Connecticut western news., 1915-09-23
SHOW YOUR PRINCIPLES
Being a Non-voter's Sermon on No
 License.

Being a Non-voter's Sermon on No
 License.
 Editor News: Before The News goes to the press for this week, the proph- esied cold wave will have come, proba- bly,. All right, let her come. Then let's have dry wave, mean, not in a weather sense, but let us have a Dry No License town. Why net? Tho drys can have it if they will take few suggestions from a non voter; one of those citizens who are classed with criminals and idiots, but whose in- direct influence is declared by the yot- ing citizen to be so powerful All right, here goes little of that potent indirect influence in the form of sug- gestlons and advice. .r..#
 First, don't stay away from the polls if you really want Q dry town. No license man does this, you will notice. Next, don't vote for license yourself, and then spend the rest of the day dragging the decrepit, the lame and the halt and the blind soldiers of the rum bottle, beer keg and saloon brigade to the polls. That is not good principles and here I come down to the nub d this indirect influence talk-principles. Drys, no license men, get out your good solid principles this October and look them over and see if they don't want little rubbing up. You know that unused pieces of silver. even tho solid stuff, if put away Tn canton flannel bags all bright and shining, will become in time black as your hat or piece of coal; and the housewives know this and so they take this silver out and give it good cleaning, or what is better, they decide to use it every day, and that keeps it bright all the time. My dear No License mon you've got good, solid silver principles, there isn't doubt about that, but hadn't you better, before town meet ing day, take them, (those that you are not using every day. out of their wrap pings and see if they don't want rub ping up little?
 Remember, Canaan is rum town. also a gambling town, unless reputs- ble people lie, also a good many other things it has no business to be, simply because the great body of our respects- ble, morally upright men and-yes, women-do not keep their solid silver principles bright. They feel blandly complacent and self satisfied with the knowledge that they have got them. just as the housewife does when she thinks of her rich store of solid, and even plated ware, all nicely packed away.
 She knows that the furnace dust and gas and many other things will eventu- ally blacken her hoarded stuff and that it must all be taken out and polished up and cleaned. So must you polish your principles, dry voter.
 Hitherto, the fight between Wet and Dry has not been so much in this town. a fight of good principles against evil and for the maintenance of the good and best interests of the town, from q moral and spiritual standpoint. No business, policies expediencies, par and the low steady purr of the political machine that is always heard everywhere-like the steady hum of the dynamos in nearby power house-all these have played their part in helping the vets to win year after year. 1t hasn't been an out and out battle of principles, good solid silver principles against the brass a1f iniquitous wrong principles.
 Women, l am going to drag you in. You are part of the town you live in. What are we women doing from yem o year to secure dry town? Why lon't we have Womans' Christian Temperance Union? We could we'll afford to drop about five.eighths of our
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