Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-04
A Sensible Western Republican.

but Il lew weeks since Representative
Nelson. of Minnesota, was receiving many
laudatious from the Free Trade and Bour-
hon Press for speech he hti lust de
livcrcd on the tariff He IS native
Norwegian, an excellent gentleman who
evidently brought to his adopted country
some of those mistaken views of political
economy which have had such a damag-
ing influence on the land of his BIRTH hold
ing its industrial interests in vas~alagc to
the selfish policy of England. But this
Minnesota Republican Representative
has received instruction from the
long debate between the two parties
on the floor of the House and has also
recognized the light which the republicans
of Minnesota are shedding on his pathway.
lie has clearer perception of what the
Free Trade and Bourbon Democracy really
intend by the Mills bill and its general
course on revenue questions. Ii certainly
will not give pleasure to his recent Dem
orratic endorscrs To hear his emphatic
denial of the report that he had resolved
TO desert his Republican associates and
vote for the Mills bill, no mere than his
further declaration that Minnesota is good
for 10000 Republican majority. no matter
what i done with the tariff. \ man who
i'willing to he taught by the people whom
he represents, or by his immediate personal
observation, has sensible qualities and
takes the course of the wise man rather
than of the obstinate mule.
At the great National Assembly of the
Prcshyterians few days since were passed
the following resolutions on Temperance
and the Liquor Traffic;
Resolved. That this assembly cmphatical-
" reitterates the deliverances of all former
Assemblies concerning the terrible sin and
crimes resulting from intcmperance and the
liquor traffic, and, while disclaiming all con-
neetion with or relation TO political action or
measures. would declare itself unequivocaliy
in favor of the entire suppression of the traf-
fic iii Intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and
that il is the duty of all Christian men and
women 10 use every legitimate means to ac-
complish this result
2. That this Assembly epjoins upon all
our sessions carefully 10 guard against the
admission of those 10 the membership who
are engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquors
for drinking purposes.
B. That this Assembly rejoices in the
great work being done by Christian women to
promote the cause of temperance, and bids
them God speed in their endeavor TO remove
the curse of iutemperance from the land
L. That this Assembly, believing that ig-
norance is largely the mother of vice, conf
mends the efforts now being made in many
States TO educate our youth in the knowledge
of the effects of alcohol upon the human sys-
TEN.
5. Whereas, The expectation of intoxi-
eating liquors TO heather lands has become a
most alarming hindraDce 10 the civilization
and Outstanding of the inhabitants thereof,
and as this traffic is assuming such proportions
in the great Congo valley of Africa, by virtue
of an international treaty in which our own
Government is a party therefore
Resolved, That the Assembly views with
shame, horror and apprehension the progress
of this traffic by civilized nations with
ignorant and heather lands; that this As
sembly unite, as far as possible, with otht I
churches in an effort to induce Christian Gov
ernments to abolish and prevent the horrible
practice of carrying intoxicants into the un-
civilized nations of the world, and that a
committee be appointed to Law this whole
matter before his Excellency the Presiden,
OF the United States, with the request that
he would present these facts to Congress,