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OFFICIAL ORGAN .OF , THE PROHIBITIONISTS IN .NORTH CAROLINA. VOL. IV. GREENSBORO, vN. G., FRIDA Y,: OCTOBER 29, 1886 FiO. 42. CLING TO PARTY. BY SKD -BTJNTLINE, Cling to partj', cling to party, " r Istbe iolitician's cry; , r " - - x.. v . . B3 the issue good of evil, Never let the party die. . f Wrong it may be, often is. : . - ' - .Bat you party ne'er decry; .;. Right and wrong will often mingle . . : Om must triumph by and bjrj , Cfing to party, eling to party, - :- Though it flood the land with woe; V . Issues changing, tax-increasing. Yet must you no' changes know. Vote for saint or vote for devil, . If the party nominates -" " .. - , ... This the ra e ana tms me precept -Of enlightened Christian state3 Where's your:: freedom, boasted freedom Men of thought , and men of mind? Why, O holy God of reason! " " Must we be to thee unkind? Why be slaves to ancient custom? Why refuse to work for right? - Why not boldly "spurn our shackles? ' .Voting never if not riot, ..- DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. TALMAGE ON "THE VICTORY." 'the streets of the citt shall be full of boys and gibls." ' Text: Zechariah, viii, 5. lwAnd the streets of-the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets, there of." . " . Glimpse of our cities redeemed. Now boys and girls who play in the streets run such risks that multitudes of them end in ruin, : But in the- coming time spoken of our eities will -be so moral that ladias and lasses shall be as safe in the public thoroughfare - as in the nursery. ' - -Fob purpose of rousing the people to the work to be done I - have preached some sermons about the dark shadows of the city. Pulpit and printing press for the most part in.our day are busy the condition of the cities at this time; but would it not be health fully encouraging to all Christian workers and to all who are toiling to make the world batter, if we " should this morning;- 'for a little "while, look forward to the time when our -cities will be. revolutionized by the Gospel of the Sou of God, and all tlie darkness of si.a and trouble and - crime, and suf fering shall be gone fvora the sky. . Every man has ; pride, in the city of - his nativity or residence, if it be a city "distinguished for - any dignity . or i)rogress. Ciesar lioastedof his native tome, Virgil of Mantua, JLycurgus of i l . TT 11 t A 4.T.nn A Cipariti, jjemisineus ui vwiciio, iiii roedes of Syracuse, and Paul of Tarsus. I should have suspicion of basehearted ness in a - man who had no especial .interest in the city of his birth or resi r donee no exhilaration, at the evidence of its prosperity, or its artistio em bellishment, w its : scientific advance ment. '.;... I have noticed that a man never likes a city where lie has .not behaved well. ' didTarkman like Uoston. and people -who have a free ride in the prison van never like that city that furnishes the YT 1 vn T 4i r A " A ti rna artrl TMi rvrl da and Smyrna trying to prove themselves the birthplace of - Homer, I conclude right away that Homer behaved well. He liked them and they liked him. We must not war on ' laudable city pried, or, . with the idea of building ourselves up at any time, try to pull others down.; Boston must continue to point to its Faueuil Hall and to its common, and to its superior educational . fyaAtaeQr;Fl)Uade4pl))('aTi8t con- Hall, and its mint, and -its Uirard Uoi lege. - s. ? . ' ': vy;Y : If I shonltT find, a man cgming from -any city, having no pride in that city, that city having been the place of his .nativity, or. now.j being the place of hi$ residence, I would feel like asking him right away I1 'What mean" thing have von been, doing there? what outrageous tiling; have you been guHy that yp,u ji tlq' pQt lik "the p,l?iee f - , v - - .' - : . liqtU i.dpa ijf the river, tlie East river Only tlig main ai'tery qf its greaj tlirab biqg; lifa,' We; To? our: children J will Jive s.co twq or- tUr.e- bl-jdges; gpaxi, ning that yivof", and move anfl jtnoj'e . as the years go by,, we -will ie one; so when I say in my sermon. New. York, I mean well on two millions population , and everything froni Spuyten Duyvil creek toGowanu3. That' which helps one city will help the other; that which blasts one eity will ; blast the- other. Sin is n. mant. and when ; it comes : to the Hudson or the East river, it steps aorqss'it s casjly as yqu step aors; ftguto -' in He catpet. Qod's , auge qf blessing nai? i;wq wiqgs,.. auu m "' ljqveps over hat city ' a.nd the other wing hovers qver this city.' . - x infanev - qnr metropolis M'fts ppji ilowa by the banks qf the.lfudsqu. ft ' aa feahle aa. 5tfQa6;j n the ar qf Utdlrushea by the Nile, and, - like - Miriam, thero our fathers