Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-07-20
Who Falsifies and Who is the
HYpOcritical Time Saruer


Here tsEore we H5l Thought that igthefe was an
t5sue 9ehore the people vRsh regare to which the
Issue was surely + e taz{perance 0uestioTl TTf
olt &c Q4ai p itskl0nesty has disap-
falsely denOmiHates 'the Temperance plank Of the
republican platform Is ii possible
ta the Herald Is trying 70 delude its readers in
TO the false impression thst there really Is tenn
perance plank in the Republican platforms We
nave copies Of that platform, as published by the
republican press, before us as we write and f9fI
70 md temperance plank, or even a splinter i'm
It. That platform plainly declares in favor of free
whisky and tobacco. -Phillipsburg Democrat.
Now the question is does the DEM
Ocrut purpOsely intend to mislead its
readers, or does it misrepresent be
cause of the inability of its editor to
understand plain English?
Here now are two planks Of the
National Republican platform:
The first concern of all good government is the
virtue and sobrety Of the people and the purity of
their homes Ihe republican party cordially
sympathizes with all we'll directed efforts for the
promotion Of temperance and sObriety.
me Republican party would effect ali needed
reduction TO the national revenue by repeating
the taxes on tobacco, which are an annoyance and
burden to agricultural, and the tax upon spirits
used In the arts and for medicinal and mechanical
purposes.
Now if we are any judge Of langu-
age, that is a pretty good temper
ance plank. It is not so strong as we
hoped it would be, but it is a mighty
stride forward, and is Intimately in adj
vance of the Democratic party, which
is the willing tool and open defender
of the liquor traffic It will be OBJ
served that the Republicans do not
declare in favor of the reduction Of
the tariff on liquor except that used
in the arts and for medicinal and me-
chanical purposes" This the Third
Party Prohibitionists declared for.
Their platform reads as follows:
For the immediate abolition of the internal
revenue system, whereby our national govern
m Il Is deriving support from our greatest ma
Now the difference between the
ultra Prohibitionist and the Republ-
cans, is that the Prohibitionists de-
mand the immediate abolition of all
taxes from whiskey, while the Repub-
icans only ask the removal Of taxes
from that portion used in the arts and
for mechanical purposes. Upon the
abstract question of the internal rev
enue tax on alcoholic liquors, the
writer does not fully agree with either
Republicans or Ultra Prohibitionists,
but that is a question mainly of rails
ing revenue. On the great moral
question Of temperance, the Republi-
cans have made a glorious move for
ward The temperance plank Of the
Republican platform was drawn by
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster, the great leader
of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union. We hardly know what
to think of the editor Of the Democrat
for asserting with such affrontery that
the HERALD is a 'hypocritical time
server" for claiming that the Repub-
/ lican platform contains a temperance
plank, when he must know that he is
making himself appear either as one
who would deliberately deceive his
readers or as too dull to understand
a statement made in plain English.
The Democrat seems so anxious to
serve the saloon interest and to nur-
ture and defend the whisky power,
that it venOmOusly assails as hypo-
critics everybody who is trying to
create a temperance sentiment in the
political parties.
It's yawking about the Republicans
being for free whiskey'' in the face
Of the record made by the RepubIi-
cans in many of the States, and in the
face of the adoption of the temper
ance plank in the platform is evidence
to everybody that the Democrat pro-
poses to make up in braying what it
lacks in argument and candor. The
WOman's Christian Temperance IN
ion and the Temperance Workers all
over the land, are rejoicing at the ad-
vance made by the Republican party
on the temperance question, and the
Democrats utterances on that subject
are silly as well as untrue