Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-05
.rIL AND GENERAL NEWS
,.,i,,1 Account Of DOings in City and
Country.
covE COMPROMISE WANTED.
Au Useful Suggestions to Doctor
Driver and Such PrOhi-
bitiOn Friends.

Tn JouRNAL:-There seems to be
..b bitter antagonism to the
,5ird party and its methods, that
.r,o effort at compromise among
ho friends prohibition should be
mode Lovers of the cause are lOath
- lose the help of 1900 votes who
4.ved away from the polls last fall,
nd of 9, 900 more, who were Offend
a for some cause and also re-
n,siped at home. Such was DR..
nriver,s plain talk in the lecture he
nyebere on Friday night. Why
snrot these q, 600 men be cemented
intoa aunit", the same as ''the
whisky unit" mentioned byJ. w.
watts in the Oregonian of June I'd?
The 5000 third party friends who
voted, were by Bro. Drivers adj
mission, part of the 10000 votes
east for the amendment last NOvem-
her, With these to play on there
would be possible voting force of
@OOO Now, surely, there is as
wide a field for the God given plan
ofwork as there ever was. Surely
third party followers are as easily
induced to vote right as any others.
Let me adduce an, example of DIR.
Drivers unit work, as shown by the
whisky men of Oregon at the last
two elections. The state being
largely republican there has been
uccessively for two elections, SUI
preme Judge whose platform was
Old anti-sumptuary put on the bench.
But Bro. Watts said, "diyided we
fall" How is it that the whisky
combination reverses this time-hOn-
ored adage, and makes it read "di-
yided we stand?n Their forces are
in both the old parties. Herein is
the secret of their work. While
there are two parties only, it is easy
enough for them to flop over votes
enough in states or countless nearly
evenly divided, to elect men friendly
Otheir interest. And they do it;
practice thelovers of Gods plan have
not yet adopted. The Intervention
of the prOhibitionists confuses this
game, which accounts for the un-
stinted abuse heaped on it. The
saloon men know who mean blood.
Surely DR.. Driver, if he is the alb
stinent man he processes to be, and
the lover of morality we expect to
see in a preacher, ought to feel as
friendly toward the third party
brethren as toward those of the par
ty with a whisky platform, whom he
declares he will never support, $50
help me, God" Why not let the
good work go on? What is the use
Of having an army of the Lord Off
cered with the DEVILS men? Will
Bros. Watts and Driver show us any
good reason for keeping our forces
under the command of parties hav-
ing such a unit of power? What is
the meaning of Paul's expression
Tome out from among them,n but
mat of concentrating of influence!
temperance workers, beware of
lalse philosophy! 1t is true that di-
vSlded as are the saloon forces in the
democratic and republican parties,
lhey stand. They are true to their
Professions, while the avowed lovers
Sl prohibition are not, and they
Know 1t. But a small amount of
perception is necessary to discern
Ihe Tact that party success is first,
ana prohibition after, with many
VINO deprecate the use of political
machinery in bringing about re-
I9fm. The prOhibitOry laws of
Maine, Kansas and Iowa are not due
- hon-partisan work alone. They
were carried at time when the
whisky element was lulled in
Aheied security; when the dogma
mat prohibition does not prohibitn
was believed. But the saloon men
" VIII not repeat their mistake. In
leAas, Michigan, Tennessee and Or
eson that party was alert when an
amendment was submitted, and
AAnowlng that the third party meant
ousihess, 1t defeated the reform
movement by its we'll known meth
01S OF controlling votes.
a Bros. Driver and Watts, don't let
nose ,l,se 5000 shadOwy afiiliates neu-
s9allLe the efforts of $4,000 braves,
ugaued ,'ied by such veterans as your
G.. w. POWELL.