stood and watched it. Tho royal spirit of Amer ican commerce came down to bathe. She took ' it up in her arms and it waxed strong,, -and foreign- ships - brought silver and gold to its feetr;and it has stretched-, itself up into a great i metropolis; looking up to the moun tains and jS upon the sea, - the mighti- eat energy in American civilization. ; .' Kvfev'icitv'is: influenced chav actar of thev. man who founded .it. Romulus u impressed A: life upon Rome. The Pilgrim fathers will never - relax their grasp from New England. William Penn left a legacy of fair deal- ' ' in'g and integrity . to Philadelphia, and you can now, any day, on the; streets , bf that city," se his customs, his man ners, his 'morals, his, hat," his wife's bonnet, and his meetinsr house. So the inExegiqji .pn 'ftU- tfte fplVoWJUg venerations. ' , ' - ' .' "What southern-thoroughfare was ever phy si- J cians did not throw themselves on the sacrifice? . ; What foreign ' nation w3s ever strnck with - famine and our ships did not put out, laden with breadstuffs? What national struggle and our citizens did not pour" ' their blood into the trenches? '; What- street of Damascus or Beyrout.or Madras has not .resound ed with tho step of .our missionaries? V hat gallery, of ark and . our paintersJ nave not hung, in it their pictures? What department of science or litera ture and our scholars have - not made to it contributions? " - , " . I need Tiot talk to you of our public schools, where the children, of the cordwainer and the mechanic and- the glassblower sit side , by .side with the favored sons of millionaires and mer chant princes. Nor need I tell you of the" asylums for 'the insane on these islands. . where ! tlfose -who- etifc them selves . among- th6" tombs ' come forth clothed in their right mind.-" -Nor need I tell you of the asylums for the blind, the deaf and the dumb, and the orphans,' the widows,- the outcast. " -. . I thank God for the place of our residence, and while there are a thousv and things that ought to be corrected, and--many-j wrongs that ought to be overthrown, while I thank God for the past. I look forward this morning to a glorious future. - I think we ought and I. take it for granted, you are all interested in this great' work of evan gelizing the cities and saving the world we ought to toil with the sunlight-in our faces. We Are "jaot fighting in a miserable Bull -Run of defeat. We are on our way to "final victory. We are not following ' the rider: on the black horse, leading ns down to . death and darkness and doom, . but the rider on the white horse, with the moon under his feet and .the-stars of "heaven for his tiara. HaiL, conqueror, bail! I know there are sorrows and there are sins, and : there are sufferings all around about us: but as in some bitter, cold winter day, when we are threshing our arms around us to keep our thumbs from freezing, we think- of the. warm spring day that will after a while come, or in the dark winter night we look up and see the northern lights, ' the windows of heaven illuminated by some great victory just -so we look up from the night of suffering and sorrow and wretchedness in our cities, and we see a light-streaming through -from the other side, and we know we are on the way to morning more . than that, on the way to "a morning without clouds. "J , 1 want vou - to understand, all you who are toiling for Christ, that, the castles of-sin are all "going to be cap tured. The victory for Christ in these great towns is-going to be so complete that not a man on earth, or .an angel in heaven, or a devil -in hell will dispute it. How do I know ? . I know just as certainly as God lives and that this is holy truth.; -The old Bible is full of -it. If the nation is to "be saved," of course. all the cities are to be saved. It makes a, greaf difference with , you and : with me whether we are toiling on toward a defeat or toiling on toward a victory.-- Now, in this municipal elevation of which I speak, I have to remark there will be ; greater financial prosperity than our cities have ever' seen. 1 Some people seem to have - a morbid idea of the millennium, - and they think when the better time comes to our cities and the world j people, will give their time up to psalm singing and the relating of their religious experienoe, and, "as all social life will be purified, there will be hiliarity, and, ,as all business will be purified, there will be no enterprise. There is no ground for such an absurd anticipation. In-. the time of which I speak, where now -one fortune is made, there will-be a hundred fortunes made. We all know "business prosperity de pends upon' confidence between man and man. ; Now when that time cornea of which I speG&i and. all double