Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
IOWA PRESS COMMENT

Orwig's letter in Sundays Register as
serted that the Iowa prohibitory law
is ''nullified in a lamentable degree by
the mulct license law" yet he knows
that the mulct law makes the prohibit
DRY law all the stronger against every
illegal sale of liquors in the state, for
he was one of the three citizens" who
aided in demonstrating that the pro-
hibitory law can be enforced against
every illegal sale of liquors in Des
Moines, and enforced in every Iowa
city and town where IS per cent of the
voters of the county have signed the
petition of consent for the operation of
saloons. That fact was further pre-
sented in the following statement by
Rev. H. H. Abrams in Sundays Regis
| ter:
| Il want to say right here that can
clean up any town of any size in Iowa,
under the operation of our temperance
laws as they exist today, if the minis
| tiers, all of them, will stand by me- If
am called to a small town where
there is one pastor, and he will stand
| by me, can clean up the town; or two
| pastors, and they will stand by me, l
can clean up that town; or five, as the
case may be-"
Rev. Abrams further said: 81 am
glad that the Cedar Rapids convention
of the republican party remained ST
lent on the temperance question in its
platform" He is regularly engaged il
the enforcement Of the temperance
laws of the state, and he knows that
any three citizens of Iowa can en-
force the prohibitory law against every
| illegal sale of liquors in their county
/ The liquor traffic is bad at all times
and places, but it should be admitted
that Iowa republicans have given the
state the best temperance laws that
have ever been enacted in any COM
monwealth, and provided for their en-
forcement in a manner that exceeds
the scope and power of the legal pro-
visions for the enforcement of any
other law OIL the state. That is the
reason that the republican platform
sis silent" on the liquor question. The
voters of Iowa know these facts, there
fore the republican prohibitionists
/ firmly adhere to the party and cannot
! be alienated by those who know that
statewide prohibition was an utter
farce in every community of Iowa
where the majority of the public senti-
ment was in favor of the regulation of
the sale of liquors, and the liquors
were sold in defiance of the prohibit
DRY laws.-Des Moines Register.
Iowa Democrats Lining Up.-The re-
publicans will watch with great deal
of interest, and very little alarm, the
strenuous efforts of the Iowa demo-
Gratis to "get together" upon har-
monious basis in their state conyen-
ton this year. Governor Boies, in a
letter to the Clinton Age, voices this
desire. He says:
Some things seem certain to me
even in politics. In the first place |
am sure the democratic party must be.
come united party before there is
any hope for its success here or else
where, and in the second place it will
never become united party so long
as bare majority therein insist upon
a reaffirmation of the Chicago and Kan.
sas City platforms on the money ques
ton.
1t seems to me, therefore, that ev
cry democrat who honestly desires the
success of the democratic views on
present vital questions that deal with
fundamental principles on which oul
: government was founded, should be
willing to ignore for the present al
least, question which he knows will
lead to the certain defeat of his party
: in both state and nation alike.
when we have settled the question
as to whether or not the Declaration Of
independence is string of glittering
Hfalsehoods, and the constitution of the
: United States rope of sand, it will be
IN
money question, but until then patriot
ism and political sagacity alike require
that it should Sleep"
; Whether the ex-governor is in sym
pathy with the move to make him the
nominee is not generally known. His
letter may be bid for the nomina
ton; but it is hardly probable he will
: be the nominee. The gold democrats
do not regard him as sound upon the
currency question; upon the other
hand, he repudiates Bryan and free sill
ver The venerable ex-governor has
vagaries of his own to burn.
The coming democratic convention
, union and family conference. The eff
: fort will be, first of all, to adopt {
l platform upon which all democrat:
Soil al iuCuilIy " IGuuCt
to a concrete proposition, but which
; will be seriously attempted. The Du
: buque Herald indicates how the silver
: men are to be placarded; they are tt
: face one of their own purposeful acts
!. which will constitute a precedent TO
the present emergency. The Herald
! puts it adroitly:
There are fundamental principle.
3 which insistence upon the financia
plank of the Kansas City platform
: should not be permitted to jeopardize
> Ex-Governor Boies points them ou
4 with. force and clearness. 1t is not in
: consistent to remain silent upon thi
$ question. 1t is remembered that tn,
e democratic national platforms of 1S9,
Y and 1900 We're silent upon the tariff is
( sue that fusion with silver republican!
3 might be accomplished; and yet at nj
a time did democracy fail to affirm tn,
: great principle of tariff for revenue
and not for protection There is n,
s good reason why the party shoull
: not now ignore the dead and buried sill
e yer issue that harmony and unity ma.
Il be restored, and solid line of haiti,
ba 1,rocopfod tn tho onop,u NJ,