The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-12-11
w. CT. U. COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. l.. HOBBS.
There will be no Com promise with Rum.

There will be no Com promise Win KUN.
Ignorance and delusion occasion
the differences between honest men
upon the rum curse. But for ig-
norance and delusion all Christians
would be Prohibitionists. Deliberate
and continued deception is there
fore criminal. The party Prohibi-
zionist who contributes to decep-
ton upon this question is blind,
dumb or mercenary.
Silently consenting to rascalIy
fraud for an opportunity to address
the people is also a doubtful expe-
dent. Joining in the deception
scheme for platform profits is Pro-
hibition trumpeting for the fees OF a
trumpeter. That kind will never
arouse conscience and make votes.
As prohibitionists let us be true to
the people in exposing the intrigues
that delude the people.
The Prohibition party has never
bribed voter, never stuffed ballJt
box or forged a tally sheet; never
treated a voter nor debauched his
morals in saloon caucus; never
nominated a liquor dealer for office
never cast ballot 10 license dram
shop or legalize the sale OF rum
never subsidized newspaper to
suppress truth; never assessed an
,iiicial or blackmailed public SER
want for a campaign fund ; never as
saulted a public speaker nor hung
an opposing candidate in efligy.
1t has never abused veteran in
blue or gray; never melted section
al strife; never abused motherhood,
nor degraded childhood, nor denied
woman Just rights of citizenship.
Never! Not even if said woman
we're a Bible teacher, class leader,
a steward, gospel preacher or an
Evangelist and desired to sit in the
religious convention of which hel
sex constituted vast majority in
the membership represented. But
the prohibition party has granted
woman a place in its councils, and
upon equal, just conditions of man
hood suffrage will gladly clothe
woman with the weapon of citizen
ship-viz, the ballot.
But the Prohibition party is
small. 1t was only about 2 per
cent. of the national vote Of 1888.
But the liquor dealers are only a
little more than 2 per cent. OF the
whole vote-with their employees
only about 4 per cent. of the vote.
Yet they control the old parties.
Hear me now, old partisans
Come to our standard until we are
) per cent. of the national vote, and
we will make prohibition the battle
line of parties and outlaw the rum
power. The human heart is not
more than 3 per cent. OF the weight
of the body, but it is the center OF
human life. The Prohibition party
lis ceLter and circumference of the
moral vitality Of American politics.
BE not hasty to dispute this. Old
party methods have paralyzed the
very conscience of the church upon
political questions.
BE it far from me to minify the
verities of Christianity or the glory
Of the true church militant-that
great host, whether communicates
or not, who by life and character
illustrate the power of godliness.
But when the standards of denomi-
nationalism sink to lower level
than those of a political party-viz,
the Prohibition party-there is
something wrong with the denomi-
nations.
DO you ask elf the prohibition
party will live?" Its name is in
significant, possibly an incum-
brance, but the genius, the princi-
pies of the Prohibition party must
not only survive, but they must
triumph or the republic must perish.
The yawnish spokesman asks,
"Will the Prohibitionists ever NOM
mate another PRESIDENT" !" Why,
heavens Pity your stupidity! DO
you not see that you are the fungous
growth upon a decaying log, while
the Prohibition party is the bloom
ing life Of a century plant, destined
to bless generations when your cor
rupt old compacts are lost in the
dust and ashes of political oblivion
Nominate another ticket? Why,
1.-The Prohibition party will never
cease nominating officials and or.
ganizing government until inter
rupted by the clash Of war that will
annihilate the dramshop oligarchy!
-Phalanx.