The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-28
[EAIPHIS APPEAL.
|EDYESDAY,,: APRIL IS, 1855
PnoHInIrIoN IN PoLIIIos.

II De 0faRgeo INTO tne pJlINCdl
bna. Monday last Senator Blair
de a speech in the United States
nate on bis proposed constitutional
endmentprohibiting the msnufact-
or sale OF alcoholic liquors as q
verage, aud among many other fool
things faid ''it was time for the
bhibition idea TO assume control Of
ional partiee-at least Of the Re-
blican party. That party could not
rmanently remain three-fourths for
bhibition and one-fourth against II.
at was less possible than II once
8 for the nation to remain perma-
ntly one-haH slave and one-half
p" The whole tone Of his speech
Heated that prohibition would
a prominent plank in the
kt National Republican platform
made the vital issue In the next
hsidentisl election. The prohibit
b of the sale and manufacture OF
Dor is not Democratic. II is hostile
inconsistent with Democratic
nciples, and already the Democratic
ty has manifested its hostility to
nptuary laws OF every description.
the Assembly Of New York week
ON the question Of a conttitu-
pal amendment forbiddiDg the GALE
manufacture OF liquor in that State,
Democrats, with but e solitary ex.
ton, voted in the negative, and OF
sixty-one votes in the Affirmative
y were cast by Republican,. Some
he more conservative temperance
pie are said to very much deplore
u seems to be q partisan division
his subject, and while the Ds moe
OF the Stste are so solid ia their
osition 10 the measure II cannot
vail. Blaine Rscribes his defeat In
lat Presidential election to Burch-
alliteratio Rum, Romsuism
Bsbellion"-and il prohibition is
e the leading Republican issue in
next Presidential election II will |
rminate the Republican patty and
Dusly damage the temperance
y, for the people are opposed 10 |
ptuary laws, and believe that the
ticism which would prohibit the
uiacture OF rum because 1t ia an
would put down Romanism for
same reason. Virginia the |
her Of States and satssmen-in |
was the first State in the Union
rect itself as a bulwark to stay the
Fnothing tide which WAS sweep
over the country, seeking tHe
ruciion OF the civil and religious
ty OF foreign-born citizens, and on
day last the grand old common.
tn indicated that she would
rue TO her traditions. The
Virginia Legislature passed the
option law. The city OF Rich
ID was the first 10 submit The
ton Of prohibition to the people.
hree weeks the contest has been
tier that personal violence was
ehended. The lvote was cast on
day last, and the maj 0rity against
ibitlon was overwhelming. The
ibition fanaticism will run its
pc just as acknowledgment did.
i suasion and high license are the
methods by which the evils OF
appearance are to be lessened. Once
ede that bare majority can agree
ohibit not crime, ,but q custom
because that custom is evil, but
use some practice 1t 10 excess -
the next move will be topTohibit
manufacture and sale Of tobacco,
and morphine because
people nee oil three to
ss. Indeed move ia this di.
on has already commenced. The
poo question was brought before a
erence OF the North Methodist
rch Of Pennsylvania only few
sgo, and the Committee on Tenn
nee Of New York reported at its
nt session that this habit OF smok.
md chewing is an evil fully equal
bat OF liquor drinking; that the
are twin evil, which curse the
try. And only a week ago the
wing appeared in the Associated
dispatches:
INV YORK, April l9.-In the
h0dist Episcopal Conference at
on q resolution was adopted ask.
be bishop not to appoint any per-
q presiding elder who uses to-
o."
lere Is no appeasinV Of ianaticism.
succeeds in prohibiting the
uiacture and sale OF liquors, the
move will be to prohibit the
utacture and sale OF tobacco,
b has already been stigmatiz d
% twin relic OF whisky. Next the
will be commenced on coffee and
ood which the fanatics regard a.
rious. Every good citizen is for
perance because il makes happy
eE, because it gives contentment |
health and because it promotes |
Rlity. But men cannot be made
perate by laws which the Gear Of
10 cannot enforce On his subjects
We which the Emperor OF Ger
y nor the Queen OF England have
over TO enforce.
NGR IN THE COrrOE mann