deal ing, all dishonesty, and all fraud are gone out - - ot commercial circles, thorough J . confidence will be - estab lished, and there ' will be better busi ness done,' and larger fortunes gathered, and. mightier successes achieved-' xne great ousinessaisasters oi tms country have come from the" work of godless speculators and infamous stock gamblers. J The : great foe ; to business. in New York and Brooklyn ia ; prime. When the rig shall have hurle4 back the wfq. a.att snai; :na.ve purinect tne commercial ftde. and shftU -have thun dered 4own fraudulent eatftblishments, and shall have put in. to the ; bands, qf honest men thev tey oi business., blessed time for the bargain makers, I am not talking an abstraction. - I am not making a guess. ; I- am telling you God's eternal truth. ' . - . . In that day of which I speak, taxes will bo a mere-nothing. O Now our busi ness men! are taxed, for every thing--city taxes j county ' taxes, . State1 ; taxes, United States taxes, " stamp . taxes, license taxes. - manufacturing taxes- taxes, taxes, taxes! ; Our business, roaij have" to make '- a small" fortune ' eyeiy yea? pay ttiei? taeSr - What fastens ou our. great industries, this awful lqad? Crime, indiyidual and official. We' have to pay the board qf i the - yiliian who are" incarcerated in qur Prisons,. We ha.ye to ake " care qf tfee qrpUaRS Of those who piunatia lnta- tneir graves through beastly indulgence, We have to support' the municipal governments, whicn ara vast and . expensive just in proportion v the- criminal proclivites are vast and . tremendous. Who sup ports the almshouses, " and ; police sta tions, and all the machinery of muni cipal government? The taxpayers. ; And i tell you .Republicans and you Democrats that if you do not let down the taxes and let the pfjopeup; wiVill f qrm. myi pa?tyi ' antexcesaive - tax ation, anti-rum, anti-monopoly, anti abomination, and you who have been fattening- on . the . public spoils and feckless of the public; virtue shall not have so much as the wages of a street sweener." 1 -; "." But' ifl the glorious time of which I sTieak: irrievious- taxation will all have ceased.' There will be no need of sup nnrt.mor criminals : there ?:: will s De no eidminals. . Virtue will. haye1ftk? the place fcf yiGfi.VJThVie he no. orphan J.fivi'nma.'": for "parents will be able-to leave a oompeteney to their children. There will be no voting of' large sums smitten by pestilence and qnr of-money f or some municipal . improve- ment, which moneys, beiore they get to - the -improvement,- drop into the pockets of those who voted them; No oyer and terminer kept- up at vast ex pense to' the - people. No impaneling of juries to try theft, and arson, and murder, and slander, and - blackmail. Better factories. Grander arehitectiye. Fine equipagel- Larger - fortunes. Richer opulence. Better churches. In that better time,, also, coming to these cities, the churchesofChrist will be more numerous,- and- they will be larger,-and they will be more devoted to the churches of Jesus - Christ," and they will accomplish greater . in fluence- for good. . , Now, it is often the case that churches are ' envious i of : each other, and denominations collide with each ' other, , and even ministers of Christ sometimes forget the bond of brotherhood. But in the time of which U 8PeJc while there will i be 1 inst i as many dinerences ; of opinion:: as there are now, there will be no acerbity ,l no hy percriticism, no exclusiveness. "" - ' . Jn our great cities the 1 churches are not to-day large enough to hold more than a fourth of-the population.- The churches that'are built, ; comparatively few of them are fully occupied. . The average attendance ;in the churches jsf the United -State's to-day ..is not four hundred, i- Now, in - the glorious time of which I speak there are going to, be vast churches, and they are going to be all-: thronged with i-worshipers, - Oh, what rousing songs they-will singt Oh, what earnest sermons they will preach! Oh what fervent prayers they will of fer! ' Now, in rour time .what; is called a fashionable church is a place where a few people, having attended , very carefully to their toilet, corned and sit down. They do .not want to be crowded; they lil - a whole set - to . themselves; and then, if they- have : any time leftfchildren of that woman whqgoes down from thinking of their store and- from examining the stylte of the hat in front of. them, they sit and listen to a sermon warranted to hit no man's sins And listen to music, which is rendered by a choir warranted to sing tunes that nobody knows, and then, after an hour and a half of indolent yawning they go home refreshed. ' Every--man feels"bet-i ter after he has had a sleep.. In many "of the churches of Christ in our day the . music Li simply a mockery, t I have not a cultivated ear, nor a cultivated voice,1 yetiio man can do my singing for me. I have nothing to say against artistie music- The two or five dollars I pay: to hear anv of the great queens of ong"isa good invest ment. But when the people assemble in religious convocation, and the hymn is read, and the angels i of God step from their throne, to catch the; music on their wings, do not let us drive them away by our indifference; I have preached in churches where vast sums oi money were employ ea . to , Keep upj cue music, ana u was an exquisite as any. heard on earth,., but I thought' at the same time,, for all matters practical, 1 would prefer the hearty, out-breaking song of a backwoods Methodist camp meeting. Let one of thesex starveling fancy! songs "sung in churchget up before the throne of God, how i would it look standing amid the great doxologies of the redeemed? iLet the finest operatic air that ever went up from - the church of Christ get many hours the start, it will be caught "and passed by the hosanna of the Sabbath school Jchil dren. I 'know a' church where -the choir did all the singingj save one Christian man ' who, through perse verance of the saints, , went right on, and afterwards - a; committee .was ap pointed to wait on him : and ask him if he would not please to stop singing; aa ne bothered the choir, h i -A':' - "":'' ? "Let those refuse to sing - - - -.' Who never knew our God; i i'- -: . ; , But children of the Heavenly" King Should speak their joys abroad. " ' 'Praise ye the Lord : let. everything with' breath praise the ; Lord." In the glorious time coming in our cities, and in the world, hosanna will meet hosan na, and hallelujah, hallelujah. ,' 1 '.;; In that time, also, of which I speak, all the haunts of iruquity,-. and "crime, and'squalor-, will be cleansed and will y4umaeq. - rj.ow .is it o oe aone? You say : perhaps hy que influence. Per haps I aav by another, ! i- wtti tell you was? is. my iae-a, -anti a Known am right in it. The ,Goapel of the Son of God is the only agency that : will ever aooomplish this.x m t-i ; ?::;""-4'-;- . v Mr. iiQsler, of England, had a theory that if. the natural forces of wind and tide and sunshine and wve were right ly applied, and rightly developed, it would make this whole earth a para dise. In a book of great . genius, and which rushed froni edition to -edition'. he said: "Fellbw-men I promise to show the means of creating a. paradisp within ten years, wherej eyeryhiug de sirable for hmaq ;life way be had by very7nian v in uperahundanee without labor ; without "; pay-where - the whole face qf nature shall hie changed into: the most beautiful fayms, and man may li v4 in the ' moat magnificent : pal- aees, in ell imaginable I'efinements of luxn?y, and in-, the most delightful gardens where ; he . may aooomplish without labor in one ; year more-than hitherto could be de done in thousands of years,! and may level a continent, sink valleys, create .lakes, drain - lakes and swamps", and intersect the land everywhere with , beautiful' canals,' and roads for transporting heavy loads of many thousand tons, and for traveling a thousand miles in twenty Tfq-ur.; hours. "r rom the houses to. p,e bum wul be afforded. bo raoat oultured yiewa to"be fancied, I From the galleries,' from the roof, and from the turrets, may be seen gardens as far as the eve can see, full of fruits and flowers, arranged in the most v beautiful order, with walks, colonnades, aqueducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphitheaters, terraces, foun tains, .sculptured works, . pavilions, gondolas J ; places . of .popular amuse ment to : tire.: the ; ey e. fhciV 11 this to be, donate ?uyi'g hk, ftter," th,e wndj ha un.sIiintQ their- full deve5oppnaeniu ' f r ;i.N-v,-v.: :A'r He goes-on and gives - plates of .the maohinery by which 1 this work is .to be done, and he says he onljrneeds at the start a company - in which the shares shall oe 9?zu eacn, ana a n una rod or two hundred thousand shall be "raised just to make a specimen : community," and then, this being formed, the world will - see its practicability, -and - very soon two or three million dollars can be obtained, and in ten years the whole earth will be emparadised, - The plan is not-so preposterous - "as - some : I have heard of. . But I will take no stock in that company.. . I do not believe that it will ever be done in- that wayi by any mechanical force, xr.by tny machinery that the human mind" -can put into play. ' - It is if he done . by the Gospel of the Son 6f God the omnipotent ma chinery of love and- grace - and " pardon and salvation. : That is-. to emparadise the nations. . Archimedes -destroyed a fleet of ships ' coming "Up; the harbor. You know how hedid-iit? - He lifted a great , sun-glass; history 'tells" us, and when, the fleet of ships i came up the harbor of Syracuse he brought to bear this sun-glass,- and ne - conveyed .the sun's rays upon those ships. : Now, the sails are wings -of nre,t the" masts fall, the vessels sink.' - Oh, my friends," by the-un-glass r of the Gospel, covering the rays of the . sun, 'of. righteousness upon the sins, the wickedness i of "the world, we will make "them blaze' and expire.;; . . : '-;; y: ;;.: .; 3 ? In that day of which I speak, do you believe there - wiH be any midnight carousal? Will there be any kicking off .from the marble 'steps of shivering medicants ? r Will there- .be any un washed, unfed -uncombed children? Will there be any blasphemies in the street ? Will there be any inebriates staggering past ? ; No." "No wine stores. No lager beer saloons..- No -distilleries where they make. the three X's. No bloodshot eye. : No. bloated cheek.' No instruments of ruin and destruction. No fist-pounded forehead. " The '-grand-' the street with a curse, stoned br the boys that follow; her, will be the re- formers and philanthropists and the Christian men and the honest - merr chants of New York and Brooklyn. - : Then, Ayhat: "municipal -governments, toq we :: will "have - in -all: th e cities ! Some cities are wore than others, but in many of our cities you just walk down by the ' city .halls and dook in at some of the rooms occupied bv poli ticians, ; and see i to what a sensual, i loathsome, ignorant, besotted crew. city! politicians is oicen auanopnetl. ur they stand around the city Tiall picking their teeth, waiting -for ssome emolu ments of. crumbs to f all : to their - feet. waiting all day long, rand" Vaiting all night long. 1 y:j r "'; Who are those wretched women taken up for drunkenness and carried np to the courts, , and put in prison, x of course ? : Wliat will -you 'dot with the grogshops that made them Jdrink ? Nothing. ' Who are thoser prisoners in jail ? One xt them 'stole a V pair of slioes. r That boy stole a dollar. This girl . snatched a -purse. .. All of them crimes damaging society, - less ".than twenty or thirty dollars: But what will you do with' the gambler who last night robbed - thousand dollars ? the young man or i a Nothing. What shall be done with that one who breaks through and destroys the" purity of a Christian home, and "with the adroit ness and perfidy that beats the strategy of .hell, flings a shrinkingt .shrieking soul "! into - a . , bottomless ; perdition ? Nothing. . Nothing. What - will you do with those who "fleece that- young man, getting him to purloin large sums of money: from V his - employer the young man' who- came' to an officer of my church and told the . story and frantically asked what ? he might do ? Nothing. Ah I we do "well; to ; punish small crimes, but I have sometimes thought it would bo . better' in some? of our cities if the ' officials . would only turn out from the jails the petty crimi nals, the little offenders, tendollar desperadoes; and put in their places some of the monsters of iniquity who drive -their roan span through " the streets so swiftly that honest men have to leap to got out of the way of being run oyer, Oh the damnable schemes that . professed "Christian ."men will sometimes : engage : in; until -.God. puts the dinger ol .his . retribution into the collar, of their robe .of . hvpocrisy and rips it clear to the bottom"! ; 4 ' - - Hut ail theae w rongs are going to be righted, I expect to live to see the day. ' I think I hear in the distance the rumbling of the King's chariot. Not always in .the minority is - the church of God going-to be; or are good men going to be. The streets' are going to be filled with regenerated jsopula tions. ... .Three hundred and sixty-belLS rang in Moscow when' one prince was married; but when Righteousness and Peace,kiss each Other, in all the earthj ten thousand tiroes ten thousand bells ihaU Strike the jubilee! Poverty en- riched, Hunger fed. Crime purified. Ignorance enlightened.- i AU ; the. cities saved, Is not this a cause worth work lug : in ? ; -Ob, you think sometimes i does not .amount to-much.?,-,; f-: v " .o Yqu toil : in your different spheres, sonietime3 wjth great discour agement. People have np-; faith : and say: t4It does not amount to anything"; you uiigm uii weu quis. .luawi - vvny, wnenx lYLQses., stretcnea ms nana over the Red sea, it did not" seem, jto mean anything especially..? People came out; 1 suppose, ana said : "Aha ! ' Some of them found out what he wanted to do He wanted the sea parted, ' It did not amount ; to- anythiugi this ..atretehing out of his" hftnd over the sea f" But att&i" a vhile' the" wind ' blew all night from-the east, - and the -waters - were gathered into a - glittering palisade on either side, and the billows reared .s God pulled back oh' their . crystal bits. I Wheel into ' line.