Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-08-23
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN SAG.

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.Fr Horizon. Horton, cnd Protection"
COMMON-SENSE COUNSEL.
Chaplain Lozier. of Iowa, Tells why He
Is Opposed to the Third Party.
If certain persons who imagine them
selves the oracles and "chief priests"
of prohibition are not beyond the reach
of commOn-sense counsel. / will try to
give them a little. would simply ad-
wise them-specially some of my Chris
tians sisters and brethren-to go and
sit down awhile at the feet OF their
Lord and Master and learn over again
the lesson he once taught certain dis
ciples who came to Him reporting that
they had "rebuked" some people whom
they had found casting out devils in
Thy name. who followed not with u.s."
doubt not it is refreshing even to ex-
hilaration to copperhead and SALOON
lists to note with what flippancy these
high priests thunder their anathemas
of accommodation against people
who were fighting in the battlefield of
prohibition before some of them were
born, and will probably be fighting
these when they are dead or have be-
came dyed-in-the-woo Democrats, but
to thoughtful and sincere prohibi-
tionists it is painful, because it is a
perilous spectacle. 1t were possible
for a teacher to wade in among the
children, cutting them right and left
and shouting down on your knees,
you young Arabs, and say the Lords
prayer!" but 1 question if it would
prove the happiest method of
promoting genuine piety. Pity
it is that some of these great
lights in Prohibition do not
% catch on" to some such a hint! Be-
cause ]. Ellen. Foster, the honored
president of the Iowa Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union, and lady
without a superior in ability and infu
ence in the land, has given the Repub-
ican party her unqualified indorse-
ment, the Union Signal, the National
organ of the w. c. 7. T., virtually
reads her out of that organization.
Pity the talented editor of that organ
does not know that while there are
hundreds of noisy people who may ap-
plaud such bigotry, there are tens of
thousands of quiet women-those who
bear 1.-The burden and heat of the day
down where the foundations lie, who
are panied and disguised.
Because this writer tossed not high
his ready cap in air. at that brilliant
display of ''non-sectional determination
when the Indianapolis convention
yoked together Fisk, the sturdy COX
of Loyalty, and Brooks, the hardy
"Ass" of Treason, my loyalty to Pro-
hibition is called in question! Some of
these bright mornings these oracles of
third partyism will wake up to the
discovery that there are tens of thou
sands of old Union soldiers in this |
country who will forgive, and "shake |
hands with every ex-rebel they meet, |
who acknowledges that the rebellion |
was wrong and we were right in sup
pressing it. but who, nevertheless, are
proud to say that the ex-rebel don't |
live whom they would vote for |
for Vice-President of the Nation he |
once sought to destroy! This is not |
sectional hatred" but it is the re-
spect we owe to half a million of our |
dead comrades, and it is, moreover, a |
duty We owe, and every patriot in this |
Nation owes-as a lesson in loyalty
to coming generations.
1t is easy to pirate of infaming old |
animosities," but old soldiers are too |
"old not to know that "old animos-
tiles" kept out OF that third party |
platform the proposed plank" in
favor of pensioning Union soldiers
who are still needy and uncared for. |
The same rebel spirit that excluded |
such a plank from the Democratic |
platform at st. Louis got in its work |
at Indianapolis! What comment On
the patriotism and gratitude of Ma
ton, when a party claiming to be |
Nationalr' and patriotic stood |
amidst a wealth of civil, social and |
commercial benefactions such as the |
Union soldiers have bequeathed to this |
generation, and yet dares not utter |
even syllable of gratitude to the men
whose valor and blood bought it all! |
We are prohibitionists enough to fight !
the saloon. standing abreast with any
Third Party" Prohibitionist in the |
crowd, but We hope not to so lose our
religious poise as to fall to unchristian-
izing all who do not see through our
spectacles; nor yet to part with our
patriotism to degree that will render |
us the auxiliaries of political party |
that is the fostering embodiment of |
saloonism and hoodlumism in the |
North, and the organized lazar house of
the Nations enemies both in the South |
and beyond the sea!-Jokn Hogdrth |
Lozier, in Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE LOvEJOY EPISODE.