The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-10

oSS VI o. wow Any IOl sudb SIcdb
work is now imperatively de-
manded; and hence we come to
you as the representative of the
Principles and purpose of the Pro-
hibition Party, the only party
pledged to destroy the Drink Traf-
tic and at the same time correct
the abuses that have grown out of
it, social, moral and political.
Tariff a Matter OF Items and
Details.
AS to the Tariff Issue, there
really seems, when fairly consider
ed, to be but little difference be-
tween the Republican, Democratic
and Prohibition parties, all aver
ing that only so much impost du-
ties should be levied as will be
sufficient to support the Govern
ment economically administered,
duties to be levied so as to protect
and promote American labor and
at the same time inure to the adj
vantage of the toiling millions,
for whom the laws of all Christian
nations should bring advantages
easily to be seen and appreciated
by them.
AS to the reduction of the sur
plus demanded by all, and the
whole question of Tariff, there
seems to be only a matter of diff
ference in items and details and
not of principles, and unless &C
complished by compromise or non
partisan action, the matter will be
as far from settlement in 1888 as
now. Certainly in this there is
no national issue that can unity or
long hold together the people of so
great and enlightened nation as
ours.
{ And this, even if accepted as an
issue involving mere monied
item of one hundred millions sur
plus, or even the whole Tariff Of
less than three hundred millions,
is insignificant when compared
with the worse than loss of NINE
HUNDRED MILLIONS, directly sp emit
for intoxicating liquors, besides
the thousand millions more ex-
pended in criminal costs, support
of paupers, insane, etc, caused by
the Traffic and to all this add, first
and not last, the measureless loss of
unnumbered, priceless u N Il
souls.
NO CANAAN IN POLITICS.
The Agitators the Best Friends of the
People.
While the people are sneering
at the Prohibition party and abus
ing it's leaders for their agitation of
these great questions, they forget
that We are their best friends.
That matchless orator a n d
Christian philosopher, Wendell
Phillips, thruthfully declared,
"There is no canaan in politics. "
He said:
| GAS health lies in labor and there is no
royal road to it but through toll, SO there is
! no Republican ROAD 10 Sa1eCV DuJ IN con
slant distrust In distrust said Demosthe-
mes, ARE the nerves of the mind
Set us see TO it that these Senti mel nerves
are ever on the alert. If the Alps piled in
cold and still sublimity be the emblem of
despotism, the ever restless ocean is ours,
which girt within the eternal laws of grav-
itation, is pure only because never still"
For nearly quarter of a century,
forgetting this profound philosophy
of distrust, we have been giving
our quiet assent to the leaders of q
great dominant party, which on
account of this death-like stiffness
has grown to be viciously CORFU pit.
"While we slept the devil sowed
tares," and now it will take a
mighty stirring of the political
soil to root out these noxious
growths and prevent fearful har-
vest Of political woes
Fearful Facts for Farmers.
To my fellow farmers 1 have q
| special message. | have never
been aught but farmer myself
and have always been proud of my
avocation, and | desire to present
some fearful facts, showing WHY l
feel that we have come to be 'hew-
ers of wood and drawers Of water"