The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-04-11
Good Templars and the Prohibition
PARTY

EaElJ.
Communicated.
AS Editors are not supposed to know
everything, ard the Editor of the MIDLAND
JOURNAL NAV not deem ii wisest at all
times to tell all he does know, we would
like TO add word on question on which
the youthful members Of the present organ
ization at Rising Sun seem to be very con-
veniently and bllssfully ignorant.
The Prohibition Party was organized at
Lodge by its principal leaders, who were
voters, and who construed the Good Tenn
plars pletform just as the Editor has done,
that while Moral Suason and Persistence
were good things to be observed inside the
Lodge Room where three-fcurths were not
voters, and more than half were females
their duty as citizens did not end there, and
they held their moral obligations as Good
Templars TO be much better basis as bond
of union than any ties of political parties,
that did not only not recognize their de-
mands for protection of the homes as against
the saloons, but were by their every official
act and utterance, proving themselves to be
The subservient tools Of the Liquor Power.
When this saloon power effected national
organization for the purpose of controlling
LEGISLATION and nominating Legislators, they
at once saw that a political union Of the
r. + ID. l. |: a. l. T..I.
SHY and they freely and willingly assumed
the additional sacrifice and odium that is
the lot OF all pioneers in reform in Church
and State, and such men ass. D. Hastings,
S. B. Chase, Julius Spencer, J. j. Hickman,
James Black, J. H. Orne, Geo. w. Balm,
John Russell, and later that bright star, the
lamented John B. Finch, gave their names
with others equally identified with temper
ance work, TO build up Prohibition Party
to supplement and carry out at the baLot
boz the very essence Of the Lodge Room
pledge.
TIE names of those who were radical
enough in their views to stand by their
teLpeIhHce piiucifieS ihfouSh tEiCh anu
thin. evil report and good report, will go
down to history with the names of john b.
Cough and John B. Finch, while the names
of Marriott Brosius, Louis Wagner and r
r. Stubs who are content to be used as
stalking horses, from behind whose backs
the saloon can deal death to all prohibition
ny,o nty will ha halIaip
contempt by those whose tools they have
been. There is nothing that creates public
sentiment half so fast as the political"
Press and whether that lie healthy or un-
healthy depends entirely upon the character
of that pres nd the influences that con-
troll it, and these, the then and present lead
ers of Good Templary in the world, saw,
and that it would be as rational to adopt
the Police Gazette as the official organ Of the
Order, DIS to expect to create it, or dissem
mate truth through very impure channels.
According to our correspondents
account, the leaders, the head and
front of the Order of Coed TemplQrs.
were the founders Of the Prohibition
party who. discovering that the ga
loon had struck its tents and took
up position on political grounds,
determined to follow the en- my in
place of remaining on the old camp
ground in front of the deserted lines
where only few quaker guas" were
mounted on the breast works as
scare crows. Hour correspondents
statements are facts, and he claims
to he prepared to back them up by
data, the Order of G. 7. is the home
guard" and not the line of battle of
the temperance army, II this damag.
ing statement is not true we hope
the order willcontradict it promptly.