The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-04-20

indorse prohibition they viii lose the
whisky votes, and if they don't they
viii lose the women's votes.
They had better letthe beer-drinking
Germans and whisky drinking Ameri-
cans go and have the votes of honest,
upright men, and pure. virtuous wo-
men. have heard of men saying: 81
would rather lay my boy in his grave
now than have him live to be drunk
ard; and yet, if that boy dies drunk
ard and his father votes with a party
that will not come out against temper
ance, every time he goes to the polls
and casts his ballot. he is slowly but
surely digging his boys grave with his
own hands, and digging him drunk
ards grave
Father, how can you, how dare you
look into the eyes of your boy, and
know you are placing it within his
reach to become a drunkard
Perhaps you think you can reason
with him and set him good example,
and so undo the evil; but let your boy
once form an appetite for liquor, and
all the moralizing in the world can do
no good.
The only way is to place liquor beyond
his reach, and your vote is the only
means of doing that. Why? Because
the saloon is leaning up against the
solid bulwarks of national law. Even
our nations f1ag-the dear old Stars
and Stripes-we love and honor; wher-
ever it floats to-day, has saloon
or whisky joint tucked away in its
folds, and seems to say as it waves
You can stay here. OF course, you are
wrong but the nation protects you.
The saloon is politically through and
through, and of what use is your ballot
to you if it will not protect your home
and loved ones-if it is only used to
sharpen the deadly arrow that will
pierce your wife's heart when she sees
her boy wandering heIplessly in the
sloughs of sin. Oh, do not be merely
one of party be men! Think of the
hearts that are breaking now; think Of
the souls, once spotless white, black
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think OF the little children, who are
starving and freezing tonight because
of this terrible curse, and be men, too
strong to swerve from your honest
principles too noble to be badgered out
of your rights, and vote for truth, JUS
tice and liberty. Sisters, the time is
radidly approaching when we hope TO
have voice in governing this nation.
Let US all think, carefully, ere the time
comes, as to how we will cast our votes.
of your darling boy step out from the
home, where you have guarded him so
carefully, where you have striven so
faithfully to instil noble, manly prin-
ciples in his heart, there is pitfal
waiting for him, and he may fall justas
others not less noble than he have
fallen, and, lest you spend your last
days in sorrowing for the child you
would have given your life to save from
a drunkard's fate, work to place liquor
beyond his reach. Girls, we, too, Will
have our responsibilities. Think of the
shame of being drunkard's child!
Our fathers do not drink, but think
of those what do; and what is balm for
one heart is balm for another. ,ss-t
Think of the sorrow, the anguish you
would feel, if that dear brother you
idolize would live to be a drunkard,
and perhaps brought home to you some
night-stiff and cold-killed in = a
drunken brawl ~,
And last, think of the shame, the
degradation of being drunkard's wife.
Do not think, after young man once
commences to drink, he will quit be-
cause he loves you. The appetite for
alcoholic stimuIants, once formed, calf
never be overcome, because in each
glass of the fatal poison there lurkss.a
serpent, more subtle, more deadly than
that which tempted Eve in the garden
of Eden. IL
And the only way to overcome this
crying evil of our nation is to abolish
it from our country, and that, with
Gods help, we can surely do.