Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-04
NATIONAL PROHIBITION.
SENATOR BLAIR CLAIMS IT is A
PRESIDENTIAL ISSUE.

Nothing short of Absolute Prohibition
for the District of Columbia VIII SAT-
isfy Him-He Promises to Agitate the
Question in Congress-An Attache of
the Chilian Embassy in Disgrace.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Senator Blair,
of New Hampshire, has been interviewed
as follows: "Neither high nor low license
will receive any sanction so far as the
District of Columbia is concerned. For
you might just as consistently authorize
murder, grand larceny, burglary, rapine
and arson, all of which are the natural ac-
compartments OF the rum shop. There Is
a necessity for decisive legislation by
Congress on the liquor question, and as
for myself am in favor of nothing short
ofabsolute prohibition. The best thing
that could be done with the rum now in
the District of Columbia would be to take
it and pour it in the river, and then its
baleful influence would not be felt.
TO STIR UP AN AGITATION.
"During the Forty ninth Congress l
propose to devote my time TO securing the
adoption of bill introduced early this
session looking to more thorough knOwl-
edge of the effects of intOXicants in the
interest Of the young people Of this gener-
alton. II the youth of the land can be
taught that alcohol in any shape is as
deadly poison as strychnine, arsenic or
prussic acid, few will be inclined to taste
the stuff which destroys body and soul.
Since the battle of Waterloo there has
been no one year in which the combined
suffering and pecuniary losses inflicted
upon the Caucasian race by war, pesti-
lence and famine has equalled the total
destruction chargeable to alcohol in the
same lapse of time.
A GIGANTIC ISSUE.
''This liquor question is assuming
gigantic proportions. And in the next
Presidential campaign it is destined to be
\ an important issue. And unless the Re-
publican party comes out squarely on the
fde OF a pTohibitOry enactment and
mendment to the constitution its remiss-
ness may prove fatal to its prospects.
Let all the people concentrate upon one
grand effort to amend the constitution so
as to prohibit the manufacture, sale, i'm
pOrtation, expectation, and transporta-
tiOn of alcoholic beverages anywhere
within the limits Of the national domain.
sThat Is the way TO rescue and preserve
the States. The evil is national, and the
war which saves the nation must be
fought by the nation. Nothing can be
done now but to get tw0.thiFds OF both
hVuSSS VI OoHE EiSoS " 'ov0 " suUihtC LIN b4O
proposed amendment to the people. The
thing is easier than it seems to be-"
A. GILLIAN IN DISGRACE.
Manuel del Campo, Secretary of the
Chihan Legation, disgraced himself last
night. He got drunk and created a dis
tuTbance in a variety theatre. IhereupOn
he was fOrcibly elected with considerable
violence. The police arrested him, but he
claimed the privileges Of diplomatist,
and so was liberated.
THE REPRESENTATIVE TO PERSIA.
Frederick Il. Winston, our Minister
resident and Consul General to Persia,
has written to friends nJGongress urging
that his title be changed to Envoy Extra
J ordinary and Minister PlenipOtentiary so
that ne can have a fully-equipped lega-
tion. His friends have assurances of
Secretary BaXard's good Offices.