The Brookhaven leader., 1888-08-16

tivity, simply because we have reach
ed q mueh-desired goal. While ouI
achievements in the past afford
ground for sincere congratulation, LEI
us not, in the midst Of our rejoicings
today, be unmindful of the dangers
that attend success.
Too many battles have been lost In
the very flush of victory. We must
not underestimate the power and Wig
or of an enemy that never yields to
any defeat which comes short Of ut
ter annihilation. Let us not relax ouI
energies, but continue TO employ Wig
orous and efficient service, 30 that we
shall be ready at all times to resist
any attempt to disturb our present
prosperous and peaceful state. Tenn
perance organizations should not be
abandoned, and the press should not
cease to fire its effective "Prohibition
bombs"
Vow that we ourselves have secur-
ed Prohibition and are enjoying its
many fruits, let us not lose interest
in this great moral question and cease
to work for the cause. There are 9th.
er battle fields on which we should
meet and help to conquer the enemy
of our race.
The war is now being waged in our
sister county of Pike, and if on elec-
tion day the good people of that
county succeed las | firmly believe
they willy in destroying this Cod
defying agency for evil, and the Ban
ner of Temperance shall wave in tri-
umph over lost and ruined foe, we
will then have a solid line of "dry y
and, therefore, prosperous, towns
from Canton on the north to the lakes
on the south. Surely, this is "a con-
summation devoutly to be wished"
By our
INCREASED PROSPERITY AND HAPPI-
we have demonstrated the efectiveness
of Prohibition and the largeness Of its
results.
1t is the only principle to be adopt
ed in seeking to abolish intemperance
it is the only system that takes into
account all the facts of the question
it is the only system that can succeed,
because it is the only one that aims
to eradicate the appetite for drink by
removing the temptation for its con-
slant indulgence. 1t is not enough
to prohibit drunkenness the making
of drunkards must be prohibited as
well.
There is absolutely no argument to
be made against Prohibition, and this
was never so cOnclusively demOnstra-
ted as it was in the notable contro-
versy between the great ex-Chief OF
the Southern Confederacy and Our
own honored and distinguished citi-
zen, Bishop Galloway, than whom
Prohibition has no stronger advocate,
and the cause of Christ no more elo-
quent and effective pleader. The
strength of Prohibition, l say, was
never so favorably tested as when
thus combatted and opposed by one
of the greatest intellects of the age.
Every attempt made by the ex-
President to overthrow single basal
principle met with crushing defeat
and only proved that there was no
vulnerable point of attack. There
was not even an Achillian heel at
which he might hurl an arrow OF
thought or reason, and in his endeav-
or to occupy position wholly unten-
able, his own strong mind was lost in
the utter weakness of tho unrighteous
cause he espOused. How sad that in
the closing years of his eventful ca
reer, he should have allied himself
with another "lost cause y!
have an abiding confidence in the
ultimate success of Prohibition in
this country. No movement ever
made a more wonderful progress, and
still it speeds on with resistless and
constantly acceleratlng force. You
might as we'll try to put belt about
the ocean or to dam up the Mississippi
with bullrushes as attempt to stop
this on sweeping tide of moral re-
form.
The best people of this great ma
ton have risen up in the courage and
dignity of true manhood and resolv-
ed by these sacred names-the names
of Freedom, Civilization and Christi
anity-and by all that is glorious in
the past and possible in the future
that they will rid our fair land of the
blighting curse of intemperance and
Danish forever from our shores the
vile stews where humanity is plunder-
ed, deformed and assassinated.
Loving America as / do, l could
ask for no greater boon than that |
might live to see that day, 80 full of
promise, which will mark the blessed
triumph of temperance and record the
final overthrow of all those God
repudiating institutions of the devil
which are endeavoring to sap the
very foundation of the American Re-
public and tear down the pillars of the
church of God.