The Advocate and news., 1898-01-12

more to blame for the existing condi-
tlons, both State and National, than the
little handful of salaried officials. The
voters let their public servants forget
that when they placed the reins OF gov
eTnment in their hands that they
took a solemn oath 10 enforce all
laws and support the Constitu-
tIon Of both State and Union. They
should gently be reminded that they are
still in the employ Of the people, and
when you say the people you mean the
whole people-men, women and chill
dren-not q few spectators in human
traffic. The rank and file Of all parties,
! believe, want the enforcement Of our
laws If they did not they would not
have had those laws framed, that the
ones to whom they entrusted their loved
home need make no mistake In Its man
agement. The mass OF the people said
they wanted those laws, and wanted
them enforced. They still say they want
them enforced, and until the majority OF
the voters Of this State register their
approval against their enforcement 1t
is the duty Of every one to help steer
the ship over the billowy waves OF OPP
position wherever and whenever they
are called upon to do so. No consc1en-
tionus man or woman will accept a berth
aboard this ship who will not bend
every energy and effort to bring the
vessel safely in port without spot or
blemish, with her banner flying proudly
to the breeze with the inscription 80
plain that all may see, Free shall our
beloved State remain
Imagine our dismay and chagrin to
have the very one whom the people
trusted to protect their homes by the
power Of the law to say that the pro-
hibitory law, the most important Of all
laws, could not be enforced because
public sentiment was against 1t, when
public sentiment placed him in the Gov
ernors chair because he went from
church to church and promised he would
enforce all laws and particularly the
prohibitory law. While others do not
say that public sentiment is against It's
enforcement, yet II reports are true,
men are given positions which makes 1t
Just as impossible to enforce this law
as It would be to make oyster soup out
Of clam chowder. The responsibility
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the laws begins at the primaries with
every man or woman who has voice
In the meeting, and they should be held
responsible as much so as the officers
whom you elect. Enter your protest
against any man or woman who does
not come up to the highest standard Of
morality and integrity. Follow up with
your protest from the primaries to the
county convention, from the county to
the State convention, and from there to
the officers elected who have the ap-
pointing power. Let them know you
mean business; then you will have done
your duty.
"You cannot have clean, good, whole
some government with your officers Sc
Iected from the garbage and fragments
of all political parties, any more than
YOU can have a flrst-class repast from
the fragments cleaned from your table
of the week previous. Now do not wish
to be misunderstood. / am not refer
ring to any one party. They are not the
rank and file Of the people Of any party
who conduct either State or National
affairs, but the political wire pullers,
and the politician Is a politician any
where. Let us have no more Of the pot
calling the kettle black. care not how
pure the motives of any organization
in its infancy may be, if 1t be OF pol1t-
lcal nature, just so soon as this vampire
OF good government can detect the least
bit of strength and power within its
ranks he will begin to make advances,
and as q rule we are prone to leave the
tried and true and accept and trust
the new. We welcome within our ranks
the smooth, oily tongue, and very soon
this monster has worked his way to the
very heart and center and disintegra-
tion takes place at once. Yet we do not
stop. We place them in the highest Of
Ace within the gift Of the people and
the principles for which we contended
Snr nn lnnn nra smnthered and sooner