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

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| bition that has ever been made in
this or in any other country" a
synopsis of the article will interest
many of our readers. All drinking,
says Nasty, leads to drunkenness,
and drunkenness is a great evil.
1t is the direct source OF 80 per
cent. of our crime and pauperism.
Such an evil must not be regulat-
ed; it must be killed. The way to
kill it is to prohibit it. viii prOhi-
bition prohibit? Nasty studied
the question in Maine, and he says
that prohibition does prohibit. At
least it prohibits this way: Under
the license system the saloon keep
er hunts up the drinker underpro-
hibitiOn the drinker hunts up the
saloon keeper. This state of affairs
Nasty calls prohibition, and such
prohibition he predicts is a certain
ty in this country within very few
years. This is a fair summary Of
"perhaps the strongest plea forpro-
hibitiOn that has ever been made in
this or any other country" 1t
must be admitted that Nasty has
succeeded in producing a remark
able article, and the endorsement
given it by the North AmeficdR is
equally as remarkable. Some sensi-
BILE Prohibitionists will suspect that
| Nasty is an enemy in disguise, and
that he has deliberately, and with
malice aforethougbt, put forth his
weakest argument. This is a mis-
take. Nasty has given us the best
in his shop. He is not successful
in argument or advocacy. He has
never been conspicuously success
ful in anything except drinking
whisky and slandering the South
ern people. He gave up drinking
when his stomach failed him; per
haps he will quit lying when he has
paralysis of the brain. 1t is all
well enough for the North Americdn
to introduce refOrmers to the pub
lie, but it should wash them first.
Springfield Globe Republic (Rep).
1t will surprise some people to
know that the Globe Democrat, of
st. Louis, is giving strong support
to the Republican anti.salOon
movement. 1t declares that sit is
notorious that the liquor dealers
are organized all over the country |
for the protection of their business,
not against prohibition merely, but |
against all forms Of temperance |
legislation; and it is tho right, as
it is the duty, ofall good citizens
to combine in opposition to this
crusade. The Republican party is
bound by its professions and tradi-
tons to resist an undertaking de-
signed to strengthen and promote
an interest which is recognized
everywhere as the persistent enemy
of the moral safety and welfare of
society" If the whisky men per
sist in their attempts to control pol
itics in the interest of their dis
tilleries and saloons, they will do
more harm than can
ever be devised and executed by
their opponents.
Wheeling Intelligencer (Rep.)
General Beaver, in a recent !
speech, said he was forced to doubt {
he sincerity of men who prOfessed t
o believe one thing and worked to
accomplish another. He was talk
ng about the third party men, who !
profess a desire to save the cOun- S
~ from the evils of intemperance, j
'et are pursuing a course which S
lelps the Democratic party, which S
s opposed to the measures they n
.dvOcate. We can not agree with .
General Beaver that the sincerity I
f all such men is to be doubted. n
We know that some of them are a
incere and believe all of them to ?
e unwise. The sincere ones delude u
themselves into the belief that they V
re helping to build up a party
hat will soon be strong enough to
tand alone, to pass such prohibi- h
Dry laws as they desire and to en- o
)rce them. JC
Ohio State Journal (Rep). a.
The New York Independent, one tt
f the most prominent of the relig- jc
,us journals of the world, says b
The Prohibition party nowhere ei
lOws any evidence of taking hold m
fthe conscience of the people" Is re
lis because the public conscience "
dead to the evils of intemperance? 81
y no means. On the contrary, W
lat conscience is specially alive to
lese evils, and it is because the
eOple clearly see that political pro- aC
IbitiOn IS the most dangerous enc th
y of temperance that they will sh
I'VE nothing to do with it. More of
ian that, the people feel that OPP NJ
,sitiOn to intemperance is not a til
'Oper basis for separate political lie
tion. A party organized on the tn
isis of opposition to lying or G..
uttOny would have just as rea- fol
nable a chance of eventually at. rel
ming political power. inn
Memphis Avalanche (Dem.). ito
everything TO gain and