The Forrest City times., 1888-08-11


 The Saloon Interest Attacked-Gen.
 Fisk Glad He Left the c. O. r,
 CHICAGO, ILL, August 6.-ThS lSt- ters Of acceptance of the National Pro aibition Party candidates for Presi- Ient and Vice-President are made pub nc this afternoon. The letter of Gen. Ciinton E. Fisk, candidate for Prcsis aent, is dated at Seabright, N. j.. July p. The opening paragraph expresses grateful sense of the honor conferred upon him by the Indianapolis Conven. sion and formally accepts the nomina- t'on: It then proceeds as follows: Wt.uin few years the temperance re- .osm nas altogether changed front In the great conflict which has been, and is vet wagins, temperance forces no longer face human appetite and habit alone; they op. pose iegisiation, law, the purpose of political psrtes, tho policy of state and nation What law creates law alone can kill. The Sreature Of law, the saloon, the liquor traf- n,c, can die only at laws hand, or at the nand Of the laws executors Conceived in avaricious iniquity, born of sinful legisla. tive wedlock, the licensed saloon, the legal; ized liquor traffic, bastard child Of c civil "eNsSh btEOi lb. OF unAt blVlllXAt1On must go forever branded with the scarlet letter of its own shame.
 REFORMING THE STATE.
 ''It is not enough that we reform the iudi. vidual; we must reform the State. The pol icy of great commonwealths, of whole pco- pie, must be re-made and put in harmony with sound, economic principles, the true CO., operation of industrial effort, the essential conditions of a natural prosperity and genu- inc brotherwood of man. So broad a demand as this can be met in but one way. It has oeon well said. "A political reform can be come fact in Government only through A political party that administers government ! reform 80 vast as this we advocate in, yolving such radical changes in State and Natios al policy, is utterly dependent, for its agitation and consummation, upon some party agent or force. Tho National Demo cratic party in it's platform utters no word in condemnation of the greatest fee to the Repvchc, the liquor traffic. That party hay ing steadfastly in it's utterances at National Conventions maintained its allegiance to the American saloon, it was no disappoint- ment to any one that at St Louis in 1888 it reafirmed its old position on.this tho great est question now being debated among men. "t was with great reluctance that ac- cepted these conclusions and came to admit the imperative need of a new party, while yet the party of my choice, the National Republican party, maintained it's orguniza- tion. It cost me the sacrifice of cherished associations, when four years ago en- rolled myself in the ranks of party Prohibi- tionists,. under the flag of prohibition, bleached snowy white by the tears of smit- ten women and children through genera tioas of sorrow and want
 NO REGRET.
 "I have seen no hour of regret Every day siuca then haa shoxyn vat r,ora cla orlx the logic of my course, and the inevitable truth of my conclusions. In Michigan, ir Texas, in Tennessee and In Oregon s0- called non-partisan efforts to establish pro hibition have failed, through partisan neces- sity, born of liquor clements in old party composition. In Iowa, Rhode Island and Maine the laws have been shamelessly de- fed for like reasons. The entire trend of things these last four years has proven hopeless the broader range of prohibition effect through non-partisan means and equally futile as final consummation, the narrower methods of local option and high lie ense; while from the Supreme Court itself has come, with startling emphasis, adeclara tion so nationalizing this reform that it can never be made of local or State limitation gai n. The first concern of good government said the recent National Re publican Convention at Chicago, is the vir- the and sobriety of the people, and the pur- fly of the home Rsvenue, then, is not the the Governme chief, concern, whether coming from internal taxation or from tar. id on importations, uand any source of rev. enue which discounts the virtue and so briety of the people, and begets impunity iB the home should be the first object as sailed by every party professing to seek good government while the revenue de rived from such a source should be the first to be forsworn-not alternatively, for sake of protective tariff, but positively, for sake of protection dearer and mora vital than the tariff can ever yield.
 ThE 'cHIEF CONCERN"
 Had not left the Republican party feur years ago, should be compelled to leave it now, when, after reading the words I have quoted, from a resolution supplemental ts but not included in it's platform, and finding in these words my own idea of the Govern ment's chief concern set forth, l search the long platform through in vain to find condemnation of the saloon, or hint of pur- pose to assal it, or any sign of moral con sciousness that the saloon as curse, and Its income too unholy for the nation to share. If the chief concern has not 8 place in party's platform and party has no policy as to that chief concern, that party does not deserve the support of men who love good government and would see it maintained.
 "The Prohibition party's chief concern is for the purity of the home and the virtue and sobriety of the people.
 CThat party is not labor's truest friend, which would bar the importation ot pau pers from abroad or close the tariff door of competition to pauperize foreign industry, and then, by liquor system, perpetrcte the manufacture of paupers and criminals in our own midst, with whom honest labor must compete, and whom largely honest labor must support"
 The letter closes with review of the principles of prohibition.