The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-09-05

ize this destructive traffic, is guilty oef
helping to perpetuate this monster svig
There is no such thing as evading this
conclusion.
What is local option on the liquor quss,-
tion9 1t is virtually saying we adsSSs
that liquor sellers have as much righa ss,
the protection of law as have those wAp
are opposed to liquor selling, and they ask
that they have the right, in certain oitxss.
villages and townships, every two yenr1s.
TO decide by ballot which of this class ca
citizens shall be protected, and whsels
trampled upon. In New York city today
the liquor sellers and saloon men hnfe
clamoring for local option TO decide ti1s.
question of keeping saloons open on tlIFs
Lords day. This whole system Is WRONG
from beginning to end. Our state and
nation should decide upon the broad prsvp
ciples of protection to our homes and
firesides, that no legalization to this VIE
traffic be granted in any form, either fy
tax or license, high or low. All tax md
license laws in regard to this ruinoxIIs
traffic. should be promptly repealed, ani5
the traffic declared q nuisance then vre
would soon have peace on this question.
and never before.
Forty years ago we had this same trou-
BILE to go through with on the evils OF
slavery. We had Douglass's Squattxr-
Sovereignty, which was local option Gnl
that question; but it never settled any
thing, only kept up strife as all local OPP
tion laws in regard to evil will do IsuH
when the free soil party and the great
bulk of the whig party, united anti
formed the republican party, and resolved.
That the constitution confers upon oolo-
gress, sovereing power over the territOr,-
les of the United States for their govern
ment and that, in the exercise of this
power, it is both the right and the impsa,-
ative duty OF congress to prohibit In thS
territories, those twin relics of barbarissn-
polygamy and slavery That is whlfr
we ask congress to do today in the Dis
trict of Columbia and all the territories.
on the liquor question. That will s0uxa
bring all the states in line No m0r14
saloons in the national capital, no mere
expectation of Intoxicating liquors aD
heathen nations. Then ill our foreign
missionaries rejoice, and "a nation shnu
be born TO God in day."
But 1t never can be done so long nj,
Christians support political parties who
are committed against these things. The
democratic party declares that they "az1s
opposed to all sumptuary laws" which
they themselves interpret as against all
prohibitory laws ;and the republican parsy
say 1--WE point with just pride to the Dow
law" You might have local option laws
for every foot of ground in Ohio, and
yet If these parties who are thus commit
ted are permitted to handle the reinsssst
government in our state, 1t will ala ke
useless. E
Let good men of all sects and parties
off nf ThiS kind "A
and demand by their ballots that q fs0aS-
tical party be put In power wh0 shayl,
stand by the unanimous decision of thN
U. S. supreme court, who have said witsl-
out a dissenting vote: "No citizen Of any
state, nor citizen of the United States, ANS
an inherent right to sell Intoxicating
liquors for beverage purposes.
Whenever the question is brought hss-
fore the people for their ballots, all true,
temperance voters, and prohibitionSsfs
will vote on the dry side of local optiSsq,.
but after all that is not the way to act as
honest Christians; and must so vote Ms
not only to have the dry side of leenl
option rule, but to put to flight all poas-
tical parties who will advocate or uphold
any form of legalization of this terrible
evil in our midst, which now rules ksre
state and nation as with rod of iron,
Decause uney are protected by grGRf
national parties who. are more in dread Of
one saloon than they are of ten churches
Not saloon man in Ohio but that SUD
ports tax or license party, and they would
not support such party another day sf
they did not uphold tax and license laws
for the traffic. Is it true today that ''the
children of this world are wiser than the
children of light" 1t certainly is true ~
any Christian will vote for any candidate
who Is on tax party ticket, from the
office of constable up TO that of president
of the United States. Vote clean Chris
tian ballots, which declare without doubs
or equivocation, that you are opposed to
the traffic, and that the accursed traffic
shall not have the sanction of your ballot
for one foot of soil within the state uf
Ohio, or in the United States eye oaal-
not serve two masters" said Christ,
neither can you two political parties, if
taxing the liquor traffic is right stand
by the party that advocates such meas
ure; do not annoy them by agitatinK
local option, for none Of their leaders ur
daily papers are in sympathy with this
thing. Be for taxing the traffic at AIN
times, and places, or for its suppression
entirely. John Danner.
Canton o., August 27 1895.