The Press., 1892-03-24
Editor The Press: My attention is

Editor The Press: My attention is called to Communication in your paper of March 10, concerning Dr. Wayland's address at Bridgeport. "Candor'' says that The Home ignores Dr. .Wayland's real points. "Candor' would not say that Ii he had fairly understood The Home. The facts of record as to the abolition of slavery show that the Lincoln abolitionists originally set out to save the union without slavery if possible, with slavery If necessary" But they soon found that the union with slavery was impossible; hence the emancipation proc lamation. The point of The Home is that there is 8 vital lesson to be learned here, namely: that, as it is as impossible to save the union with the saloon as it was to save it with slavery, the abolition or prohibition policy should be adopted before It becomes military necessity" or in other words, 5efore the sonr comes.
 It is not to be denied that had '.public opinion realized the practical necessity of abolition twenty years earlier, the struggle against the slave power would have been much less difficult and pro- fonged, It was because of the fatal dal- hanoe or the north with compromise meas ures that the slave power became so in- trmehed and the final struggle so terrible The Home fully recognizes and applauds Dr. WAyland's high motive; but it be- lievee that when he fails to urge imme- diate and radical action for the complete overthrow of the saloon system, he is ,tolerahng again that fatal dalliance which daily increases rather than relieves the difficulties of the liquor question.
 The whole trend of the history of great reforms against public evils, and espec- ially the history of our own struggle against the slave power, emphasizes the fact'th she sooner this nation makes up it's mind to uproot the license system and suppress the alcoholic drink traffic with out compromise, the easier and the soon- CT settled will that problem be. There fore The Home holds that the prohibition party offers more rational and effective plan of procedure than the so-called re- stricdonists offer. Respectfully,
 ALLEN Bs LINCOLN, Editor .New England Home. ]" Of course the first thought suggested by the above is that the writer censures President Lincoln for preferring to save the union with slavery rather than not save it at all. The question is suggested would the editor of The Home now pre- fer no country at all to one in which liq- uor is sold. under license? The aboli- tienists of the w endell Phillips stripe did not aid In thegro wth of anti-siavery senti- ment. TReiE inten1perance of action rath- CT retarded 1t. It was the New York York Tribune, rather than MT. Garrison's paper, that steadily built up sentiment that crystalized into the republican party and made it impossible for slavery to continue. We never can have prohibition until the majority of the people want it.. Fhe. growth of sentiment is toward it, and in many. rural communities prohibition ideas predominate: The work of all good temperance people should be to foster that growth,
 Did the slave power strengthen it's po- sition during ..;the fatal dalliaahce of the north with compromise measures ?'' Would the south have resorted to arms If they were gaining ground by compro- mise? Rather it was the fatal certainty that the institution was being girdled by the conservative forces of the republican party that alarmed .the slave holders, who had simply laughed at the progress made by the ultra aboitionists. Just so to-day the saloon power is in fear of work being done outside of rather than within the