El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20

Shall thrust His shining sickle in,
And reap my little field Tomorrow.
Prohibition.
There is no object that We white
r1bbonerS so much desire to photo
graph upon the brain of every voter
as the American saloon. 1t is a larger
picture in this country than it can be
in any other, because we are the larg-
est of republics; because we are a peo-
pie wholly self-governing in our the
DRY of public affairs. The most porten-
tous factor in American politics is the
saloon. 1t has been recently stated
that there are nine thousand saloons
in New York city, and that on these
saloons there are four thousand chat
tel mortgages, held almost wholly by
twenty wholesale dealers, brewers and
distillers. These saloons control the
votes of forty thousand men, and
these forty thousand constitute the
balance of power, so that we have
twenty men who can swing the vote of
New York city, and as the city goes
so goes the state, and as the state so
goes the nation. We want the saloon
photographed with this shadow in the
IL
isolated institution speaks ignorantly
1t is an institution the character of
which becomes each year more clear
ly defined, and one that, because of our
form OF government, exposes us more
than any other people to political cor
Tupt1on- Because these things are true,
the temperance women of America
have gone into politics, AMI have taken
sides with the men who first, last and
all the time cast their ballots against
candidates for Office who are pledged to
the saloon. We could not do less: if
we could, we would do more.
There is just one issue upon which
the people, not the politicians, of
America, are united. 1t is not the tar
iff, for that is the chameleon among
issues, taking its color from the per-
sonal selfishness of capitalists, or the
interests, real or imaginary of different
industries. 1t is not the southern
question, for that is the dead lion
among issues, in whose skeleton we
white-ribboners have found already the
honeycomb Of loving comradeship. 1t
is not the labor question, for that is
the elephant among issues, not yet
grown to its full size, and generally
feared. But it is the prohibition of the
liquor traffic, that eartf Quake among
issues, which, by blending our homes in
1ndistinguishable ruin, has shaken us
together in one great brotherhood of .
fear and anguish. This earthquake ex- I;
tends under the sea- Listen to this
declaration:
There is a distillery in Massachu- :
sets, the largest rum distillery in the
world" so says an eye witness to the
following account, land the amount
manufactured averages ninety barrels a
day, some for home consumption, but !
the greater part for export to the coast
of Africa. The barrels contain FORTY
three gallons, and the internal revenue
tax is 80 cents per gallcn-S3S. 20 Der
barrel. For ninety barrels, a days
work, the treasury of the United States
is enriched S3,4S3, minus the cost of
the services of revenue watchmen. That
the government may not be defrauded
of farthing Of the ungodly gain, and
that not one drop of the fire-water NAV
be lost, government padlocks are placed
upon the rum reservoirs, guarded and
opened daily for measurement by in
ternal revenue officers
If 1 were not already a prohibitionist.
his single awful fact would make one
IF me for all time. The CURSE of Cain
was not so deep as shall be Gods curse
Upon the nation that in the light of
Jhrist's gospel curses the barbarians
If Congo with the "crazy drinks"
The supreme need of the hour is in
OF conacts1ss In tia voter.
lie needs to have more sharply defined
he government. 1t is our duty to
lelp him at this point by our own
learer vision. We may gain an il
ustration for him from this assem-
,ly Suppose that a delegate rises,
to get the ear of the conven-
ion, but is ignorant of parliamentary
sage. She makes a remark in gen. !
raj way; she would ramble on perhaps
Indefinitely, but some wiser comrade
ducks her by the sleeve and whis-
ers: You must address the chairman
nd wait to be recognized" She then ]
earns that this is a government; that
has laws; that she has not made
er remark in such fashion that by :
ur laws it can be brought before us.
So it is with the remark that our
voter would make to the gov
rnment OF this nation about the liquor
rafic. 1t is a good thing to get him
D make 1t in the prayer meeting or l
Y his manner of life, but If he would Y
eally tell the government as we'll as v
be Lord and the teopie that he wants {