Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
FOR MORE WHISKY AND FEWER
CHURCHES.

The Democrats at Topeka and at Leav-
enworth adopted identically the same
resolutions against preachers and
churches. Self preservation is the first
Jaw of life, and the preacher and the
church are by the words of these plat
forms, themselves, standing menace
to the Democratic party. The Demo
Gratis have mighty little use, in their plat
forms, for the preached word or for re-
ligion. The continual spread Of the
gospel seems to threaten the existence OF
an organization whose principal cry In
Kansas is for more whisky and fewer
churches. We picked up the platform
of the Democratic party of Sedgwick
county today to see, more out OF curlos-
ity than anything else, what it really
does say, and we found it so full of the
howl for whisky that there was no
room left in it in which to
denounce the preachers and churches.
1t is simply a long wall for whisky.
Every plank of it smells like the back
door of saloon, and every resolution
sounds like the dying echo from an
empty bung hole.
In all this dreary string of means for
breweries and distilleries, there is no in
timation Of God, of country, of the fire.
side altar, or of anything either pure or
holy or even good. In the second plank
which seems burthened with the words
"open saloon, Unto joints, "boys can
drink unobserved, tastes of our women
and children raised under beneficial in
fiuences of whisky and beer drinking y
we say this plank, containing these
words, is 80 smashed on one side and
splintered generally on the other, as
it appears in the Democratic organ,
the Beacon, that it might, as it
originally appeared, have had some
word for the home or of heaven. but if
so it was not allowed to remain, that
party being determined to take no
chances of losing a single solitary Demo-
cratic vote through any maudlin senti-,
ment about truth, temperance or virtue.
For very truth that platform, taken in
ali its seven planks, as consecutively
numbered, is, in the refined vernacular
of the joint hummer, "a Joe Dandy and
horses rump' combined. To appreciate
it, it must be read, read in the quiet of
the home, where the prattle of innocent
children and the serene happiness of
mother have banished all thoughts of
raising money to pave streets by licensen-
ing the prostitution of poor, weak, I'M
fortunate, defenseless women, or by
backing somebody up, by law,
with the authority to murder
your boy through an insidious habit, or
by the same damnable process to drown
his manhood, his intellect, his soul, his
all, in copper distilled death.
When brought face to face with such
an open insult to the spirit and civiliza-
ton of the nineteenth century, as this
marred and blstered manifesto, cap
toned the Democratic platform" pur-
porting to have been soberly compiled
and honestly adopted by political de-
bcendants of American patriots, of such
men as framed and signed the Declare
ton of independence, we do not wonder
lfldt lHe SOttdliSlS WIFI tflciI illhS anu
the anarchists with their dynamite dare
face great nation of free born, liberty
loving, morally progressing people, with
their devihshly degrading doctrines of
death and destruction.
If any one in their innocency or from
motives of charity should doubt that the
Democratic platform of Sedgwick coun-
ty is other than we have described it. or
should doubt that whisky. the saloon,
the brewery and the distillery are the
burthen of every resolution and of two
of the whereases let them read it and
then make answer-make answer at the
ballot box on the 9th day of November.