The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-11-07
,iAUK CENTRE HERALD.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1889.
VOICE FOR 1.-THE VOICE"

A VOICE FOR 1.-THE VOICE"
EDITOR HERALD: In a recent issue,
under the caption for High License"
you say that recently the New York
Voice has repeatedly declared that Rev.
Bishop Ireland, Disguised with high Ii
cense, has Iepudiated it in emphatic
terms, and transferred his enthusiasm
and support to the prohibition idea as
embodied in the third party movement"
You also publish letter purporting to
be from the pen of the Bishop, in order
to prove the Voice guilty of an untruth.
Both the letter and similar comments
have quite lately been going the rounds
of the republican press in general. 1t
would seem that you are little slow in
making the charge of dishonesty and at
tempting to prove the charge, inasmuch
as the statements objected to were pub
lished in the issue of the Voice for June
18th, last.
Nor has that paper ever said that
Bishop Ireland had become party pro-
hibitionist, as your statement makes it
appear. In the issue above referred to it
said in head lines: 1.-TWO Celebrated
Catholic Bishops urge Prohibition" and
Bishop Ireland Abandons High License
and Demands Utter Destruction of the
Dramshop." These statements were
made upon the authority OF the Bishops
own words uttered in a speech made be-
fore the state convention of the Mime
sofa c. T. A. u, held in Minneapolis on
the evening of June 9th last, upon which
occasion he said among other things:
1--WE labored under the fatal mistake
that we could argue out the question
with the liquor sellers. We imagined
there was some power in moral suasion,
that when we would show them the evil
of their ways they would abandon the
traffic. We have seen there is no hope Of
improving, in any shape or form, the
liquor traffic. There is nothing now to
be done but to wipe it out completely.
And again-say to your friends that you
have enlisted tor the war, but meaning
business this time, clean out the whole
institution of dramselling."
The Bishop had previously publicly de-
clared that he believed high license to
be the final solution of the liquor traffic. 1"
His speech referred to shows change of
heart. If this is not abandoning high
license and declaring for prohibition"
what is? How can a man support high
license and at the same time demand
that the "liquor traffic be wiped out
completely?"
Finally, would ask what Idea of
prohibition" there is other than that
embodied in the third party movement, v
which is legal. political prohibition with
party behind it?
trust you will kindly publish these
few remarks in the interest ofjustice,
knowing you to be an honorable OPP
ponent. E. L. WRIT.
L. II. w lkl ldhSS lilS l1ENALb " SelSN
for asserting that the New York Voice
misrepresented Bishop Ireland when it
declared that he had abandoned high
license" and indicates tina. the HERALD
is slow in charging dishonesty. 1t made
the charge as soon as Bishop Ireland
did, in a letter addressed to Gov. McGill,
which it published in the next issue after
it was written. The HERALD didn't at
tempt to prove any thing, it left Bishop
Ireland to do that. If the "head lines"
quoted by our correspondent do not sub
stantiate all the HERALD said, and fatty
contradict what Mr.W.says in that COM
munication, then is English not English.
There are thousands of men "who sup
port hig h license and at the same time
demand that the liquor traffic be wiped
out completely" They support high Ii
cense because 1t diminishes the evil of in
temperance, and because the more sweep
ing remedy may not be at once effectively
applied. When the time arrives when
they believe it possible to accomplish
what they earnestly desire, they will be
found among the most effective workers.
The whole third party policy is embodied
in the question, which suggests its own
answer.-"What idea of prohibition is
there other than that embodied in the
third party movement" L. is the
Pharisaic assumption of that party that
it alone earnestly desires and labors for
prohibition, that has turned thousands
from it who are better temperance men
than most of its members in that they
favor any policy calculated to restrict
and circumscribe the sin Contemporaries.
Prohibition if possible, if not the next
best thing, is the Idea" of such men.
The third party idea is prohibition ac-
cording to our methods, or unrestricted
purchase and sale of rum. The one la
bors for the success of the principle; the
other of the party.
Elsewhere is published the official call
for special election to vote on a propo-
sition to issue city bonds not to exceed
$4,000 for a new bridge. The HERALD
need say little upon this proposition.
A new bridge is an absolute necessity,
and if a first-class structure can be Sc
cured for the sum proposed it would be
worse than folly, it would be criminal,
to continue the dangerous risks to life
now daily incurred. 1t would be better
to tear the old bridge away and rely
upon the ford than to use the old rotten