The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-05-18

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tion is right for God and the bible are on
its side. The great question was !, what
is the best means to destoy the traffic in
! Intoxicating liquor? Moral suasion is
gooe and right, but moral suasion is of
no ayail TO combat the evil unless we
use the power God has placed in our
hands as American citizens. ''If 1 am
asked,'' said the speaker, ''Te what
political party do you belong? i answer
anna mugwump. am a democrat of
the George Washington stripe with a
hundred years of added intelligence. 1
am republican of the Abraham Lin
colnSi stripe with thirty years of
added dintelligence. But the democratic
party abandoned my principles one,
hundred years ago and the republicans
abandoned my principles before was
able to vote" He had nothing to say
about the old parties. They were much
alike, whether in Iowa, Kansas or North
Carolina. Rum sellers would vote with
either party as it best served their inter
ests to do SO. He would never cast a
ballot that could not be distinguished
from the ballot of the saloon keeper.
They would never vote with him and he
would never vote with them. The tariff
was purelySa local issue.e 1t was con-.
temptible to exalt it to the dignity of a
national question. In the east the man
ufacturers want free raw wool in order
to make cheap clothing. In the west,
sEwhere manufactures are few and raw
wool plenty, they want protected wool.
In the timbered sections they want
lumber protected; on the plains they
wanted it free, and so it goes with every
thing.
Rev. o. D. Taylor then addressed the
meeting. He spoke of the great diff
Guilty of getting men, who were unit on
the evils of the liquor traffic, to agree as
to the best meansto exterminate them.
He used to think that Christian men
who remained in the old parties and
voted the old parties tickets violated
there consciences In so doing. He did
not think SO any more. He was just as
4 honest when he used to drink liquor
q and vote the republican ticket as he was
today. He was not so certain that
everybody thought prohibition was the
only right method as he was ten years
ago. What we want is to educate men
up to the position that prohibition is
the only effective measure. Prohibition
had to do with morals. You must not
call man hypocrite because he can
= not see as you do son this question.
Each must give an account Of himself to
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falls. Is your relation toward this
whole question such that you are Will
) ing that God should judge your motives
and conduct3 g held that, moral re-
4 forms are brought about by two forces
I by the power Of God and the power OF
evil. He knew church building back
east, in which one old woman used
every Sunday for years., to visit. and
pray and read the scriptures and go
through the form of worship. A church
used to meet here but clever skeptic
had scattered IT leaving only the old
woman, who ceased not to pray her
God would again visit it and build it up.
While she prayed the people laughed.
What could a poor old woman like that
do? But the day came when a work of
grace was commenced there and the old
woman saw her prayers answered in
large numbers being gathered to worship
with her. When drunlxard stops drink
he becomes prohibitionist. There are
two kinds of prohibitionists one is
composed of those whom reason and
truth have convinced of the evils of in
temperance and the other of those who
have learned these evils from practical
experience. The evils of slavery had
gone on accommodating till the Dred
Scott decision. This was evils triumph
but slavery's downfall. So will it be
with the rum traffic, a day which, he
prayed, God might. hasten. Rev. DIR.
Burnside of Buffalo, N. Y, said he had
been so long engaged in educating peo-
pie in favor of prohibition principles
that he had almost forgotten his old
party affiliations. He knew nothing
that could be said in favor of the rum
traffic.. He saw no good in it. If he op-
posed it at all he must oppose it wholly
and with all his might. He had many
friends here and in his Eastern home.
The liquor traffic was an enemy of his
Observation-Disclosures his enemy. Happy
1.-The family which has not witnessed its
ravages! He had been pastor of a
church for. many years and liquor had
been the worst enemy the church had
TO contend with. II was an enemy of
Gods church and the Kingdoms of this
world Would never become tha kiugdedfaiss
of our Lord and his Christ unless the