Evening capital news., 1914-06-27
AS TO PROHIBITION.

All is not peace and harmony among the Republican,
brethren who at serious divergence upon the prohb
tion question. The Occur Alene Press radical Repub
lcan daily threatens to bolt the ticket and to leave the
party if prohibition is fastened upon that party now
certain and the Pocateo Tribune another radical
Republican daily, has been voicing it's disgust in scarcely
less strong language than its northern neghbor 1t de-
cares that there is in Republican platform for
prohibition and that it would be put there except
through the coercion of the prohibition Molly Maguires
and the prohibition Malta which has ntimdated the poll
tcans into making unwilling and meaningless declara
ton for statewide policies In recent editorial the Tr
bune much in the same language utilized by the Occur
dAlene paper in its opposition to the proposed prohb
ton step, says:
"There is considerable agitation in the air just now
regarding the topic of prohibition.
1T of those nane propositions that is the creed
OF responsible party yet is foised onto every party
by agtatos here and there and for instance it has been
noted that W. J. Herwig has been about busy Logging
for the measure in parties with which he does affiliate
he during the last session of the assembly, when
he and his interests lobbed contrary to law the floor
of both houses of the body.
1T is his perfect right to talk prohibition anything
he deems fit, we presume.
1T is not his right to endeavor to use it as club
against partytes who not in the least interested in the
measure any than it would be the right Of bunch
of Molly Maguires the Malta to attempt to
ous belief down the throats of people when such
not tenet of the party to which they pinned their
faith There could be objection to prohibonsts
ming their measures on their own tickets
"A party of principle stands in its position Labor
legislation and regulation ndorsed by any party for the
that behind is the solid circumstance that such
represent substantial element of the industrial
and vital portion of the community at large
Prohibition is but theory. 1t was never success
1t part of Republican, Democratic Social
istic belief In Idaho there is attempt to all
parties into adopting statewide party platform and they
may do it, but it will not be done in honesty but through
fear Of political consequences and primarily would
that individual would prefer going before the public IL
honest light instead of under the shadow of club
I'VE have particular objection to prohibition and
it doesn't amount to much eicacous legislation but
do not believe that every party under the should
have the gauzy argument thrust upon each campaign
If that will put within the hands Of the
people the right to regulate under safe and sensible eg
aton it would appear to possess merit Ninety per
Of the people who have swallowed prohibition because
happened to be in the party platform would dso
there other reasonable alternative Hence it is held thai
there little in forcing useless and unreasonable
measures on people who not interested in the least
such affairs that properly the beliefs of other comb
nations quite outside the old party lines