The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-09-06
Worse than Phariseeism"

The Free Lance with that charact.
erist;c innocence born of ignorance,
in it's latest effusion Oh the efficacy of
party platforms as indicative Of the
principles Of its party, lays o or
less stress on the planks in the repub-
lican platform on Misrepresentation
with a view by comparison of casting
odium on the Democratic party. A
few minutes reflection and pcrusal of
the following we believe will show
| the Observation-Disclosures. baselessness OF
any such prctension rs MI lacklati.
! nish freelancish friend has bcastfully
assumed. In the first place..
ANENT THE LOTTERY.
On this subject we
adopt the language Of the learned
editor Of the Devils sLake News and
say this, that the Pioneer in its issue
of February 18th last and in several
issues since; went on recordon the
lottery question. 1t didn't wire any
body to learn what it should do. II
was and is and has been against the
lottery. Il hasn't yet made sppli.
cation for admission to the political
Sun day School class on the strength
Of its opposition to the lottery. There
are o: her evils worse than the lottery,
which it as freely and unequivocally
condemns. One of those evils i
hypocrisy. If ever any state was
ours I'd with such an evil the State OF
North Dakota is. OF all the cheap
pharisaical public morality in the
nation, this state has the cheapest.
and we might add that Bottineau
county can lay claim to the cheapest
lot of all, if the Free Lance is to be
as an index. On the
PROHIBITION
question, the position of the Demo.
cratic party and of the Pioneer is
hat majorities must rule and the
having voted to sustain prohi-
'ition it should be inforced until the
'eople after Civ ng it fair trial will
ind out as in Iowa, Kansas and even
n Maine, that prohibition does not
'rohibit, but increases and intensi.
les the evils that might be re-
corrected and stopped by a
oper system of license. In the
meantime there can be no harm of a
esubmission of the question and il
prohibition prove such a success as is
,laimed, then it will be continued.
out give the people a chance to de-
.ermine for themselves which is more
beneficial to public health and NOR
prohibition Or high license.
A few facts and opinions culled
from republican and other reputable
sources are here given which will
to show the utter fallacy and
of the claim Of the repub-
|ican party to the appreciation and
support Of the horest, can lid, truth
hypocrisy-hating voters of the
tate.
The Edge!y Nail which does no.,
ndorse the resubmission plank o:
he democratic platform, applies the
Of analytic dissection and thus
avs bare the hideous deformities OF
republican platform and We ask
'ou to C a carefully that platform
nd see if there is a single declaration
wherein the party declares itself in
avor of prohibition.
It simply states that ''the people of
Dakota have declared tor the
extermnation of the saloon
-notsthat the Republican party has
90 declared. It promises to Join with
'.the friends of the home in insisting
upon u fair test" from which we are
left to infer that should the test prove
unfavorable it is ready to throw pro-
hibition overheard. 1t received the
support of the salocnkeepers Of Fargo
and Grand Forks. On that platform
was nominated a man for governor
who does not believe in prohibition,
who voted against it, and who would
again vote against it lift went to the
people, and who believes in licensing
the saloon. The majority of the
me OF the ticket do not believe in
prohibition, voted against it. and
would do so again. The convention
that adopted that platform and
named that ticket was controlled by
men who do not believe in prohibi
zion, who voted against it, and who
would do SO again The convention
that made this declaration in favor
Of enforcing the law was itself an
open and u%nblushing violator of the
law. consuming thousands of dollars
worth Of liquors sold and bought con-
trsry to law. and its members would
b the first to come under the, law If
their resolutions were t, be acted
.npon.f Itfsa nlice ,ss and lottery
ring ticket. N matter how hard The
Free Lanee9 may try to swallow it