- O Israel!- march, march! Pearls crashed Sunder : feet". Flying spray gathers intorainbow arch of -victory f or the conquerors to niftrch under.; Shout of hosts, $ tle beach answering the shout of hosts amid sea. And when Sie iat line of the Israelites regeft fte oeacn.we cymaiais eiapaiUCi the shields clang, afld; the waters rush over the pursuers, and the - swift- fingered 'Aymda on the white keys -of the fdam, playrthe grand march of Is rael delivered,.' ana " the ; awful dirge of Egyptian overthrow. ; ' ' i ;' . : ? -' - So you and 'I go forth,- and r; all the people of God go forth, andvthey eCetch forth their hand over the sea, the boiling sea of crime and sin and wretchedness. " Vlt don't amount to anything," people say. - Don't it ? God's winds of : help will after a while bgin to blowl " A path will be cleared for the army of Christian' philanthro pists. .-The path will be lined with the treasures of Christian beneficence, and we" will be greeted to, the- other beach by the clapping: of all . heaven's cym- balsj while those who pursued us andJ deridetl us and tried to destroy us will go down under the sea, and all that will be left - of them will be cast high and dry upon the beach, the splintered wheel of a chariot, or thrust out from the foam, the . breathless- nostril of a riderless charger. - THE FAETY DRIVERS; -. Already the', party lasfea " are 'be gining fo'sing - on all : sides.-r-They touch' up their N cattleV in different ways." Every driver - is hunting a tender place to touch, and. there- is any amount 1 of - winching and kick ingv -- . , , - " v The drivers, however try v6ry hard to ignore all this and effect to think as the team warms" up they will all - come down, to business That kind of policy,- does -yery . well with horse,s and - mules and perhaps with a few human , beings ' not r much above horses' and mules. "' ' But with men who are men it is pretty sure to Gome to grief. - This time something else ;has to be used besides 1 the. Jasb. - This is a day of strikesand there is going to be strik ing in.the political parties. . The extreme rulekjrruin ' elements in the J parties of course are going to ignore every threatening element and depend solely on force, fraud and corruption to carry their point. It will be treason not to fall 1 into i line at their behest and support their" men and measures!- . " . ' " 4? We shall hear that the country is on the very verge of ruin ' and noth ing can save it but ' the triumph of the Democratic party. OrT the other side -we shal 1 hear , that the colored people ten millions of - them are just about to .be remanded back " to slavery or - something; worse and nothing but-the -success "of; the Re publican, paxtycaot secure their iberty and their franchise. ;And we shall be surprised at the number of people in this land of light who are ignorant and weak enough to be come excited and unreasonable under the influence of these, old cracked, whezzy notes of alarm .which have been periodically sounded, till every old party trumpeter on both sides is hoarse with the effort. But there is an element in " society, and is becoming a : large, one too, whether "the party- drivers, will be lieve it or not, that understand these old tricks. They have seen 'these ragged old scare-crows before. "They have found out by actual experiment that between the :j two dominant parties it is about six and six. . One is just exactly as good 'and just ex actly as bad on a general : average as the other. -The mere -party cry is not, L therefore, going to Weigh as much as it has done. Some other appeal which Jias more in it must be . . made. - , ' 1 . " - . "T The people, the better elasses "of people, are not sausueu. wnu cimcj partv. The '. time : is coming, and it . K ... J.'-.C:-.! i-. J4-V. J4-1. is near at hand, when -v. they : will settle their party : relations on the principle of the least of two evils, "or repudiate both.' . - . Will-the party leaders take heed? We trust they will ." though we . have little" hope of such a thing. .. They are generally extremists and as such blind to consequences. j Prohibition is n factor in tho poli ties: of to-dav. -This is a-fact. 