The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-28

try, In Cuba, IN Puerto Rico and the
attitude concerning the canteen and his
apparent contempt for the vast number
Of petition and petitioners. protest.
ing against IL, he has outraged and IN
suited the moral sentiment OF this coun-
try I'm such a manner and to such a de-
gree as calls for. righteous uprising and
an Indignant and effective rebuke. We
challenge denial Of the fact that our ex-
ecutive. as commander-in-chef Of the
forces Of the United States. at any time
prior to or since March 3, 1899, could have
closed every army saloon, called can
teen by executive order as President
Hayes did before him. and should have
closed them for the same reasons which
actuated President Hayes; we assert
that the act OF congress passed March 2,
1893. forbidding the sale OF liquors, In
any post, exchange or cantecn." by ANY
officer or private soldier or by amy
other person. on any premises used for
military purposes by the United" was
and ,bs e H e. fsPG act Of
declare our solemn belief that the at
torney general of the United States in
his in,srpre,atlon Of that h Law and the
that Interpretation, and his refusal to
REASONABLE notification thereof. and
that President Mckinley through his
assent 70 and Endorsement OF such in
terpretation and refusal on the part OF
officials appointed by and RESPONSE
BILE to him. shares responsibility in their
guilt and We record our conviction that
a new and serious peril confronts our
country In the fact that its president, at
does abrogate a law In congress. through
subordfnatcs whose acts become his, and
thus virtually confesses that laws are
70 be administered or TO be nullihed in
the interest OF a law-defying business, by
AN administration under mortgage to
such business for support
Foveign Liquor Policy.
4 We deplore the fact that an ad-
ministration OF this republic, claiming the
right and power to carry our flag across
the seas and TO conquer and annex new
territory, should admit its lack OF power
70 prohibit the American saloon on sub
3ugsted soil. or should openly confess
itself subject to liquor sovereignty under
that flag. We are humiliated. exasperated
ana grieved by the evidence painfully
abundant that this Administrators policy
fruits of drunkenpess, insanity and crime
under the dollhouse In the tropics, and
when the president OF the first Philippine
commission says II was unfortunate that
we introduced and established the saloon
there, 10 corrupt the natives and TO ex-
hibit the vices OF our race. We charge
the tnhumanty and unchristianity of this
act upon the administration OF President
Mckinley and upon the party which elect
ed and which perpetuated the same.
We declare that tho only policy which
the government OF the United States can
OF right establish as TO the liquor traffic
under the national constitution, upon any
territory under the military or civil con-
troll OF that government, is the policy
OF prohibition; that TO establish justice,
secure domestic tranquility. provide for
the common defense, promote the general
welfare and insure the blessings of lih-
erty to ourselves and our posterity." as
the constitution provides, the liquor traf-
flo must neither be sanctioned nor toll
Grated and that the revenue policy, which
makes our government partner with
distlllers and brewers and barkeepers.
IL a disgrace to our civilization, an out
rage upon humanity and crime against
God
We condemn the present administration
at Washington because II has repealed
the prohioltory laws in Alaska and has
given over the partly civilized tribes
there to be the prey OF the American grog-
shop and because It has entered upon a
license policy In our possessions by in
cooperating the same In the recent act
government OF the Hawaiian islands.
We call attention to the fearful fact that
expectation of liquors rom the United
States to the Philippines increased from
SET In fsaS to Sfsl 1875 in tho first ten months
OF the fiscal year ending June /, 1850. and
that while our expectation of liquors to
Cuba never reached $4,000 year previous
TO American occupation OF that island.
the fiscal year OF 1899 reached the sum
of sss9, SIS.
Cali to Christian Citizens.
e. One great religious body 0he Rap
tists) having truly declared OF the liquor
trarfic that II has no defensible right TO
exist, that II can never he reformed. and
that II stands condemned by its unrighte-
Gus fruits as thing un-Christian. un-
American and perilous utterly to every
interest in life" another great religious
body fthe Methodlstsl having as truly
asserted and reiterated that mo political
party has right 10 expect, nor should Il
receive, the votes 81 Christian men so
long as II stands committed to the license
system or refuses to put itself on rccorl
In "a attitude az open hostility to the
saloon" other great religious bodies hav-
ing made similar deliVefances, In language
plain and uncquivocal about the llQuo
trafflc and the duty ~ Christian citisen-
shlP In opposition thereto. and the fact
being plain and Ooniahle that Tho Dem
ocrAtic party stauN FOR license. the saloon
end tho caateen, while the Republican
party In policy and administration. stands
loT the captecn. The saloon and the rove-
nue. thercfrotn, We declare ourselves justi-
fed In expecting that Christian voters ev-
erywhere shall cease their complicity with
the uauer curse by refusing 10 uphold
liquor party and shall unite themselves
with the only party which upuo'ds the
prohibition policy ana which for nearly
thirty years has been the falthful de