Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05
The Future Is Full of Hope, Saws Mr.. Fred
T.. Wheeler

1. The people rule after all. Politi-
clans and party press may deceive the
people for time; may unseat duly
elected representatives to increase par
tlsan majority; may pass "force bill"
to continue themselves in power; may
legislate against the masses in the in
terests of corporations and classes; may
corrupt a sufficient number of voters in
close States to carry a Presidential cleo
ton; but there is, after all, an end to
their rope, and the people can and
finally will select them to stay at home. {"
2. II the Democrats act wisely during
the next two years they should elect the
next President and Congress and secure
the Senate by very large majority.
This should result in the dissolution of
the Republican party as such. There
must be all opposition party. 1t will
rally around the issues OF the liquor
question, the labor problems and the
agricultural interests. The Prohibition
party is the only party having national,
State and county political machinery.
Wise action on our part should be taken
to concentrate these elements within
s ,,si, t party 0arc leaders sSasaAa study
3. Slowly but steadily the people are
pIiC llHuOI pIODlcH anu
the best methods of dealing with it.
The exposures of the perfdy Of the press
in Nebraska and Pennsylvania, indi-
eating the Observation-Disclosures of state
ments published i'll the daily press re-
lating to the operation of license and
prohibitory laws: the extent to which
the machinery of both Democrat and Re-
publican parties is being used i'll the in
tcrests of the saloon system; the enor-
nous financial burdens it entails: the
fearful personal and social results that
follow in its wake; the threatened de-
struction of city government through its
dcmoralizing influences; and many other
facts are making deep impression on
the American people. and when the
proper time comes they will record their
will as emphatically as they did last
Tuesday, and the legaliZed grog-shop
will go forever.
4. The ballot reform law is a valuable
aid to the Prohibition party, as it places
a Prohibition ballot in the hands of every
voter. We trebled our vote in this city
from this cause. The Prohibitionists
should, however, have had one of the
increased number of inspectors. AS the
party casting the third highest vote, we
should now make an energetic and en-
phatic demand that in the interests of
fair play and fair count when this law
is amended next winter that feature
shall be incorporated. We still suffer
much from the throwing out of scatter
ing Prohibition votes.
5. The result in this State settles the
question of constitutional amendment
contest next April emphatcally in the
negative. trust our Republican tenn
pcrance friends will hold their party
strictly responsible for the fraud perpe-
trated on them by submitting an amend
mcnt without the empowering act neces-
sary to render such submission operative,
when they had ample time and plenty OF
votes to have done so last winter, and
only postponed doing so to enable them
to appeal to temperance men this year to
vote for Republican legislative candi-
dates in order to pass such necessary
enabling act. The fraud was exposed
and did not serve its purpose.
The future is bright and full OF hope
for the Prohibitionists. Let's close up
ranks and push forward more energeti-
cal!y than ever. FIRED Il. WHEELER