Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-05-02
MUST PROHIBIT LOTTERIES,
A Trail County Man Wants the Republi-
can Party to Adopt Prohibition.

A Trail County Man Want the Republi-
can Party to Adopt Prohibition.
EDITOR TR1BUNE-What does the repub-
lican party of North Dakota offer to the
young man?
Many young men coming into the state;
others already here are asking, '"What does
the republican party hold up for us to fight
for" Our fathers have voted and fought
for the principles of the republican party.
rhey were lofty principles, and we are
proud of being sons of fathers who upheld
them. We honor and revere the party
which stood as their exponent. Our
fathers have transmitted these principles,
and their patriotic devotion to us. and the
same motives which actuated them to cast
their votes for Abraham fLincoln in 1860
shall now actuate us in casting ours. We
love principle as devotedly as did juliet
love her Romeo, and with her We exclaim:
whats in a name? That which we call a rose
BY any other name would smell as sweet"
We cannot vote a ticket merely because
the word Republican" is written at the
top. The ticket we vote must stand for
something. We cannot fight for a platform
built on the slippery sands of passiveness.
Our constitutional convention last year
submitted the prohibitory clause for a sepa-
rate vote and shortly after its adjournment
the republican party met in its first stale
convention. There was a grand OppOrtu-
nifty to commit the party to a noble princi-
pie, and had the leaders of the party lone
so. in all probability the prOhibitOry clause
would have carried by a much larger ma
jority. But no; the leaders Of the party
thought that public sentiment was not
ready Tor it. DID they not know that if
the organizers of the National republican
party had waited for public sentiment,
even to-day the shackles of slavery might
be hanging over our nation?
But as it was, prohibition carried and the
republican party truly fulfilled its promise
to enact a law for its enforcement. 1t will
not do to wait for the results of that law.
The very fact Of its enactment by a repub-
lican Legislature makes it necessary for the
republican party at its next state conven-
ton to take a square stand obI vhis question.
We see the democratic party divided; n
party advocating a high license platform,
the other advocating a fee trade, single tax
platform. Let the republican party of
North Dakota in its next platform declare
itself unalterably in favor of prohibition.
Let it declare in favor of an amendment to
the constitution forever prohibiting any
kind OF a lottery within the limits of this
state. Let it stand firmly by the republi-
can congress on the tariff question. Let
the platform be Sc wOrded, too, that there
can be no mistake as to its meaning; and
let it nominate men for Office who are
known to be trustworthy opponents of
these principles. Then it can unsheath its
aword, and, rallying around its platform,
say to all opponents:
Come one. come all, this rock
Shall fly from its firm base rs soon as l."
With the republican party fearlessly
advocating these principles its destiny is
secure. A YOUNG REPUBLICAN.
Portland, N. D., April 81, 189.