'The politician may protest against ; it but it is like protesting against a " moun tain in his , path. There it is .and there it stays,. He may determine to have nothing to do with; it, ? but it will have something to do " with him. He, may brand" it as fanaticism,' but it will no i down. He may call it ah intruder in the realm of politics but it has taken its seat and is "making itself at home, lie may sneer at i and undertake to order it out but i remains to win.a weloomo and a tome with him or make one. : In a word it is a stubborn fac that cannot be ignored, ana ihe man or the party that undertakes to ig nore it only shows his ;; incapacity, to eadl - with the " living 1 issues of the ." It is the fashiona.bAe thing now to scowl and gneey at the idea of a third party, There seems to be something odious in the word third. -The party tiagers seem to place emphasis upon that - harmles- adjective as if This only goes treason lurked in it. to show their real dread of the thing itself. . Call it what you will the thing it self is a fact. There is a party, & strong -party too, : demanding ; as a matter of State politics the prohi bition of the manufacture, sa'e and importation" of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Every' prohibitionist in. the land bongs to that party. . ' Wi'l the" Democratic and Kepubli can parties respect this demand? Or will they 'ignore it? If they ig nore it they wi 1 do so in" the interest of the , bar-room the . very, ihstitu- tion the prohibitionists are" flighting. In other words they - take sides with the bar-room against the prohibition ists. Injthat case, upon ;what pf inr ciple will they demand the support of the prohibitionists? The question is not whether the peop'e - are going to put themselves against their par ties, but- whether: the parties are going to putthemselves against the people. '-" - y" , The people do' not, exist for the parties, but the parties for the people, and - whenever these parties - fail to subserve the. ends of good govern ment the people have a right to re pudiate them,- There is no greater piece of audacity than for any - party to 'demand-tfeat the -people, who have given it its existence, shall repudiate its existence and 'enhance its power to fasten upon them the very chains from which "they seek to be deliver ed.' ' If at last the people stand arrayed against the two dominant parties An. open. conflict,-it wll be" the fault of those parties. - ' ... But is it answered that there is 'a bar-room party which constitutes a part , of the . people and that the parties must have- ' respect to one wing as well as the other ? ' Very well. But who ever: heard of a De mocrat or Republican as. such, or any political aspirant censuring this bar-room party for existing or speak ing of it as a tldrd party ; or a, fourth party, or deploring its existence lest it should break up the Democratic party, or demanding that it should ml ' w. abondon :its principles, meddle with politics lest" produce a division in the or . not it "should party, or any of these things ?,. ' : : ' . When was a candidate ever'put in the field bv . either party without consulting this bar-room party? For ? forty,- years ' this bar-room partv has ' been an organized ; factor in the politics of this country . which neither party ' has ever . lost sight of. When did any of the political lead- ers over express opposition to inis - . - i i - n . partv lest it should divide or, break nrs Tito narfv 9 - .. - y . v rjA. j - - jr. . But what is the cry raised - now against - the prohibitionists : Why, they must down and fall into' ranks and support the Jbar-rooms to keep rom breaking up' the Democratic party, 'Choose ye this" day whom ye will serve, whether God or Baa - But for the bar-room .abomination there would be no prohibition-party o-day. - "Will the political parties step for ward and remove ? the . cause of the present dissention, or will they con- inue to cherish it ? 'Will :- they cut down the tree that bears the baleful "ruit or.will they quarrel with those who wish to cut it- down, and under take to force -them to foster and pro tect it ? The Ballot. - - . ; STATE PROHIBITION - PLAT : : FORM." " ' Greensboro, Dec.' 10, 1885. 7 Whereas : The traffic in alcoholic liquors has grown and is growing out of all ratio to the increase of popula tion in this country ; Imd, , -Whereas, said traffic unjustly bur dens every legitimate industry,' lm poses grieyious taxation upon honest labor, curses social life, begets crime, breeds pauperismy antagonizes" the church: corrupts politics, nulifies law, is a menace to good government and a peril to State ; and, , , Whereas, - .The policy of licenseing said - traffic has proved a policy , of perpetuation instead of suppression, with' the perpetuity-of all - its alarm ing conditions "and results; and,; Whereas, .We believe -license "not only non-restrictive m fact, but im moral in principle,' debasing in prac- tice, criminal in effect, and unworthy and national law ; and that such pro hibition, to be effective, must be bed