Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-01


FACTS FOR THIRD PARTY MEN.
From the Lake city Republican. .. d.
DEs MONIES, Iowa, July 23.-The ReY
D. r. Lucas, of this city, a promlnen
clergyman of the Christian denominatie
and one of the foremost temperanc,
workers of the State has addressed t<
DR.. John A. Brooks the following ope1
letter concerning the attitude Of the third
party men in the pending campaign, Mr..
Lucas is fully warrnted In speaking fol
Iowa temperance men, for he has done
more TO promote practical temperance
legislation than any score of men who
are now engineering the third party
movement: 49,
DEs MONIES. July 21.-Dr. John A.
Brooks:-There appears in some of you,
reported speeches some things that ap-
pear to me to be unfair to those ProLibl
tloaists who do not look at this question
as you do. You have much to say OF
conscience votes'' and "men of con.
science, and such phrases in which you
assert that the Prohibltionists who do
not agree with your wild goose third par
ty movement are not acting according to
their conscientious convictions. As you
and / are co-workers in the same church
and acting together religiously, it is a
query to me when you became the keep
er OF the consciences of your brethren.
You do yourself gross injustice as we'll
as others when you assume any such po
s;tlo1, for certainly, where there are five
ProEibitlonists who will not vote your
ticket for every one that will. it comes
wlthpoor grace for one to charge the
five With acting hypocrtically in their
decision. Now I have as you we'll know,
beena Prohibitionist all my life, and it
is not saying anything in an egotistic
sense If I say have done as much for
the cause of Prohibition as you have.
You have been in Missouri for many
years where the Democratic party has
been in large majority, and you have
been member of that party, and what
have you done in that party or with your
third party to get Prohibition? -Abso-
lutely nothing. have been In Iowa and
a member Of the Republican party, and
worked in that line, and with what re-
sults We have ...-...
ONE OF THE BEST PRoHIBITORY LAWS
in lew that has ever been made, and Il
is as well enforced g any other law.
h.v~xoll SWsdno ignis fatuus Of third
party 1mpract,cabllity. You have. Now
WHAT'S the result? My state is prohibi
tory!yours is not, and yet forsooth, be-
cau,e~ cannot conscientiously follow
youe method that has proved failure.
and abandon my own that has proved a
success, I am to be accounted as lacking
in conscience. Did you ever think, my
brother, that it is possible you are mis-
takA and that the beam NAV be in thine
own.<e?
A; xa, we have 15O, 900 Prohibitionists
in I.1F. Of that number 149, 900 will
vote the Republican ticket and 1,00(
for Tour third party ticket, Allow me te
suggest that it is possible that the 14s
may be as wise and honest as the one.
1t s true one may be wiser than the 149
butt is not good taste nor very good
mo1ls for the one to say that he is the
onl. honest one.
And what is true of the State of Iowa
is tue the country over. As I said be-
fore you can not possibly hope to pol
moE than one-fifth the actual Prohibi
tior vote for your ticket, and is it not
possible that the four who refuse to vote
it may be as wise and conscientious as
the one who does? When you say they
are lot, you are violating one of the car
dinl principles of the religion we both
process, to Judge not thy brother"
| While am at this matter there are 8
fewiother things to which I wish to call
YOU attention. The only states in which
Prohibition Is maintained to-day are
Republican states, and yet you make
] YOV ASAS 8SaAASb tAO ASCPuOlACo0 poA ~
andYour leaders say that you have no
hon of electing your ticket, but you
wisl to destroy the Republican party, 50
thatthe Prohibition party may take its
plste in 1892. Very well, look at the re
suit You
| BREAK DOWN PROHIBITION
whtu it is already established. for you
corede that the Democratic party is op
posed to the principle, you make enc
mis- Of all men in the Republican party
by your fight against them, and what is
theresult; you keep free whisky Demo
cratic party IN power for generation al
leaa.
Bit you begin to compare yourself tc
theAbolltien party, but you have stud
iedhistory to little ADVANTAGE if you SET
ANYTHING in that. If the Abolition party
ha( continued on its radical ground what
would have been the resultf Slavery
wmld have been National to-day for II
Abraham Lincoln had taken his stand or
. patform of absolute abolition he woulG
haze been defeated and slavery woule
haze been more firmly entrenched thar
eyfr SO. the rood sense of the peOplt