The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-01-27
VIC. .T.U.COLUMN.
-.>orcrED By Mas. NJ. L. HOBBS
yoa,slrIoN IN THEORY AND FACT
sm, OIl Party Logic Dissecied and II
FsIlseies Disproyed.


r.. following is from the pen Of !;
r.. Mcneil, part Of hls article ,
ntiy printed in the Huuson re- I
MIR. Mcneil il one OF New (
strongest men in the Prohi- I,
n party, and j. doing great ,
iar our causeby his writing IN ,
New York dailies and IN lis
me papers at Hudson.
n talking with a friend OF mine
NJ | esteem highly, expressed
elf in very decided manner
gard to third party Prohibition.
li- srpument was that II takes good
,ea from the other parties, an lso-
them in useless, hopeless
n,rity party. whose ell ,rts IN all
Years that it has been II exist
sr have been utterly barren q
rs But like many other pep
opinions when held up to the
n the fact and the logic 1t Is
IA 10 be altogether wanting in
ts of truth.
the first 7 lace It must be re-
nhered that the third party pro-
onists furnished a compare
limited proportion OF The
who are supposed to be natuT-
hostile 10 the saloon viz / ne
-.tian voters. According to the
mmoply received e-tiuate these
ber 500 600 while the third par
nroblbitionists numbered less
tsn 400. coo, 80 that It II apparent
ior every voter whom th' thlrd
rv has taken out Of the ranks OF
.sa old parties sixteen have re-
manned faithful to their party ale
o,arca Either the third party
rrohihi,ionists must have an un
n.ual proportional moral stamina
or el-e ny friend greatly exagerale
their Importance a. factor 10 tn
moral httterment OF the people
surely -uch an Insignificant proper
ras one in sixteen ought never
bs MISSED { ON such mass o
n-tian political power.
F.ye million Christian voters
Trnk OF il. And yet bribery an
pption ere as common IN OF
ty politics as politicians aud o
.eekers. Five million Chnstia
.r-l Think Of it, And yet -
saloon keepers and liqu'
a4rs have only to stamp the
Ito strike terror to the heart
cialdom and get any political !
they Wish.
Why, with 100000 ChTis'l'
,ers among the political assets
rp nation does our politics Ie'
,h corruption? WIS with ? ~
o0 Christian men with ballots
t.lr hands do the 10000 hqu
dealers and their henchmen get a
ial favor hat their business
tre-ts demand?
Why, if one hal OF the Cnr's''
voters Of the country would unite
te ballot box for any one I'M
taey could get that one thing
easily as dtopping their ballots
tr4y want a clean uDpurchased v
t.ey can have it, If they want
loon outlawed they can have
they want men elected who '
la,e respect for their oaths al OIL
aud enforce the laws, they can h
t.em. All that l. necessary j.
them 10 unite at the ballot box
Show by their deeds as well a. Il
words that the official life oi
seeker will be required
tUe.r hands who buys a vote,
reains unworthily for any adv
tga or who refuses TO put nm
onrsc ord as in open hostility to
saloon. /; is as clear as the
day that the Christian voters
t0a country can get any good u
they want in apolitical way, II
w, only unite.
Surely there must be sonnet
Very defective in my friends
when he draws the conclusion
iti- little band of third party
Mbitionists who are standing 10
way Of the temperance reiorI
Colorado prohibtionist.
CoIlinwood won 81, ,000, 900.
The village OF CollinwOod,