Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-18
e dssth n q. Of that battle will be the certai in

me end of that battle will be- The cart.ir
aeath of the liquor traffic. VIC
io.lIlcAL ECONOMY OF THE tn
Agaln, the liquor traffic is the foe NJ
guollc economy. There can be- No an
~ ring prosperity to the people who afi,
20 !ne body polite, as you do in this city
:" s.san'le ieeches 10 draw Off the blood.
money Thaey on which they live and thrive
10y .aA TIE sweat and muscle of tha
t hoisi people, VINO are least able to stand
from year to year. They san pt the poorer
OF the rich until they Join The rop pes' 81
tne impoverished. Think of a trade which
produces no tangible, valuable THING for
me public good; that marshals to it's
haunt every day 900, 900 men in America
700 drunk to earn thor daily wage, spend.
ing the wages of other days in riot and
deoauchery; that takes $94N, 600, 900 evarv
year from legitimate commerceto pamnar
and enrich a syndicate of shameless cor.
rupters! cur
What good does the public get from
ali TINS! Nc man Of truth and KNOWLEDGE
can show the public profit of it. There is
not a place on the continent, and have
me ndlsputable record at my command.
.nat can show a balance sheet of profit
from the presence of the liquor traffic.
1t is rank mendacity to claim that these
saloons are n public necessity and are
public blessings. No! They are the
curses OF your city. Ii you think not.
meet me at the Mayors court tomorrow
morning and show me how they profit
your people. They must 60 down under
the mighty verdict of righteous law. or
your laws and your city are alike doomed.
A DAY OF DEIIvERANcE is COMING.
But the day of deliverance from this
national curse is sure to come. There
can be no cessation of this controversy
with it until it shall be prohibited by ma
tlonal aw from ocenn TO ocean, from the
lakes to the Gulf. The discussion of it
has penetrated every arena of our life.
1t is q theme in every loyal pulpit of our
Lord: it sits like Banquo's unbidden
ghost at the board OF every political con-
ventlon; it is thundered from a thousand
platforms every week, it has interviewer
itself with the machinery of the press,
the mightiest of the means on which the
arm of progress leans These good
women-our faithful mothers, our loving
wives, our pure daughters-have taken
this burden of their hearts into their
closets. and, upon their knees, in holy
converse with God, have sent their pray
ers, like white winged, wounded doves, to
sprinkle the mercy seat of the eternal
throne with the blood and tears of theil
sutferings and sacrifices. And God has
heard! Else whence cometh this mighty
zeal, this answering purpose Of brave,
cultured, Christian men. to cast down this
Moloch of our age? Silently, surely, a
grand armyis gathe ring to the standard OF
this principle of prohibition. Some day,
suddenly as the earthquakes awakening
they will come to the front. From the
~rock-bound shores of Maine to where the
placid Pacific rolls up its Pactolean floods
ut the Golden Gate, from the icy tringes
of these Northern lakes, where the au-
roral day rises up and leans across the
zenith to kiss the crest of the uplifting
southern CROSS, this host will march tt
the ballot box, the place of judgment fol
every great American issue, and in those
---ballots, that fall MS still
AS snowflakes foil upon the sod,
And execute the frecman's will,
AS lightnings do the will of God
will write it in the Constitution of tn,
land that the liquor traffic must go frou
the soil of this Union forever.