,
distilleries, breweries, and all Of their ap-
performances, the wagons of all their en-
ployes, together with all the horses, mules,
harnesses, wages and feed, then all the
saloons and fixtures, and the wholesale
liquor houses, with the multitude OF men
they employ, and add to this the time
(which is money! wasted by the patrons
of the saloons, then the vast expense of
tails, prisons, almshouses and insane
asylums made necessary by reason of the
liquor sold, and many more sources Of
waste, too numerous 10 mention, caused
by this Infamous business, and you will
have not nine hundred millions, but near.
or twice that sum.
You say: Prohibition means annihila'
tion." II asks for no such thing; II only
asks that the manufacture, importation
snd safe as beverage be prohibited, as
the sale of arsenic, strychnine and other
poisons are prohibited. You say: "Pro-
hibition Is a bird Of passage" II seems
TO be, by the way the State of Rhode Island
passed Il the other day, as also the city Of
Atlanta and large part of the Southern
States, by counties. You ask: what II
new men are nominated in the twenty
close Democratic districtsP They would
probably be defeated, to teach lesson to
Democratic prohibitionists in strong Dem.
ocratic States. The slave trade was out
lawed by all civilized nations as barbar.
Gus; Prohibitionists think the whiskey
trade should be outlawed by the civilized
world. Slavery had barbarizing tenden.
cy on the men who raised and sold slaves I;
Just so the making and selling liquor
makes barbarians OF those who engage in
Il. The victims Of the slave power were a
few millions in small territory, many OF
them were comfortably cared for and we'll
treated, were Christians and died happy;
but the victims Of the dram shop are many
millions, inhabiting the wide world. The
wretchedness and misery they suffer In
this world can't be described, and what
does the Bible say Of the future of the
drunkardi Negro slavery was paradise
compared with the slavery Of drink, and
the average Southern stakeholder and ad'
vocate Of the system was a prince, an an
gel Of mercy, compared with the rumsell'
er.
You say: "God himself, in order TO in.
crease the hilarity of a wedding feast, mi.
racuously converted water into an intoxi.
eating beverage" The absurdity and
wickedness OF such a charge needs no
answer. God never created any intoxicat-
ing drink, nor an apetife for II. You say:
"The people don't want prohibition and
won't have t." One Of the ablest states
men of the country, longtime citizen Of
Maine, says that after twenty-five years
trial of prohibition in that State, II can
truthfully lbe said that there is no other
place in the civilized world where there
Is so small an amount Of liquor drank, as
by the seven hundred and fifty thousand
people OF the State OF Maine; and ex.may.
ors, Congressman and Senators Of that
State, Of all parties say practically the
same thing. VIM. George Hubble, Secre.
tary Of the great Mill Creek Distilling Co.
of Cincinnati said 10 Times Star report.
er, mot prohibition paper9 shat the
present prohibition agitation had been the
means Of decreasing the sale of whiskey
forty per cent" Thus you see that the
hackneyed saying that prohibition don't
prohibit" Is groundless. Il. s.