Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-19

great whisky stronghold of Toronto, where
the liquor men had concentrated all their
forces, went for prohibition by 1000 ma
toT1ty. OF 5000 women entitled to vote, in
Toronto only Is per cent Of those who cast
the ballot voted for the saloon, an indica-
ton OF what the women of the United
States will do when. in the good time COM
ing. they shall be allowed TO give eNIIes-
sion to their Will On this question This
action OF our Canadian neighbors means a
prohibition law.
seven Prohibition states.
Coming into our own territory, we see
hopeful signs of the coming kingdom. Seven
prohibition states are ON the honor Ioll-
Kansas, Iowa, South Dakota, North Da-
kcta, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
In our southern states there has been a
mighty progress. In Georgia three-fourths
OF the Counties have prohibitory laws. Ken
lucky, though regarded as bourbon
state, is more OF a temperance than rum
commonwealth today. hundred and nine
teen counties. and in eighty of them no sa-
looms exist. Twenty-seven thousand square
niles of the state, tVo-thirds of its entire
area. has been wholly freed from the ga
loon. 1t is quite probable in a free vote
that state would vote the saloon ont. dis
sissippi has seventy-fve counties, $3.50
square miles Only eight counties tolera te
the saloon. There are sixty-seyen dry coun-
ties. Elght-ninths OF the area Of the state
Is freed from the shackles Of the dram
shop. More than fifty states the size CT
Rhode Island could be carved from the re
deemed area of Kentucky and Mississippi
combined.
And this Is not all. Let the friehIs of
prohibition be encouraged. Their cause is
Gods The enemy of the home, Of the
state. of the church. Of the race, u,ust go
down. The food tide Is with us; the .ebb is
with them. No quarter! must be the cry.
1t must be war to the knife; and the knife
to the hiit. Carthage delenda est.
ba ,ad q
advances. The first state dinner of the
season was given to the cabinet. Forty
eight guests we're present, and at each
plate, except that of the mistress of. the
White House. We're six glasses for wines,
one more than marked the dinners, Of Mr..
Clevelands first adminiStrat ton. Mrs.
Cleveland's plate, as heretofore had only
water glasses. Such practice of wine
drinking is social precedent which rem
ders still more difficult the labors of total
abstainers for the abolition of the drink
evil: but all praise to the first lady Of the
land for her personal protest!
Among recent entertainments an elegant
dinner to the President, cabinet aud Brit
ish ambassador by Secretary and Mrs, Car
to this representative Christian woman,
who thus shows the courage OF her con-
victionS.
A ReprehensibIe Practice.
No practice can be more reprehens;ble
than the serving of wine and punch at
social entertaipments to young men. Il
have to Danish wine from my table," says
Prof. Drummond. II hate to do 1t, but 1
hear the clanking of the chains of those
who have been led captive by it. 1 try TO
help them in this poor, rough way Sons
Of statesmen are not proof against the
tempter. 1t Is said in certain Kentucky
town at the same time a grandson of Henry
Clay lay dying Of a wound received in a
drunken a grandson ~ II
tenden was wrestling With delirium treInens
and a grandson of Patrick Henry was serv-
ing out term of Imprisonment for at
tempted murder, the result likewise, of
drink. Could the young LADY that pre-
sides at the punch bowl BY some occult
power unVeil the hidden being who shares
in her distinction she would find herself
aided by a horned creature with cloven
hoofs and forked tail and could she
witness the real brewing of the Hquor she
dispenses she would behold the dark cave,
the eauidron' in the center, the witches
lowering over and hear the mystic chant:
''Fillet of tehny snake,
In the cauldron boil md bake:
Eye of newt, and toe Of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dos,
.Adders fork. and blind worms sting,
Lizards leg, owlet's wing,
For charm of powerful trouble
Like hell broth boil and bubble.
Double, double. toll and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubbl.
So far as legislation is concerned, Sena-
Tor Frye, a vice president If this society,
introduced again the bill for n national
commission OF. inquiry concerning the a}co-
holic liquor traffic, and another vice presi-
dent. Hon. K. A. Morse, a bill to prohibit
the liquor traffic In the District of Column
ha: The liquor men, FESTIVE under the re-
Strictive clauses embodied In the excise law
OF the last Congress have. sought its rcpeal
but. by the vigilance of the members Of
this society, 80 far they have been thwart-
ed. Our Commissioners. courts and police
have done well.
The Pardon of Shea.
The most disastrous blum ier in the adj
pinistrauon Of the law. we GRAVE to say
has come from the President IF the United
States in granting the pardon of the no.
torfous John Shea, When the President
lays lance in rest for the Widow Domipis
we are not SO greatly concerned. for she is
far away, and his intervention only the
more surely places her beyond the power to
do mischief, but when his chiyaL.y leads
him to come to the rescue of the Wor.an
Shea We demur. because she Is 4 present
terror, and his good offices place the Shea
family again In position to work deSola-
tiCn and ruin. An outrageous, persistent
IaWbreaker of nearly twenty years stand
ing; creature who either In hls own per-
son or that Of one Of his family has been
Isl times before the court and convicted In
a majority of the causes; a tlansgPessor
who, convicted of selling WHISKY without
Incense ana HnSus mas, py MS W1te, declared
dehanty in open court he would continue
to sell, license or no license; u rum seller
who kept one of the yilest bells in the city
corrupting the whole neighbor hood; % con-
scienceless criminal. who, at his last Of
Tense, being justly refused license ter
his GROCERY, defes the law. and when raid
ed by officers OF the law aidal by the
hoodlums OF his household, gives savage
battle, and after big fight In the court
is rlghteouSly sentenced, to the satisfaction
Of every decent citizen of The District-c-in
the interest of this creature the chief ex--
ecutive comes forward. and because the
Shea women are not gently suppressed in
the fierce struggle of their own making
RENTS sufficient amount of ShsI'S inS to
set him up again in his laWleS5 ant wicked
career, Gould anything tend more Serious
iy to encourage the violation Of law and
to discourage our police officers in :he pre-
vention of erime9 Altgeld pariols NeeLe
the condemned anarchist, and Immediately
he opens a saloon. Mr.. Cleveland does the
same service for Shea and his work of
diabOliSm Is renewed. All cre-lit to the
Chief magistrate when he dTiSes Compress
that 1t is the plain duty Of this government
to aid in suppreSsiag this nefartous ira fic
in the Congo country and RECOMMENDING
that an act be passed prohibiting the sale
OF arms and intOXicants 10 nations in the
Regulated zone by our citizens, put why will
not the same principle hold good for the
natives Of willow Tree alley and in
deed, Throughout the District of Columbia?
Mr.. President, the growth Of the -ternper-
ance sentiment can best be seen in thc
span of a single life, The 10Th Instant the
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