Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-27

democratic host until, amid the dark
ness OF defeat, the loved ones left be-
hind begged the comfort of his re-
turn and promised him every sort of
political sugar plum and more whisky
in the party if he would but come back
And he came back and the sugar plums
are his. l have often wondered at the
difference between the treatment ac-
corded those who left the party be-
cause they wanted less whisky, and
those who left it because they wanted
more. The former are nlaligned, Will
fed, roasted, and the latter are ca :
joled. honored, toasted. Why? Tie
whisky republican heart throbbed in
sympathy with the whisky power,
and the party refuses TO be
outdone by any other party
in its loyalty. Both great parties fol-
low the beer carts and liquor vans of
the distiller and III passionate loyal
tones are singing Whittier thou goesst
I will go, where thou lodgest ! will
lodge, thy ballot shall be my ballct and
thy party my party. and where thou
diest l will die, and there will be bur-
led
"Thirty-tive years ago the liquor in
terests, went into politics to dominate
and control all parties in the interests
of the saloon. BY fraud, intrigue, ex-
pensive Hobbies, Doodle, by every art
known to a rich and constituencies or
ganization, ii has gained all II set out
to secure until tooay not word to
displease the liquor oligarchy is put In
to the two great party platforms, and
but little legislation can be secured un-
desired by this shameless traffic. II
has entered politics TO stay and
to boss ana to ruin. An an
archistic party Itself, knowing no
law bat Its own will, 1t obstructs tenn
perance education lest the truth about
itself be known, fights home protection
lest households shall not furnish boys
enough to satiate It's greed, intimidates
the pulpit lest it may wake up the
American conscience, buys by costly
advertisements silence as to its iniquity
from many a paper, cuts off or puts on
political, heads as it pleases.
THE prohibition party says there
are 100000 voters who refuse to bow TO
Baal and directly or indirectly enter
into completely with the political idol
of th. hour
II heard Of travelling man who had
two girls, both in the same city. Call
ing on one and not finding everything
to his liking, he called on the other
and SHE too failed his fancy. a church
door was opened and In the prayer SER
vice there came on him the spirit OF
prayer and he said, Lord. thou knowest
we have no place else to GO Born to a
hatred of the liquor traffic, taught that
republicanism stood for manhood and
morals. for liberty and life. at years
of age I trod the New York village
waving cotton flag, hurrahng foI
Lincoln and republicanism; later
proudly casting my ballot for the party
that championed human right; later
advocating. tho indirectly. from the
pulpit its right to life and power,
gave my heart and hand TO It, Later
the Unborn hatred for the whisky evil
developed by most painful experience
in public life, there came an hour
when there was no welcome in either
political household. l looked into the
white face of prohibition party and
said, Thou knowest l have nowhere
else TO GO There had to be prohibit
tion party or 100000 voters could no.
exercise a heaven ordained and HEAVIER
demanded obligation.
The prohibition party Is the only
efficient annihlator of the traffic
Church resolutions have been tried anC
they have had as much weight viii
ba jyta n
which they were written. Resolved
that temperance must and shall win.
A unanimous adoption. but the lock stel
to the polls to vote party platform.
without one temperance plank in them
remains unbroken. Prayer has beer
tried, but the great Father had no neec
| to answer the prayer. for in the suppl
ants hand was the magic wand to ans
wer his own petition. Local option ha:
! proved too local and too optional 1t:
| territory is always invaded and th'
viglant enemy. with his selfish in
centive exhausts the money, the pa
tience and the strength Of even fight
| ing Hercules.
License has been tried. A legaliZet
! permission for the traffic to live, in or
der to kill it, a flag Of prohibition owe
| . saloon door in order TO bury it; ;
federation of national, state and mum
cipal care that the traffic may die al
outcast; is a bit of political folly per
petrated by brains added by the traf
| fic, and for brains too fra,l to epdur
| two consecutive thoughts. 1t remind
one of Mark Twain's. Cheer up, tn
worst is yet to come License, higl
or low. is partnership, government
! political and individual. Governmental
when it makes the business legal an
respectable. Political when 1t obeys 1t
| behest for power. Individual whel
there is failure to vote 1t out. Societ,
| and the church look askarce upon tn
saloon and hate its harvests, but if
were a saloon keeper and about to die
I'd ask for the licence from behind tn
/ counter, beg that my dead fingers nigh
| clutch it in my coffin, that when in tn
Igreat day of Judgment the reason fo
my hellish work We're asked, would