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There l. remarkable tendency on
ss Rie.s ens e. ptssi basines. 20 '.sSs Sss
all the bIame for the present situa.
ton. Thus Beverages" admits in =
burst OF wonderful discovery that
various forms OF viciousness seem
to. fasten to the liquor traffic with
the tenacity of barnacles"; and il
adds; The reform OF the saloon and
the climinat ton of the dive and such
like efforts may not head off the
wave Of prohibition now spreading
over this republic, but it can help
some"
The Wholesale Liquor Dealers AS
sociation of n. Y. state is also moved
to 4 spasm OF enlightenment which
leads it to ''resolutc that legislators
be urged to see that -thc present
laws be changed. to the end that the
(rctaiD business may be ultimately
conducted by men OF recognized
character and standing in the COM
munity." But rs that safe and sane"
journal. the New York Evening Post.
remarks. much rs the urbane. be.
nevolent. discreet. and respectable
might do to rcgenerate his business
and stop the flood Of ''sumptuary
laws We fear Il will take more than
= set Of resolutions to produce him
in the flesh"
According to Charles r. Jones. aa-
tional chairman Of tho Prohibition
party. the election returns SHOW .
marked, climax TO the series Of Pro-
hibitiou tsiumphs Of the last ninety
days" II these successes, he adds,
are not misleading, they mean thar
''the prohibition issue will force isse;i
into the national politics Of 1898 By
It's owu momentum and viii there Af.
ford the Prohibition party The great.
est opportunity Of is caseer.s
While Mt. Jones may be somewhat
Intoxicated with the exuberanee 81
tha late election showing Of the Pro.
htbition forces. the fact remains that
nothing succeeds like success, and
the best time to push any cause =
when Il 10 going and going the right
way.
hut next year is . general election
and Presidential year. and there VIII
b something doing outside Of local
issues. The Hereditary instinct 6!
The party Democrat and the party
will assert itself. and !
great many fellows win get oil the
ltrect sprinkler tn get into the band
wagon. tsiis
Il must be borne In mind that even
ret the Prohibition party a. . PARTY
2 small. In the South. where the
dentiai election ten Southern sS8oA
from Virginia TO Louisiana east only
ii,SSI votes for the Prohibition can
lidste and more than half Of these
ItsanRe TO say. were IN Kentueky.
Leaving out Virginia. Tennessee and
Kentucky. there were only 1851 Pro
hibisiou votes. There are no state
of6eials in these states psoelaiminG
themselves as belonging to the Pro-
hibision party. In all the states
there are but twenty Psohibisioniss
legislators. and no eongressm:n.
A notable fact about the anli.liq-
uor enthusiasm In the South Is that
Il does not grow out Of the. Prohibi-
tiun propaR india, but out Of the dis.
eovesy that much of the evil Of the
race difference down there grows out
Of the drunkenness Of the ncgfo. and
that one ot the most potent remedies
for race riots and criminal assaults
10 to lessen the drink opportunity Of
the black man. In proportion a. 10
Il found that its limitation does not
hurt the white man the sobriciy en-
abiing act will grow still more pop
ular. and eventually become the set.
tied policy of the people.
But IT, ough the anti.liquor move.
ment In the Southern states has come
about without any activity Of the
Prohibition party as . political or
ganizaiion. IL would not be safe to
hold In too low cstccm the work Of
that party in the North and West. 1t
Il tho rule in America for third par
ties to secure their results Indirect
The rcecn, outcome in Kentucky Is
a strong case in point. But the chief
explanation for the defeat Of the sa-
loon as pointed ou, by the Chicago
Post. is TO be found in the new
method. Of the anti-saloon leagues in
the various states. They appealed to
reason. not to emotion: they advanced
facts to prove their arguments and
convinced the people that saloons are