The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-03-03

dregs of society against social order,
temperance, sobriety and molality. In
the lower wards of our great cities the
saloon is often made the voting station
OF the precinct, where pot-house politi
clans, ballot-box suffers, aud pugulists
do mostly congregate, hold high rev.
elry, and ply internal arts. 1t is as
much as the life of 4 voter is worth to
cast vote against the dictation of this
desperate band OF terrorists. Mr.. Robt
Graham has ascertained with great
care, that proceeding the election of
1886 in New York City of 1902 primary
or political meetings in which the coun-
try is governed, 2S3 were held apart
from saloons, o6 next door to saloons
and 633 in saloons" Says DR.. Liver
more further, The saloon as a factor
in politics in the United States IS cor
rupting both great parties, Republican
and Democrat alike, by passing the
word along the liquor lines, that this or
that man who favors free whiskey shall
have the support OF the retailers and
wholesale dealers in spirituous drinks" !"
Says Rev. Washington GlaIden, of
Columbus, Ohio, "The liquor dealers
are but small fraction of the commu-
nifty, but so determined and resistant
are they, that they control to great
extent the policy Of both political par
ties"
Hon William Window, ex-Secretary
United States Treasury, asserts the
saloon "a deadly foe to all that is sacred
in free institutions. 1t destroys home
and desecrates the ballot. 1t cost the
country in taxation waste OF money,
property and productive power, as
much to support our two hundred thou
sand saloons, as it did to support the
Union Army"
United States Senator Celquitt, OF
Georgia describes bribery al all times
vile and destructive. "You may bribe
a man with gold, honors of Office, but
to influence the voter by holding to his
lips the cup of drunkenness, is beyond
comparison the lowest kind of bribery,
and wnen we take into account the
seduction when appetite for drink is es,
tablished, it amounts to ownership O.
the voters suffrage" This is certainly
an array of facts, which if duly consid-
cred cannot fail to arouse apprehension
for the safety OF our country. 1t has
been asserted, and truly too, that the
political atmosphere depends in the
long run on the social condition. And
that brings US TO our own individual
responsibility in the matter, as members
OF society. Sisters are we living up to
our privileges-are we observing that
bIt of national housekeeping going on
down at Washington, and are We sound
ing the warning all along the line that
the time has come Tor them to go to
house-cleanlng-that tine housekeeper
in-Chief, with his numerous high salaried
public servants, just lock up that trou-
blesome surplus for while, give Free
Trade and Protection little rest, while
they go to work and destroy the saloon
moth, and clean up some of the foul
pollution it has made in our nation, or
if they don't-well, we will discharge
them and appoint woman servants to
keep house for Uncle Sam.
The champion advocate and de-
fender of the saloon in Texas, after the
defeat of Constitutional Amendment
asserted that, ''Jeff Davis and Democ-
racy had saved them from the domin-
ion of the w. c. +. u" | earnestly
desire dear friends that we of the Wood
ss.siFn W. {. I. u. SO work up, explain
.-S5.,d promulgate our principles, advo-
3. Sing purity in the home. purity in
= .fiety, and purity in politics, that you
= allow our dominion so far as to
e,.;,sdy up this question, and when the
~ be comes Tor you to cast your vote in
=: primary or the polls that 1t will be
= st for that man and measure only that
:. pledged for the overthrow OF this
bon monster that is over -shadowing
s-t homes and native land.