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NEW YORK, March 20. 1902.
70 fAs Edssss ~ tAs Esxs;
Ny attsntion has besn called TO q COM
m%unicss a N The |NEws" o. ths 18Th s.a In
with my ststemsnt made at the recent
Prohibition State Convention, held in
your city, that the Attitude Of the Re-
publican Party In hostile to temperance"
also that THE Republican Party Is . IL
censs party" and your correspondent po-
litely calls me o liar.
leave to offer the evidence upon which my
statement IL based. In every town or city
In the New England States, cited by Mr..
Anderson as showing the temperance
character Of the Republican party, where
prohibition II largely imperative, the en-
OF Republican officials. who wilfully vio-
late their oath OF Office, by ignoring the
shameful violation Of the laws they are
elected and paid to enforce. But to open
w oppose or desert the law at the polls,
would work the quick overthrow OF the
party in Maine or Vermont.
author OF the license system, but It stands
consistently for that policy against pro-
hibition, wherever possible. In 1888, in
the Republican State conventions, twenty
q were silent upon the liquor issue,
seven were for license, three for prohibit
tion and three wsro undecided.
plurality Of So S7 votes in 1883, and license
received . majority Of sos over prohibit
ton 166oI Harrison carried Michigan by
22,023 plurality; but the prohibitory
amendment wa defeated in favor Of
license. Harrison carried Nebraska by q
plurality Of 1888, the largest the Republic
can party evor received in that State, Y
vtonna~ -aa asaaf mad M oDofnaf srnhthi-
ton, By q greater mojority. Harrison
carried New Hampshire by 2,342 plurality,
while license was carried by u larger vote.
Pennsylvania gave Harrison 79452 plu-
rality, while license received a still larger
majority. In Rhode Island, with prohibit
tion secured In the constitution, and with
2 petition signed by 10000 people asking
for it, re-submission, thirty-ive Republic
cans and six Democrats in the Assembly
voted to re-submit, while in the Sepate
sixteen Republicans and Ave Democrats
voted for rc-submission, which resulted in
the restoration Of license to Rhode Island.
With tho National Republican Conven-
preston of hostility toward the liquor
trsfhc; with the Republican Vice Presi-
dent owning a of the most palatial
whiskey ssBuftets. IN washington, and
openly elected to honorary membership in
tho Indiana Liquor Dealers Association;
with the State department officially
ish America" with J. s. Ciarkson, who
openly sdvocates the repeal OF the prohib-
tory law In Iowa, as chairman Of the Re-
publican National Committees; and with
an increase from Eve gallons to fifteen and
onc-haIf gallons per capita In the con-
sumption Of intoxicating liquors during
aLl-A- - D>-~l.A. I--t.o>A d.
National AFFAIRS thoughtful citizens will
pause long before branding as liars" the
Increasing hosts Of voters who afirm that
THE attitude OF the Republican party
toward temperance IL n of hostility"
and that the same Republican party IL
the License party" OF the country to-day.
1 TIE true rue tsss q sh %s1 F Or parties, IL .b Is the sn an,
them" HENRY B. HUDSON.
Mote by the Editors: At the point indi-
Gated thus: q personal ~allusion nR
necessary TO the argument and possibly
ibelous, has been omitted.l
q II You Love Your Country
hear the Hon. Thomas b. Reed speak
of tts wonderful groWth under protcc-
ton. Saturday night, Infantry Hail.
The Small Manufactures.
PROVIDENCE, r. I.
tn the Edaor.of the New1
It seems to me that any party who
country IL really the party who favors the
people. And tho party which cares moth
Ing for the small manufactures is the
party which cares nothing for the people.
Under the present administration we find
that the bonds for cigar manufacturers
has been reduced from $500 to 500, which.
OF corrss, makes 1t much easier for the
alone should be enough to convince any
which party favors the workingman.
The Democratic party In Washington
would like to have all the business In this
county, placed under the international
revenue system aud all the tariff
we would havel All Of our industries
taxed ID this country, no tariff to shut out
foreign competition. cheap labor. Then
down comes our labor. that Is certain.
A tariff for revenue only has always
been the war cry OF the Democratic lead
err. Or, in other words, International
instead Of tariff. That great
last message the international revenue
was not even burdensome. Cleveland
ought to emigrate to England. where his
idea Of taxation was carried out TO the
letter. And the people who work are M
poor a. rats. I was a Cleveland man
during his campaign, I got my eyes open
and saw what Democracy meant, Inc now
. Democrat, although my relatives were
all Democratic for the past forty-five years.
NothinR but Republicanism can ever ave
this country, and IL IL 10 ever ruined
will be the cause Of IL. Bspend
that. Respectfully yours, "
a TARIFF q NoT A REVENUE MAN.