The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-27
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To Our Prohibition Friends.

The News has 40 far never advised
any one to go back on his or her priDci.
pies and hopes il never will; but when the
prosperity, not only OF oneself, but our
neighbour and the country at large, ap-
pears, az it does TO us, to edge on the de-
feat Of Bryan it does look "a il it were
the duty of US all to do what we can,
even at the expense Of our own personal
ideas and wishes, TO compass that de-
feat. Many of our readers are prohibi-
tionists and the Bryanites are doing all
they can TO keep them from assimila-
ting with the the republicans at this cleo
ton and in order to do 80 have spread a
report that Mrs Mckinley is the owner
OF property which is rented for saloon
and that her husband is in irectly re-
sponsible therefore and great excitement
prohibitionists and temperance republi-
can voters upon this point and, in order
TO set the matter right, we copy the fol-
lowing from an article in the Western
Christian Advocate, which appeared in
the Christian Advocate, a copy OF which
paper can be found on the table OF the
Y. NJ. c. A. reading room:
MANY good people haye been distressed
by the statement, widely printed, that
Mrs. Mckinley il the owner and receives
rent from premises in Canton which are
occupied by a saloon and thus, Indirect
L. has =. IL
We recalled the bitter accusation hurl ed
against Lady Somerset on similar
grounds, and the fact subsequently
ascertained that she had inherited the
property incumber.d by unex pirrd leases,
over which sine had no control. Bellev-
ing that something OF the kind lay back
o, this case, We wrote the Rev. John l.
Wilson, pastor of Simpson Methodist
Episcopal church. Canton, ex.presiding
elder Of the Cambridge district, East Ohio
conference, and secretary Of the board of
trustees OF the soldiers and sailors or
phans' home, Xenia, O from whom we
received 10Th inst, the following reply:
"I went to see the Mckinley Saloon
Found that Mr.. Saxton, during Is life,
had leased the aforesaid piece 81 ground.
Internationally, for thirty years. and
the parties sublet il and built shanty
on IL for a saloon. and the lease has vet
two years to run before il comes into the
hands OF Mrs. Mckinley and the Saxton
heirs, and consequently, she receives
nothing from il and has nothing to do
with it, much less the major. These are
the facts about It, as | could get them
"All this il consistent with the proper
~ standing in Der name and the taxes
being paid ny her; ard should satisfy any
reasonable inquirer that sbeis not break
ing the rules OF our church."
The prohbitionists must know they
have no chance OF electing their candi-
dates and we therefore put il TO them
whether, under the present circumstan-
ces, when the voters are called upon to
decide question upon which the very
existence Of the country may hang, they
would not be acting the part Of patri rte
by. for the time at least, passing over.
not their principles, but their personal
feeling on the temperance question and
vote for Mckinley and sound money
and 40 help defeat Bryan; we ask them
60 consider this matter, not from par
tisan standpoint, but from that OF pa
triots.
" the prohibitionists believe, that the
end iustifles, the means they might force
their views upon very many people by
voting against Mckinley, for, as we look
Att. IL Bryan selected the drinking people
would be eniorced into Temperance, as they
would not, at any rate for some years,
have any money to buy whiskey; II tbis
were the only thing that Bryan's election
would bring about they might feel them
,elve~ justified In voting to help defeat