The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-04-21
Adversely to Prohibition.
MIR. EDITOR:
Gas the fire burned, mused."


Wonderful opportunities exist in our
day for musing-very grave necessities
exist in our day for musing. Greatest
personal and common good can only come
from such silent considerations, with open
reflected results Opportunely taken, are
the problems of human life, and the more
serious ones take the more earnest
thought; else inconsistency, inconsistent
with ruling intelligence and goodness of
Creative cause, must be conceded; an al
lowance at once unreasonable and impi-
Gus. Probably no period of time can be
referred to with accompanying problems
so important to man as the present.
individuality, as also Its relation to So
ciety, is intensified. We must believe
there is a Providence in the agitations of
the day. In the old and new worlds men
are thinking as never before. The NUT
terings and movings Of popular demands
presage important changes. We cannot
believe all is ebulition of unframed, un.
worthy thought, but rather that God is
breathing upon the darkened waters and
there is to CLEAN out unwonted light and
higher human attainments.
But we are looking over more ground
tifan intended for short newspaper
piece. Inclination has really been given
while musing upon the earnest discussion
of the hour upon the liquor question.
This is 50 fraught with seriousness that
silent, humiliating musings are essential
to proper plans for adjustment and reform.
This question is live one and not para
dox that death is prominent in its wake.
How shall intemperance be stoppedY
Two plans are proposed l have just en-.
Quired of an earnest, considerate repre-
sentative advocate of the Prohibition party
for their platform and he gives: "Sup-
preston by law of Importation manufac'
ture and sale of alcoholic liquors as
beverage"
This party has become important in
numbers and personnel, which added to its
high moral claims, entitle II to consider.
alton, and we most earnestly wish 1t had
devised way out OF this great evil, a way
in which all good men could work with
promised success. But not only In Its
fruits does it fail to challenge public &C.
ceptance, but 1t would seem, in its phrase
ology of platform, incongruity must make
itso. Its designed suppressing force comes
too late, for certainly the use of alcohol,
whether for beverage or not, cannot be
determined until after its appliance. 1t
gives no defined line between rejection
and allowance.
Prohibiting advocates concede value
and necessity for using alcohol in various
ways,as in mechanics, pharmacy and sick.
ness, only objecting to its personal use as
beverage; we most cordially agree here,
and will not consent that any excel us in
-d9precating the baneful effects Of intem-
perance or in desire to have some plan de.
vised TO eradicate it.
We need not write word of its horrors.
Humanity is pale and aghast before them.
We are ready to associate or disassociate
with any political party as will best con.
serve sound sentiment and aggressive
practice to redeem our fellow men from
this pit into which they have fallen, or
tending TO. We believe departure and
return and restraint are whelly in the field
of morals, land efforts to mitigate and Grad.
icate these evils should be based hereon,
and must be to prove successful; hence,
the philanthrophist and temperance re.
form, has mission 10 the sufferer, the in.
ebriate, mission of personal kindness
and words of cheer and hope and will not
be content to stand aloof from such with
inference that they are not worth saving
cOntining effort TO an impracticable plan
TO suppress manufacture. "Shall ser.
want be above his masterY "CArist came
to call sinners TO repentance, to save those
which were lost
We have been told with astonishing
quietude that the Prohibition party had
no duty to the drunkard. In the wilder
ness Of wrong and suffering Of the victi.
mized inebriate where moral aid is most
needed this party recognizes no work.
This little piece is getting longer than
designed and will stop. Statistics or
comparisons are not needed. Intuition,
conscience, unselfsh devotion to the
general good, divorce from party and
precedent when found faulty and work
while the day lasts" are the elements of
proper efforts in this greatest of needs.