Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-10-14 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN. LFrotn a Special Loudon Correauouileutd  Prohibition in lowa is in influent danger. Originally passed by the Republican party, the law has always been opposed by the Democrats. The last two or three years a Demorcratio governor has allowed many loopholes and dealt very leniently with breakers of the law. Fear-in:2; apparently to eesie lose the election of governor, the thick and thin parte Republicans have proposed a cernpromise of local option pattere. 'the friends of prohibition naturally regard this as a retrogade step, and demand instead the rigorous enforcement of the existing law. The Des Moines Daily News—a leading journal of the capital, gives the prohibitionists unqualifie i support, and day by day in leading articles, and by other means, fore efully and clearly reiterates the facts in the else. Teere are yet several weeks before the issue can be known, and the contest is one of extreme importance and interest from its bearing in prohibition generally. The earial oh &nee of front of the Republicans ie due to more or leas secret effort and influence of liquor men to the party. The Dim :crate though they elemed a governor who disparaged rather than aided the law, have never been able to elect a legiarator who would repeal it. Hence the liquor men have ' nobbled' the other party. If they,auoceed, it will be one of the basest betrayals of modern days, for even under partial enforcement lowa has proved to tee hilt the value of prohibition. Mader Governoe Larrabee in three yea-s three thousand saloons were closed, and as 0110 result increased prosperity attended the Commonwealth in many ways, The cry of the proeibitionists is • A school on every hill-top and no saloon in the valleys ; ' and so well did they work towards this end that the state vood last year at the top of the list in education proficiency, distancing all other states both new and old. Lois is but one of the many evidences of the good of prohibition. The Des Moines Dlily News in its opening article says Lae fame of Iwo a as a state wnich has outlawed the liquor traffic is known all over the world ; the lovers of humanity in every land under the sun are hoping and praling that beatriful lowa, now the °eject of atitack by the combined liquor and railroad interests of the world, may be true to herself ant to eiviliz &on and ha faulty and sr.riae down the Goliath whin stalks forth to destroy her people and smite her hopes to the ground. Those wno stand by prohibition in this year of its supreme trial will not only be doing baele for their own homes, the lovely homes of lowa, but for all that is noblest in modern civilization and for all that is precious to the wise and good of every laud. Snail I ewe, disappoint the world? SOllle paragraphs from the speech of 11r. John Cory J.P., at the great welcome meeting of the British Women's Temperance Association at Cardiff, deserve to be recorded. Having referred to Lady Henry Somerset as 'truly one of tee most bridiant and accomplished lady reformers of our time,' and paid a very graceful tribute to Hiss Willard, and expressed pleasure at the feet that the late ditheulties in the Assuciatioa have not in any way checked its sotivities,-11r. Cory went on to say a great deal of controversy has waged round the broad au] progressive policy which the esteemed president hats been led to pursue, and which has found suoh uulversal approval,' and quotes the interesting opinion of the popular American Christian lecAirer and writ it, Rev. Joseph Cook on the progressive policy of tee Woman's Christian Temperance Union.  Mr. Cook, said 11r. Cory, ssys—' Having noticed in various English Journals several unfair and misleading criticisms of tue broad and progressive policy of the Woman's Temperance Ireton of the U.S., I venture to respond to an urgent request from England to send to yourself my view of the facts which justify that policy, If Eaglet' I were at war with Russia, and the latter were to have ssvoral allies, it would obviously be necessary for your Government to attack the allies as well as the principal enemy. Not to do this would be foolislDVSS, and might be suicide. In the conflict with the liquor traffic, the policy of the Woman's Cat lotlan temperance Union is to attack not only the chief foe, but also the notorious and open allies, Ibis is the course dictated not only by common sense, but Dy absolute necessity. If the home is to be protected, not only the drausshop must be made an outlaw, but its allies, the gambling hells, the houses of uureputable inafmy, the ignoranoe of toe general population as to aloLmolioa and other narcotics, ttic timidity of trade, the venality of positions of tee press, and especially the subserviency of political parties to toe liquor traffic, must be assailed as confederates of the chief enemy of the home.'  Teen referring to Min Willard (dr, Cory said) Ur. Gook goes on to sty, Aliss Wiiiard's !tarot° and wonderful work bad been to broaden tne sphere of wookau'd organize i philantaropie effort so as to fuelude all tuese obj,gys, Sir. Cook further says,— It is certain that the broad and progressive polio/ of the Woman's C!lristisu reinperanoe Uoion  postsga  tally prepaid._ I