Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-08-07

congress ana makes laws III Iut
country's capital.
He governs courts of justice and
makes ministers of the law and
Legislation his lackeys.
He silences the preacher in his
pulpit and muzzles the editor at his
desk.
He wastes, directly and indirectly,
in his revels annually more than a
! thousand millions of our dollars, and
marshals in his staggering proces.
sion to death and hell a half-milliOn
of our people.
He is a cold, heartless, cruel mur-
derer and assassin of the deepest
| dye.
He counts his victims by millions,
butcheries 90 on daily and nightly
within sight of the portals of our
/ homes. We can hear the shrieks
Of his victims and the wall of the
| bereaved.
The time would fail me to tell the
thousandth part of the evils, multi
plying and destructive, that flow
out of the liquor traffic, and in all
this vast throng the great evil has
no friend. Dear friends, have we
tie courage this day to issue, and
thereto aflix our signatures in the
pronounced handwriting of John
Hancock, our new declaration of
independence; and with a firm reli-
ance on Divine Providence pledge
our lives and fortune, and our sacred
honor, that from this day hence
forth, no word or act of ours may
be- construed into allegiance to this
felon king? He must be driven
from his place of power and utterly
overthrown. The conflict is upon us.
1t is a life-and-death struggle Oh,
for am uprising of righteous indigna-
ton, for an aroused American con-
science, for patriotic devotion to
home and country like that which
gave inspiration and faith to Jonas
Parker and hisneighbors when they
Redeemed the viliage-green of Lex
ington with their blood on that
glorious morning Il century and
more ago, when the old revolution
burst into magnificent blossoms rs
the shot was fired that echoed round
the world for an enlightened pub
lie opinion, the mightiest advocate
of any question for the combined
forces of Christian home, Christian
church, and Christian common
wealth in battle array against the
traffic i'm theft and murder until it
shall be thuudered from every polit-
icv'i sinai, national ana state, Thou
shalt not, and there shall be no legal
lied saloon where floats the starry
flag of the free" Not until then
will the infamous business cease : !
not until then will we be delivered !
from its satanic sorceries. Temper
izing policies are failure. Under |
all systems of license regulation or
tax, the work of ruin and death |
goes ON.
The prohibition of the liquor traf- |
tic is the demand Of the people, and |
politicians and statesmen who fail |
to heed it are treasuriug up wrath |
against the day of wrath. Prohibi- |
tion is in the air.
Nothing can resist the onward /
march ola genuine reform. Every |
such movement enters into and be-
comes part of the Messianic pur-
pose TO set Judgment in the earth.
Agitation on this question is the
duty of the hour. Let it go from
press, platform and pulpit, in the
prayer-meetiugS, and at the ballot
box, until every patriot who loves
his country, every Christian who
loves his God, every philanthropist
who loves his race, every father who /
loves his child, every son of the re-
public will, marshalled host, up
lit the constitution as banner of
reform and under its folds march to
.he ballot-boNes of the land, and um-
Ter an avalanche of frcemen's ballots
lury beyond resurrection the Amer
can saloon, Then shall our whole
Iuion become the citadel of sobrietv,
he national name be purged of this
great shame, aud our glorious
,anuer
w hose huv> are am oi heaven
lts nd the sun sets dive:
The Whltcncss oi the mu0u-lit cloud
The blue oI morning sky
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