The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-27
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next steps Wnlcn Is 10 caA upon tne governments
for protection.
There are those among US whose avarice
tempts them into establishing public places
where, for money, they will accomplish the
complete ruin of our children. Many good
mothers teaching, warnings and influence go
for naught when her boy has been drawn into
one OF these places by paid agent
Poor wretched mothers, we do call upon our
government for protection from this "monstrum
horrendum," the licensed saloon. Is il not one
OF the functions of government TO protect its
subjects IN their right to ellie, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness2' This liquor traffic de-
stroys life, deprives of liberty, making its VIC
tins slaves to appetite, and wrecks totally the
happiness of thousands of whole families. All
know this to De true
We hear of "sumptuary laws" and laws that
would interfere with personal liberty.
Audaclous talk, when We consider that the
right they defend is gigantic atrocity," which
Is the cause of nine-tenths OF the "woes and sor-
rows which blight and curse our modern age"
90 not suppose that prohibitory laws would
ever Interfere with homemade alcoholic drinks,
confined to home consumption. Where, then,
would be the loss of personal liberty to the
lovers OF the "maddening poison" to eat and
drink as they please? Several years ago while
listening to q temperance lecture by judge,
man OF note in his part OF the
country, who was using only moral
suasion and remonstrance, suddenly the query
entered my mind as to the reason why men like
the speaker, who were SO anxious to rid the
country OF intempersnce, did not in their bust
ness OF making put stop TO the wholesale
manufacture OF drunkards by law. And never
could TO this day see good reason why it can
not be done. II drunkards cannot be reclaimed
by the prohibition of the traffic the maau.ac.
ture of new ones out OF our boys might be
stopped
"The passion for aicoho, IL no. natural pas
sion like sexuality. but wholly artificial, max
ing 1t an evil like slavery that may be wholly
obliterated." Neither Is il any older than
slavery. Prohibition does not annihilate even
when it foroids murder, adultery.
theft and false witness" "If prohibition is
failure when 1t does not at once destroy the
evils which II forbids, then the prohibitory law
Of sinai is the masterpiece of failures. Prohibit
ton is a declaration of war. IL is proclama-
ton of outlawry. Rum selling in Maine is
sneaking fugitive, not dead but disgraced."
AS 1t should be. Make this outlawry national,
and men, young and old, who respect them.
selves will have nothing to do with or to say for
II Today good men are in bondage to the
liquor power. Its influence reaches far into
business and political circles. and grasps In Its
clutches the majority Of the men of this nation.
lhey dare not speak or vote against It. Our
government is in its hands, as witness the fail
ure OF the United States congress 10 ratify the
Brussels treaty, thus defeating sixteen other
national powers In their recent united efforts to
suppress the export rum traffic into Africa.
Our secretary of state is acting as agent of
brewers TO Introduce their beer into all parts of
this hemisphere. Our vice president is the
owner OF dramshop. Our citizens are towards
before this sin, and are determined to maintain
Tor II place with all respectable callings and a
power greater than any of them. 1t leaves us
mothers with no hope except in the third party.
and, with Miss Willard, we believe that, as the
prophet Zechariah said: at shall come to PASS
that in all the land. saith the Lord two parts
therein shall be cut OFF and die; but the third
part snail De lett therein. And will bring the
third part through the fire, and will try them az
gold is tried; they shall call ON My name, and
Will hear them; will say, it is My people; and
they shall say, the Lord is my God"