Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-10-05
Ratio Of employees TO cap
itdl invested.

SIX hundred and twenty seven million
nine hundred and forty -four thousand
one hundred and nineiy-three dollars Of
capital, invested unfortunately in
"manu ufactories other than liquor" in the
13 cities above named, furnishes employ
ment to 756, 1889 men, or, in other words,
averages l employe to every $3.50 of in
vestment, while S57 ,623, 412 of capital
invested In liquor manufactures furnishes
employment to only l4,5ll men, or one
man to every S3,g7l of investment. In
vest this liquor capital indiscriminately
in other manufactures in those cities aud
it will average employe to every $3.50
invested, and under prohibition this S57,
G2S,4l2 will furnish opportunity Tor a
living support TO 50, 425 men, ~ against
IA 5ll men as now invested under the
license system. Is the production OF
liquor as manufacturing industry bene-
fetal to the laboring world or is il an oc-
topus that feeds on capital? Who, with
these indubitable facts before him, will
claim that labor in general would not be
benefited by prohibiting the traffic? Is
it's production tor beverage purposes bene-
fetal from n moral, social, or political
standpoint? Then why not prohibit il
as detrimental to the interes, OF society?
augusta, Ga, Netus (Dem).
Mr.. Walter B. Hill, prominet and
very popular lawyer of Macon, has written
Il letter formally Withdrawing from the
Democratic party, because OF his strong
and earnest prohibition views and work.
We regard him as the most important per.
son IN the State who has taken this step,
and while we think that he is a little
hasty, or at least a few years ahead of any
serious National Prohibition campaign OF
any great import, we have The highest re :
spect and admiration for lhm personally
and also profound conviction that he i.
a pioneer in movement which will be-
come before very long great National
issue. In his letter to the people, which
is deep and sincere, lie scores both the
| Democratic and Republican parties fol
standing on both sides Of the prohibition
question, and he charges them with pre-
senting the clean aide of their campaig,
| planks TO the Prolnbtivnisls and the
dirty side TO the bar rooms. lie Ia aeVsrt
as well ~ philosophical, aud after these
statements says:
And this is p"liticsl Ry common con-
l l.,..
"filIh." Honor, principle, conscience
t'cAe things have no place in politics
Then, IN the name of Almighty G Il aud II
mighty nation. there il need for II new par
iy That shall bring hunor ani lrincipl,
and conscience inn nolilee, n new prriy
whose streams Of influence springing from
the m"nniain ranges of grent mission
shall flush The sewers Of our political life
Snch n party fi"d in the National pro.
hilnlmn movement. Add its lea'iers ar,
worthy of the p,ry whose high slandar,
they bear. The pure and stainless Christ
ian gentleman. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, o
New jersey. left the Republican party II
1884, and john A. Brooks, Of Missouri
left the Democratic p,rty in 1884, for III,
same principle. They know aud thei
supporters know they will MOI he elected
They are called IN ihe North md West
democratic annex" They are tra,lnce,
ut the South IN "as+slant Republicans.
But, irue To n great principle, they BRAY,
misrepresentation and fight in this cam
paign only for those honors which Hlway'
belong to the loyal championship of sin
cere convictions. General Fix was place,
in charge, Immediately after the close o
the war, oil n military post ut Nashville
with territory embracing several SuutherI
States. Those were the times that trie
mems souls. His administration was pre-
cisely like that Of the "superb Hancock
in Mississippi. When herd that vener
able man Of God, DR.. j. b. McFerrn, =
Richmond, eulogize the kind aud fraterna
spirit In which General Fisk, in thos
davs of sectional passion and fury, di'
charged his difficult trust toward Il
Southern people placed under his jnris
dictlon, my hearl leaped out TO him AS on
Of the great men whom Providence Ia
: raised up rs types Of the grandest AN
best American manhood.
, New York O6serper (PeSbyterian).
I When body OF men come together an
pass resolutions affirming and insistin
that they are respectable" it does M
necessarily follow that snch ia. in fact, I'll
a case. We presume that no difficulty woul
be experienced in inducing the inmates
almost any lunalie asylum to unite in
declaration that they were not non comp
nsentis, as alleged by a cruel world. but
subjects rather 10 rule over Kingdoms N
states. Such n declaration, howeye
would not unlock any doors or confer al
dgniIies, Neither can the liquor-selle
escape from the ojum which public FOL
timent attaches to their business by a.