Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-28
A PRoHIBlTIoNIST CHALLENGE.
The Sophistry of the Republican Preten-
slons of Interest in the workingman
ThoroughlY Exposed.

slons of Interest in the Worklngman
Thoroughly Exposed.
Editor Gazette h Journal; Republican zeal
with an inhnitesimal knowledge Of the
subject discussed are the characteristic
features of tho editorial columns Ut the
Daily Republican, and when It's editor drops
out. exhausted from battling with political
windmills, like Ceryantes' hero, the local
sage takes up the tale and rattles away ats
great pace, as witness the following piece
of transformation, taken from its columns
of September 10Th;
The Philadelphia B'dgr typos have had tho
price Of composition reduced from 45 to 40
conts per thousand since the presont dun
times set In. Even the mint has ielt the hard
limos, and the majority Of the competitors
being robbed are Democratic or fanatic tenn
perance agitators have received what they
voted for They couldn't eyon stand good
times and big wages.
It is the empty vessel that makes tho
loudest sound. Every statement made in
this paragraph is a distorted one and
entirely unwarranted and docs base in
justice to the proprietor Of the Ledger,
who, instead OF robbing his men, as the
article asserts, has, within the last ~
years, paid out, 1t is said, Sl92,O 900 more
wages than has been demanded by the
Union. But this is not question for me
to deal with. 1t is not my business.
The whole paragraph shows the intel
lectual poverty that has struck the Repub-
lican press, and is fair specimen of their
articles from the New York Tribune down.
When the upholders OF the erstwhile
| party Of moral ideas" are not pointing
| with PRIDE to their long since dead issues
they are all Of them, including the penny
ante" at Third and King streets, beabor-
ing the Prohibitionists, railing at them
ike very drabs, or else trying to calole
them with empty promises of what the q.
y. Z. will do for Temperance and
morality" at some time to come. Bald ig-
norance is further displayed by the author
when he refers tn Prohibitionists as being
| fanatic temperance agitators." The only
| fanatic temperance agitatUrs that know
| Of are those good Republicans in Whining
ton W no believe in the temperance. reform
promised TO come along when the ltepub-
| lican party gets into power in the State of
Delaware. Did the writer OF the article in
| question ever read that plank in the last
national Republican platform which says !;
I'VE sYmpathize with all well-directed
efforts towards temperance and morality2'
The Prohibitionists got out of the ITEM
perance' sympathy party long ago, and
we mean to stay out. We have hung the
Grape, that insignia of death Within, on
the front door of the Republican party.
Its present kicks are simply the effects of
shocks from tin galvanic battery.
of course, being dead, the heirs
will soon divide the effects, including
the threadbare tariff cloak. which is so
nearly WORKOUT that the wayfarer, even
though fool, can see the sham OF it all.
The tariff of the future will have to be
made to protect the wage Garner us well as
the wage.payer. II the "pauper labor" OF
Europe is allowed TO come into our ports
free it would be just as we'll to allow their
goods to come in on the same footing. II
the proprietor of the RpWbliean could get
an Italian to work on his paper few cents
cheaper than he can get protected
American labor he would not be long in
getting rid of the protected" whether
the wicked Democrats were in power or not
The Republican managers of Delaware
will never get over those 5S5 Prohibition
votes (may their tribe increase) cast last
November. III, p" said one of the Repub
lican managers, 1.-THE temperance Republic
cans had not voted for the Prohibitionist.
last November we would not have had tn,
'growler law" Bless their innocent souls
There is not lower deep of nethermos
degradation that the Republican party
bosses in Delaware would not stoop to 4
they could by any process get the sole
vote OF the liquor interest and thereby
fasten themselves on the body polite
They would outbid the Democrats ant
! drag the affairs of God at the heels o
,, the dives IL the brothel-keepers woulC
! but place them in power. Temperance
/ fanatics" are we Prohibitionists2 We tel
| the bantling intellectuals of the DAHL
: Republican that the day has not yet dawned
nor will the circling hours ever bring tn
day. when the true and tried Prohibition
4 lists of Delaware will tie their politica
: fortunes TO the saloon-ruled Republican
7 party. The twaddle dished up by tn
l paper in question in It's editorial columns
I particularly on the tariff, gives common
sense people tired feeling. No one but
narrow-minded person would pen sucl
( articles, and no one who has sense enoug
s To find his way home by daylight, excep
2 the readers of the Republican tariff article:
q believes that the Democratic party Is re
a sponsible for the present stringency.
@ VIII the editor of the Rspublicdn tell U
q we are or are not living unuer the more Q
4 less benetcent laws enacted by the Repul
4 lican party during the last 80 years? An
n will he tell us why that party did no
d while in office, enact some law to kee
D. themselves perpetually in power If we al
n in danger of panics every time they sufft
o defeat? The voters last fall simply pricke
/, the bubble OF Republican pretense. Th
h Prohibition party will lay foundatio
n and build on the hearts and consciences
G the American people, taking the place
| the once glorious Republican party, bl
,e now how fallen. The q, o. r., its paupe
If lied labor, and its handmaiden, the salool
&C will go out together.
n Ii the editor of the Republican wants
h argue the political points he raises, as q
2 old admirer of the editor and Pruhit
zionist known in the State of Pennsy
vania, / am willing TO try and entertai
+ him and his sanctimonious Republica
~ constituents. JAMES Il. BAILEY.
., PHILADELPHIA Pa, Sent % 1888