Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-13
laws prohibiting the sale Of liquor have
been repealed and license laws enacted in

peen repealed ana license laws enacted in
stead.
Did any Republican Legislatures or con-
ventions agree upon a license system as IL
remedy for the evils of slavery, and adopt
the plan as party measure? But the Repub-
lican party stands committed to the license
system. as applied to the liquor traffic. in it's
conventions and Legislatures over the great
part of the country.
Did the Republican party ever propose
hlgh license OF slavery as better than alb
clifton? But it propose high license for
the ni liquor traffic as better than prohibition?
fuse to submit constitutional amendment
to the vote Of the people which, if adopted,
would prohibit slavery? But fourteen
Republican Legislatures have refused to
submit such an amendment to the people
as would make liquor selling unconsti-
tutional.
The first Republican National Convention
demanded of the National Government the
prohibition of slavery in the Territories. and
that no more States should be admitted into
the Union with slavery legalized in them.
Has tho Republican party made any such de-
mand upon the National Government in ref
erence to the liquor traffic? Let the Raster
Resolution of 1872 answer while not a line
in favor OF prohibiting the liquor traffic any,
where has ever passed into Republican
national PLATFORM
The Republican party demanded the "un-
qualified divorce Of the National Govern
ment from slavery" Does it demand the
same unqualified divorce from the LIQUOR
traffic? Let the twenty-five years of Repub-
llcan ascendancy answer. during which the
whole whisky and beer business grew to un-
precedented proportions. gained a standing
as an industry recognized by the Govern
ment. and the Federal Government became
the chief partner in the business.
| Dlu the shareholders fear and dread the
success OF the Republican party? Do the
liquor makers and dealers fear and dread
the success OF the Republican party in the
same way?
VIII Why does the writer of the campaign
History and Leaders of the Republican
Party" claim, in his chapter on Early Re-
publican leaders" Benjamin Lundy, Will
Fam Lloyd Garrison sade. Follen. May.
more OF the Abolitionists, if the Republican
party was not organized as an Abolition
party? Why does he call these veteran Alb
olitlonists Early Republican Leaders," Did
ne pAs this into his Blaine and Logan cam
palgn book in order to steal the honors
which belonged to a little fanatical party
which never amounted to anything, or did
he mean to tell the truth?
Did the national Republican party ever
for one moment fail to demand the abolition
OF slavery up to the full measure permitted
by the Constitution of the United States?
Has the national Republican party ever de-
manded the abolition OF the liquor traffic in
any measure or anywhere?
nc 1CpuuLGttil party iluOptGu Il consul
tutional amendment prohibiting slavery in
the United States. During it's twenty-five
years OF supremacy it had many chances to
adopt such an amendment relative to the
general liquor traffic. Did it do it? Did it
even consent to the appointment of COM
mission to inquire into the effects of the
drink traffic upon the nation?
In 1916 the Democratic party in New York
and Ohio declared itself in favor of the
ultimate extinction of slavery" Of course
that party proposed to reach that extinction
gradually. According, then. to the state
ment at the head of this paper, was not the
position of the Democratic party in those
States relative to slavery. just the position
OF the Republican party also. if the latter
only proposed restriction of the evil?
And. in that case, was not the Democratic
party an anti-slavery party ten years before
the Republican party?
Where the Republican party is in power.
it elects and appoints to Offices in it's control
brewers. distillers. liquor-selers. more or
less. all over the land, but it never had q
Shareholder or slave-seller in it, The Pro-
hibition party has not brewer. or distiller,
or saloon keeper in it.. leave the reader to
judge which party now occupies the posi-
ton toward the liquor traffic which the Re-
publican party occupied toward slavery.
CLEAN, N. Y.