Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-03-23
THE CITIZEN.
MISCELJ ANEOUS.
THE w. C. T. u. COLUMN.


Ia it not strange that man like
Sen. Ingalls, occupying a position OF
ucb honor and trust will consent to
5se biz influence for the protection
of traffic against which stands the
following dennnciation by himself
pronounced.
NV disbelief in Prohibition prob
ahlv renders me more disinterested
observer of it's results, and do not
oesitate to say that, though attended
with some deplorable tendencies, 1t
has been of gre at advantage to the
State of Kansas, both morally and
rom the material and economic
standpoint The grocery mer-
n. I. ard other dealers say that
their bills are more promptly paid,
aho the records of the courts show a
marked decreaee in debt end crime.
The predictions of it's opponents have
not been verified. Immigration mas
not been hindered nor capital averted
from the state" The Senator also
saws: There can be no doubt that
be dramshop is an iDtolerable drain
ace of the national resources; the
nursery of crime; the enemy OF DO
mestic happiness; the threshold OF tine
poor.house; the vestibule OF the jail;
the portal of hell"
We are certainly left free to draw
mr. own conclusions as to the motive
hat prompts men every Gay thus to
-tifle purity and truth within their
own breasts in the interest OF a trace
in league with the Spirit OF Darkness
How long, oh how long VIII the
Christian people of these free United
States permit such outrages upon tne
public conscience to 60 unpunisneo
Hog long shall we send men TO our
National Capitol to make laws favor
able to debaucbery and crime, laws
which shall make our husbands
brothers and sons base, unlovaoie
and unloving, in short shall make OF
them brutes, although in the garo Oh
men, sending down to posterity d
curse for an Inheritance IN the iorm
of a weak if not vicious womanhooh
and manhood. Because OF such men
the Bill for prohibition in the DIS
trict of Columbia has been killed In
the Senate Committee; all praise 70
the noble women who SO bravely en-
dured the jibes and sneers OF the
liouor faction. Such devotion TO the
cause of right at the cost of SO much
self. lf.sacrifce shall not 60 for naught,
although for the time it may seem
lost. God is not Knocked, already Is
seen tie tracing of His hand upon the
wall "Thou art weighed in the bal
ances and art found wanting" Aw'
ful witness against the corruption In
high places throughout our land
Neal Dow the nominee Of the Demo
cratic party for the Office of Mayor,
and the candidate of every true and
order loving Republican in the city OF
Portland was defeated by the whisky
candidate. 1t is said 50, 900 was sent
by the liquor men Of Boston and s2,.
600 was contributed by the liquor
men of the city in order to accomplish
this end. And so it is day after day
our hearts are saddened by news OF
like import. The scum and ofial OF
our large cities, and alas in too many
of our smaller ones. dominate the
larger and better element Of society
through corruption and fraud. Crime
increases and poverty and wretched-
ness prevails. That such condition
of things is possible in our high civil
ization is to q great extent chargeabie
to the great daily press who purpose
" mislead the people as to the true
condition of things. Silence almost
deadly and profound upon the great
est political as we'll as social problems
of tie day seems to be the present
policy. The time will come when
these things will not be. God hasten
the dav.