The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-07-20
w. CT. U. COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. l.. HOBBS.
Is There a Necessity for q Third Party?

- buCIC lNSSCsstty iOI uuO ToItys
No political party can legislate
efficiently on any great question Of
reform, while that party is divided
within itself on that subject,
and while the rival or opposing
party is also divided on the same
question. This is the case with
both the Democratic and Republi-
can parties on the subject of the
Liquor Traffic. There are men in
both the old parties who would like
to have prohibition if they could get
it without hurting the party, and
there are men in both the old par
ties who are bitterly opposed to pro-
hibition; so that so long as these
two old parties continue in ex-
istcncc, arrayed against each other
in political warfare on dead issues,
all legislation by either one Of them
on the subject of the liquor traffic
must Of necessity, according to hu-
man nature, partake OF the spirit Of
compromise, in order to hold the
Iantagonistic elements of the party
within the organization. Hence We
have high license, low license and
local option laws, and all sorts o
Temperance laws, which are only
lcompromisc measures, for holdin.
the temperance vote in line withir
1 the same party.
Neither one of the old partie
will dare to make the prohibition 0
the Liquor Traffic an issue, anc
lpledge the party for its enactmen
and enforcement. Defeat would b'
the inevitable consequence. |
/, would be political suicide, becaus
: both the old parties are sectiona
1 parties. They have been arraye'
against each other in political war
fare on dead issues for more thar
twenty years. They have f)ugh
each other so long, and so intens
lis their political enmity, that a
Democrats and Republicans, the.
never can be political friends, $
that it is absolutely folly, if not su
premely ridiculous, even to thin
of uniting so-called Democratic Pre-
|hibitionists and Republican Pre-
Ihibitionists in kind of a non pal
sltisan league to fight the Liquo
Traffic. Such union cannot be el
fccted except in new part
entirely separate and distinct fror
! the old parties.
Democratic prohibitionists wit
few exceptions could not be prs
: vailed upon, in close political COZ
: test, to vote for a Republican nom
nee; and on the other hand, RI
publican prohibitionists with fe
!, exceptions could not be prevaile
upon. in close political contest,
vote for Democratic nominee. \
Democrats and Republicans, the
would continue to be political Toes
and fight each other to the last-r'
= garding allegiance to their respect
i've old parties as paramount to pr
hibition when advocated by the ol
posite party; but, let there be
elnew organization having the prob
'-lbition Of the liquor traffic, with otl
ucr much needed reforms, as IL
lr rlGRAxD CENTRAL thought, it beln
the nucleus of a NEW PARTY, con
posed Of individuals who have ct
eLoosE from the two old par;le'
J. thereby showing willingness
:, drop dead issues and let by-gon'
r be bv-goncs; then ProhiDitionls'
II from both old parties, both MORT
and SOUTH, ignoring and pract
callv forgetting dead issues tn
u ought to have been buried yea
y ago, may gradually come togethe
y and upon the same platform stan
= shoulder to shoulder, and with Il
I ballot fight the common enemy
n all Just as the blue and gray,
lately hostile, in case Of invasion |
4 foreign armed foe, would rally
e the country'S call under the sta
y and stripes Of the Union, to do
e die in the defense of the old flag.
E Nothing but the organization
: such political party can 50 eiiec
:, ually obliteratc Mason and Dixon
line. destroy scctionalism, section
prejudice and hatred, and promo
! that fratcmal feeling that ought
9 WAYS to exist among the membe
le of the same government, living u
II der the same flag.
ar | hold il to be inconsistent WI
le true patriotism, philanthrophy al
christianity to cherish in the brc;
a feeling Of prejudice amounting
OF most To invctcratc hatred agar
e those Of any one section Of our col
E mon country in consequence
T. difficulties that have long since be
4 SETTLED by the arbitration Of arm
n W. II. JONES.
cr Bloomington, Ind.