Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-08-02

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publicans nominated for the Senate q
man vino mad made a record as PrOhibi-
ZIONIST Ia the Assembly. The Democrats
nominated a man v no was kaown to be
for Rum, and You nominated a man.
Early in the campaign letter was sent
to every saloon keeper in Morris county,
by G0tilleb Kruger, the Newark brewer,
telling them that the Republican caudi-
date Yves dang man, an avowed
Prohi0itionlst, and urging them TO DO
all Ii their pQ- or TO defeat him. Did the
Third Party say, Here is the man for o.,
the man whom the saloons fear and pro-
pose to cat DOWN. Did they say thatg
Nothinz OF tho sort. They kept their
own man in the field. Nor vas this AID.
Ia the town of Randolph there were more
than a score of Third Party tickets voted
with the name of the Third Psrty cauIi-
date erased, and that o. the Democratic
candidate Inserted Immediately
challenged the correctness of this state
melt, but got no denial On the con
trary, l was assured that the same thing
was done in other parts of the State. Is
it any wonder thai such incidents as This
should drive some men 20 the conclusion
that the I bird Party is not first, last, and
all the time for ProhibitiunY
THE PLATFORM TOO NARROW.
In the third place, your temperance
platform is too narrow for a National
Party, or even Sectional Party.
Applause. Your "bed is shorter than
that a man may stretch himself on it;
and the covering narrower than that he
can wrap himself in it," II Che fearful
power of the Saloon is TO be broken, We
must begin at once ADD with whatever
means We can command. If State Pro
hibition is impossible for the present,
then Local Option may be used. Ii
Local Option Is also out of reach, then
such restrictive measures as are possible
should be applied. / have no sympathy
with the sentiment that cares not whether
the saloons in a community be few or
many. Every saloon Is a school of vice
and a centre OF bad Influences. The
reason which leads us to multiply public
schools should lead us TO reduce public
saloons. Applause. But your plat
form, gentlemen, calls only for State or
Federal Prohibition. You must wait
everywhere until the sentiment will sup
port that before you can apply any legal
remedy. Your influence as party is
really against all other methods. The
Voice, your national organ, tells us that
che Local Option remedy is none of yours
that it is utterly enthusiastically
last week, in reply TO criticism by the
supporters of High License, it said:
We have no objection to closing "a large por-
ton Of the grog -shops, ana law that did that,
and that only, we would not resist law re-
stricting saloons one to every 800 Of population
we would not resist A law requiring every ap-
fs.ua . IA tfil lar
the conditions imposed in Philadelphia we would
not fght. II is the Internal revenue feature OF
your law that we object to, aud restrictive law
without that feature we can say God-speed TO-,
eren though ye hare no idea 1t 'COuid 10 much
good,
Notice the words l have emphasized,
Would not resist" would not "fghf' would
mot "Objectn to these varions measures of
restriction. These words proclaim in
difference, not hearty support. 1t is only
tolerance at best, not active favor, which
the Prohibition Party gives to any legal
method of fighting the Saloon, except
State or Federal Prohibition. And so,
gentlemen, you propose to build great
national PARTY on this narrow platform;
to leap direct to State Prohibition with
out any intermediate steps, The same
sort of wisdom would lead You, if you
we're half mile from a ditch you wanted
to Jump, not to take the trouble to walk
the half mile and then jump but TO jump
the half mile and ditch too, with such a
leap as the world never saw-and never
viii see. Applause. Political parties
are not built up in any such way.
TEMPERANCE REFORM DOES NOT NERD THE
PROHIBITION PARTY.
In the fourth place, Temperance Re
form is going on bravely without your
help. Your party has fought four presi
Dental campaigns, and your have run
full tickets in many of the States for
several years. How many Congressman
have YOU electedY Not one. How many
governersY Not one, How many mem
hers of state legislaturesY | find seven
credited to you in 1886 Applausel, one
of whom was elected by Democratic votes
and two by Republican. You still have
seven, one each in four States, and three
N Kentucky. II is rather mean, know,
to taunt you with questions as to what
these seven Legislators have done, but l
think the questions are pertinent. What
Legislation have they devised and placed
on the statute bookY Where are the
breweries and distilleries and saloons
they have closedY What have You to
your creditY You have not passed q
single law, nor closed single brewery
or distillery or saloon; and you cannot
positively say that you ever will be able
TO pass law or close saloon. Who
passed all the hygiene laws in the States
and in CoEgressY Who passed all the
Local Option laws by which hundreds of
counties North and South have been freed
from the SaloonY Who submitted the
amendments in Oregon, Michigan,
Tennessee, Texas, Rhode Island: To
what political organization is due the
magnificent advance in the past few years
in temperance legislationS Not to you,
gentleman OF the Prohibition Party. You,
as a party, have had no greater part in
all this glorious work thsn fly on the
spoke OF a wheel has in moving the car
rage. Applause.
Does Temperance Reform require the
Prohibition PartyY Wen, should say not,
Temperance Reform requires legIsla-
ton. The Prohibition Party has no po-
litioal power and cannot, therefore, pro
vide legislation.
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