Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-07-26

my vote might determine your admission
lection as Prohibition candidate for the highest
office in the gift of the voters of Pennsylvania 1
! expected you would answer respectfully,
since had thus addressed you, briefly stating
/ which allegations, ANY were false and which
/ ifany were true.
SAYS LETTER Is AN EVASION.
In your letter to Mr.. Likins. editor of The Pee
pel's Tribune, Uniontown, Pa. you evasively at
tempt to answer only few the inquiries found
in my letter to you. You grow indignant ard
effect to be 'nsulted," and your wife breaks
down" because l ask you whether the rumor
is correct that you place intoxicants before
your guests in your own home" Then after all
! this gush and self martyrdom you admit that "in
my house and upon my sideboard is the liquor
I ofthe family. 1t is there for my family and
friends if they desire" Why, then, be ''in
! suited" at being asked whether a rumor is true
! while you admit the truth oft? You say of your
/ wife ''she has taught her children the dangers of
| liquor drinking"
What would you think of a father who kept a
nest ofvipers in his dining room for the amuse-
ment of his children, over whom the wife must
! stand guard day and night in order to protect
/ them from being bitten? Or have you never
read that wine is a mocker, strong drink is rag
! ing and whosoever is deceived thereby is not
wise" and that other warning of the wisest
King Look not upon the wine when it is red.
for at last it biteth like serpent and sting
eth like adder" or are you disciple of Inger-
! soil, ignoring "Tbe word'?"
You say of me: "Ifhe had heard this scandal
namely, placing intoxcants before guests, ETC.,
'he should have hurled the reIator to the
| ground" "He should have stricken him to the
earth, etc. But what for, Making statement
which yor admit is true: If it is scandal to
! ask man privately whether he sets liquors be-
fore his guests, then how scandalous it is for
man to do such thing. Brother Emery, suffer
| a word of exhortation-"Quit it forever"
VARYING DEGREES OF DRUNK"
lyon say, none of my family nor myselfare
total abstainers, none are drunkards, none are
tipplers, none moderate drinkers"
You claim to have been drunk but "once in
! life when boy" In this rejoice with you re-
! membering that the word drunk" is a variable
term. One man admits he has been drunk only
when he awakes in the guard house another
when dragged out of the quit er, another when
he has had midnight "bout with the boys'
and on his return home has lost the key or the
key hole or both, while others honestly admit
that glass of beer or wine champagne pro
duces an abnormal, though to the onlooker an
invisible effect.
However the haf-million railroad men now
under total abstinence orders from their en-
ployers have been given to understand that be-
cause single drink Of intoxicating liquor tax
| en- at any time may blunt their sensibilties, that
I therefore drunkenness is to be certainly avoided
only by absolutely abstaining. You say "none
of us love whisky, and we rarely drink it." We
answer people differ in their tastes and appe-
tites. Some prefer gin, others rum others
brandy and still others beer or champagne.
Some of the most dangerous drunkards in the
world are wine and beer drinkers. "They rarely
drink whiskey."
You say was in California when the brewery
was located in Bradford" and "how could
take stock in it secure its location in Brad
ford?" Will you that you did not send a
telegram which determined the matter? You
say "had been at home would not have with
held my donation from that brewery, no more
than I would from the churches, schools or hos
pitals'
| Well! Well! Here is another Burchard come
to judgement. All will remember the Rum,
Romanism and Rebellion" bull that defeated
Blaine and elected Cleveland. Were you really
yourself when you wrote that sentence, did
some Burchard write it for you?
STILL ANOTHER COMPLAINT.
If the Christian people of Pennsylvania can
| gulp you down after that, if the young peoples
societies and the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tions can vote to put man at the head of our
government who places the drink factories
par with the church, the school and the hospta ],
| than we miss our guess.
The churches teach in exact language that mo
political party ought to receive the support of
Christian men so long as it fails to put itself on
record in attitude of open hostility to the
liquor traffic Yet your benevoence punches
| !, hre,v nd he hnoL
in nearly every State in the Union teach that the
! product of the brewery is not food but poison.
/ That it blunts the moral sensibties, clouds tn e
intellect and rapidly detsrIorates mans phi ysical
| powers; but you contribute with equal facility
and felicity to the brewery and to the ool two
antagonistc institutions.
The product of the brewery more than any
other agency, fills our hospitals, insane asylums
and almshouses, and yet you are as liberal in
your contributions to the bane of society as to its
blessings. The product of the brewery has i'm
| poverished thousa nds of families in State
| rendering children shoeless. hatless and naked
and their pinched and blanched faces and flesh
less limbs all sad reminders that the church
and the schools are closed to them, and only the
hospital or almshouse remain open to them, and
yet you have the brazen impudence to boast that
you as happy in bestowing your benefactions
or the grestest agency of misery and crime as
! when bestowing them on the agencies establish
ed to prevent crime and to save the criminal.
Your reference to the beverage of liquor in
your fathers house might serve as an excuse for
your own low estimate of civic virtue had you
lived these SO yearsin some other country where
the public conscience had not be eneducated by
press, pulpit and platform as it has in America.
Ifignorant here, it is wilfu and inexcusable
LOOKED TO HIM AS A MOSES,
To seriously treat the liquor business as legi-
innate industry to be encouraged by good men,
at time when 3s, 100000 of our population have
driven it from their midst, when railroads and
other large employers, of labor establishing
prohibition for their employees, and when life in
surance companies, civic and elemosynary socie-
ties closing their doors to the patrons of the
brewery gives evidence of moral and mental