The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1908-08-01

own financial interests, end search ont
the best method sof tfrottIfng this
great evil and stop this great wAste.
They will adopt for this purpose the
method which has Been aked NsltE sue
cess In the settlement OF All other
questions. Every question that has
been settled for over a century in
American politics has been settled
largely, IL not entirely, by the party
method This was true 0f the taf1fT
question. money question the question
OF centralization Of government, and
OF the many minor Questions thAt have
appeared from time to time, and we
believe win he the ultimate settlement
OF thf5 the only question now before
the American people. The liquor ques-
tion is the greatest question in its
connection with other questions, In It's
power to c6fiplicate those questions
and hinder their solution. The ques
tion of immigration which has been sc
widely discussed is question only IN
cities. wards and neig hoods where
the saloon Is dominant, and the for
eIgner is not q disturbing element IN
dry territory. He only becomes such
through the infuetice Of iiducr, There
fore, when the Afiaerican people rec
oRnize that underlying the ifnn1igfa-
tion problem is the saloon problem,
they viii have one more reason Tor ac-
complaining its overthrcw
The question of mfsgoveYnrnsnt OF
cities will also be recognized as one
Of the questions which win be sx-
treriely dffFicult, IL not absoiutely I'm :
possible Of solution without the sclu-
ton of the lluubr dhesti0n The ward
boss can only deal with v6ters that
have been prepared to fiis hand, and
the school which furnishes corrupt
voters Is the saloon. Tf the cities OF
our land had no liquor problem they
would have no rriasgovernntent on d
colossal sdale such as now exists The
American people WIN also recognize In
the near future that the most serious
obstacle to the nAfnonious relation
between capital and labor IL the pres
ence OF the saloon TO absorb the earn
ings, corrupt the character, and waste
the productiveness OF the mass 0f
American labor whenever strikes
have occurred liQuor has prevented q
successful termination of the strike FOR
the Iaboring man, BY incitiug q few, at
least Of the laborIng men to violence
ana unwise methods, and by this
means they lost the sympathy and
support OF public sentiment, and the
strike became a failure.
II has already heen recognized by
the people Of one large section 81
our land that their greatest and nssss
pressing political question, the race
problem, fs fFnpohsibIe OF sdlGti0n %
long as multitudes OF negroes are cor
rupted by the saloon WEi&n the Amer
lean people are thoroughly aroused 70
All these problems and to the share
which LIQUOR has In the aifficulty oi
their solution, they will certainly seek
in an intensely earnest way for the
best and most permanent solution oi
this great question.
In the second place, the American
PEOPLE will place the sss0habftion party
IN power whenever they recognize that
entire national prohibition enforced BY
It's real friends, rather than by its pre-
tended or lukewarm friends or ever
its avowed eneanies, Is a succssgfu
method Of dealing with the ncuol
traffic and the only method that can bt
successful 1t is often stated that pro
niibtion does not prohibit. IT conld b
said with sasaal Rofce that laws agaiaak'
larceny viii not be enforchd II thieves
are entrusted with its enforcement
The principle Of prohibition has nevsi
been thoroughly and sincerely triet
anywhere BY the american people
Even where states or cofanunfties
have, as we stated. voted dry, the no,
tional governaraafat has stood In ths
wav 81 the 9nsorcsgnent il 4hear law
by q system or internal reveTsue Rhs
interstate commerce witch makes 4
paaBible to iasue feaefal licenses ant
to import liqubf into It's ferrifof.
which the local Mnth0ritsee are htriv.
lnR to tree from at. Al Il was said b
old, "a house divided against itsei
cannot stand" 50 the national gov
ern1nent to some sutenR Mt aAaBs
counteracts the we'll meant &tfofks b
the states end partially nullfEes TN
erect or the State 1Aws. SO long u
this is true KfBns ~ 4Ao rAn1 pFchibi
tion territory III all our land and tier
cannot be untn the national gUvern
fnent disscTves its phsf sfAefslsap sNikrs Aisl
4suuor business.
In the third place. the prohibition
party will succeed when the peopl
recognize ire Necessity forAa bsTanAn
@ft, thoroughly organized, easily fo
Gated organization fS1. the anforcednafl
of the laws that nAy exist Ali othp
organizations for ti1is purpose. cs1tsid
ia the prohibition party, have bee
certain as to their prMhsibsl units
which Is sometimes alleged TO he tn
Individual and sometimes other 1Oca
organizations. They have also bhe
temporary. if not lii their 6kSanikatAhl
1T least la their effective activity. Me
hre asked 10 forsake for the tim
4 being thetr political afflliation. Whe
i supposed dry virtory il Alaslav@
they at pflce return to their Dld part
aHFiliations and no organization exsss
after the election, for the AfsEDr ceAaaea
of the law for which men Of ali partic
fought Size BY side. The prohibitio
party, being ! permanenf rgapinatioi
does not nease IT. ertiv3ty with th
passage 5f the Htatuah, but coutinue
III the person Of the oficials which
elects and which II holds responsible
for the enf0rtssn sslS III sbA LAWS wh4r
are themselves iii harmony with II
political platform of the party.
When the perspnaa princtple and y