Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-06-22
AN ANTI-sALOON PLANK,
The Chicago Convention Must Make
1t Plain and Strong.
"Taere is No Cause Dearer TO The American
Heart To-Day Than That Of The Home
Anninst The iSloonn

Tn few weeks the National Republican
Convention will meet in Chicago. Upon
the choice and voice OF that convention
great Interests depend. II wise, the Ma
tonal Administration will pass into the
hands OF the Republican party. II unwise,
disastrous defeat IS inevitable. The nom
| inees must be men who viii command the
full confidence of the country; and it is
almost equally necessary that the platform
should he strong. The masses OF voters
who count themselves Republicans are
plain, honest men, who are too intelligent,
too loyal to truth, too earnest in their
evasion or juggIery in the declaration Of
principles. They want the convention to
say what it means in plain English and to
mean what 1t says. If the Republican
party stands for principles let them be set
forth in such language az men Of conscience
and convection know how to use. II it
does not stand FOR principles no amount Of
cunning can conceal its cowardice for
there are principles which the people be
leive in, and for the support of which they
can be rallied. One OF these is protection
IRON the curse of the saloon.
THIS IL an issue which men OF courage
and conviction are ready and anxions to
take up, and il is an issue which the ma
tional convention ought to recognize and
promote. 10 succeed the party must lead
and to lead, it must champion that which
lies close to the heart OF the people. There
ia no canse that is desrer TO the American
heart to-day than that of the home ag,inrt /
the saloon. Ministers are unit against
the "a loon; churches are unit against il;
physicians, educators and reformcrs are
aga inst II; women and children shudder
as they think Of it-who loves il and cham
pions il? Who says il is good? Who
says il needs protection? There are those
who think there should be more schools
and asylnms and hospitals; bur who asks
for more saloons? There is not a State in
the Union which has not statutes agSin,t
it; not u city, town or village in the land
where there IL not opposition to il. The
sentiment against it ia universal and
expresses itself in many ways. 1t he
leives in educ ,tion, restriction and prohi-
hItlnn as remedies, and in every State these
remedies have been applied one way or
another. This sentiment is rapidly increas-
ing and il il going more and more to the
polls. Politicians are at the polls-do
they not see 1t? il is everywhe re organiz-
ing for political aciion-,io the politicians
not feel il? The poliiical annn ala are fall
of prohibition slatislics-do the politicians
| unt understand them?
Look you gentlemen, at these returns oi
votes for prohinition-votes, we say, which
yon so highly appreciate;
SfiR atRsn lss ss, S i5sSSS !S%s k"%sas @ s9 @ sSsI
oregon 1ss1 29'oO0 Maine Maine nSst coz, 7l,og
Texas (lss7) $4,000
Here ale over 600 900 votes FOR consti-
tnlnnal prohibition alone. Add the State,
of Vermont and New Hampshire, wher,
prohibition prevails most; most OF Georgia
South Carolina and Mississippi, where To-
cal option has been 80 successful ard
counties. cities and towns, North and
South, where saloons have been clo-ed I '
one method or another, and you have eyi-
. dence which you cannot reject that opp =
, osition to the saloon ia in tile heart of tbs
people. IL ia strong in the Republican
parlv, and nothing would unite aud viei-
iy the party more than IA DEFINITE. decisive
declaration on the subject from the nation
2 al convention nj Chicago.
Shall we not have 1t? Shall we moi
have il for Its great moral influence, ful
It's help to fight the battle in the States
. All we ask is plank that shall Tecogniz,
/. the enormous evils OF The saloon, denounc'
}, iIs corrupt influence IN politics, snd de-
: clare that NJ the evils directly affect the
: people the fate Of The traffic should every
I where he submitted Ia the arbilrnmenl o
4 The people. ThlS il all we demand at pres
= ent. We believe there IL general fee
y ing that the convention will meet III
: question in the right spirit. A large an,
}. influential deputation OF hti-salopn plat
- form committee 10 urge the matter, nm'
we sIggest that letters and petitions he sen
10 every member Of the convention iron
Republicans Of hiS own district or Stat
3 ask ing fjr hs influence Tor nm nnlisaloo
y platform -New York Independent