The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-21
THE PROHIBITION HOPE.

Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The question in Saturdays Tri-
bune under the article Third Party
Progress-"but We are yet unable to see
just what our third party friends hope
to accomplish by remaining together
as a small minority party'--is not so
difficult that it should go unanswered, If
the editor will kindly allow a little
space for the same. We hardly thought
that the intellectual vision of The Tri-
bune was 50 badly impaired. We infer
that this champion OF education would
teach the apostasy Of the Christian
church as compromise in its failure
to win the world for Christ, and which
after nineteen centuries of heroic effort
is still, too, "a small minority compared
with the millions of non-Christians We
admit that were our highest aim the
spoil Of office and greed for political
gain, rather. than the suppression Of
evil, our prospects for glorious victory
might be checked by the foul and sti-
fling smoke of the Republican avalanche
in the recent elections. But the Prohi-
bition party does not measure results
by votes alone but by principles which
The Tribune does not care to discuss.
For If the Prohibition party Is wrong
in principle then it remains for those
who seemingly do have little uneasi-
ness because of it's remaining to-
gether" to prove it wrong and thereby
save coming generation of voters from
wrong doing. And If right, The Tri-
bune or any other organ of the AL
mighty(O Republican party ought not
to be afraid to say so If according to The
Tribune's calculations it takes some
thing like three and two-thirds centur-
les" for that right to succeed.
Well, if right, as we firmly believe and
our opponent accede,we not only hope"
but purpose to act and vote according
to our convictions, and thereby seek to
have a conscience void of offence toward
God, who declares that righteous
ness eXalteth a nation but sin Is a re-
proach to any people," and toward man
whom we seek to protect from the great
evils of intemperance by the outlawing
of the present drink system which the
supreme court of the United States has
declared unconstitutional. We give,
then, as a reason for the hope within us,
that we are in harmony with the laws
of God, the constitution of the United
States according to the interpretations
of the highest authority Of church and
state, and the voice of conscience and
hope to accomplish by remaining to-
gether" what Paul hoped to accomplish
when he entered the very hot-bed Of
paganism, and what he did or had ac-
complished when he wrote to Timothy:
II have fought good fight, have fin
ished my course, have kept the faith"
etc. The same God that aided Paul
lives today, and although "slow to
anger and plenteous in mercy" declares
shall not my soul be avenged on such
nation% Yea! our God will vindicate
his cause in the triumph Of right. We
can better afford to suffer defeat here
by the enemies of righteousness and
temperance, than to aid in the perpetua-
ton Of great evil by supporting any
party that stands pledged to this end,
and win the displeasure of the God of
nations. In short then we hope to
accomplish by remaining together as u
small minority party" but an import
ant educational factor in political refor-
nation, what the Republican and Dem
ocratic parties have failed to accomp-
| lish though both in power.
Does The Tribune see?
Yours truly, ..s.
G. L, Maice.