The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-10

And the hosts of Lee and Lincoln
 are together heart and hand
 The nations going dry "
 IT d nation cannot exist half slave and half free. neither can that ma ton exist half drunk and half sober
 It is a significant fact that the Publicity Bureau of the organized liquor traffic lays great stress upon certain misquotatious rom great men. who are safcls beyond the possibility of refutation. Abraham Lincoln. the great emanctpator. is cited as a denunciato- of the prohi- bitIon movement and of the meth ods employed in the then feeble of- fort to stem the tide of lntemper- ance that threatened the welfare Of the race. Lincoln's private secretary and biographer John NiColay. has pronounced these quotations un- qualifiedly spurious Lincoln did say. in an address at Springfield III in 1853:
 The liquor traffic is cancer in society, eating out it's vitals and threatening destruction, and all at tempts to regulate 1t will not only prove abortive, but will aggravate the evil There must be no more attempts to regulate the cancer; it must be eradicated, for until this be done all classes must continue exposed to become the victims of strong drink. The most effectual remedy would be the passage of a law altogether abolishing the liquor traffic. Law must protect and con serve right things and punish wrong the land that threatens society or individuals more than another. it is the liquor traffic"
 In speaking to a committee of the Sons of Temperance, who visited him a year before his death Lincoln said
 "I use neither liquors nor wines They are not served on the White House table. There ara none in it's cellars"
 And almost his last utterancc. on the morning before his assassina- tion, April 13, 1865. was as follows
 After reconstruction the next great question will be the overthrow of the liquor traffic.
 These quotations may be verified by consulting a book entitled Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln" by F B. Car dispose of the statements circulated by the liquor press concerning the prohibition sentiments of the man, who, more than any other, suffered martyrdom for his devotion to na- tional ideals.
 Another conflict rages for the preservation, not only of the Union, but of the race On one side is ar rayed the hosts of unrighteousness whose name is GREED. In the op- posing columns are marshalled the hosts of the Church militant, rein. forced by statesmen. and by every organization that has Cor it's impel- ling motive race betterment Ma tional pride centers around the now herCiC maxim.
 Women and children first"
 It is for these that we plead with the men of Alaska today. ''Who hath sorrow? Who hath woe?" The women and children whose lives are indissolubly linked with the pa irons and supporters of the licensed liquor traffic.
 l call upon you for recruits in this Home Protection army, upon whose banner is emblazoned the motto, For God, and Home, and Native Land" We march to certain vic tory, for the only power that can now save from utter destruction the legalized liquor traffic is the power of Almighty God, and-He fights on the other side,
 Did they finish the fight that day When the Liberty Bell was rung? Did they silence the noise of war When Liberty's triumph was sung? Was Freedom made Sovereign in
 deed.
 When the Old Bell pealed to the
 world
 That the reign of Oppression was
 done,
 And the banner of Freedom un-
 furled?
 A battle has waged since the world was new,
 A battle is on. God calleth for you.
 Sweet flowers are blooming today Where life-seeking bullets once rained,
 And the sun sends benefiIent shafts On sod that with hearts blood was stained;
 And the Liberty Bell hangs high. At rest with the true and the strong. Did they finish the fight that day | When it rang out it's rapturous song? | Tho battla hac wapa5 since the