Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-11-01
WORDS OF TRUTH!
QUAKER SENTIMENTS PUB
LICLY EXPRESSED.
An Appeal To the Friends by
Friends. to Vote in the
Right

are puDlISlS(2 II 4Ulle rFGcfeAS IitetttgeH-
cor and J0sgrne}, OF Philadelphia, in
! their issue OF this week;
The serious concern which we feel
at the near approach of an important
Presidential election probably the
most important since the election of
Lincoln-impels us to submit a few
thoughts to Friends. especially to
those who may think OF voting the
Prohibition ticket.
-Four years ago, almost on the eve of
the election, we counselled Friends
concerning the danger of voting for
the third party movement; the result
| justified our fears. Because of the
votes then cast for the Prohibition
ticket, many of them no doubt cast
by persons who little apprehended so
lamenoaple a consequence, the Demo
cratic candidate was elected, and the
party, which with all it's shortcomings.
represents far more nearly than the
other the temperance cause, as we'll as
other. reform principles. was defeated
Our concern is not against the per
son who was then elected. and who
now, q second time. solicirs your votes
(either directly for himself or indirect
ly by having you to vote for the third
party candidate) but is against the in
fiuences which he represents, and
which, IN our opinion, are opposed to
many OF Friends principles, and to
the welfare OF the nation.
First, the course OF ClevelanG's ad-
miuisoration npon the Indian question.
has beer suhversive of much of the
good which Friends and others. with
the countenance OF the Government if
with little actual aid from il, have ac-
complished. Honest and capable In
dian agents have ben displaced to
make room Tor greedy, immoral, and
dishonest men, who have done untold
mischief. Obnoxious and absurd reg
1 ularions have been established con-
cerning the instruction given in In
dian schools, even when entirely sup
Iported by private or society charity.
not sufficiently. if at ALL resisted by
the Government, TO deprive the In
dians OF their lands. In general, the
old denominations of the treatment of
the Indians by white men, have been
tolerated, and even brought into prac-
tice by the existing administration.
which you are now invited to approve
and to renew.
Secondly: The oppression of the col
ored people in the Southern States.
has. been growing more and more fixed
and systematic, until in several States
there is no pretense of allowing to col
ored men that right OF suffrage which
was supposed to be one of the best
fruits of the recent dreadful civil war.
Wherever any apprehension has been
felt by the late Shareholders, that their
absolute rule might be endangered by
the outnumoering votes of colored
men, enough of these have been killed
or beaten TO intimidate the blacks from
voting, and when even this did not
whelm the votes OF the blacks, have
been put into the ballot boxes and
counted. This is the work of the
party which you are now invited to
support by casting your free Northern
votes for Cleveland, or for his ally. the
Prohibition candidate.
Thirdly: 1t is notorious that the Adj
ministration party works most har-
moniously with the Whiskey Trusts
and the drinking saloons, deriving
from them much of the money with
which it seeks to perpetuate its power.
The reasonable and practicable legis.
] lation by which the vice of drinking
has been in many places so greatly
curtailed, bas been generally the work
of Republicans; the outcry for impos-
sible measures which practically oper-
ates to leave all existing evils of liquor,
selling in full blast, is the work of
Democrats and their allies, Eoften their
unconscious and unwilling alhes1 of
the Prohibition party.
| Iot1ioH oH4S. ne pTSseIO DeNlOcTGIlC
administration, which now asks for
your approval, and for continuance in
power, has undertaken at the instance
of the late rebellious South, and of our
always dangerous foreign rivals, to
break down and destroy, as rapidly as
possible, the defences which enable
our working people whether farmers,
artisans, or manufacturers, to obtain
steady work ut higher wages than are
paid in any other part of the world.
This last named policy of tariff de-
struction has been so conspicuously
set forth by President Cleveland as
his chief aim, and has been so emphat-
ically approved by the Democratic
conventions and newspapers, that it