Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-07-06
THE CITIZEN.
MISCELLANEOUS.
w. T. u. COLUMN.
Continued from last aceek.

Electoral Conference of California,
condemning the raising and selling
of grapes for the manufacture of fer
mented wine, and we think the time
has come for broader utterance upon
this subject. We warn our members
against raising and selling, not only
grapes, but also other fruits, hops and
grains, for the manufacture of alco'
holic liquors, as inconsistent with the
Christian profession, benumbing to
the conscience, and hurtful to the
cause of temperance and true piety.
These practices bring the Church in
to completely with the great liquor
nuisance, paralyze our efforts, and
afford comfort to the greatest enemy
of modern Christianity.
VI.-oUR RELATION TO THE LIQUOR
TRAFFIC.
We reiterate the language of the
Episcopal Address to this body: "The
LIQUOR traffic is so pernicious in all its
bearings, so inimical to the interests
of honest trade, 80 repugnant to the
moral sense, so injurious to the peace
and order of society, so hurtful to the
home, to the Church, and to the body
polite, and so utterly antagonistlc to
all that is precious in life, that the
only proper attitude toward it, for
Christians, is that of relentless hos
tility. 1t can never be legalized
without sim" And we, furthermore,
emphatically declare that men engag-
ed in the manufacture and sale of al
coholic beverages ought not to receive
the suffrages of Christian people for
any political Office, or any position OF
influence on educational boards.
VII.-pRACTIcAL POLITICAL ACTION.
One of the dark reproaches of our
times is that the saloon has been a :
lowed to become political gambler,
and to do brokerage business with the
ballot-box, as part of its stock in
trade. Saloons and corrupt polite
ians, constitute an equation, both
members of which have ballot-box
value, and are easily transferred. We
urge it as an imperative duty of
Christian men to attend the primar-
les, to wrest the sovereignty of the
caucus from the grip of the soloon,
to purify and elevate the caucus by
their presence, and make it promot-
er of morals and good order Begin
ming with the caucus, let Us work up
ward through all the departments of
Iegimate civil action, until our entire
citizenship is emancipated from this
bondage. We must supplant the
five or six thousand Legislators, and
the tens of thousands Of municipal
officers, who have long stood as the
body guard of the saloon in It's raw
ages upon the home.
Here we see clearly duties arise in
regard to the employment of the elec-
tive franchise. Can Christian wo-
men, temperance women read these
lines, the voice of the most represen-
tative body of great church and not
feel call to enter field so sadly in
need of reinforcement, and help pos
sess the land for Christ and human
ity, 20, tits womanly to tremble at
the blasts of loud affray. but it's
motherly to battle when the foe her
child would slay" May the mothers
heart all over our broad land arise
and demand for the protection of her
home the defence of the balloJ placed
within her own hand.
| WILL ENFORCEMENT OF LIQUOR
LAWS.
The habitual non-enforcement of
law is an impediment in the way Of
all true moral, and social reforms
We rejoice in the awakening senti-
ment among American people in ia.
vor of more rigorous enforcement Of
civil statutes. We are grateful to
those eminent civilians in Chicago,
New York city, and elsewhere, who,
in very conspicuous instances, within
few years, have so effectively vim
dicated the sanctions of law and gov
ernment. We hold in profound ven
Grafton the heroic example Of onr
martyred brother, the Rev. George
C. Haddock. struck down by an as
sassin's bullet while protecting society
against saloon lawlessness; and, be-
lieving that one of the most impor-
tant methods for promoting temper
ance is to enforce law, we call upon
our people everywhere, without dis
tinction of party, to lend their efforts
for the faithful administration of the
restrictive, suppressive, and prohib.
itory features of existing liquor laws.
While we do not lessen the re-
sponsibility of the individual one iota
in the seeking of the enforcement of
law we claim that judges are largely
responsible for the fragrant disregard
of law displayed by liquor dealers
everywhere, by so-called Christian
judges who claim in issuing these
licenses to be living up to the spirit
of the law as best interpreted by
them were as conscientious in admin
istering justice to the culprits who
every day break the conditions of
that law, less lawlessness, drunken
ness and the whole host of evils
which follow in its train would be
greatly diminished and the applica-
tions for license to sell would dimin-
ish one half against the next license
Court.
Resolutions will be continued next
week,
"A busbel of corn, costing forty
cents, makes four gallons of whisky