Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-01-19
WHY, WHERE AND WHEN
Tho Prohibition cs the Liquor Traffic WIN
Prove q Grand Success.


portation and sale of liquor is the
only practical and efficient remedy.
The Democratic party is committed
to the liquor traffic by positive decla-
rations in its favor.
The Republican party is committed
to the liquor traffic by neutrality and
delusive pretenses.
As neither party can afford to offend
the liquor-dealers. the only hope for re-
lief from the awful results of rum-sell-
ing is combination of the temperance
elements from both parties into a new
party.
AS the North and South can only
combine on non-sectional basis. a
new combination can count on an I'M
obstructed and splendid success for a
National Prohibition party.
Prohibition, to be real and perma-
nent, requires Prohibition party be-
hind it.
A Prohibition party is demanded by
all the claims of political purity. true
religion, business success, safety OF our
homes, the best interests of the individ-
ual, and public security.
Additional Prohibition party is there
fore an imperative necessity.
Our homes and our country demand
prohibition, and the ballot secures it.
The ballot is the only and most po-
tent means to save our country from
the blighting, blasting and whitening
curse Of liquor selling.
With the ballot. and only with the
ballot, can we shut up these open dens
of vice, these sluice-ways to perdition.
the saloons.
If patriotic, thinking men. business
men, Christian men. would only COM
bine for this one distinct purpose, the
work would be done; but perverted
passion, prejudice and mercenary con-
siderations cross our path, and we find
ourselves driven back, and as subter-
fuge VIC resort to uncertain and dam
gerous methods of selfish expediency.
But we are fast learning the important
lesson that prohibition is the only sal
walton for our homes and country.
We have within our power and at
our command the ballot, as the only
means to save our boys, and the many
otherwise manly men who are wretched
sufferers of the drink habit, from the
awful doom that hangs over them
through the allurements of the saloon;
and how easily, by the combination of
will. could we, with the ballot, dry up
these cesspools of vice, how easily
could we hurl this monster evil, the
saloon, into permanent annihilation!
Yet the tempted and oppressed vota-
ries of the liquor traffic, with their
families, are now trodden under the
cruel heel of apathy and political de-
linquency, and are left to contend with
the mercenary greed of the rum-seller
and the clamor of Unsuitable appetites,
to fight with the temptations of the sa-
loon, and to wall out their despairing
agony; while we, as citizens, with ade-
quate power in our hands. lazily. cow
ardly, or stupidity refrain from using the
most efficient and only means of saliva
ton that it is possible for us to afford
them.
But the people are being aroused to
the enormity of the evils of the saloon.
The ominous clouds of conscientious
conviction are gathering, and the NUT
tering thunder of public condemnation
is heard in the distance, and will soon
be hurting denunciations like a deluge
on these land-pirates.
Out on the broad, tubulcnt ocean of
politics can be seen the old hulk, Ex-
pediency, with her tattered sails. and
dilapidated form with great ragged
holes in its sides; and, as if to disguise
her dangerous condition, we see nu-
merous streamers floating from her tall
masts and about her rigging, bearing
the delusive and defiant words per
sonal Liberty" Anti-sumptuary
Laws" "Tax Restrictions, '.Anti-
Saloon" Local Option" and numer-
Gus other equally significant words to
delude her jolly crew into fancied Sc
curity, and to allay their mutinous
fears, raised by repeated warnings that
the vessel may go to the bottom in the
next gale.
But there are materials on board to
construct life-boats of law; and much
apparent interest is now manifest in
for the impending storms.
The dark, dismal. gathering clouds are
their forces, the thunders of
public opinion are concentrating, and
will soon be forcing their angry blasts
to lash into foam and fury the waves of
prejudice, appetite, and vested inter-
ests.
1t is then we shall see the hurried at
tempts to launch the life-boats of law;
and, waiting to assist every earnest en-
deavor to seek their protection, the
patriotic sympathizers
with the work will aban don the old
hulk. and, leaving behind the old time
servers, non-partisan sycophants, ma
chine politicians, and musty church.
these determined heroes will
pull for the shore of prohibition. The
angry waves of perverted appetite may
then concentrate into frenzy of oppo-
sition to dash on their noble life-saving
craft; the murky clouds of prejudice
may obstruct their vision; the piratical
demons of the saloon will apply their
ingenuity to put difficulties in
their way, and inst gate sea of vile
abuse to weaken their efforts, and
swamp them with fear and odium; but
as they heroically pull for the shore of
prohibition, they will proudly rise on