Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29
THE MIGHT OF PROHIBITION

"AAoie crowd. Sam Jones.
THE MIGHT OF PROHIBITION.
Co,.. an" His Causc-What the rx.
g. =, las to Say-Both the Old POI
~ sympathy with Whisky.
g, tiiohi ehe Chicago Morning News.l
pieolct that the Republican party will
no' carry ten States in 1882 said excov
o. John, who was in Chicago Yesterday
ana l predict that in 1892, if not before
'ne Prohibition party will give the old
, :. Bourbon Democracy the worst
,ieA'ns 1t ever had. In 1892 there will
" clean, square fight between the
~, aonaoltlonlsts and the Democracy. All
' .n9 compromising parties and noIitic;ons
VIII VIII De out of the way. and tha
result w VIII be decisive and oyerwhelmo
ing. The Democratic party will toLa
=: y. PACK seat until the mission of the p,oh;0
,;,.a party has been accomplished. and #.
~. .iAe me Republican party of today. and
o one olu wing party of the past, becomes
. so al ana attempts to exist on its past
rec Then it will go down and out. and
one people Will simply use the Democracy
10 sort OF check to the wheels of progress
ulu, Iney can organize new line Of politi-
, .ai paltle and kick it out of power again
~ hn..i some .ime IN the future when it may
'o ny heeueu TOT the same old purpose"
IL; A-uov. st. John left Kansas the first
week in August, and spent a month snaal' al
ing for the Prohibitionlists in Maine. Yer
mont, and New York. Then going To- Wis
consln, he has spoken at Racine. Narinette
appleton, Plainfield, Eau Claire. Neel.
vile, Stoughlon, Albany, Darlington. Ian
caster, and Viroqua. He will leave the
Guy TINS morning for Sycamore, to sneak at
me Dehalb County Fair to-day. and will
then go directly to Kansas and spend the
"hoie OF October in campaign work. In
aodltlon to tho prediction quoted above. the
Ex-Governor said:
me cause Is growing marvelously, de-
spite me most INSCRIPTIONS efforts to crush
u IN Maine and elsewhere. The result has
only been to widen it out so that it counts
at least lOO per cent. more ballots than it
dld Two years ago. Prohibition is TODAY n
great national question. 1t can't be hung
or burned to death, nor can it be ignore d or
lied down by partisan press.
I'm the North many are claiming that the
effect of the Prohibition party will be to
turn the country over to the whisky De-
m m Now, want to say word about
that. There is 10 doubt that many good
people have been kept from voting the Pro-
hlbltlon ticket by this cry about whisky
Democracy But when we come to investi-
gate 1t there's nothing at all in it. That
can be shown clearly by statistics. For in
stance, Republican Wisconsin, in proper
ton to population, has five retail liquor es-
adjustments to one in Democratic Missis-
slppi. Republican California has II 1893 of
such places, against 500 in Democratic
South Carolina, which has the larger popu-
lation. Republican Minnesota has 1850,
and Democratic Arkansas 1853, the popula-
ton OF the two States being about
equal; Old Massachusetts, has law
torbldding the location of saloon
Democratic Tennessee draws the tine at four
miles. and her State convention, recently
held, adopted resolution favoring a sub
mission of the prohibition question to the
people. Massachusetts has S,4O5 retail
dealers, against 1,5l5 in Democratic
Georgia. The capital cities of Charleston.
W. Va; Raleigh, N. c.; Atlanta, Ca, and
jackson, Miss, have adopted prohibition
within twelve months, and the people of
Copiah County, Mississippi, within the
last thirty days voted out the last saloon
by 1000 majority. Even Clay County,
Missouri, the home of the James brothers,
has not had saloon for over eight years,
and when her Criminal Court met in Feb
ruary, 1885, there was not single criminal
case to be tried in the whole county.
Lafayette County, having about an equal
population, and clinging to her saloons,
had over thirty prisoners In her Jail await
ing trial on criminal charges. So it can
be easily seen that the cry about turning
the government over into the hands of the
whisky Democracy can no longer brighten
anybody who takes the pains to investigate
the matter and ascertain the truth.
"As bearing on the same point, I may re-
mark that right here in Chicago the Repub-
lican party puts three saloon keepers on its
ticket. It does SO for the purpose Of
catching the saloon vote. The Republic
e. argue that they have got to bid for the
liquor vote, and then bring down the party
lash and whip the Christian people into
line, not for Christs sake, but for the sake
of party success"
How does the organization of the Pro-
hibition party compare in extent now with
what it was in the 1884 campaign"
1T is much more thorough and extensive,
and in every way stronger and more vigor-
Gus. We have full tickets in the field in
every State in the Union except two or
three, and in those we are organizing rap
idly, and may have tickets in the field by
election day. In 1884 we We're organized
only to very limited extent in the Southern
States. Now our organization there is
quite complete. The Prohibition vote
throughout the whole country will be con-
siderably more than doubled this year"
do you observe any marked change in
the attitude of the public press since 1884
toward the Prohibition movement"
'Yes, great deal. The movement is
attracting much more attention. You can
hardly pick up paper anywhere which has
not something in it about it. And the arti-
cles concerning it, I have noticed, contain
very much less pronounced opposition, rid
icule, and vituperation."
NETHODISM AND PROHIBITION.
The Laws of the Methodist Episcopal
Church on Temperance and PrOhibi-