The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-02-04
w. c. T. U. COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. M. L. HOBBS.

CONDUCTED BY MRS. M. L. HOBBS.
A Few Of the Objections TO the Prohi
bitiOn Party.
BY Tallie Morgan.
Why CAN'T THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
GIVE PROHIBITION?
For the same reason that you
cannot weave rag-carpet with d
threshing machine-wasn't built
that way. We will admit that eight
out Of ten in the Republican party
are in favor of prohibition, but if the
other two are a saloon keeper and
his bartender, and necessary to the
success of the party, the two will
rule the eight every time. A chain
is never stronger than its weakest
necessary link, and a horse can
never travel any faster than ifs lame
leg. So with political party; il
can never rise higher than the
necessary vicious minority. If the
Republican party would declare for
prohibition, it would lose the saloon
vote, and temperance Democrats
would no more unite with the Re-
publicans than the Republicans
would with the Democrats there
fore, the party would die.
N. B.-The bosses will not allow
the party to die for the sake of pro
hibition or any other question if
they can help it!
1 BELIEVE IN NoN-PARTIsAN PRoHI-
BITIoN.
Non-partisan prohibition is nom
enforced prohibition. If We vote on
non-partisan prohibition and carry
it, will we have prohibition? Not
a bit of it! That will be simply a
declaration of war on the Rum
Power, and in order TO carry on the
work, we must have men in office
who are not elected either directly
or indirectly by the saloon. A con-
amendment cannot
enforce itself, and neither the
nor the Democratic
party would dare to enforce it.
will never be thoroughly
enforced until the Prohibition ma
jority places prohibition officials in
office.
WHY NOT STAY IN THE OLD PARTIES
AND REFORM THEM?
Why didn't the Abolitioni It's stay
in the Whig and Democratic parties
and reform them? To "reform"
The Republican or Democratic
parties, and get them to favor pro-
means that we must so
reform" every saloon-keeper and
that they will vote tor pro-
libitionl You might as well ex-
,ect to make rotten apples good BY
putting into the barrel bushel of
rood appl-sl
BUT THE TARIFF QUESTION MUST BE
SETTLED
For one hundred years efforts
lave been made to settle the tariff
question on partisan lines, and up
o this time it remains unsettled.
The tariff must be settled by Con-
,ress. Congressman are elected by
Congressional districts, and every
district that is overwhelmingly in
avor of high tariff has its high tariff
nan in Congress, no matter wheth-
r he is Republican or a Demo-
ract. The same applies to low
ariff districts. Congressman from
he close districts are not elected on
he tariff issue, but by the "hoating
ote," the rabble vote, the hummer
ote, that can always be controlled
y beer and Doodle. There are low (
ariff Republicans and high tariff i
democrats. The tariff cry is only
bugaboo to frighten gullible men.
+ you CAN'T ELECT YOUR cANDI- /
DATE, WHY VOTE FOR HIM?
We are working not for a man,
ut for the upbuilding of new po- r
tical party. Men simply stand as
andidates representing the Prohi n
Ition issue. II you have enough a
,nse to understand why a rail- :.
bitter drives in the thin end of the 10
edge first, you will understand why d
e vote for candidates when we have il
. prospects of electing them. The %
lin end of the Prohibition party
1tered American politics in 1884. r
he rail will split very soon. A
Dlitical party is not the growth Of a
day. Somebody must stand for r
le thin edge. c
There are ten young men in the d
lloons for every one in the church, n
t..L -La.. Sl.~ Sl...~ IT.