Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-03
REPUBLICANS AND TEMPERANCE.
Mr.. Estee and Col. Ingersoli State the
Position of the Party on the Question.

NoAS'OAA
The following extracts from interviews
who presided at the Republican National
Convention in Chicago, and was chosen
spokesman of the official committee to
notify its candidates of their nomination.
and with Col Ingeysoll throw some light
upon the just now much disputed ques-
ton OF the Republican party's position
on the Temperance issue The inter
views appeared, respectively, i'll the
Tridune and the Press, both Republican
organs in New York
Mr. Estee, who is one of the largest
wine growers of California, after speaking
of the tariff issue on the Pacific coast and
referring to the wool and grain crops of
that section as peculiarly under its pro
tecting" care, said to Tribune reporter:
An even greater industry is the manufacture
OF vine While the duty on wine is not touched
by the Mills bill. it is perfectly apparent 60
grape growers i'll California that if the Mills bill
should pass, it is only one step toward further
reductions which will include vine The pres
ent duty on still wine is only fifty cents pei gal-
Ion, but it enables us to give our common labor
ers i'll the vineyards and the storehouses
~ day and board: tho Class of lubor
III France receives only twenty-four To forty
cents per day wit out board. The Frs nch Ia
Dorer lives upon little else than coarse bread
and common wine, While our people are we'll fed
and cared for in the most comfortable manner
1t is the French Wine with which we most com
pete. OF the SoO,9O0,OoO gallons OF Wine manu-
incurred annually i'll France. very much OF it is
sophisticated, that is, mnde OF dried fruits
They lhve reduced to q fine art the maxim. OF
Wine out of nothing. In California we are now
lust on the stepping ston to success III the pro-
duction OF wines ana fruits. Hence
you can understand why we arc in favor of
tariff"
Col, Ingersoll, who, it will be reme,u-
bered, set the great Republican ratifca-
ton meeting in the Metropolitan Opera
House the other night into q roar Of
laughter by his side expression or the re-
mark made by its Chairman Of what the
Bible tells us, thus enlightened Press
reporter on the Republican view of iaror
legislation:
THE Republican party does not want free
whiskv-it wants free men and u great nl;lny
people i'll the Republican srty are great enough
to know that temperance does 81 hand in hand
with liberty; they are great enough to know
that ali legislation us to what we shall eat as
10 what we shall drink. and its to wherav5ithai
we shall be clothed, pnrtakes OF the nature of
petty, irritating and annoying tyranny. They
also kno" that the natural result is to fill {,
country with spies, hypocrites and praenders,
ana thnt when n law is not in accordance with
nli enlightened public sentiment, it becomes
either dead letter, or. when few fanatics en-
deavor to enforce it, Il deinoralzer of courts, of
jures and of people"
Mr.. Ingersoll repeated the old argu-
ment of some moral SUES ionists-that
men cannot be forced into Temperance,
and concluded by saying that when the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the people who are
really i'll favor Of tempernnca-looli the
ground over, they will see that it is far
better to. support the Republican party
than to throw their votes away. Tile
Voice