The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-12-18
The Prohibition and Rupubl,oan pa,tie,

ED. ADVOCATE: The Prohibition party has n
vIGti, comprehensive, all-pcrvadng, transcend-
.ht lSsue.the total and universal prohibition of
the rum traffic, which is stupcndous injury to
society ana 10 our government. The traffic is the
Gigantlc crime o. crimes, the dynamite of civil
IZallon; responsible, accOrdmg to Chief Justice
Noah Davis, OF New York for 80 per cent, OF nil
crime; according to cx-Premicr Gladstone for
more hllm on man than war, pcstilcnce and
lGunine combined; according to the late emincnt
IT. W lilar i'nrker for 35 per cent. of lnilacy a.
Isr cent Of idiocy, p ta 80 rer cent. of pauper-
ISM, and 10 per cent. of deaths. Ii Is a,grcatcr
curse than human slavery, more direful in It's
effects than the late civil war, which Horace
%reeiy o,,Iy On go3N grounds declared would not have
OCCURRED mad i not been for the liquor traffic
The prohibition of this traffic isthc most I'M
porant political work now demanding the atten-
ton Of the people of this country for there is no
question paramount or even taitamount 10 Ills.
nNolvlhg, as II does annually, thousands of lives
nilllohs OF treasure and incalculable moral con
sequences The questions of tariff, civil service
reform and capital and labor in comparison. are
mere pigmies, and as it Overtops all other u,lrs-
io,S II Is 9i Snllcleht Importance TO be the domi-
nating and dividing issue In politics. Why is il
that we have hard timos-thOusands of men
illarcning through our cities crying for labor or
bread? Go among them and you will find that
the great majority of them are robbed by tle Sa-
loohi ana we VIII never have good times in this
country until this liquor traffic is stopped Dr.
IlafgreaVes, the best authority on the subject on
which he writes says: There is not "A shndow
OF doubt but that more tlan $500, 600 would
am annually De seht more than Is now spent for food
ana otner articles OF use and necessity but for
the traffic In strong drinks. This additional sinn
spent Tor our manufactures and other products
would give an inculc,ilable impetus to every de
partment of productive industry trade and com
merce." As license, high and low, has been
trled, ana proven failure, even rs a restrictive
measure, the only right attitude Is that OF total
promoltloll: and no one who Is acquainted with
recent temperance agitation, North. South East
ana Nest, cin doubt that nearly or quite half the
voters 0t this country are already in favor of pro
hlblil0n. As there were enough opposprs of
slavery IN the Wing and Democratic parties,
when they came out and united, 10 destroy it sn
there are enough PrOhibtiOnlsts in the two rreai
parties today to 'pulverize the rum pOwcr'i if |
lhef VIII but unite; the present problem is TO |
unlte thein. Could we unite them under either
0l the old parties, we might purify the party and
get prohibition through il, but voters wifi not |
unite under eilher the Republican or Democratic
banner ia consequence of the partisan prejudice |
existing between the two war parties; and ms |
liquor men hold the balance of power in both |
parties, and neither party Is strong enough ia |
carry an election without the liuuor vote, for
either party 20 declare In favor of prohibition
would he TO forfeit the liquor vote and suffer de-
teal Ol tne party atelecliOn. But voters, North
and South, will unite i'm n nnn-Sectlonal marty
and this Is what the Prohibition party is doing
;ts facts and figures plainly show. The Prohi6i'
tlon vote only two years ago for Gov. ST. John
was about 10000, the aggregate Prohibition yoie
this year Is somewhere In the neighborhOod of
$4,000, more, tDan double what ii was only tWo
years ago. In Pennsylvania at the preyinus
Governor election we only had little over 5OOO
votes, this year we had about six times that num-
Dcr or over 5000, double the number cast for
ST. John only two years ago. ''When things
Keep doubling i takes but Il short time for things
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TOR President, sounded the death knell of the
liquor iralhc. In 1854 there were east i'm this
state oI2,5l2 votes, and one in every 2l7 was I'M
abolition vote; In 1854 there were 500 :I2S votes
cast, and one in every 81 WAS Prohibition vote !
Prohibition two years ago already had four fines
ne u. Sirength @ IN TINS stgte that Abolition had in
a leading Republican, Journal recently ad. 4
mltted that 'Ghls Prohibition movement Is sip-
nlneani more from the persons engaged in II
than from their present numbers" and no one
Will dony hat there Is u larger portion Of utelli-
gent, moral and religious persons IN the Prohib.
mon party Than IN the license parties When
men Ike Tres. McCOSh, of Princeton College !
Pres. Payne, of the Ohio Wesleyan Uuiyersily; |
+ res, Seglye, oi AmhurSt College; Pres. Bascom,
OF the wisconsin State lniycIsi wand many 9th, |
cr leaders ot educated thought step ont boldly
irom their license parties, aud declare Their
~ u TO be proud Of. II would indeed
he very difficult matter 10 find SIN very promi.
ntnt legal prohibition workers to-day, Cryccpi
most Elled To the parties hy SpuilS and Office
VINO nave not stepped out from the old parties
ANA Joined the Prohibition party. John D.
Cough, who was the greatest tenIuGTaure ni,ltnr
in the world, several years before his death lad
joined the IrohlMtiOn party although formerly
a slaunch Republican. Mr.. Balm and Finch The
today are ardent third party lrohhtioAists and
So Is Dr. liNtEresNtS the greatest tpniup rance
3tMistlclah IN Amerlci Dr. Ialmage and Dr.
peelllS' the most popular preacher in America,
except Beecher, whose son ran Tor Office on the
IrohlblllOn ticket this year; Rev and Hon
Green Clay Smith, the veteran tempeTlnce re-
former OF the SOutlB Gen. Clinton H. Fish. of
New Jersey; Gen, Neal Dow the father of ihe
Maine Prohibition law; Joseph Cook the world
renowned Boston lecturer, who two years ago
gave fourteen logical reasons for the formation
ol IA thlrd party 10 which no Republican yrt at
templs reply; aud who. not long ago in an AR
lcle SAID, "As II MAS not right, but morally in
ignltols to vote for a party In bondage 10 the
slave power; so II is not right hut morally IN
lqaltonS TO support any party that Is IN bondage
20 the liquor traffic" At the late National Con
yentlon OF the w. c. T, u, which numbers over,
10000, tie Prohibition party was endorsed by a
vote OF 25l OF the 2SS delegates: the President
Miss Frances willard, has been an ardent sun
porter Of the patty for years. There are also 10
Irohlbltlnn papers published in the United
States Efforts To turn back, or even check the
rising tde ot public opinion IN favor of a Nation
al Prohibition party Is labor lOst, for she is here
and has no doubt come tO stay. as she Is gaining
some OF the better element ul the Republican
aud Democratic parties every day
There can be no argument against the Prohlbi-
ton party except that 10 Will miurc the old nar-
Ties winch depend tot vitality and existence mn.
ON the 2,0JlO1o votes atkuuNl edged. 10 be con-
trolled ~ theiiquoT saloons OF the cOuntiy-Onf-
fourth of the voting pupulHtOn OF our large cities
being composed Of tie employees and patrous of
the saloons, Because both political parties must
have large share Of the saloon vote to carry an
election. is the reason why they both bow down
ana hiss the whisky mOlOck Of which the h.si-
ness Is 70 fnsInufaeflIfa q