San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-11-01
What Earnest Pr0hibitiOnists Think
and How They Feel.
Dallas Advance Advocate.

Last, year DR.. Carroll's soul had
plenty of room, and he wrote as few
other men could write. This yeai
his soul is confined in a democratic
stockade, q democratic manacle
cramps his hand, and no writes only
as an ordinary democrat might write
Last year DR.. Carroll was with us
This year he is against us. Last
year the democratic party was in nc
danger. This year it needs help.
DR.. Carroll says he can't go before
the same audience he addressed last
y ear and advocate the ninth plank OF
the Fort Worth platform withoutself.
qualification. l venture to say he
can't go before those audiences and
dodge the temperance issue to advo.
cate the claims of the democratic par
ty and nominees without self-stultifi'
cation, if one-tenth of what he said
about the liquor traffic be true last
year be true. God wants him to talk
t, the people about intemperance
the dreadful, blighting plague that is
killing them for time, and damning
them for eternity; but he talks about
"constitutio nal limitations" over
which our forefathers wrangled. God
wants him to arouse the sleeping
conscience of sovereigns against the
"4rch fend of natlons," and warn
them to put away this monopoly OF
abominatlon," but he tells them OF
the democratic party and its "inan-
cial policy concerning the tariff and
internal revenue.
Church Of God, weep! You ought
to weep. You do weep. Saloons
and democratic politicians, rejoice!
1t is in perfect order for yon to re-
ioice. No doubt you do rejoice.
But we can spare DR.. Corroll, we
could spare DR.. Cranfill. 1t would
bring us to our knees, but we would
get up and 90 on.
Leaders may retreat, but no coun-
termarch for the prohibition party.
It is sent here for o purpose 1t has
a mission-a grand and glorious mis-
sion of lifting q reeling. tottering ma.
ton up from the edge of the gutter,
and driving away the cause of its ca
lamity.
1 was disappointed, was discour-
aged, was sorry and sick and sore at
heart, but I am over it now. My
faith is as strong as ever-even strong
er. 1 have given up DR.. Carroll. He
is gone. And I am ready to give up
others if they choose to go. But SO
long as believe there is God. and
that he hates the liquor traffic above
all other evils that curse His Great
ures, and that He makes it my duty
to hold the destruction of that traffic
in view as my object in voting for
men to be the functionaries of the
government, by His grace I am 60
ing to the ballot box and perform
that duty. And as to who else, or
how many will do likewise is not the
question that concerns me most. "a
charge to keep l have"
Men may betray us; they may tell
millions of lies on us; they may pelt us
with rocks and rotten eggs, and blow
us up with gunpowder and dynamite,
but we are going to stand by our
convictions. A few preachers may be
against us; a great many church mem
bers may be against us; all the politi-
clans and the Office seekers and the
devil and the very gates of hell may be
against us, but we'll do our duty, for
we believe that "Behindthe dim un.
known sitteth God within the shad-
ow, keeping watch above his own
JOSH L. Hicks.
Sulphur Springs, Texas.