Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-11-13

that which of old was symboliZed by
the slave ship and the auction block.
LII Is Just as certain that If the saloons
or the United States continue to do bus.
mess another year they Will kill and de.
oauch and blight great army of men.
women and children, as it is certain
that darkness will come when the sun
sets. But among the men who are in
possession of governmental power,
among the men who make law. among
the men who could stop the ravages of
the trafflc IL they would, there Is not so
much as perceptible disposition to
stop the saloons awful work-no, not
this year nor in endless years. With
the present trend of things, with the
present men in power. with the present
policies dominant at Washington. at AL
0any, at Harrisburg. at Springfield. the
liquor traffic with its perpetual murder
ana outrage is assured of everlasting
life.
The world orders a crusade against
anarchy. Kings and Presidents will
hold International congresses over it.
His Holiness. the Pope, Will give his
blessing to the movement. We shall
have learned magazine articles and Ia.
bored editorial discussions of the CUES.
ton. But for every victim that anar.
acy has ever killed, not in The United
States alone, but in the whole world.
the liquor traffic, fiourishing under tie
protection of the American govern
ment, has piled up score of heca-
tombs. For every wound that anarchy
has given the body polite, the saloon
has struck it thousand times. The
craftsmanship that plans how it NAV
exterminate the followers of the red
flag, while the saloon Ia left, all inlet.
TO 20 on. not only doing It's other dead
ly work but creating as well AZ the very
anarchy about which the nations shud
der-tho craftsmanship that ignores
this greater question, we Say, in pursuit
OF All evil that is almost microscopic. is
comparable 10 the seamanship, that
hunts with a candle for nah hole in
the hold, while the whole ocean pours
through shattered broad side.
No one will be 9ladder to see great
world wide crusade against anarchy,
I han the parent of anarchy-the saloon.
The politician of the pot house, 10y the
pot house and for the pot house, can be
depended upon to cheer on such "A cru.
SADIE with all his energies, for if the
world can be made to hunt this inSig.
niicant rat for the next decade, 1t
means another decade of life for the
ravening beast whose evil deeds had al
most brought him TO judgment.
Acrusade against anarchy no matter
how honest, or how pure purpose and
how energetically carried out, must of
inevitable necessity fail if it ignores
the saloon. Make statute books full of
laws to throttle the tyrant-craZed Pole.
Russian and Italian. imprisoE them at
sight, hang them upon the slightest ex-
cuse, IT you will. and yet, il the liQuor
traffic goes on debauching the public
conscience and creating It's spawn of
vice and misery. twenty-five years of
repression will find anarchy stronger
than it is today: because the methods
adopted will have been only the looping
awav of an occasional branch. while
the roots have gone on pushing their
way downward and outward unhinder.
ed
Therefore let prohibitionists refuse
TO he side tracked even for a moment
Let us nnfiinchingly drag the saloon
and the saloon politician out from be
hind this new scarecrow. behind which
they would hide, and insisteDtlv de-
mand for the question of prohibition the
first place on the calender of nation.
al reform.-The New Voice, Chicago.