Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-24

must be strangled by the civilization
besot it, or that civilization must go for
branded with the scarlet letter of its own
not enough that we reform the individ-
ve must reform the State The policy of
commonwealths, of q whole people, must
pmale and put in harmony with sound
mic principles, the true cooperation of
,-ial effort, the essential conditions OF ma
prosperity, and genuine brotherhood OF
broad demand as this can be met in but
u can become Il fact in government only
tsh political party that administers gov
ent A reform 80 vast as this we advo-
involving such radical changes in State
National policy, is utterly dependent for its
ton and contamination upon some party
for force. To give 1t success, to make it
II and indisputnbly fact, that party force
ent must be in full accord with the reform
must have in itself the power Of successful
yenlent apart from those clements and in
ees alien to the reform. No party which is
epublc administrator by the enemies of
erance, or which owes tho election of its
ilaes to saloon influences, can ever estab-
prohibition as q binding fact in governme nt
Ehere.
e National Democratic party in its plat
utters no word in condemnation Of the
test foe to the Republic, the liquor traffic.
party having steadfustly in its utterances
Itional conventions maintained its allegiance
e American saloon, it was no disappoint-
to any one that ut st. Louis in 1888 it re-
med its old position on this tho greatest
ton now being debated among men.
was with great reluctance that I accepted
conclusions and came to admit the i'm
tive need Of u new party, while yet the party
eintained it's organization. I had followed
pride and patriotic love that party's flag,
g above it tlonted the starry banner for
III so many brave patriots fell. had seen
party establish as fact in government one
heal reform dear to me from boyhood-a
to millions i'll bondage and n glory to us all.
NJ. long time waited. against conviction
the logic of political events, hoping that my
party would take up this old reform with
bsei front and new conditions, and make it
the fact so many millions craved and for
Eh they pleaded before men and God. 1t
N four years ago l enrolled myself in the
IS of party Prohibitionists, under the flag Of
bibition, bleachel snowy white by the tears
fnitten women and children through genera
IS OF sorrow and want
have seen no hour of regret Every day
be then has shown yet more Clearly the logic
[ny course and the inevitable truth of my
Flusons. In Michigan, in Texas, in Ten
Fee, and Oregon, so-called nor-partisau Ell
IS TO establish prohibition have failed
Push partisan necessity, born of liquor ele-
ts III Old party composition. In Iowa,
Pie Island and Maine the laws have been
Melessly detied for like reason. The entire
fl of things these last four years has proven
2eless the bron Ter range of prohibition effect
Pugh non-partisau means, and equally futile
hnal contamination, the narrower methods
Deal option and high license; while from the
Plehe Court itself has come, with startling
phasis, declaration so nation lizing lis re-
I no1,v Ia do rf nvS fOft
tatlon again. No lines of territorial wish OF
can hereafter bar the liquor traffic, and its
.Hi brood, while by national policy that
lc y recognized as legitimate, and while
Ter that policy the National Government de-
Is revenue therefrom.
recent National Republican Convention Of
Pea5o Is the virtue and sobriety of the PEG
aid the purity of the home"
te'enue then, is not Governments chief con-
~ whether coming from internal taxation o.
~ Tariff on importutions; and any source O.
Eeale which discounts the virtue and sobri
VI me people, and begets ilnpurity in the
(.e should be the first object assailed by every
~ protesting to seek good government while
III i,e'eilue derived from such source should
NY ilfst to be forsworn-nOt alternatlvely
SAKE OF protective tariff, but positively, fol
y OF protection de rer and more vital thar
! IN; Iari1 can ever yield. Had l not left the Re
| Egli party four years ago should be com
H. ~ 10 leave 1t now, when, after reading the
ll" nus nave quoted, from resolution supple
|S;,i 10 put not included in it's platform, nnc
( en.s IN these words my own idea OF Govern
k n.s che concern set forth. l search thu
Il ri!attorm through in vain to find condemna
r MY sign OF moral consciousness that the
! vi vi. Is curse and its income too unholy To-
!, hation to share.
1 p., lne chief concern" has no place in party
H., IN, ana purity has no pol cy as to tha'
n,ar t,olcern that party does not deserve the
g M see it maintained,
low AZ, republican m party knows to-day, ant
Is ~ AZ Chicago in June, that the public sur
an Which which in 1884 it declared dangerous, anc
M ~ opposed to reduce: comes, about 80 PEI
@ s,, W ~ u. rom source more dangerous thar
WbaIp lus-the liquor traffic.
a rAe'i me greatest Republican statesman de
an sn III 1883 that ut is better to tax whisky
p, arms, and homesteads, and shops, ht
inv a ,, ne and his colleagues now know, tina
ID sh'isKy Is to tax farms, and homesteads
q w" 's-slnce it is always these which pays
nts VIM, ~ nlne-tenths Of the surplus repre-
q cr nant IN the home, impurity i'll the home
d an me- ;, on the street. paralysis in the shop
I'M mIihlpaired demand for the products OF tn
ese ttnese men must know these things, To-
IN t,hi lungs are plain as the multipllca
iif ,,une. and they must realize that tn
NAL u9,i 10 reduce the surplus is to end the ma
,ht wa policy of revenue from liquor; that thu
Re- WY as, Is to end it by declaring the manufac
ersot tn,ipItoIItation, transportation, and sal
ID by pupils pnbilc crimes against good government
The pprro33lh,1biting and Furnishing them as such
g pnr;t onipltlon party's "chief concern" ID 10
brietr y! OF the home and the virtue ant
d my, OF the people. It asserted this, in plail
urthastakable terms, at Indianapolis AM
u sho, plainly said that "the burdens Of taxa
her nool De removed from food, clothing, am
owed Id0cessaries Of life" 1t is to-day the onl.
,ne ana ana 10, consistent party ally which tn
eSsin "'.o labor have, for it would make tn
'''nSS OF homo cheap and remove tosethe