Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-04-09
REPLY TO mad PROHIBITIONIsT'
IN LAST WEEKS PLAINDEALER.
A SETTLEMENT OF FACTS UNDIS-
GUISED.

English, who may have heard any
speech that we made at Myrtle Creek,
or at any other time and place, Or that
any leader that we have written or
have caused to be written and printed
in The REVIEW at any time in its his
tory under the present management,
that could SO distort language or per-
vert facts, is beyond our ken to under
stand. In our leader of March 26th
on the subject of Prohibition we used
these words; "Upon the matter of pro
hibition we have heretofore indicated |
our position. All that can be reason
ably expected from the Democracy is
the nomination Of candidates for the
Legislature who We know will favor
the SUI omission of this question to the
people. This is right and therefore it
is Democratic. For the present that
is all that can be done. Two. years
hence the matter will be ripe for dis
cussion. Our hearts beat warmly,
deeply and earnestly for the cause of
temperance, but We cannot cross a
stream until we get to itand now is no
time to swop horses. In due time the
people can and will speak, meanwhile
we shall address ourselves to the ex-
igencies of the hour" What more
would you expect us to say3 Does
"Mad Prchibitionist expect us to play
the treachery of "Iago," and leave. the
party wherein lies the only hope of the
country whereby we are seeking re-
dress from the very same traffic? "Mai
Prohibitionist" seems to use party and
issue interchangebly. We have al
ways said that this temperance ques-
ton was the supreme issue of the
day, but we never said at Myrtle
Creek or elsewhere, that the Prohibi-
tion, or "third party" was the supreme
party of the country, neither do we
think it ever will be. 'AIad Prohibi-
zionist" is so ''mad" and yet SO religious
at the same time, that we are not able
to discern the congruity of these oppo
site sentiments in the same mind al
the same time, The leading Prohibi
tionists Of Douglas county told US te
our face, and many others up to g
short time since, that submission to 9
popular vote" was all that was desired
And some of them promised their sup
port to either Of the old parties thai
would resolve in favor of submission
Now what change in so short time
What does it mean2 You "Mad Pro
hibitionist" Esq. now want the Demo
cratic and Republican parties to de
clare for absolute prohibition on tn,
spot Pray tell US what is your eslti
matUne? Your inconsistency ani
seeming insincerity lead us to conclude
that when you are unmasked YOU
motto is like unto the old parties
''emoluments and Office" Talk O.
"back down." show the mighty hal
fallen" and "600o0souls going annually
to premature graves" when the very
hand that helped you to engender thi'
same temperance sentiment, and stood
by you in the thickest of the fight, ane
sacrificed the patronage of hundreds O
dollars annually for what we believed
to be right and believe it yet
and reposing our confidence il
your supposed integrity. and now to
receive an onslaught in the dark under
the nom de plume of "prohibitionist,
when your own name would have been
far more honorable when you make a
personal attack. ooh consistency,
thou art a jewell only to be worn on
the brow of virtue. "Oh ingratitude,
thou art the basest and blackest of all
crimes" to be practiced only by the
usurper and betrayer of mems credulity.
Oh! shades of Benedict Arnold, why
would you shame the ghost Of "Clau
dius' or put to blush the yelled face of
his Satanic majesty The hands that
made vou were those that hold ale
glance to the old parties, and now you
snite them chip and thigh" and will
not even allow them a Christian burial
simply because you differ from them
as to method. Why sir, we were in
this warfare when some of you were
hilarious in your bachanalian revelry
and but a few moons have come and
gone since you were dealing out youl
epithets against US that would have
challenged "Margaret" to equal
And now you would dictate to and dis
franchise us. We are glad you Ihave
changed your mode of life but the
scriptures say you "must be tried, and
proved" before you are enthroned
Perhaps the greatest disappointment
that could overtake you would be tt
say in convention that we as Democrats
are in favor of the people speaking or
this subject. And we will do so ever
against your desire, and then you will
be "madder" than ever, because yor
have no tissue" left upon which to &c
before the people to ask their suffrages
The sentiment that framed platforms