The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-10-25
PROHIBITION COLUMN
EDITED BY rnR PRonrBrrlox Cirn.
A Many Sided issue.

For Su perlnt0udent OF schools, j. NJ. SMII VI
For Commissioner 5th District, T J. MOURE
A MANY Sided issue.
II it is reduction Of surplus ye,
want. prohibition will reduce it 500,
600. 900 a year.
If it is prosperity to our Industries
prohibition will turn into Legitimate
industries s2,eoO.e00 day that now
gues into the saloons.
If it is the removal Of sectionalisn
from politics, prohibition is the only
issue that will break the solid south
and the almost solid north and give
us truly national party.
If it is the right-ef the Negro to a
free vote and fair count the prohi
bltiOn issue has already solved that
question ala Atlanta and Tennessee
II it is restricted immigration the
scum of Europe will not crowd into
America when they know that liquor
cannot be had.
If it is freedom from political COR
ruption. when the saloon goes. the
rallying points of corruptian.s:s go.
VOICE OF OCT. 4TH.
In his letter of acceptance 4 years
ago Mr.. Cleveland took pains to com.
mend the anti prol,ihitoly plank of
the Democratic platform. He has
never receded from that position.
How can a temperance democrat
north or south vote for him.
Inan article on Tie Political Out
look, in the Northwestern Cengre-
gatsonalist. Gen. NettletoE> SAY after
predicting Republican success:
The rejuvenated Republican party,
chastened and instructed bysits one
defeat and Its four years of exile.
Will gradually accept its full mission
in the temperance field, and will
every where stand sforte1le .enactment
and enforcement Of the best 5restric-
tive and suppressive liquor laws that
majority of the people will approve.
There can be no Doubt about that.
The Republican party will owe moth
ing to the saloon if it wins this time.
1t can have TO hope of ever regaining
the friendship Of tie saloon il it
should try. 1t has burned its bridges.
journal Oct. %.
When one remembers that the
Journal is cognizant of-the action of
the National Republican committee
the foregoing is the most sublime
exhibition of gall we remember to
have seen in many long day.
The Republican National committee
is sending out from It's headquarters
a German liquor paper by the hundred.
thousand copies to convince the Rum
sympathizers that the liausr interests
are safestsin4theshaadsef the repub-
lican party.
Burned all lite bridges" has aiti.
Whena We never heard of any such
TheNew York Tribune
says one of the surprising things of
this campaign will I've the large num-
Der of saloon keepers who will be.
found supporting Warner Miller and
high license.
AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME.
The blacklist crime this govern
ment has ever committed is the ac-
ton OF the present administration in
refusing to unite with the nations of
Europe to exclude rum from the
Congo. I'm spite Of the protests of
the chiefs of that half civilized
the Christian nations of the
world persist in sending them that
dark beverage of hell which sinks
them in barlarism deeper land
blaeker and more hopeless than any
the simple savage ever knew, and alt
because this foremcs. government of
the civilized world refuses to Unite
with thesless enlightened peopl. of
Europe to exclude rum frem that
IF the feeble taper Of
civilization just beginning to cast its
faint rays across the blackness Of the
lark continent is quenched sin the
night Of = nations debauch let there
be swritten across its tombstone:
Murdered by Christian America for
Revenue Only.
Cheap lands for sale in all