Year: 1873

the fat of the land, let them enjoy their,
wines, ale and gin, while there are thou
sands calling aloud for help. But there
is no help for them. This State of Ohio
that promises protection to the wife and
children, have lied to them, in that they
do not protect that poor woman and chill
dren until the rumseller has made the
husband and father drunkard. And
then they say you shall not sell to a
man that is in the habit of becoming in
toxicated.' Hence the State leaves her
to suffer the wrongs inflicted on her by
the rumseller, until her loving husband
is made drunkard, and her heart bleeds
almost at every pore. And you Mr..


Evans, would dare to tell the people that
this is a good law. You would classify
poor souls with Satan's minions, and cry
look not upon the wine when it is red,
&c, and you would turn around and tell
US about the necessity of having wines,
beers, tonic bitters, &c. And then you
exclaim "how preposterous to talk about
dispensing with these things" And then
y
by rambling back to the garden of Eden,
and tell US of the Devils doctrine there


But Sir, we find that the first prohibitory
law was given in the garden of Eden.
But l suppose you Republicans would
deny this assertion also but here it is


in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die" Gs not this Prohibition p
But the Devil came along and taught the
very same doctrine that the Republican
party does today. The Devil said no.
mol This cannot be. 1t will not be SO.
You shall not die, &c, and does not the
party you belong to- and are going to
support, (my Brother) hold within its
grasp one million poor crushed souls of
drunkenness lying in the dust, with 9TH
or millions standing bound as with chains
OF fire to the affairs of destruction, upon
which one hundred thousand are muir
dered every year. And this wholesale
commerce of DEATH this systematic form
of murder, is being carried on under the


flag of the stars and stripes-that flag
which is the symbol of protection the
world over, to the sailor on the high seas,
and to the American wherever he goes.
That flag which waves above you as the
pledge of your protection here, how does
it protect you? Why sir in this State of
Ohio more than ten thousand men are
murdered every, year by this organized
and legalized system of assassination, and
the cry of twenty thousand new made
widows and orphans goes up every year
in vain to God and you for protection


From fifteen to twenty thousand dram
shops are busy day and night in their
murderous work throughout the State
Ten thousand lives sacrificed and more
than hundred millions of the peoples
wealth wasted and destroyed And
where is your protection? does your NOR
al force protect you? Where are your
civil action for damages? Where are
your three million dollars year that are
wrung from your sweat and toll (tax pay
ers of Ohio) to pay the cost and expenses
of this internal liquor traffic in your
midst? Why Sir you boast of your free
dom, and yet you are the plundered
slaves of a blood-stained aristocracy
which sits in the high places of power,
and rules you with rod of iron Even
Eli Backus himself understands this, and
knowing it to be true, he is ashamed to
give his name to the public. as an advo-
cate and defender of your party. And
indeed l believe if his heart was just half
as soft as his head, another sun would
not set upon him welding. his pen in
such hopeless cause. But friend Evans,
you failed to meet my arguments, you
have twisted around them, and at last
you happenedson what you call the good
wine Of the Bible. and you have found
alcohol in that You have even made
the discovery that there is alcohol in all
the products of nature. But Prof H.
Munroe, NJ. D. says: alcohol is no
where to be found in any product of ma
ture, was never itself created by God, but
is essentially an artificial thing prepared
by man through the destructive pr rocess
of fermentation. Is alcohol poison
Every writer on toxicology has classified
alcohol as narcotic or narcotic acrid
poison. If a large dose be taken, no an
tidote is known to its effects. But l hope
that you, Mr. Evans "will not strain at
gnat and swallow camel by voting for
an open dram-shop. Let us vote as we
pray If we pray for the removal of
crime, let US vote for its removal.