The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-09-27
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CORRESPONDENCE.

IL IS Que, ana To De expected, OF
Catholics, and particularly those OF
Irish decent. to be above all others,
pronounced and active for Prohibition
Many of them are so already, and
when they give proper study and
thought to it. all will be. Trite as
show do' is the saying "there's no
good In the drink" The drink bust
ness is "evil, and only evil. and evil
continually" Even the drinkers,
how often do they not say. aud from
the heart, l wish to God there was no
drink within thousand miles off
me-" They take it because long ago
they saw o theirs take it, they have
grown into the habit, and now. when
they would like to break the habit,
the drink is there, and tempts, and
often forces them to take it. They
take it, somewhat as sheep raised
near the coast, and often passing near
and smelling at. dead fish, come at last
though it is SO utterly against their
nature. to nibble ut, and to eat it.
How oft the sight of means to do
i'll deeds,
Makes deeds i'll don
Really, to say nothing of the women
and children. who still are at least
two thirds of the population. and
entitled to life, liberty and happiness,
of the men. Of the voters, by far the
greater portion have again and again
in their souls and wishes. declared
for Prohibition. The trouble is that
they have not wished SO all together,
and formally, and SO that their wishes
should DO unmistakabIe and take
effect. Now this is what the Prohi.
bition party is here to do. 1t is an
arrangement to enable people to pool
and proclaim their wishes in regard
to the drink. and to get carried out
just these wishes and not the counter
wishes IF a little set of loafers and
imps and man-bugs, who would like
to be let go on, as they and their kind
have Ucen hither to let SO OH. living
off the people, by making and doctor.
ing, and dipping out this liquid ex
tract Of damnation.
More strange. and more like the
doing Of all evil spirit than even tn 9
| physical action of the drink is the
'.delutherin" bewitchment it has
exercised over people in their social
and civic conduct. For years morally
all the people have had their mind
made up about it that it had better he
stopped, but instead of stopping it
they have gone OHIO they have lei
interested politicians so on, pottering
by regulations, and '.licenses." tt
restrict it. But catch it to be re
stricted! AS long as it is let be il
will be at its wolk,"evil continually
and as the poet Wordsworth fount
that the severe regulations of thu
Sonnet actually brought him thoughts
and words, so the "restrictions'
stimulate the drink-bu siness to hottie
mischief. s'Tne best we can do
with mortified limb is to cut it off
the ssbest we can do with an achin.
tooth-stump is to have it out. 9TH
best we can do" with this Away
good. but latterly grow
irgly mischievous and intolerabl
fashion of drink is to be done with it
and all means and incentives to re
turning to it. So Father Mathew go
forced to think. and after uneqnallet
work and experience declared Prohi
billion to be s'the only safe and Ger
tain remedy" So we all think, bu
let us think aloud, by our votes mex
November.