The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-06-11
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Written expressly for the GLOBE REPUBLICAN,
DANGERS TO THE REPUBLIC from the
Rum power are many. They are. how
ever. of the came general character.
They menace the will of the people in
national, state. county. township and
city elections. These menaces show
themselves in the prostitution of public
trusts to purely selfish and ignoble pur-
poses. The Rum power demands pat
ronage. furnishes money to buy it. and
secures it.
| NEARLY HALF the aldermen in some
of our large cities are saloon keepers,
while several others are wholesale liquor
dealers. You cannot expec: any meas
ures to be enacted and enforced that have
for their object the enforcement of ex-
listing temperance laws, much less the
suppression of the traffic in intoxicating
liquors.
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WORSE STILL, the very worst elements
in our social and political system gather
about the saloon and the ''joint." They
are always ready for nomination to
Office. or to join hands in an election.
OF late they form compacts by which
they refuse to support any man for office
who does not support their particular
business. Then with the intoxicating
cup to excite the animal passions. pros
pect of sudden wealth and power APP
pealing to their ambition, aud heart
unchecked by conscience and unused to
moral restraint, and we have man Ca
pable of any sort of dishonesty ranging
all the way from the public plunderer of
millions, as was done by Boss Tweed a
few years ago, down to the latest street
contract peculation. Such are the re-
results of whisky domination in some
measure.
WHEN MEN are drinking or drunk they
will stOOp to things too low to mention.
when if they were not debased and de-
bauched by drink they would be reason
ably honest men, and some of them no.
BILE and pure minded. Many seem not
to understand this fact, that drink blunts
mans moral sensibilities. But such is
the effect upon the brain. and then upon
the conscience and judgment that the
drinker becomes Obtuse, and hence pre-
pared for any wicked deed. Thus it is
not strange that in the caucus. at the
polls, and after the election, men under
the influence Of intOxicants will do any
thing to secure the success and the ad-
vancement of political party. And
the Rum power is just as tyrannical in one
party as in another. Indeed, it is some
times one political party then another
bowling to King Alcohol to secure his
large surplus Doodle.
IT
In ANY STATE where the political party
stOOps to bid for the whisky vote by put
ting into their party platform plank to
please the Rum power. just to that sk-
tent is the party being dominated by this
Beast of the Still. Aud to this extent
does this worst of all foes of the race
stand with his foot on the neck of the
party that bids for his patronage. Down
with the Rum power.
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The OPEN SALOON has gone. The
joint is hiding in the cellar, garrett, back
alley and stable. 1t must go, too. The
''original package" house is in its infancy
but before it grows to strength and in
fluence it, too, must go. The whole
frothy, Shiny, filthy, debauching crew
must 20. We have no use for them,
with their polluting influence upon our
fair American soil. The Rum power
danger must 60.
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