The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-03-21
Friday. March Ia, 1880
Prepare for the Bottle.

Among the House bills passed by the
Senate on Monday was the bill "to resubn'it
local option in Cecil county," And SO Mr..
Writ fails the best element among his con.
stituents 10 favor the liquor curse. And
thus will it ever he till temperance people
stand solidly together and declare against
every candidate and party that will not give
a pledge TO prohibit licensing the sale Of
alcoholic drink.
But il were idle to erieve over mischief
that has been done and is always in danger
of being done while local prohibitory laws
are accepted instead Of general laws. The
fight is ever to be renewed and the work
never to be finished until rightly done. All
the work must be gone over again at an in
finite expenditure Of time, money and labor
The organized liquor leagues will pour
$4,000 if need be into the county to re.
establish the saloon again if they think
it will be an advantage commensurate
to the outlay. The county will be flood
ed with false literature and all the
papers that can be bribed to take sides
by money or party influence will be enlisted
TO deceive the too superficial and credulous
public. The fight must be made 10 the
death to keep this worse than hydra, the
saloon, out of the county. The w. G. T. u.
will have work before them which will
tax all their strength and courage to per-
form. A new work is to he done which de-
mands that much of their routine bushes be
dropped for the time being. Every house
in the county should be visited and every
mother and every daughter appealed TO-,
literature distributed and personal effort
brought to bear upon them to enter the
contest to battle against rum, if this fight is
to be won. The signers of the fatal rum
petition which cowed the representatives
who stood up in the State House at Annap-
oils and allowed mildew from the fetid lips
of the saloon to blight their manhood,
should be visited first, and the battle not
merely carried into Africa, but commenced
there. There is not mother or daughter
in one of these homes whose hands are in
nocent of the rum trade that will not rise up
and protest sgainst the act of father, brother
and husband who has, perhaps, thoughtless.
ly aided by his signature to invite this
black cloud charged with threatening furies,
ready TO rain down upon the county, and
fill every home possible with anguish, tears
and dread.
And the Good Templars, who have been
holding protracted picnic with closed
door for these many years, have real work
placed before them and outdoor work too,
fthey are willing to do it. The prohlbi-
tionists who haye stood like the little band
of Greeks at the pass of Thermopyle, for
seeing this impending danger, have never
ceased 10 proclaim and fortell its approach;
and exhort all temperance people to make
a,common cause against the whiskey power,
which was all the time guiding and direct
the old parties. But let there be no longer
any wrangling among the temperance ranks
and every one prepare for the battle. The
contest is to be desperate one with ''slews"
of money furnished by the liquor associa-
tons and the bosses and machines of both
old parties on the side Of the saloon, there
is no FOOLS play to be encountered. The
license fees prescribed in this new satanic
charter to start Old Nick's furnaces again in
Cecil county are for saloon, where the ore
fresh from the mines is smelted, $3.50; FOR
hotel where it is used as an alloy with "ac-
commodation for the public" the considera-
tion is placed at $3.50. Other provisions Of
the bill we are not yet acquainted with, but
of course they are the usual list of "restric-
tions," which cause the saloon keeper 10
put his thumb TO his nose and wag his little
finger.