Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-07

organization.
Such gross ignorance is. not char
icteristlc of ROYAL township, but there
is one man here who never heard OF the
%toci, las before this week. 1t is hard
II necessary to add that he never reads
county paper.
There are thousands of voters affiliat-
ing with both great political parties who
consclentiously take Rev. Lowther' S
view in regard to making such episodes
as the Ingalls-Vorhees affair the key
note of political campaigns. Such key
notes have often obscured and caused
to be forgotten the real needs of the
Nation. Such episodes are interesting,
but they are of no utility. REPUBLICAN.
The general conference of the NJ. E.
church delivered itself in unmistakable
terms on the liquor traffic, part of
which is as follows;
awe Ieiterate the language of the
Episcopal address of this body; "The
liquor traffic Is so pernicious in all it's
bearings, so inimical to the interests
of honest trade, so repugnant to the
moral sense, SO injurious to the peace
and order of society, SO hurtfull to the
home, to the Church, and to the body
polite, and so utterly antagonistic to all
that is precious in life, that the only
proper attitude toward it for Christians,
Is that of relentless hostility. 1t can
never be legalized with out sin. And
we, furthermore, emphatically declare
that men engaged in the manufacture
and sale of alcoholic beverages, ought
not to receive the: patronage or suffrages
of Christian people for any public Office;
or any.postion of influence on education
al boards
"One of the dark reproaches of our
times is that the saloon has been allow
ed to become political gambler, and
to do brokerage business with the
ballot-box, as a part of the stock in
trade. Saloons and corrupt politians
constitute an equation, both members
of which have ballot-box value, and
are easily transferred. We urge it as an
Imperative duty of Christian men to at
tend the primaries, to wrest the sovereign
ty of the caucus from the grip of the
saloon to purify and elevate the, caucus
by their presence, and make it promot-
er of morals and good order. Begin
ing with the caucus, let us work upward
through all the departments of leglti-
mate civil action, until our entire citi
zenship is emancipated from this bond
age. We must supplant the five or six
thousand legislators and the tens of
thousands of municipal officers, who
have long stood as the body-guard of
the saloon in its ravages upon the
home.
''lt is matter of record that the
advent among the heather of men edu-
Gated under the light of the gospel is
associated with the blacklist curses that
have bighted the lives of those for
whom Christ died. While, in one
pathetic sense, Ethiopia has stretched
forth her hands unto God, in one other
sense the Ozark Continent NAV
well stretch forth her hands in PRAYER
for protection against those who have
stained her shores with trail of blood
that reddens the middle passage be-
tween Africa and one inconsistent re-.
public. Little wonder that the moor
African shudders at the name of Christ
ian American.
The history of the slave trade is
enough to make the .sWest Coast
verify hate the name of those who Desc
latedher borders, and caused her ebonv
Rachels TO mourn for the children who
met a worse fate than death. Worse
than night attacks; worse than chains
for enocent babes; worse than the prost;- |
tuition of mothers; worse than the |
wailing caravan; wersc than the SWEET.
erlDg f.arracunu; worse than the slamo
less auction block. verse then the fet-
ter, the whip, and the separation of
families; worse than the traffic in human
and souls, IS the human trade
in ram which now CROWNS the OUTRAGE
10 which the natives of Asia and Ar.
ga are subject at the hands of nominallv
Christian yotaries."