Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1906-04-01
Appeals TO the South
DR.. Eaten Tells the People South Of Mason
and Dixon's Line Why They Should
Support the Prohibition Party.

DR.. e. l.. Eaton, in his tour through
the South in company with National
Chairman Jones, gave the Southern
people some reasons why they should
ally themselves with the Prohibition
party. He declared:
81. The Prohibition party is today the
ty 10 the party of the solid North. The
Democratic party is the party of the solid
South. The Prohibition party is in all
doctrine to both South and North. 1t has
presented nine presidential tickets to the
American people, and of its candidates
four for vice president, were southerners
nominated q candidate for president and
Sou south am and the Demoeratic as1aa party f ha. not not
nominated a southerner for president in
81 years and in the last nine elections
only tTH TAe s0f TSH pary i. tn. only
sues; The, truly, great and national
questions, inter-.tate 1, commerce, anti
are questions about which there is sub
stantial agreement among all parties and
all classes; The Prohibition party offers
never be anything but national The
liquor question ia the only live financial
problem before the people today. This
rectly and indirectly, five times as much
a. for bread, eleven times as much as
for education, thirteen times as much as
dred and seven times as much as home
and foreign missions. Our drink bill is
four times as big as the steel trust,
compared with the free-silver question
is sixteen to one" The moral phase
Of the question is still bigger.
Greenbaekism, Tariff Free silver, Farm
ers' Alliance, Expansion, Antitrust,
Railroad-Rate Legislation, and a dozen
the political stage. and vanish, while our
cause has not shifted one hairs breadth
MOI. varied it's doctrines nor it's appeals
to the conscience Of American manhood.
help of the South. The saloon letters
Congress, gags the president and bribes
1000 annual internal revenue and its
500, 900 license fees. The Prohibition
party can never hope to break. these
bonds nSsn OF political bondage alone for the
the corporation Of the prohibitionists of
the entire nation-South and North-to
free the nation from this criminal COM
pljcity with the drink traffic.
Finally, the South needs help which the
Prohiblt1on party alone can give. Since
the civil war, the South has had no presi
dent nor vice president nor any consider
able influence in the national govern
ment, and, as things have been going for
the last thirty years, never will have.
AS long as the solid Democratic South
confronts a Republican North, there will
be no change in the national situation
propose frankly and freely the only rem
edy that can change this unhappy state
Of affairs. There are millions Of pro-
hibitionists in the Republican party. Of
the North and millions of prohibitionists
in the Democratic party of the South,
people. of similar race, religion, tastes
and identical in their belief in the doc
trines of prohibition. If these millions
will now band themselves together under
the Prohibition banner, they will quick
ly form the dominant political party Of
this country which will be truly national,
unfettered by sectional traditions, un-
poisoned by sectional hate. The time is
ripe for such a movement. Brethren of
the South we give you our hearts and
our hands for this work Will you join
with us?"