Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-05-11


Recently the HERALD stated as the
liquor traffic is the browning curse oil.
the age, we hope to see a temperance
plank adopted IN the next republican
platform, and that as the saloon is the
foe Of the republican party let the
party put its foot hard down on the
saloon. The Herndon Courant com
menting on our remark said:
Such sentiments, coming from what
IS supposed to be a republican paper,
and at this particular time, make us
wonderfully tired. 1t apparently for
gets, If 1t ever knew, the effect that
such platform had on the party vote
IN IOwa-reducing the majority from
$4,000 to 5000. The republican par
ty does not at this time want to try
any such costly experiments. We
have not forgotten the result of four
years ago; neither have we forgotten
that the defeat Of the republican par
ty may be attributed to some fifteen
hundred voters of New York who
were supporters Of such a platform.
They are the ones who slaughtered
US; now shall we take them on our
knee, smooth their ruf1ied hair, chuck
lie them under the chin and play dem
agOgue for a few hundred votes?
Probably the Herald would like to
see the same convention hoist the
name Of st. John.
The HERALD does not now and new
er did favor a third, or Prohibition
party, but is in favor of creating all
the temperance sentiment possible in
the republican ranks and inducing
the great National Party to commit
its self against the most colossal evil
Of the age. How can any man who
loves his fellow kind refuse to lend
his aid to the temperance cause. Let
the editor of the Colwant read the
following from the Associated Press
of April Both.
CHICAGO, April 3O-Mathew AIuehI-
/ berg while drunk came home last
night at a late hour, went to the bed
! room where his three children were
| sleeping and attempted an assault on
] his 13-year-Old daughter, Eleanor.
/ The child screamed for aid, and
! AIuehlberg's wife rushed IN from the
/ next room. The brute was beating
/ the child about the head to silence
her cries, and when his wife endeav-
Ored to stop him turned and dealt
/ her two blows which cut her face and
( head terribly. With the blood
! streaming down and binding her,
Mrs. Muehlberg 'craWled toward the
| door, and reaching up for the knob,
! endeavOred to open it and alarm the
neighborhOOd. With a terrible oath
j the fellow made for his wife, you'll
! call the police Will you: you'll call the
! police, oh. Then take that and thai"
! striking his wife over the head All
! three Of the children sprang out Of
! bed and endeavOred to stay their
! cruel parents wrath. So much did
| they hamper the use Of NIuehlberg's
arms that Mrs. Muehlberg managed
! to get to her feet and out on the
steps, where she managed with a SUI
| perhuman effort to cry for help.
| MuehIberg shook the children from
him, hurried into the bed room, here
he hastily opened a fool chest and the
next instant reappeared with a muir
derOus looking crowbar about three
feet long. The eldest girl, Eleanor
| threw her arms about her fathers
neck ''don't kill her don't kill herr
| pleaded the little one in her frenzy,
jumping up and showering kisses up
on the brute. MuehIberg struck the
child and threw her into the corner
of the room, then bending over his
wife he yelled that he would give her
something to cry help for, raising the
crowbar, he brought it down with all
his force, the point SCATTERING her
scull and laying the brain.
The police have as yet been unable
to find the murderer. Two years ago
AIuehlberg attempted an assault up
on the same child and mercilessly
beat his wife for interfering. Mrs.
bIuehlberg was a step-mOther Of the
child Of the murderer.
Every daily paper nearly gives ac-
counts Of the most blood curdling
crimes caused by Intoxicating liquor.
The world is grooming because Of the
poverty, ignorance, insanity, misery,
suicide and murder caused by the sa-
! loon, but the COTant editor says he
! don't like to hear republican papers
| talk about it for such talk may hurt
| the party and makes him tired Now
we would like to know what a politi-
/ cal party is good for unless il is to
! serve humanity. Drunkenness is a
/ greater curse than was slavery, and
! the republican party can do no great
! er service to humanity than to help to
abate and abolish It. This kind Of
talk we suppose makes some people