Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-08-17

MONIES Iowa. TO Dr. JOQn a. /
Brooks, candidate for Vice Pres
ident on the National Prohibi-
ton Ticket.
Dies MONIES, July 21.-Dr. John A.
Brooks: There appears in some of
your reported speeches some things
that appear to me to be unfair to
those prohibitionists who do not look
at this question as you do. You have
mnch to say Of conscience votes"
and 'men Of conscience and such
phrases IN which you assert that the
prohibitionists, who do not agree with
your wild goose third movement, are
not acting according to their consci-
entious convictions. As you and I
are cO-workers in the same church
and acting together religiously, it is
query to me when you became the
keeper of the consciences of your
brethern. You do yourself a great
/ injustice as well as others, when you
assume any such position, for GER
tainly where there are five prohibit
tionists who will not vote your ticket
for every one that will, it comes with
poor grace for one to charge the five
with acting hypocritically in their
decision. Now have, as you we'll
know, been a prohibitionist all my
life, and it is not saying anything in
an gOtistic sense if I say I have done
as much for the cause Of prohibition
as you have. You have been in Miss
ouri for many years where the dem
ocrat party has been in a large ma
| iority, and you have been a member
of that party, and what have you
done in that party or with your third
party to get prohibition? Absolutely
nothing. I have been in Iowa and a
member of the republican party and
worked in that line, and with what
result? We have one of the best pro
hibitory laws in Iowa that has ever
! been made, and it is as well enforced
as any other law. I have followed
no ignus fatcus Of third party i'm
practicability. You have. Now.
what is the result? My state is pro
hibitory; yours is not and yet fOEsOOth
because I cannot conscientiously fol
low your method that has proved {
failure, and abandon my own that
has proved a success. I am to be &C
counted as lacking in conscience
Did you ever think, my brother, thai
it is possible you are mistaken, anC
that the beam may be in thine owl
eye?
Again we have 10000 prohibition
lists in Iowa. Of that number 149,
GOO will vote the republican ticket an,
1000 for your third party ticket. Al
low me to suggest that it is possibl
that the 149 may be as honest an
wise as the one. It is true that on
may be wiser than 149, but it is nc
very good taste nor very good moral
for the one to say that he is the Onl
honest one.
And what is true of the state {
Iowa is true the country over. AS
have said before, you cannot possibl
hope to poll more than One-ffth
g the actual prohibition vote for yol
1 ticket, and is it not possible that Il
y four who refuse to vote it may not. !
as wise and conscientious as the OF
who does? When you say they a
not you are violating one Of the ca
dinal principles of the religion Y
both profess, to Judge not Il
brother"
L While I am at this matter the
- are a few other things to which
- wish to call your attention. The G
< -ly states in which prohibition
maintained to-day are republic
states and yet you make your fig
against the republican party al
8 your leaders say that you have
" hope of eleoting your ticket but :
wish to defeat the republican par
so that the prohibition party m
S. take its place in 1892 Very We
look at the result You break dO7
prohibition when It is already ests
Iisbed, for you concede that the de
ocratic party is opposed to the pr
,cipIe, you make enemies Of all N
In the republican party by your fig
7S' against them and what is the resU