The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
THE FLAG

one-even the ingeniously brutal that invented
new ways of torture and glorihed in revolving
mutatons of the dead More than century
ago a man of brilliant talents and impetuous
bravery struck treacherous blow at the flag, and
till this day our children shudder when they
hear his name and when all the hateful cate
CORY of despsed and damning terms have been
exhausted, the sum and total of them all is
TRAITOR" This the liquor traffic is.
Aye For the honor of the hag-that the gov
eminent of the people, for the people, and by the
people" might mot perish from the earth" the
Prohibition party was born. The traffic robs us
of Our billions. Let it rob, we still are rich 1t
blights our virtue and manhood. Be it So,
still on the whole we are virtuous and manly.
1t Stays our sons and our daughters by the
troupe. But some day they must die at best, and
the fountain of republican government and made
mockery of popular sovereignty If that be true.
there is no penalty but death. And in jury OF
patriots every man must answer so say we, all
of u.s."
To the proofs, and that but briefly In Ohio, in
1854, the people in their sovereign power by di-
rect popular vote, adopted a constitution forbid
ding the license of the sale of Intoxicating liquor
But the sale is still licensed under shameless
and gauzy subterfuge. The people of Ohio do
not rule Their will is trampled under foot. The
liquor traffic squrts its Shiny spitte in their face
I call that the very height of treason
But again, in 1884, the people. of Ohio by g.
900 majority adopted constitutional amendment
fc in Intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes
and again were the sovereign people made the
object of supercillious rdicule and scornful con-
tempt by these traitors to the flag. The people
of Ohio do not rule and whenever such condl-
ton arises in a republican form of government
there is base treason. And who are the traitors
those who by treacherous, 1echerous intrigue
usurp the sovereign power.
Such damning history might be multiplied. but
here within state we have been robbed
of the article of popular government for which
our hero fathers bravely died. And we, through
whose habby veins courses the brave ancestral
blood, sit idly by and blandly grin while we are
robbed of the kingship purchased at cost so
sacred and so great. For more than twenty
years the patient people of this state, despairng
of achieving protection of their homes
through their representatives, have begged, like
timorous and skuking mendicants, for the poor
privilege of doing for themselves that which is
the first duty of law makers-providing for the
protection of their homes, for the life, liberty
and happiness of the people. 1t has been denied
haughty, discourteously, brutally denied YOU
fellow citizens, and your neighbors, have, again
measure of redress; and as often have you and
your neighbors been denied the right of self
government. I do not, I will not believe that
the spirit of patriotism, the devotion to the pure
and holy principles of popular government are
dead, or dying They have been dormant But
they again awake. The shadow and thin show
of popular sovereignty may "fool part of the
people all of the while, and all of the people
some of the while but it cannot fool all of the
people all of the while"
And we of the Prohibition party (and its num-
bers are increasing by the tens of thousands. as
shown by the tally sheets) "here highly resolve
that this nation under God, shall have new
baptism of liberty and that government of the
people, for the people and by the people shall
not perish from the earth"