The Washington critic., 1888-01-21

pure as they we're in the days Of
Abraham, we should then strike
THE HAPPY MEDIUM
that lies between human appetite and
destruction of the race. Is 10 not
child's play to allow whisky TO be
made, and then make the law that we
shall not drink it2 Science has dcm-
onstrated that we have tonics and
other drugs that will answer every
purpose in place OF alcoholic timu
liant; then why not petition Congress
to make law forbidding the manu-
facture and importation into the Dis
trict Of all the poisonous fluids that DO
us harm2 Isn't this wisdom rather
than the prohibition dodge which
converts us into q massof
sNEAKs, HYPoCRITEs AND LthRs2
Who would not rather see old Zach.
Chandler storming up and down News
paper Row, shaking his cane at tho
wicked reporters, than the kind that
slip down the back stairs at tho Cap
itol TO get q sip Of cold tea,' then go
to their seats and in their crazy gen
erosity vote the peoples land as
money into the pockets of soullcss
corporations?
The drunken river Of crime and
weakness has roared and babbled
through all the ages. Human agency
has never been able to stop il because
the demand always has existed and
always will so long as creation goes
on using the same old molds II ia
within our power to
CONTROL AND DIRECT
the liquor traffic, but we cannot stop
it until the present horrible appetite
is appeased. We can by degrees put
out great fire If we keep on fighting
it, as the mass Of women in this coun-
try will, for we are determined that
our Republic shall rule the world.
"When God by the hands Of Moses
led the Israelites up out Of Egypt, he
found that the old people who had
grown up TO the ways of Egypt did
not take to the new order of things.
In fact he found that all people who
had grown up in Egypt until they
We're over twenty years OF age We're
| unfit TO enter the promised land. The
| whole nation as result had TO wan
der in the wilderness until those over
twenty had died"
Here is lesson from Bible history
that shows that God had to kill his
chosen people before he could cure
their appetites. Are the women of
this District such fools az TO go TO Con-
gress to ask it to commit hari-kari ?
Heaven forefend But we can ask
Congress to make the adulteration of
any kind of fluid used for drinking
purposes high crime, not misde-
meanor. We win plead to have
whisky, with all its kindred fire
waters" so ridged in and taxed that
only millionaires can afford 10 90 To
st. Elizabeth's. In order to concl.
late Kentucky and bring her over 70
our side, we would advise that n few
choice bottles of rare "old Bourbon"
be laid in at the Capitol, to be dealt
out in the same way and on the same
terms as the stationery, to cure tho
"cold tea" dodge. Remove every re
striction and tax on wine and beer
Let these fluids be as cheap and com
mon as our bread. If we garrote the
license system, which is a monstroui
instrument of fraud, then these neoes
) saries or luXuries, as we choose 70 con
, slider them, will find their level, am,
will rank in the market ut a cost whicl
covers handling and manuficture
: Men and women will get diunkon pur
} wine and beer, but they will, not be
: come maniacs ut the same time, BE
; sides, 1t takes a long time FOR worR
: ingman to become drunk on thes
I beverages. He may get stupid, br
this does not interfere with thewor
! he is accustomed to do. Should Nc
{ the working people of this countr
$ have every liberty, which does not il
G jure the family or the State, place
s within their reach? Should we no
Q as far rs possible, mitigate the hare
: ships of lot which has for its AK
never-ending toll? Who would sa
+ to the coal miner when he comes {
:, the surface of the ground that be sha
G not touch glass of wine or q mug c
, beer? Who knows what "gnome
| or brownie" has seized him under
, ground where he has been delvin
/; for our benefit in the awful cayerns o
| the earth Z? Let the poor people hay
g their wine and beer gardens, and psA
. sled be the hand for the sake of gail
(; who mixes for them the poison
j. draught. OLIVIA.
9 Maple Square, Jan. 10.