Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-03-30
ON raE Hvs OF BATTLE,
An Address to the People By the Prohibi,iou
state CommtetoO

state Commfttee.
Chairman Henry w. Palmer, OF the con.
stitutionsl prohibitoTy amendment state
COMMITTEES, has issued ins follow Ing addres
70 the people OF Pennsylvapis:
You stand on the eve OF q great battle.
II will be - hsrce and bitter % any that
WAS ever fought by right against wrong
To you ana to your children and your
children's children the result will be big
with JOY or sorrow. Against you stands
resources and Inspired with the energy OF
desperation. You sfe 70 strive agsiust
those who thrive by the trsffio In strong
drink. They arc the enNmiea OF the state,
the nation, the church and the homo.
They are the foes of virtue, peace, tenn.
perance and religion: Their business life
II stakcd upon the issue, and you may
expect resistance to the last extremity.
You have the opportunity to decide
whether sentence OF death shall be passed
upon this monstrous evil by writing it,
condemnation In the enduring lines OF
your organic law. Shall the peoples Law,
the constitution, forbid the manufacture
drink To you belongs the power TO per.
petuste or destroy, and upon you rests the
responsibility.
We call upon ell, OF whatever faith in
religion or Of belief in politi,s, OF Whatever
race, color or habit, upon oil who love their
couuHy .noH oD.iuL0u OI Snelr MONIES, 70
rally for the conflict Il 10 non .sectarian,
non bipartisan and for the general welfare.
Are you working men The wages OF
labor are lost TO the Garner when deposited
In tho saloon. They are needed for food
and clothing for children and comforts for
the family. Banish the drink trsfiio and
poverty among wage workers would be
CON mparativsly unknown.
Are you business menf Seventy a va
millions OF dollars are annually spent in the
state for drink. lf paid out for the neces.
saries OF life every industry would feel q
reviving stimulus.
Are you taxpayers' You pay nve times
an much 40 You receive from license money
10 hold criminal courts and support insane
p.rsons, psupers and criminals, the prod uct
of the saloons.
Are you Christians Tho most deadly
enemy OF your religion, your aspirations
and your hopes is the drink nsfIic. Under
which fsg do you march, that OF the saloon
or the churchf
Are you moderate drinkersq The
drunksrd Of to. morrow ia The moderate
drinker OF to-day, and ~ you ere strou z
enough to be safe, your In u uenco is needed
TO help weaker men.
Are You total sbs.ainers II you believe
total abstinence to be the best for you, yo,
must also believe 1t TO be BEST for your
ieliow-men. DO not refuse 10 help those
who have no power to resist the open door
OF tempstion. Can you take ballot from
the hands OF saloon. keeper and vote To
perpetuate bis business, aud keep your
pledge to discourage the drink traffic
Are you haoitual drunkardsS Help to
smite the enemy that has robbed you Of
health, character and oil that makes life
worth living.
Are you fsthersi II the traffic ondures
somebody's boys who are now growing up
must 10 It's customers. Have you any to
spare tor that purposef Somebody's girls
are blooming into womanhood To la
drunkafds' wives; fate to which death is
preierable. Have You daughters to give
" you are wise enough, ana strong enough
10 Keep your own, some other family must
give more than It's share OF children 10 pe
sent to dishonored and dishonorsble
drunkards graves by the saloon,
Are you men? Then put away cowaydlv
doubts OF ability to enforce law of your
own making, and strike blow for purer
government, cleaner politics and tho ever
lasting overthrow OF the worst business that
ever degraded mankind.
Are you womenf You need no exborts-
tion to Join the grand army OF REDEEM ption,
for on you falls the chief sorrOw. the end.
less misery, the unspeaksb,e degrAd alton
wrought by the drink traffic.
Come one, come all, bringing every Der
sussive argument, every moral power,
every social, business and friendly ipfiu.
ence. Give time and personal work TO the
great cause, and the 18Th Of June in this
year OF grace shall, aod willing, ring the
oestn kneii In THIS common wealth OF the
browning Vice OF the century, and A.
" "fenhsyiSsnis goes, 20 goes the UniOr.