Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-02-06

eories that enthrone money and debases
na,,kia,d. y William j. Bryan.
The Anti-SaIoon League and the
Lessons and Parallels Of
History.
When theories, policies, purposes
and principles are avowed, it is the
part of prudent people to explore the
historic page to learn the result pro-
duced in the dim and almost forgotten
past as the effect of like aims and
objects. The only way to judge of
the future is from the past There is
no truth more indelably written on the
pages of history than that similar re-
suits, naturally follow from like
causes. We will find that the most
cruel, brutal and inhuman acts ever
committed against mankind have
been disguised under the cloak of the
public welfare. In behalf of liberty,
Madame ROLAND, the purest and
MODEST of her sex, in any age, was led
to the Guillotine. In the pure name
of Christianity the Puritans who fled
from religious persecution in Europe
whipped, dragged at cart-tails, through
the streets of Boston, women nearly
naked, because of their religious
belief; expelled Roger Williams from
Massachusetts for the crime of being
a Quaker. The cause was confding
the political and moral destinies of
the people to the keeping of the same
class of rulers. No matter what the
profession of faith, there are always
enough madmen, Zealots and fools in
any church or party to embroil the
people in strife, which once begun,
forces the conservative classes to take
one or the other side. No church or
party is pnre enough to have confded
to it the political and the moral
duties of the masses Absolute
freed0nrU conscience in matters of
belief, and of speech, insthe affairs of
the public is essential to the safety
and happiness of the people. Error is
not formidable if truth is left free to
combat it. 1t has only been through
keeping the truth in the dungeon,
that error sits on the throne. The
men who contemplate a great wrong
against mankind and the world uni
yersally have some false pretense for
their sinister purpose. Encyclopedia
Britannica says when:
Europe was dominated by the
Holy Alliance, which disguised a reso-
luton to repress popular liberties and
to maintain despotism, under a pre-
tended zeal for piety, justice, and
brotherly love-"
Not satisfied with law that enables
voters to nulify the demands Of {
voters in a community, the Anti
Saloon League as represented by its
mouth-piece, would add persecution
mobbing and even murder to the
furtherence of its ends, and these are
endorsed by the Cresco Times in its
endorsement of the articles copieC
from the S,u, said to have been pre-
pared by one of the League. Th'
claim of these men to a superior
interest in humanity is as spurious al
was that of Torquemada, made inquis
itor general for CASTLE and Leon, tho
third stage of whose supremacy was {
claim to political and religious SUI
premacy in Europe britannica ID Vol
SO Page From the same authorit.
we learn that "the chief motive fol
the reorganization of the inquisitiol
on the part of Ferdinand, was allow
all the hope of rich booty, from con
fscations. The same spirit as shown
in the letter of Rev. Linn to Attorne,
Acres, therefore, published in thi
paper.
Britannica says "the monarch
bargained that they should nominal,
the Inquisitors, hoping thereby to Sc
cure control over the institution,
and of course over the plunderet
estates. How does this differ from
the purposes of the League, as show
from its own eXpositors? Britannia
says "Torquemada became presiden
of the Inquisition, by.his side were tw
lawyers as assessors, three roya
counselors, final procurator, tire
secretaries or head policemen, treas
urer from servants of the tribuna
two reporters or informers, and a
many consultors as might seem neet
full. All the officials were we'll pal
from the contiscation fund, and 1T wa
the interest of all that the stream {
wealth should never run dry" Th
'sHoly Office" now had full scope an
its procedure not unlike that propose
by the organs and mouth-pieces of til
League, will explain how thorough
it. succeeded in terrifying all wi
came within its reach. Britannia
proceeds to say ''the hand of I'll
sHoly Office was outstretched again
all, no lofty dignity in church orstat
no eminence in art or science, i
purity in life could defend from j
attacks. How exactly this talli
with the situation in our midst. M
one of the men implicated by I'll
hired spies and informers but star