The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-24
GOOD TEMPLARY.
1T STANDS FOR PROHIBITION AND
is OPPOSED TO LICENSE.

-.SsH supper. irIy any
where or at Any Time.
There it standsl The only true Good
Templar doctrine, obedience to which is
required by the obligation voluntarily as
sumed by every Good Templar when mi
tiated into the order.
In the state of New York Warner Mil
Ter has been nominated for governor on
straight out license platform. He has
openly declared his purpose of securing
the enactment Of high license laws. He
has set himself in radical opposition to
the principles of every Good Templar, and
in this election no man can be consistent
whe retains his membership in the order
and votes for Warner Miller.
The same is true in many other states,
and, if we take tho two platforms of the
two old national parties, it is true also in
the national contest.
For years the Good Templar order has
been pushing this issue of Prohibition
versus License to the front At last the
issue is squarely drawn, Good Templary
versus Old Partyism, and no man can vote
for ono without voting squarely against
the other The fundamental principles of
the order cannot be misunderstood. Thirty
years ago the order adopted the following
platform. which has remained since min.
terruptedly the settled. unouestioned
plainly defined fundamental principles of
the order:
Total abstinence from all Intoxicating
liquors as beverage.
"No license in any form, under any cir
cumstances, for the sale of liquors to be
used as beverage.
1.-The absolute prohibition of the manu-
facture, importation and sale of intoxi-
eating liquors for such purposes; probi
bition bv the will of the people. EXPRESSED
in due. FORM CT with the penaTfies
deserved for a crime of such enormitv,
''The creation of a healthy public opin.
ION unon the snbiect nv the active die
semination of truth in all the modes
known to enlightened philanthropy
1.-The election of rood honest men 4o
administer tho laws.
'Persistence in efforts to save individ-
nails and communities from so dreadful q
scourpe. against all forms of onnosition
and djficnlties until our s1ccass ie com.
plete and universal
ono license absolute Prohibition tho
election of rood honest men to adnoinister
the laws"
There it is. uneouivocal, uncompromis.
ing. And on that nlatform loval Good
Templars stand TODAY
AS early as 1869 the futilitv of ooininr
anv practical ADVANTAGE bv begoing favor2
from political parties welded f0 tho liouor
traffic became plainly annorent Acc6rd-
inply at n meeting Of the RIGHT Wort Inv
Grand Lodpe. held Mt Osvero N Y tbe
ouestion Of indenenden+ nolifical action To
secure Prohibition was fnIlv diecnssoS
and at meeting held durinr this session
a. committee was annointed 70 iesno q cali
for a convention to organize national
Prohibition party. Pursuant TO tbeir cal
a convention of nearly 800 delegates from
twenty different states assembled in Far
vail Lo1I Cbicono On Sar+ 1oeo 80
then and there The national Probibition
party was born.
From then until now i+s leaders con,-
mittees candidates have all VIII vn1v
few exceptions been Good Temnlars trne
to their oblipation. Good Templars first
nartisons oftervard
So far nc wa know no Good Tononlor
who is o follower or advocatc Of the pro.
bibition party has ever claimed tbat tbe
members of tbn order ,,oro hound in on1
wav to sunnort the new nolitical narty
esneciollv IN states wbnra tbo ed To- y ~
lidror is nrobihitnd Inv law ,ro1,idod +boI,
vote ALWAYS for candidates Who onon1v in.
dorse tbe nolicv of enoctinr md enforcino
sncb laws Tn anv state is ie be1d 10 ha .
violation of tbe Good Temnlars, obli(,a-
tion 70 vote for a candidate known to Cd
vocata +be nolicv Of IicenSino in o1,, fo,,,
the sa1o of intoyico+ino drinI2 II ie o1ta
y Violation Of +bo COZ Toror1ors, ILL.,