The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-01-19
w. G. II. u. Column.

CONDUCTED ny MRS. n. l.. HoBBs.
A NEED OF THE TIMES.
A New Party Necessary to Saw
the Nation.
How Long are the People q
I This Country Going to Hal
i Between Two Opinions.
Measure the Old Parties b.
4 Their Platforms and Thei
Z Public men.
Every days events prove more an(
more strongly tho imperative necess
ity for . Prohibition party.
No man can deny that the drinI
crime is attaining greater proportion
every year
No man will dispute the proposition
that At aome time and IN come W,
the onward march fthis curse musi
be stsid BY potential legislation.
No sensible man will claim that the
saloon 10 not menace to the peace oI
society.
No thoughtful man can look with.
out apprehension on the growing ocs
Il'icsl power Of the organized drink
vendera.
And 10 the midst OF these accumu.
lating dangers, who can look without
regret st the attitude of utter indilfer.
erence sssu med by the Republican,
Democratic and Peoples Parties?
Measure these parties BY their plat
forms, state and national, and we ind
no one line which promises suppress.
ion OF tho drink curse.
Measure them by the utterances of
their public men.
Presidents write messages concern
Ing the Affairs Of all the continents.
but pass over this greatest concern of
their own government in silence.
Governors send to their legislatures
ong communications calling atteo.
lion TO every matter OF local iaterest.
except the drink dons.
Congressmen play bsttled0or and
with questions OF finance,
'srid. currency and commerce, but
ignore tho liquor traffic,
A. ch adds to financial depression,
evies terrible tariff on widows and
,rphaOs, robs the people OF more than
vice the country's currency annually
Ind cl0gs the wheels Of ccmmerc 10 :
thousand ways.
Legislators sssem BILE In state cspitols
o haggle owe. county boundaries, or
districts, or laws pro.
Getting birds and fish, white The rum
hop threstens the home or the people
With perpetualIy impending peril.
Measure these parties by their great
newspapers.
Daily diatribes against ,pposing
PARTIES, big bluster concerning candi-
lates for Office, CHASTITY particulars Of
colossal crimes, vile detsiIs Of new
csndsls, fill their columns 10 the ex-
fusion Of ell discussion Of the ques.
ion Of how TO get rid of those crimi.
'sl cesspooIs OF sin, the licensed liq.
Tor deps.
The psopls are asking as they have
right TO ask, "Whst shall be done to
id our country OF the curse Of this
poisonous. pestilentisl Iiq.
or trader
Democratic. Populist, Repu 3licsn
lstforms make no answer.
The hustings and the halls OF legis.
Ation are resonant With . huudred
ries. but no word against this giant
vrong is heard amid the din.
The partisan press. too, hears the
eople's cry. but makes no moro re-
ly than would . mummied PtoIemy
rom Cheops.
Then who shall slay this hydra !
those forked tongue laps the life.
lood Of the most precious ones OF aI,
billion homes!
Not the Democratic party with ito
Antisu mptuary" platforms and per.
,nal liberty" press.
Not the Republican party, which J
,r years has paved hell with ito brok.
D promises.
Not the People's Party, trampling !,
lorslity In the miro and begging st !.
llOOO OOOIU bOt vbtCo ouU vbCtOtys .
The Prohibition party alone Offers \
,mfort aud hope.
II was orgauized because Of human.
y's supreme need.
II ,xists becsuss no other party will
ndertake its work. =
Ii will triumph because Il 10 right. { !,
We ask every sober, thoughtful cit. :,
en- to consider the ravages OF the :,
ramshop. =
We ask him to honestly observe the :, :,
titude OF the old psrtiss toward Il. (
Then We ask him TO oct honestly - o
is conscience guides. =
If our countrys true men will do =
lie, Il will add some millIons 70 the 2
Dtiug strength OF the Prohibition y
lrty. Northeast Georgian. Z
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The Millennium. =
Then sermons are ten minu'e' long B
and never stale or nst. z