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

| hold up the parchment with Its patri
otic legal seal and say, because Iowa
citizens, religious and educated, gav'
me permission TO do it Gentlemen
| l have no private telegram from heav'
en- but uncorrupted humanity declares
that the great. just, judge will have d:
little mercy for the voter of permission
as for the seller of the poison!
The great parties of the day are
license parties and a vote for them is
a ballot for everything for which they
stand. The voter may not like the at
titude of the party on the tariff. or OH
the war measures, or on its mon tary
standard. but a vote for the party is
a vote for everything for which the
party stands; and vote for either Of
the great parties is. willing or unwili-
ing to share the partnership. shame and
crmnality of the whisky business-it
is 4 vote for license.
The Anti-Saloon League deserves
credit for all ii has done or striven to
do. It's most loyal supporters in local
work where I have CHANGED to be have,
however, been party prohibitionists. 1t
has closed many saloons and pleaded
for law enforcement. Good. But the
party prohibitionist asks for law
that not only shuts the saloons today,
but dries up the fountain that feeds
them. 1t demands the annihilation OF
the brewery, and the distillery that
spawn the grog shops. 1t is not enough
to close the saloon. The fountain must
be dried up. The only voice crying in
the wilderness for the destruction of
the breeders OF the whisky shops is the
prohibition party, and the principle
will not die nor the party disappear
until it's truth is enthroned.
Past experience proves that the
parties in power cannot be trusted to
carry out the temperance laws they
have been forced TO enact. New Hamp-
shire repealed its prohibitory law be-
cause the party in power failed to en-
force it. Kansas, the very hot bed OF
republicanism, gave the state prohib-
itory legislation and then put SYM
pathizers with the liquor traffic into
public office. who perjured themselves.
and unblushingly protected, In many
parts OF the state, the illegal saloon.
Iowa had a prohibitory law, and the
dominant party said to the private cit
izen. enforce the law if you will. We
won't Portland had to elect a party
prohibitionist as sheriff ere that great
city was clean.
.The gold standard would have failed
but for the party behind 1t. Tariff
came to the front because party
championed it. Slavery was abolished
when a party caught the meaning of
liberty. and pushed open the long barr
ed gates of manhood to the negro. Pro-
hibition will win with a party behind
it.
The baby just learning to read and
spelling out the advertisements, knelt
at her mothers knee and prayed, %
God, make me pure. make me absolutely
pure, just like baking powder. This
nation that for so long had saloon IN
its national capitol, where drinking
men could get inspiration to make laws
for sober people, that goes into pro-
hfbitory states and gives tacit permis-
sion by a collected tax to deal in in
toxicants. that folds Old Glory, with Its
bars OF white and crimson, around the
whisky barrel in a licensed saloon, tha1
sends, in spite of protest ana tears 'he
Young soldier and the ignorant pagan
New England's rum and the peer ina !
made Milwaukee infamous; nauoh
that for a price gives one part OF lts cit'-
zens a right to prey upon another part,
has need TO pray the baby's prayer-o
God, make me pure. and please seiia
marty with clean hands to lead us IN
the way of truth.
.The partnership of the great polit-
ical parties with Americas sfeaies.
curse: the dominancy of tne Whlshy
mower, so great that it largely dlctates
men and measures: their abject refusai
m disensage themselves from the un-
holy alliance: their methods proposed
for ,ne repression of the evil so mad
eouate and unreliable and untrustwor-
thy, necessitate new party acieaii u''-
bought unbribed party, prohipluon
party, to grapple with the curse anu
plan for victory.
"The prohibition party has been
called a regiment of dreamers. very
we'll. Such have always been IN tne
van of the worlds progress. Columbus
dreamed and America was the answer.
Livingston dreamed and the dawn OIL
civilization lit UP the African horizoii.
Cantsin Kane dreamed and regions oil
the far away north were mapped. VIII
berforce dreamed and Englsh soli was
forever prohibited slave territory.
Freeborn Garretson, and John bro"h
dreamed and pile of handcuhs' "res.
ed from four million wrists, Is the real
ization. Men are still dreaming OF l
time when the golden rule Illustrate
in golden conduct shall brinsin the gold
an ape OF an outlawed, abolished ana
electrocuted liquor traffic. an age OF
white living and clean ballots.
"That no evi! is necessary is the dl-
rect assumption of civilized government
and a transcript of the divine plan
Adam. out of Paradise, %as met with a
n,or,ise of new life. The world was
wa shed clean of humanity and the race
had new beginning. The ante-deluge
rottenness was not necessary.
calvary is the atone'ient Tor sin ana
Gaily promised help is Gods voice that
ain Is not necessary, When the old
cracked bell Of that historic Philadei-
nhia hall rang out its notes for freedom
i, WAS an assertion to every listening
nation that the evil of foreign oppres-
sion was not necessary. And wher
brave men from the north met deter
mined south on the battlefield there was
a cry. Slavery, the SUN OF all VII
lsinies. is not necessary. Today faith
and hope and courage and decency and
daring and the past and present and a
good sized regiment of men ana Die
por one of women and God declare the
evil LIQUOR traffic UNNECESSARY.