ded in the organic .foundation of nation and state, and be secured through., and be guaranteed by a poli tical party; - -' Resalved, That, as all : secondary matters are treated, by political par ties from the standpoint of expedi- . ency; as with' the two old parties of our former affiliation, this question of tne lquor. tramc is and must remain secondary; and as we can no longer support either of lhese old parties in North Carolina and the nation, with out endorsing saoon influences, en--" couraging the power of the saloon in politics and aiding to perpetuate that power ; we do bereby declare the im perative, necessity for a new party, with prohibition of the traffic its prime object rVe ur ge and wi labor to secure its- prompt and thorough organization everywhere, and for it we invite the votes of all who cast voats arid tliA --n-o-m-nofVi-iT of oil others.- '. Resolved, 1 That; with the liquor traffic costing over, too thousand million dollars' annually for liquors bought and drunk, for crime and " pauperism growing out of their con sumption, for judiciary and constab ulary and penal and charitable insti- - tuuons, maae necessary- Dv such crime and. pauperism, for unproduct ive life resulting from it, for unpro ductive labor involved in it, and the ' enormous waste inevitable under it; I with political corruption is legiti mate child, public abuses its natural brood, . profitable production dis counted because of it, helpful con sumption limited, the equitable dis -tribution of weal th and the equi table t adjustment of. public burdens made impossible, and every material and moral interest enforced by its organ ized selfishness ; tbe issue of its pro hibition, already fixed in politics by the repeated action of the liquor dealers themselves, more, closely in volve Ythe welfare of all the people" and is of far greater concern to state and nation, than, any other, or all other issues now politically recog nized, and. that as such it deserves and for. it wwe may justly claim the acceptance of every candid citizen. Resolved, That we r deem unwise and unpatriotic the course of any man. or party, or any locality or State wniuii uemes tue viuu reiauonsmp of Prohibition, to our nation at lare. and which proclaims it a local issue ouiyto -ue sctueu oy eacu locaucy or state uvits own way ; that as the na tional government. alone can prohibit' importation and inter estate transpor tation, has full jurisdiction' over each territory and the District of Colum bia and claims a - share in the profits of every liquor-seller in the Union,, we reiterate our demand for national sovereignty over the liquor traffic to supress it, instead of to legalized, to protect and to perpetuate it. Resolved, Tjmt we recognize in ' such demand the new national issue needed in our politics, to overcome sectional bitterness, to unite North ern and Southern patriotic sentiment anci to promote tnose conditions .oi political amenity essential to nation al peace and perpetity. - .' jxnaituvu,, : .jij.au vilii uuiuiucnue in the justice of our cause, with faith in God and prayer , for divine guid ance, we Will go : forward from this day, embodying Prohibition in our ballot-box as everywhere, in favor of sobriety and economy m government, of exalting citizenship, and the no ble upbuilding of the State. v . Respectfully submitted, . . 'N. C. ENGLISH. For the committee.' - PROHIBITION DOES PROHIBIT. T" Kp hpsf, Ttrnnf of f h a f af t. ri n.t P rn- hibition.will 3 prohibit, is the result in Main,. it is well known that before the Main law (so colled) went into ftnp.rfl.tiftn triArp. wrirp . pnnsnmorl in liquors eleven millions, while there is - now less 'than onft millinn. .Ons millifin us. a. To roro ommitit rf- ralnotn consume, in intoxieating liquors, but when . the consumption is diminished to less than ten pr cent, we . can safely and justly say that Prohibition dose prohibit. rBut : there are other and still greater proofs' of the : value ; ol - irrombition, , among winch the enlarged deposits in savin sre banks is a very significant illustration; also ther greauy ueereaseu numoer oi arrests for crime, and - the empty jails and penitentiaries and poor-houses, all point with unerring curtanty to" the" accomplished - since Prohibition was inaugurated, and if the whole State should eventually come : under the rule of a party- committed to Pro- hibtion,! we might safely conclude that this guaranteed enforcement would secure the almost entire anni hilation of the traffic, so that the present cousumtion of about one mil lion could be- reduced to a mere fraction -iVom DemoreH's Monthly for November 1
The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.)
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