Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-04-07

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importance from the alleged fact
that prominent Democratic officials
are among the promoters and cap
italizerS of the enterprise. The
Anti-Saloon League is an organj-
zation seeking To attain certain
clearly defined purposes through
political agencies. To accomplish
ment Of those ends 1t Is esse- tial
that pathetic public sentiment
should be created. and a campaign
of education can in no way be more
efficiently conducted than through
the columns OF a Journal authorits-
lively voicing the program and
advocating the policieSufthe league.
No crusade aiming at results
through the baliot-box ana legisla-
tive action is properly equipped
without an organ through which
tie reople may bc famiharizcG
with lis principles and policies. and
the wonder il that leaders 80 astut,
a. DR.. Cannon ard Judge Mann
should have delayed so long the
employment OF So obvious a step
for the advancement of their cause
The Christian Advocate has done
CONAN service. within the limits
Imposed ON weekly periodical
primarily obligated To the Interests
of a religious denomination, bul
no party with formal platform
and candidate can spread it's pro-
paganda with telling force ana
effect through a medium notwhollA
under it, control and diurnally at
work. A faction may keep itself
feebly alive by letters 70 the indie
pendent press or by disseminating
tracts. but real newspaper is
Slue qua non TO an association
striving To name public officers of
its own membership and TO secure
the adoption of laws of its own
suggestion.
1t is not so clear. however, what
legitimate motive could prompt
persons holding high positions in
the State at the hands of the Dem
Ocretic party, ar those identified
with the directing machinery of
that party. To take tle iniiistive In
providing jou nalisiic organ for
an organization which. however
respectable in composition and OBJ
iects, acknowledges no allegiance
To Democratic standards and pur-
sues It's own detectives without
reference To Democratic prece-
dents. There are something like
thirty daily papers in Virginia of
consistent Democratic record. Is
there none among them sufficiently
orthodox To suit the views OF gen.
tlemen who owe the Office they
hold TO Democratic votesl In what
hope or i'm what fear is it that any
Democratic office-holdcr finds Just
ltication for contributing TO the
founding Of a Prohibition organ
which will be free to abide by or
reject the nominations of Demo-
cratic primaries or the platforms
put forward by Democratic con-
ventlons. The secretary of Gov
ernor Swanson has derided the re-
port including the Cover nor
among the ground-fioor subscribers
TO the new journalistic venture.
Perhaps other names have been
used by the solicitors without
authority. If so, further denials
will be promptly reproduced by
the Virginian-Pilot.
For ourselves. should the project
materialize, there will be a cordial
welcome for contemporary to be
published under auspices so COM
petent and experienced as those
which are foreshadowed by rumor.
a candid and courteous exponent
of the Prohibitive cult will be a
useful and agreeable addition TO
our exchange list. The field of
controversy is always narrowed
and the atmosphere clarfined when
discussion is based on statements
proceeding from the fountain heads
of each sect. Half the odium theo-
logium in the world proceeds from
the fact that A insists on dealing
with his own version of BIS creed.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
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