Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-01-10

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can now run on tor a year, unless
/ should move to your city and
help you in your fight against
what Lord Randolph Churchill
truly calls "the destructive, dew.
ilish liquor traffic." for it is the
prolific cause of crime, disease,
pauperism and insanity. Stamp
with your strongest condemna.
ton the license system, high or
low. The greatest curse OF the
country is the liquor traffic, pro
duciug sorrow, suffering and star
walton. Laws in favor of the man
uiacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors, protect and encourage
this crime producing traffic;
hence many, If not all the drunk
ards, are made drunksrds by law.
License means legalized lawless.
ness, and an incalculabie loss
to labor; while Prohibition means
good government and prosperity.
10 license the cause of crime If
satanic, and our vote is the stand
ard of our morals on the question.
If the people 90 will it, the saloon
can be destroyed.
To sanction the iniquitous IL
quor traffic, is to sanction crime
and treason. Then outlaw the
bars and grog. shops by your bal
lots, and let no man who calls
himself gentleman, be guilty OF
completely with this crime.
The Minnesota platform of the
Democratic party contains this
plank: "The traditions of the
Democratic party being in favor
of personal liberty, therefore, be
it resolved, that the party is OPP
posed to all class and sumptuary
legislation" -
The Nebraska platform: owe
denounce Prohibition, and regard
the attempt of the Prohibition
party to force sumptuary laws ON
this State as dangerous to the lib
erty of. the citizens, and hostile to
the welfare Of the people"
I cannot vote with the Demo-
cratic party. 1t upholds licenses
and protects the diabolical liquor
traffic, and therefore, as a Chris
tan, / am opposed to the Demo-
cratic party.
The Republican party? How
does it stand? Read.
John Sherman: mo matter
how much stir the Prohibition
lists make, if our party take up
their cause, We may as well hang
up the fiddle and the bow"
Albany, IN. W Express: ''The
sooner our Prohibition friends
become convinced that the Re-
publican party as an organiza-
ton, does not favor the enact
ment of Prohibition laws, the
sooner they will arrive at the ex-
act truth"
Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette: at is vain to say that the
Republican party must and shall
become a Prohibition party. 1t
must and shall do no such thing.
Those who are in it simply to
make it 90, might as well 60 a.
once, for they will not succeed.
New York Tribune: "It the
Republicans of the Legislature
want to reduce the Prohibition
vote in New York next fall by a
figure that would have given the
State to Blaine twenty times
over in 1884, they should pass
a high license bill, and do it
promptly"
I am opposed to license, high
or low, and am therefore opposed
to the Republican party.
The Prohibition party pro-
poses to outlaw the traffic and
annihilate it by enforced law. If
it be right for a Christian to take
any part in human governments,
then I, as a Christian, am COM
PEELED to vote with the Prohibi-
ton party. ! voted for st. John
in 1884, for Fisk and Brooks in
1888, and shall vote the PrOhibi.
ton ticket in 1892. If Christians
vote as they pray, we ought to
elect Prohibition President in
1892.
My vote shall never sustain the
liquor traffic, nor any political
party that upholds the internal
business. That business is an en-
envy of my country, and | shall
not be a traitor. That business
is an enemy OF my home, and
shall not be false to my marriage
vows. That business is an enemy |
to the school, and l shall not en-
courage ignorance. That bust
ness is an enemy to Christianity,
and l shall not sanction intidelity
and the degradation ofmy fellow
man. On with the fight! Keep
on this war with ballots, for God,
and home and native land. Such
a ballot is never cast away. 1t
is the only one that does count.
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