Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-07-21
July q, 1888.


prohibition. Having participated in other party
conventions this year, they feel that they cannot
honorably, if they should SO DESIRE support the
Prohibition party" Quite likely. And such
would be the case at any time. There are lots of
belated people 1t always rains or freezes up too
soon for some persons, no matter how long the
drouth or how late the fall. But the rains and the
seasons must not wait. No more must good men
whose minds and consciences are aroused. Did
the Wesleys and Luthers wait till all (even good
men) were ready to give them welcome, then all
reforms would die unborn. Who ever heard of a
Seeding refusing to sprout because it could not at
once be ful-grown plant, or a mother to give
birth to her babe because he could not at once
be man? No more must reforms be strangled
or smothered by over cautions and snai-paced
sympathes Let them come and move on as other
things do and let men buy their tickets and get
ON board when they are ready, and not clamor for
delay of the train just to suit their diliatory con-
venience. There are some folks ready now, and
the cry is, call aboard".
2. "Dealers in the liquor traffic would be glad
TO see sucha party organized, and the antagonisms
begin The terror to their business is in the nom
partisan movement. Never wilder shot. The
objector is sadly destitute of data. When
have liquor dealers ever helped to organize such
party or contributed to its campaign fund? When,
in convention assembled have they turned pale
over the non-partisan movement and smiled upon
their third party friends? Who are the ministers
and editors and lawyers and citizens that they
have shot and mobbed and burned and dynamited?
Non-partisans now and then; party prohibtionists
ten to one. When the non-partisan movement
was all there was, it of course received all their
maledictions; but upon whose head fall their cur
SEES now? and because of whose movements now
are they filled with alarm? No intelligent reader
of the liquor dealers press of to-day will say that
it is the non-partisan movement that excites their
apprehensons. Many of their editors even seem
to indicate that they are almost inclined to take
up that movement themselves to ward off the party
thunderbolt they see gathering in the sky. 1t is
the "fanatic" they fear; the man ''gone mad''
with the prohibition idea. These are the men and
this is the party that are alike the terror of saloon
list and politician, and to whose banner the prov-
dence of God is bringing victory.
3. 'Many of the most noted workers for
prohibition, entirely free from political partisan
ships, are not in sympathy with the prohibition
party movement" Bishops Galloway and Key
are mentioned. Others, many of them possibly,
hight nave DceH mentioned as We'll But Wllat OF
1t? This is not true of all "noted prohibition
workers." Names as high as these, scores of them,
could be mentioned who are in sympathy with this
movement. Who are Fitzgerald, the bishop,
Dr. Gordon, the eminent Baptist divine, DR. Pente-
cost, the Congregationalist, DR.. Seelye, the
college president, Cough the reformer, Don Manes
temperance champion, Losing, the historian, and
Fisk, the soldier, philanthropst and Christian but
lifelong prohlbihonists, now in heartiest sympathy
with the prohibition party? If you think We are
lonesome, get on your specs and scan once more
the marshaed and marshalling hosts who are
ralying under the Prohibition party banner for
the overthrow of the saloon. No, my friends, we
who are convertedo this idea must not wait for the
birth-throes of slower converts. The tramp of
mighty host passeth by fall in, fall in!
4: MIn conclusion. we do not doubt the pnre