The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-03-19

NEMY PROHIBITIONISTS MUST FIGHT
BY WILLIAM FROST CRISPIN

dominant parties that it has usurped power and
secured some sort of foothold in law and has been
permitted to operate under this usurped power
We must withdraw all ballot and financial support
from these parties and their allies; and all who
use the mop only, and help to keep these two
political parties in power and who thereby refuse
to help to turn off the faucet must be regarded
still as political lunacs and must receive further
mental treatment in a Prohibition Sanitorum
Some unwisely contend that the liquor traffic
can be overthroWn in a non partizan way. What
great evil was ever overthrown in non-partizan
way IN this country? None. No great question:
no question on which the voters are nearly equally
divided no reform which meets the opposition of
a powerful class who are backed by great wealth.
can be settled without political party to cham
plon ito make and enforce the needed laws
Could we have abolished negro slavery through
the Wing or the Democratic party? Or both {?
BY no manner of means. Could we have enacted
the XIII, XIV and XIV Amendments with one of
those slave parties in power? To ask the question
is to appear ridiculous in the minds of those who
lived through the Civil War.
When slavery was king, even Webster and Clay
did him reverence, just as all the leaders of the
dominant parties today who aspire to the Presi-
dency or a seat in Congress, must trucke to the
present-day usurper That old slave-king was
killed by the party method. The Republican party
the outgrowth of the abolition agitation, sprang
quickly into being and declared There shall be
no further extension~vof slavery" This sounded
people smashed the Wing party and sent the
Democratic party to grass, by electing this new
political aspirant-the Republican party. And to
kill King Alcohol must aim Our bludgeons of
logic at these two abettors and plant tools of the
rum traffic. Our watchword must be- "Strike
do7On the bo7oer 70hich keeps the liquor traffic
legdhsed"
Since the dominant parties stand between the
Prohibition party and Prohibition the great and
paramount work of Our party is to strike dOzvn
those parties, concert one of them to the Pro-
hibltlon policy. But Ephram is still joined to his
idols; to convert him is hopeless task Let him
alone. But don't let his subjects alone. Preach
the gospel of repentance to them
Remember this There can never be any gen
uine Prohibition of the liquor traffic until we
have Prohibition party in power to make and
enforce the needed laws Always keep this PARTY
idea in view and make all your labors bend to this
end DO not allow your money nor your votes to
go to any organization that opposes the party idea
this not for party's sake, but because party is
an absolute necessity to win this reform. Take
this for your motto: party for party's sake is
nothing, but party for principle and for practical
results, is everything.'
Said C. NJ Howard in his great speech before
the Methodist ministers of Rochester: "a re-
ligion that leaves the saloon unattached when the
press, day by day, records its crime, outrage and
assassination is not worthy to be called after the
name of Jesus Christ.
And | stand here in this presence today, to go
Mr.. Howard one better, by declaring that: A
religion that leaves these parties zVlch license the
brewery, diStllery and 7v9uery, unattached, when
day by day the press, everywhere, is teeming with
the sckening evidences of the degradation and
damnation of Our politics and our people: when
political corruption is rife in almost every state
in the Union, menacing our liberties and our ma
tlonal life; and when nearly all our cities
fostering ulcers on the body potic-chiefly the
result of our 277 900 government saoons-I say