The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-11-04
SOC|AL|ST|C DOCTRINES
OCCUPY MAYOR JOHNSON'S
TINE At TENT MEETING
localized EVlLS--NO. IA.
CWritten for the News-Democrat)
BY JOHN DANNER

i
chapter and the eighth verse, we read,
For this purpose the son Of God was
manifested, that he might destroy the
works OF the .devil..' IL we are the
true disciples OF Christ, we will also
4 help to destroy the works OF the devil,
and II the legalized liquor traffic Tor
beverage purposes does not come un-
der the name OF works Of the devil"
/ would not know where to find them.
The records of our daily and weekly
papers prove to us that the great ma
Ijority of the murders. robberies, riot
and bloodshed, are the result of the
I1egalized l1uor traffic. Not one good
thing can be said in defense of this
great evil. 1t is "evil, only evil, and
that continually" and therefore
should be abolished. Every ballot cast
favorable to the continuance Of legal
izing this great evil is a ballot to help
rivet the chains of this destructive
business upon US.
i Our Ohio Dow tax law is the most
| Outrageous and unconstitutional law
that ever was imposed upon any peo-
pie. Our state constitution very
clearly declares that no license for
liquor selling shall be granted, but
the Republican party, anxious to have
the liquor vote, catered to the demands
of George B. Cox, and the other liquor
interests of the state, and enacted
tax laws whereby the saloons might
be legally opened. That was only
twenty years ago, and never in the
history of the state has the liquor traf-
fic prospered and grown as it has un-
der this Dow tax law.
We have preachers, deacons and ac-
tive church members all over the state
that talk and preach against the sa-
loon the year round. but on election
day step forward in company with
George B. Cox and his saloon follow
| ing in support of this unholy law, by
voting the straight Republican ticket.
They do not realize that in the eyes
Of honest people, they occupy the posi-
tion of the Sunday school man, so
clearly described in the following
verses:
Along in November, when chill was
the weather,
Two ballots were cast in a box to-
: gether
Two ballots were cast in to-
. gether;
They nestled up close like brother
to brother,
, You couldn't tell one of the votes
from tie other.
You couldn't tell one from the
: other.
Il Chorus:
They were both rum votes,
. / And sanctioned the license plan;
And one was cast by q jolly old
! brewer,
And one by Sunday school man.
: The Sunday school man, no man
I, could be truer-
a Kept busy all summer denouncins
!, the brewer,
All summer denouncing the
. brewer.
But this fervor cooled off with the
Q change of the weather,
e And late in the autumn they voted
Y together,
In the autumn they voted to-
gether.
. The Sunday school man had always
J, been noted
. For fighting saloons except when he
e voted;
For temperance except when he
. voted;
He piled up his prayers with a holy
;, perfection,
:, But knocked them all down on the
day of election,
:" But knocked them all down al
h election.
Y The foxy old brewer was cheerful
II and mal1Ow.
Said he, 81 admire that Sunday
: school fellow"
u admire that Sunday school fel
i low;
n He's true to his church, to his party
! he's truer;
He talks for the Lord, but votes FOL
d the brewer.
: He votes every time for tht
brewer.
= 1t is to be hoped that thousands II
, our state who have hitherto not real
o lied what evil they were supporting
. by voting to uphold this unhOiy liquol
r law, win cease to do so any longer ant
= vote only for the suppression of thi,
Il great evil
George B. Cox and all the liquor
sellers that now support the Republi
2 can party wuold leave that party II
y twenty-four hours IL the party shoult
% cease to uphold such a law as the Dow
IS tax law for the legalization of the
o saloons in Ohio. Now. as it canno
n be denied that the liquor element de
a scribed clings to that party because
= the party upholds law that legal
= ICES the traffio,sle 1t not time fol
Christians, anti-saloon men, and tenn
j perance voters. to leave that party
d and vote only for the death of the
J. traffic?
l. The Democratic party took no par
: in the enactment of the unholy law
!, but proved itself unworthy in the Ohio
" legislature since that time, when Il
had the power, to repeal the unholy
y law, but 1t never made the slightes
attempt In that direction. and there
fore is equally guilty with the party
THAT imposed such q law upon tho