Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-10-15


5 guage has been described as tn
t means both of expressing and con
r cealing thought. Who doubts II
which way it is used in the fOrmin,
d of party platforms?
2 Chicago Herald (Ind)
"The third party" says an organ
of the East, sis simply a cOmbina
q tiOn to gain political power by using
: the liquor question as an ISSUE
With this utterance, as wise as any
thing that the celebrated JacI
} Bunsby ever uttered, the organ
t closes out the third party and adj
: vises everybody to vote for the sec
. ond party, which is seeking to gair
t political power without using any
) thing in particular as an issue
The party which has a question
/ that may be used as an issue is pre-
eminently entitled to gain politicaI
! power if 1t can. That is exactly
what most Of such organizations
are after. "What else are they
here for but the offices ~
Philadelphia Times (Ind.).
Whether Pennsylvania shall be
a high license or prohibition state
in the very near future will depend
solely upon whether the license men
persist in kicking themselves to
death against the pricks of the in.
telligent and progressive sentiment
of the age. If license shall persist
in kicking against the pricks, it
will provoke a sudden and violent
death, while vastly better practical
results could be attained by gen.
erous Difference to enlightened and
Just public opinion in the thorough
revision of the license laws.
Toledo Blade (Rep.)
There is no doubt but that the
sentiment in favor of prohibition is
growing stronger every day in
Iowa. The Boone county RepaJE-
can makes this point:
One significant fact tells on the
side of prohibition. In the recent
meeting of the sberiffs of Iowa, sew
enty officers were present, and the
universal testimony is, that the
present law is decreasing court bus.
mess so per cent. or more. Let the
good work go on until court ex-
pense and taxes are reduced to a
minimum.
Brooklyn Times (Rep.).
If all the temperance men should
leave the Republican party their
withdrawal would place that party
in hopeless minorityin every state
in the Onion. But the Republican
remnant and the liquor interest
would have unchallenged control. |
The anti.salOon men are wise
enough to see this and they will re.
main where their influence can be
exerted potentially In the cause Of
temperance legislation.
st. Louis Republican (Dem.).
The Republican Philadelphia
Press declares that the decrease in
saloons in Missouri under the high
license system twill be regarded by
sincere temperance reformers as a
triumph of their views and
Yet this law was passed
by Democrats, against the Opposi-
ton of the same Republicans who
now profess to be engaged in "an
anti.saloOn movement the entire
purpose of which is to prevent gen.
uine temperance reformers from
voting the Democratic ticket.
Wilkes Barre Unon-Leader (Dem.).
The experience of every state that
las tried prohibition has fully dem
that it takes bigger ma.
Ority to enforce than it does to en-.
lct prohibition, and common sense
caches that where there is a ma
ority big enough to enforce prohi-
)itiOn statutes, they can much more !
,asily and surely make their com.
nunity temperance community, .
educe the evils of intemperance !
within its limits to the lowest pos. !
IDLE minimum by other means and :
Without the statutes.
Christian Advocate (Metbodist.j il
AS to what measures are wisely il
dapted each individual member of n
he Methodist church may and v
hOuld be his own judge in the fear a
+ God and the love of his country. d
IethOdists are not committed to il
he Democratic party, the Repub.
can party, the Prohibition party, d
nc Female Suffrage party, the a
-seenback party, the Labor Re. g
'rm party, but are entirely free to 2
,main MethOdists and vote accord II
e to their conscientious convic- OF
Ons. tl
Toledo Commercial (Rep.). hi
The Prohibition leaders, in &C. 10
p,;ag the saloon campaign fund, OF
low what is expected of them
hey know that they are expected I'll
aim their bows at the Republican III
lrty. They may iniure the Re til
Iblicans more than the Democrats W
a particular campaign, but the it
neral growth Of the Prohibition is
'rty is drawn perhaps about equal. 70
from both parties. til
Chicago News qnd.). &c
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