The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-06-20
TIT FOB TAT.
For and Against-Paste These In Your
Hat fer Ready Reference.

UuelI "CAo h-iSh iol1l SOOu
leader in every Prohibition paper and
hand bill and circular: It might look like
this:
"'Twil put the Democrats into
power"
They are in power. What if we dor
We are not Republicans. Why don't you
all join us. then, and whip the Demo
Gratis?
Prohibition doesn prohibit"
That's the reason we want a party To
make it prohibit We are sick of Repub-
Democratic prohibition precisely be-
cause it doesn't prohibit 1t prohibits
where it has something behind H.
"You can't make men temperate by
law"
We are not trying it. We can shut up
the saloons by law with something back
of it, and that is our aim
81 don't like St. John"
We don't like Blaine, Cleveland, nor
Briber Clarkson. st. John is a Christian
gentleman and you can't prove the con
trary,
ga party can't succeed with one idea. "
What idea does your party stand for Z
Has it even one on which it unites?
eff I thought you stood any chance to
success"-
Go to! We don't want you. Don't come
to our side, please until you are ready to
face thousand defeats, because you are
sure the principle is right. Succeed
Shame on such cowardicel
"But you are throwing away your
vote"
A vote for principle is never thrown
away. Over 100000 Republicans threw
away their votes in 'S4 and were defeated
besides. Ditto the Democrats, save they
got the Offices.
"our party is going to take up the
question and settle it.
Very well, just camp with us until they
do and then we'll let you go back Going
to take it up Pray tell us, with 300, 900
beer drinking Germans in one party, and
100000 whisky loving Irishmen in the
other, which one will ''take up prohibi-
tion-and when?
eve don't like the way you pitch into
the other parties"
Ono, but it's very nice and proper to
call US "cranks," fanatics" ''impracti-
cables, assistant Democrats" ETC., ETC.,
to burn st. John in effigy, and to change
the names of counties to spite the Prohi-
bitionists. Small business with the whole
powerful press Of the country to back you
against little handful of ''cranks," to
cry baby when we hit back little.
"But we believe in local option and high
license"
We do better. We believe in national
option and no license. You want to per-
NIT an evil, and We want to abolish it.
Which is the right position?
1.-THE Republican party saved the IN
ion"
Noah went into the ark
II belong to the grand old party of
Jefferson and jackson.
Chestnut
public sentiment isn't ready"
What's that to you? Are you ready?
Whose duty is it to make public senti-
ment? One hundred and fifty three thou
sand votes for st. John has made more
public sentiment on the drink question in
three years than ever existed in history
prior to that time.
1.-The Bible is against prohibition.
''Touch not the unclean thing" "Woe
unto him that putteth the cup to his
neighbors lips" If the liquor traffic is
wrong the Bible prohibits it.
''The Republican party has given US all
the temperance laws we have
It isn't so The Democratic legislatures
have passed more laws and repealed fewer
than the Republican. If it were SO the
plea would be worthless. We are not
after laws, we are after prohibition.
Neither party has stopped the saloons.
81 believe in keeping the temperance
question out of politics"
Do you believe in keeping the saloon out
of politics? That is impossible The
saloon rules our politics. AS political
power it must be politically overthrown.
Votes alone can Go it.
GAS long as the appetite exists men will
have liquor. If you cure the appetite in
men the saloons will have no customers
and will die of themselves"
AS long as wolves love mutton they
will steal sheep. If you eradicate the
mutton appetite the sheep will be safe
Therefore don't keep any dog or put up
any fences Saloons largely create the
appetite. Abolish public saloons and we
could soon raise a sober generation of
men. S.
Fisk-Not Fisle.
Many OF our exchanges tack an re" to
our candidates name. 1t may be as well
Ito remember that the general will not
have an e,-e, y time of it from now till
November, and they should not load him
with more than he is compelled to carry.
Spell it Fisk.
r. sad Fact.
A clergyman writes to Col. Shepard,
the new owner and editor of The New
York Mail and Express, that he halls him