The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-01-17
W. T.U. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. N. L. HOBBS.


1t is no longer a question wheth.
er prohibition can lie effected
through the old political parties or
not. So far as the Democratic par
ty is concerned, it seems now to
have practically gone out OF busi-
ness through force Of circumstances
for the time being at least, SO that
had it the disposition to suppress
the saloon, which il has Lot, 1t
would be powerless to do SO. So
far as the Republican party is con-
|cerned, while it has the power to
suppress the saloon it has not the
disposition to do so. In fact, the
saloon il, we might say, its vital
breath and native air" Saloon
money runs it's machinery, carries
on its commerce, builds its ships,
aud elects its officers. More beer
was brewed, and more liquor sold,
more saloons established, more
crimes committed under the pres
ent administration than under any
|other since the discovery of this
lcountry.
There are, no doubt, theoretical
|ly, sound Temperance men in the
Republican party, but it is facts
mot theories, that confront US. No
practical prohibitionist can longer
affiliate with the Republican party,
Ifor to do SO is to say in language
that all nationalities can under.
stand, II favor the drink trafli.. "
You may be minister or the edI'
tor OF a religious paper, and declalm
or write against the saloon, and 10
favor Of temperance, but if you dc
40 and vote with either OF the old
parties, as the case stands to day,
YOU can't convince one man IN ten
Thousand that you are sincere. :,
You may cay, as minister saio
the other day, 81 am a prohibition
list. therefore vote the republican
Ticket" and you may say that yot
hope to get prohibition through tn
old political parties by first gettins
liz locally, but you know, and 9.
doss everybody else know, that sucf
a thing cannot be cone. Local pro
Inhibition is a good thing, and ha'
been tffected in a number OF places
but not by voting old party tickets
LII is the prohibition vote every time
and everywhere that secures loca
lor any other kind Of prohibition
and you may pray for temperance
and declaim against the saloon un
|til the last nail is driven into thu
Icoffin Of the last man that shall live
|upon the earth, but unless you vote
las you pray, it may yet be sta &c
|by the recording angel that tina
/. man was drowned in beer vat.
No man living has the social, le
gal or moral right to vote for sa
loon to exist any where on earth
Ihs is not willing that it shall ex's
next door to his own dwelling; AM
no man, saint or sinner, has an.
right to cast a vote that will max
lii possible to open saloon Tor an,
q d|other mans sons to patronlze II o
lis unwilling that his own boy
: should patronize them.
You can't preach temperance an
vote the republican ticket any NOR
than YOU can preach high protectiv
tariff and the gold standard an
vote the democratic ticket. 70
know. and SO does everybody els
know, that a republican officer WI
Z not enforce prohibitory law whe
,..it is enacted, and that a republica
or democratic jury will not convlt
a yiolator Of the prohibition Law
: Though the defendant and all Ia
witnesses swear to the guilt OF tn
party, and yet you pray for prob
|bition, and say we must get
Through the old party, when 20
know and everybody else know
that il is as impossible to do so .
liz would be for an oyster to out ru
:. IA steam engine or a toad to ny Tx
= = a pigeon. California Voice.
u Query.