The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-09-15

They are associations representing
certain great national ideas or
principles which are to be voted
for and carried out in government.
That is, they should be such; but
it would be hard to tell to-day what
great ideas or princi Piles either of
the two great parties are promul-
eating. With them it is now sim
ply race for power and spoils.
The Prohibition Party has an issue
now. And, o, isn't its issue
large enough?
PROHIBITION PARTY A NECESSITY.
The Prohibition Party is a neces-
sity, because both the great politi-
cal parties are 90 inextricably in
volved in the awful traffic that
they have been and are still oblig-
ed to give their support and en-
couragement to the traffic; so that
now if either of them favored Pro-
hibition, they would be held re-
sponsible by the Liquor men. The
party managers are not willing
even to submit to the people their
right to vote on this great ques-
ton. They say they cannot do it
without committing suicide, al
though the majorities may every
where desire it.
WHY PROHIBITION DON'T PROHIBIT.
And again, where the people
have secured prohibitory laws,
they have been largely defeated in
their execution, because the party
in power was opposed to Prohibi-
ton, and then politicians would
cry out, "Prohabition don't prohibit"
If Prohibition hasn't prohibited
when obtained by the majority, it
only shows that the party in power
whichever it be, is to blame for it.
But how can they execute pro-
hibitory laws when part of the par
ty are bitterly opposed? 1 wonder
that they have been enforced at all.
A party whose members are radi-
cally divided on any question, can
never adopt positive and accept
able policy on that question, and
there can be no greater peril to the
nation than the existing
PARTY COMPETITION FOR THE LIQUOR
VOTE.
This fearful liquor dragon encoils
these parties like the Serpents Of
LAGOON and crushes in it's folds
all spirit of patriotism and virtue,
and they cannot escape its mon
strous, Shiny grasp, slowly strang-
ling out their very life.
Hence it is the solemn duty of
all patriotic humanity-loving citi-
zens, regardless of past party affili-
ations, to combine their forces at
the ballot box, and put better
party in power that shall free the
land Of the desolating reign of this
internal oligarchy called the Rum
Power.
Herbert Spencer says, that "Peo-
pie never go right till they have
tried all possible ways of going
wrong" We have had ex perience
enough in this Internal traffic to
learn that any party in this day
that hesitates to declare against
the saloon, with all its lurid evils
wants nothing so much as burial,
and the Prohibitionist that isn't
ready to attend the funeral is to be
pitied.
THE DEVIL DISTURBED.
If a Prohibition law, backed by 8
Prohibitionparty, is not on the right
track, why is the Devil SO disturb
ed Was not this party organized
on purpose 70 secure constitutional
Prohibition, and then to be the
power behind the throne to execute
the law? That's why it's marching
on to certain victory. All intelli
gent thinkers on this subject now
admit that what we want ane
must have to win, is Nationa
Constitutional Prohibition backed
up by National Prohibition
party? Do you ask, why? Simply
because laws do not make o.
execute themselves, but demand
behind them executive officers
in their interest, sworn to uphold
and execute.