Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-06-07

pill are obscure and only felt in qualification of tn
voters sensibiIities of right after the thing i
swallowed. We cannot in truth speak of the saloo
as an isolated institution without speaking ig
norantIy. So protest against the effort to make
appear that prohibition has not the support of public
sentiment responsible for the existence OF the joints
or saloon The saloon will never trupmh in square
open fight, where the issue is unmxed and unaideC
by politicians.
How then suppress it?
l. Let her who is expected to protect her family
by the Bible and prayer book have the ballot as
means of protection, and that she may help answer
her own prayers at the polls.
l. Divorce the saloon from the state.
The co-partnership of the state with the liquor
traffic is mon strosty. There is not jot little
in the principle of true government which has fol
its object the saving of that allows such unhoy
relations. 1t is as inconsistent as having Keey
cure at one end of the soldiers home and saloon
at the other. ooh consistency Thou art jewelP'
Let the state wash her hands from partnership with
this chief of criminals and take another dollar
of its blood money. If need be, increase the tax
our homes We had better give up homes to
support the state than our boys to- support the sa
loon. Make it crime to hold political in
a saloon in the interest of any party Dsfranchise
any one connected with the traffic for selfish ends
and let him be counted unworthy Of the public trust
the ballot Should not the State guard her purity
as we'll as fraternities who have excluded saloon
members? Let every vestige Of protection and all
excise laws be eliminated from our statutes. Let
any who sell intoxicants be treated the one who
Ito hoe ofad
the following: "Giving up all revenue from the
liquor traffic and treating this trade as an outlaw
would be in fact economy well as righteousness
The wastes and burdens caused by strong drink
costs the community at least thrice the total amount
of income derived from the manufacture and sale Of
alcoholic liquor as beverages. l agree thoroughly
with the great deliverance of the Methodist church
that the liquor traffic never be legalzed without
sin. I should be glad to the whole trade an out
law as slavery and poygamy have been, and this by
both state and national legislation and constitutions
enactment"
Let the work of education and moral suasion &c
on showing the physiological and psychological effect
of alcohol Let the signing of the total abstinence
pledge be re-introduced to check the common habit
of drink. Let the seventeen million of protested
Christians of our land unite in common effort to
suppress this evil Concert of action is the great
need The present necessity is that all friends OF
temperance should come together and confer and
confront this arch enemy in the various fields of con
fct The rum evil is everywhere and the church is
everywhere. They stand over against each other
They are irreconcilable enemies.
The Presbyterian General Assembly of 1895 said
"The pronounced and stupendous need OF the houi
to meet this enemy of everything American and
Christian is an aroused Church consecrated to the
determination of the liquor traffic"
The Methodist General Conference in the same
wear stated the following: al. Organize in every
church under the direction Of the pastor and quar-
terly conference Tor local governing body Chris
tian Temperance League, to include all members OF
the congregation who are willing to unite for the
practical effort in suppressdg the liquor traffic
"2 The alliance of such Leagues with similar
Leagues of other religious bodies for such particu
lar measures as the combined wisdom and Christian
conscience may approve.
The utter overthrow of the rum traffic from an
American standpoint appears the more imperative
when we consider our relation to the hope of the
world In the language of Alexander Hamilton, Of
an early period of nations history, GAS nation
we can either become the pillar of cloud that
shall pilot the to its milenal glory, or be
come the burying place in which the hopes OF the
world are entombed.
Noah did the best and the worst thing for the
world He built an ark against the deluge OF
waters, but introduced deluge of drunkenness,
against which we have never found refuge.
AS nation we have built an ark of safety for the
oppressed of all lands Shall we, after we have
come together with all hope of better national life
and more tolerable individual existence, sink this
cosmopolitan and heterogeneous mass OF struggling
humanity into the vostex of drunkenness and end
lass daanair7 God forbid