The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-19

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citizens who stand for the law enforce
ment such outbreaks are always made by
liquor dealers against restrictive legisla-
tive as an interference with their freedom
read by liquor drinkers as against the
interference with the freedom OF making
the wide spread violation of one set OF
wholesome law and eternal contempt for
all law ard opens hospital doors fer those
modern allies of the saloon system COM
muuism and anarchy.
THE CRIMINAL CLASS
which is multip wing faster than cour S
and prisons can dispose OF ii finds It's breed
ing place, Its schools its incentive and Its
council chamber in the saloon, whose
keeper sets daily example Of a criminal
disregard of law and the public good. One
of the greatest political dangers which now
confront the republic is the corrupt Use OF
money to influence elections and legisla-
lures. With this evil Intrenched In our
polit cal system and ACCUSED in free
institutions would be at an end. w hen
bribery, can def II or reverse the Will oil
the majority, Sc f-government Is a farce.
The saloon power in the United States
Systematically uses Its CORFU ton fund
withou scruple ami without stint I'd con-
troll primaries, TO carry elections 10y the
purchase of votes, TO prevent restrictive
legislation with bribery, 70 Obstruct the
course III Justice by tampering with jurors,
and whose touch, whose unrestrained con
tact curses society and threatens civiliza-
ton itself nitn either factor removed,
THE CURSE AND THE DANGER
would be virtually ended. Only moral
pressure, acting through the centuries, can
reach the former; only legal weapons,
whose action can be made swift and con-
elusive, can reach the latter. What shall
be done? Tie national ant ;aloon repub-
lican conference, representing the FREEDOM
mate sentiment of republicans and good
citizens everywhere answers that the sa-
looms ought to be put out Of existence,
that the people of each state and municip-
atty out to have the opportunity whenever
desired of deciding when and how this
shall be done and that until destroyed the
saloon ought to be crippled by every re-
straint and disability which local public
sentiment will enforce and made 70 reim-
burse as much as possible of the public
loss it causes. 1t is believed that this pol
icy backed by vigorous enforcement will
defeat public servants who have incurred
its displeasure. This wholesale crime
against free and fair government is not
even denied or concealed. The irresponsi-
bic nflic: between the saloon system and
the public welfare remained a
local and subor mate matter until
THE LEAGUED POWER
of the liquor traffic took The aggressive
and by successive and rapid aggression in
vaded every place no Fever sacred; viola
ted every restrainin: law hoEever moder-
ate, and now avowedly aims at complete
political domination by debauching the
ballot and the legislature. For the truth
and Justice of this Indictment we appeal
to the open book of current history aud to
every law-abiding citizen who knows
whereof he speaks. Two factors combine
to render the liquor traffic the incendiary
thing it is daily weakness and depravity
of its drinking victims, and mainly our
aggressive and criminal system of open
sale. These are the power, and
enforcement of law commends itself to the
common sense and the conscience OF the
people, and that on this platform all rea-
sonable friends of temperance and public
fety can unite and work.
IT HAS THE MERIT OF SIMPLICITY.
1t is perfectly practicable ard it adapts
itself to the needs and the possibilities of
all sections. 1t is favorable without being
indei lite. 1t does not require a commun-
ity which Is ready for prohibition TO toll
crate taxed or untaxed saloons until an
entire state including great cities have
reached the same level of opinion and &C
ton. 1t does not compel cities % submit
to a.riot of free run until they are prepar-
ed to enforce a total suppression of e
liquor traffic within their limits. 1t does
not attempt to apply rule UNIFORM and
arbitrary TO 60,0U0,000 people living under
widely varying conditions. 1t allows for
the element of time as factor in this as
in every great reform and
gives scope to these educating
agencies which are everywhere at work
with prodigions energy, and which are
rapidly bringing all right-minded men TO
one conclusion. 1t is permissible to reach
common point by many roads.
THE SALOON HAS ENTERED POLITICS
with its own methods and weapons 1t has
allied itself with the democratic party of
that party with a rod of iron. While
thousands o. democrats are hostile to the
liquor traffic, their voice is silenced and
their wishes are ignored. The machinery,
resources and vOt of powerful organiza-
ton are thus enabled TO defend and per-
petuate this cancer on cur civilization.
The prestige, resources and championship
o. a g:eat historic party are needed on the
side of the home and the public welfare.
The republican party is called to this place
and work, and called by a mandate as gen.
uine and majestic as that which
summoned it into existence. Its
original record and composition have
furnished the strongest possible presump-
ZION that 1t would, at the ri ht time, adopt
and carry out all that is desirable and
feasible in the political treatment of the
liquor 'raffic down Il the present time his
presumption has been fully justified by
events.
BY THE IMPERIOUs LOGIC