The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-07-12

the third party prohibitionists:
"The theory is absurd, the course
pursued insane, the result impossible.
AS it is, three-fourths of the Fisk
party are recruited from the Repub-
licans and so far weaken the Repub-
lican strength. This throws them
into minority in New York and
several of the evenly balanced states
and makes the voters for the third
party simply the allies of the Demo-
Gratis, and all men know it. Every
body also knows that in this state of
affairs, whatever prohibitory, high Ii
cense, local option orrestrictive meas
ure may be passed by Legislature or
by Congress, would be vetoed by a
Democratic Executive. This has
been done, and | believe invariably,
under one pretence or another, and
will be to the end of time, so far as
we can see.
Our conscientious third party
friends who cannot vote the Repub-
lican ticket because the Republicans
are not unitedly and first of all for
prohibition, vote with complacency a
ticket that secures the defeat of
every temperance measure, and then
attempt to throw the responsibility
upon the Republicans. The princi-
pie is precisely that of the person
who draws bead on me and says,
"Your purse or your life, and on you
rests the responsibility of the saving
Or loss of your life" The attempt
to throw the responsibility on those
who resist Objectionable measures is
amusing as well as misleading, as
suming that they are all right who
urge the measures and they are all
wrong who oppose them, that con-
scientiousness is all on their side and
the latter have none, and they ought
first of all to abandon all their theo-
ries of governmental policy and unite
with the former and then we should
have things our own way, if not, you
have all the responsibility for the
ruin that will come. They never adj
nit that they precipitate the ruin and
think that nobody can charge them
with it. But this is the charge they
must face. Their consciousness
is the blindest will, and their infeXi.
BILE design to maintain it is the ruin
of their cause.
Past experience and present prob.
ability unite in justifying the predic'
ton that their cause Will ever be de-
feated as it has been, and every de-
feat will bring it into deeper con
temp. Prof. Dickie says that any
prohibitory act, without supporting
people, would be nugatory, and thus
vainly imagines that by antagonizins
the Republicans, destroying then
and throwing the power into tn
, hands of the Democrats, he will e
ventually be able to overcome them
E Make party victorious in order t.
{ destroy it! Give them the power 70
four, eight, II Or 4S years in orde
to destroy them!
Well, l don't wonder the Demo
Gratis like to see the third party strug
/ gle. This is the fianking party of tn
Democrats, the ones to whom in tn
last presidential election they owe'
their triumph and on whom they lea
: for success in the one now pending
These who call themselves par excel
lence the temperance party, playln
into the hands of those who smile O
their persons and efforts, because b
them they have their victory an
q power, but intend to keep them sui
e ordinate forever. The leaders sa
d "they are not bound to elect the
ticket. Oh, no! They are onl
I bound to vote for it, Or they ar
q simply bound to vote so as surely t
n defeat the measure they claim to hav
!. most at heart"