The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-12
Vote no License.

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we hear good deal of complaint OF
the lawless liquor selling that was
carried on round about the camp
ground, and which was winked at by
the so.called legal official guardians
of the camp. Such neglect of official
duty is advanced as evidence that
"prohibiiion don't prohibit" and
more whiskey sold and drank under
prohibition than under lieense.' No
sensible person of coarse belle, es
such rubbish, but the saloon party,
large contingent of which pose as
temperance men, knowing that their
arguments are likely to have more
weight with the tboughtless than if
they announced themselves out and
out sa'oon advocates. boldly continue
to repeat these payable lies. If
constables and sberitfs saw thieves
taking other peoples property and
didn't attempt to arrest them how
long would the law against theft or
any other crime of that nature he
respected by the lawless? This is
precisely the case in regard to the
enforcement of prohibition laws.
There are no laws better enforced
than prohibition when even an ordi-
nary reasonable effort is made by the
officers to enforce those laws. But
when the liquor party interest them
selves in having such friends appoint.
ed or elected guardians and makers
of the laws, it is the most natural
thing that they will incline to favor
their friends and try not to see or
heor of prohibition laws being raided
by the )awless whiskey element.
So long as the two old parties are
encouraged by temperance people
voting for the candidates they name,
SO long will prohibition laws be
loosely enforced as possible. Look
round among the guardians of the
law and men in official positions.
national, state and county, and a
large majority of item are active
sympathizers with the whiskey ele-
ment. While about nine tenths of
the population are opposed to the
liquor trade, pretty nearly all legal
and official positions are filed up out
of the one tenth who are on the side
of the saloon. And the cause of this
deplorable public spirit can be traced
to party sevitude and lack of genuine
manhood on the part Of the nine
tenths The active evil element out
vote, bull doze and coerce the great
majority into pucilanimous subsection
to their wishes. "Christian virtue"
has grown to be mighty weak ele.
ment in the make up of modern
society 1t has scarcely the strength of
tea leaves that have been drawn six
times. The liquor and vicious ele
ment laugh at it and poke it to one
side like cattle. If we had as many
stalwarts for the right as we have for
the parties, how the wicked would
flee even when no man pursued.
We are rapidly approaching
another election at which the vicious
and liquor element ask the people to
sell them the sanction and respecta-
bility that law gives, to open again
their saloons in public and carry on
their business without let or hin.
drance, beside and on an equality
with the most honorable in the land.
They tell you they will sell any how,
and you had better take tneir money
and make them respectable traders
than what they have been doomed to
for four years, smugglers in the dark.
They will not continue to sell much
'any how" and they have not sold
very much, Notwithstanding their
boasts, and they will continue TO sell
in lessening quantities till the vanish
ing point is reached if the law is
rigidly a hered to against the traffic.
and let every man vote no license!
when he goes to the polls who vaines
good morals, good order, and public