Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-19

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The Rev. Lozier preached what he.call-
I'd a patriotic sermon in the NJ. e. church
in this city on Sunday evening. In mat
ter and sperit it would have been an ad
mlrable Republican stump speech. After
working himself into fury over Jeff"
Davis and the rebel flsgs he undertook to
tell US how differently the Revolutionary
fathers dealt with traitors, and then gave
us 4 graphic description of the HANGING
of Benedict Arnold.
This story accords we'll with bis lying
attack upon DR.. Brooks. Having heard
that DR.. Brooks when young man, sym
pathized with the rebellion, he magnifles
HIM into rebel general, and becomes
excited over his discovery. Now, as DR..
Brooks was never q general, nor even
rebel army as either officer or private, it
is rather difficult to have any respec, for
Lozler. OF course he will plead igno-
rance, but man has no right to 20 into
public print with statements about which
he is ignorant. And if his statements
about Dr. Brooks are so un:ruthful,
whether from ignorance or malice. he is
not entitled to the confidence of the pub.
lie as to other statements made. 1gno.
rance is not always innocent. Mr. Lozler
might have been better informed. This
species of the Clarkson school of politics
is In its falsehood aud shallow pretense,
ample proof that the author is fraud.
1t is as easy for an honest clergyman to
tell the truth at the hastings as in the
pulpit. No honest man can make his
partisan bias a fit excuse for falsehood.
That he IS guilty Of Intentional falsehood
| by any man that can multiply ten by ten.
Oh no, he cannot receive a pure, up
right, christian man like DR. Brooks and
accord him the claims of American citl-
| zenship, because he was once rebel,"
But he can stretch his elastic conscience
and receive in his embrace such men as
Sheridan Shook, the great New York
Brewer. He can stand on the same plat
form with the foulmouthed atheist who
"hates God and loves Gresham" He has
no patriotic scruples in voting the rrin-
ciples of platform dictated by the arch
distillers, brewers and saloonlsts. He has
no honest convictions against voting the
same ticket and associating politically
with the proprietors of the murder mills
of this country, IA percent of which are
according to statistics, kept by Republi
cans) that are planting $1,000 American
recruiting 100000 of our young men in
the army of drunkards. He can take to
his own arms the men whose capital and
life business are devoted to filing our
asylums. DR.. Parker says;l IS per cent
of the insane, are causing, according to
Judge Noah Davis, 80 per cent of all pau
pers and 80 per cent of crime. His polit-
ical purity does not revolt at associations
with the enemies of christianity who
meet and placard the wall with down
with the white-livered clergy, down with
the Sunday Schools"
But to cap the climax Rev. Lozier says:
''The Boutelle Resolution commits the
Republican party to active hostility to
the saloon curse" Is it possible that
Rev. Lozier did not know be was stating
a falsehood. The Republican party
committed to active hostility to the sa-
loon curse? Let US see. The Boutelle
resolution says: I'VE sYmpathize with all
wise and we'll directed efforts for the pro-
motion of temperance and morality"
says, that every man. woman and child
in the United States can stand upon that
resolution. Every saloonkeeper and H.
quor manufacturer and dealer in the con-
vention voted for it. The 1000 Repub
llcan sale onkeepers in the nation heartily
endorse It, The California delegation
who as delegation ran saloon in Chi
cago during the convention, with three
colored men for bartenders, gave it their
sanction. and Sheridan Shook, the great
brewer, approved it before 1t was moved
in the convention. The Liquor Dealers
Association in 1885 adopted q much stron
ger temperance resolution. And yet Lo.
zler says resolution commits the Republi-
can party to active hostility to the saloon!
Are these Republican saloon keepers,
| hp0 13ofi I'd
friends all fools? Surely not. They un
deastand the case perfectly, and Mr.: Lo
zier is either an ignOramus or has DELHI
eratelY undertaken to deceive the unin-
Z formed. No man who processes both
candor and intelligence would think of
claiming that the BOutelle resolution
commits the Republican party to any
hostility whatever to the saloon. ~
We honor the Republican party for the
monuments of patriotism reared along its
history, for its deeds of valor upon q
hundred battle field, and its devotion to
freedom in lifting the shackles from 4,
600, 600 of slaves. But when that party
comes face to face with an issue involv.
ing the rum or protection Of the homes OF
10000, 600 of American citizens, and upon
the very threshold OF the campaign will
hesitate, falter and bow in absolute cow
ardice to the rum power. rather than fol.
low that party to disgrace and trail Its
proud banner in the slums of the saloon,
CIR stan n en- will perfer to wrap it upon
the mantle of departed glory, bury II
in grave of honor and write its epitaph
"well done good and faithful servant,
and from its ashes, assist in raising up q
grander party that will with the spirit OF
illustrious predecessor grasp the old ban.
ner of progress from the hands that
would besmirch its bright record, and
with renewed vlgor carry it forward in
4 the march Of progress and plant it still
! higher on the hill tops of political purity
and national honor, until it shall wave in
triumph over the last foe to American
homes and American institutions.