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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1882)
I ** __ _ • g <- h CIIK 1STIAN f • ■ / \ llJilKALD U » ; ■r* « 9 ~7~---- - ---------:----- Xr- ' Iowa Amendment “To be De featecl*. versed with people of every class, “ After a careful investigation,” he that Iowa will place itself side by and we can bear the most decided says, “ I found that Chinamen were side with Kansas on the 2?th of testimony that the Maine law is not among the very best laboring’ men June’ The friends of prohibition Two liquor-men riding in the only a great success, but it is most on the coast in all branches of-in-« in Illinois will-watch the struggle cars oq the Pennsylvaniajailroad firmly established in the hearts of dustry; . . . that, to a remarkable in our sister State with deep inter v^pre recently overheard to say that an immense, majority of the people, degiee, as a whole, they were hon- est, for in one sense Iowa will fight Kansas had passed a Constitutional ddnsjsjturth'er ¡»roved by the fact eaUand in their. vocation^jE^ceej^ _tlm battle for Illinois and the entird — amendment,— an d . n ow fow aw&s: that almost every year increases its ingly intelligent; THAT they WERE northwest. If lo'wa succeeds in trying to get one, and one of the efficiency. Its weak points are temperate , and as a rule peaceful,” outlawing the liquor traffic the in men said it must 'be stopped; if from time to time strengthened, etc. He also found “that they fluence of that victory will be pow Iowa adopted the amendment, ten ' objectionable points are modified, were thrifty, economical^ in their erful upon all theç ..surrounding ’ or twelve other States would also but no one attempts to relax it, no habits, and cleanly in their persons States. The liquor interest fully ¡»ass it; and hcadded that he would one dares assail it. T ‘ excellence.. as a rule, and because of these traits understands this fact, hence the en Thq 1 give five hundred dollars towards] -of the Maine law; however, is in its were rapidly absorbing th cTin ploy- tire-power of tho w h ixky iàng._o£........ I the campaign fund to defeat it. l.execution. The people sustain it. ment in all the laboring the me the nation will be concentrated in I This and many other things indicate They have considered well the evils chanical work.” Ilis chief objec thaUStatetoprévent thé success of \ that the entire liquor-interest of ' of intemperance, and have decided tion to them is that, saving ».sur the amendment.. The enemy wi.ll ' America will -contribute to defeat to do away with them.” plus beyond their earnings unlike go into thefleTd fully equipped and __ the amendmen t in Jiiwaaml break- .many .^emigrants L who .come to. -.upplied with all that money down the hf\v in K atisas. ‘ ’Let Whisky is a ba l citizen. It ex America from other countries,) they command. On the other hand the. every friend of the Amendment in erts- a distinctive influence * in temperance people will be armed bovli States remembet that “ eternal politics.. It aims to 'control the are in the habit of 'sending "that with.the power of right, backed Up vigilance is the price of' liberty,” piiinaiic's. It nominates its own surplus away to help needy friends by the prayers of good mien and - and do everything possible for the candidate and elects the man who at home. These “ tempmate,” honest, ”i ^ ? peaceful/’ women everywhere. For the next overthrow of the infamous traffics— spends the money in’ its ¡rurchase. “ thrifty,” “ hônest, “ economical,” “ exceedingly intelv two monthp Iowa will bdlhe battle The National Advocate. .y It is unsci ujhi I ous as to “ ways and ligcnt ” laborers are a poor constit field of one of the grandest moral , means.” It kimww-notbing of the uency for the grog-shops. Can it’ conflicts that thcrccxitury - has wit- \ ■; He • . ** Drinks. fundamental principles of the honor, be that, on the part of a ceitain nessed. God grant that the victory ■ Tell me a young man drinks, and honesty of virtue. It aims to rule Kclmnl of. politicians, this fact has may perch on the s ide of the tight. ’ * Hmow the rest; LeTlTim become anything to do wilhfbeir intense f captive to the wine-cup, and he is k hr -net al I' »wed t»‘* ru|e, -and al way s opposition to the Chinese, while ....Governor St. John, of Kansas, the captive to all other vices» No Htttnwtrcte-ti ruins where,. it -ts is '-allowed allowed to ruie. ride. , 1. •.» - , ; , - ,___ ______. . they welcome to our1 shores with held an immense mass-nifeetlng man »ever runs drunkenness alone? »nd drsfrttr^m fellow-^UtSZ „nJ Loor operr arms -the whisky and beer May 7th, in Leavenworth, Kansas, That is one *of the carrion crows track, friends ofTemperanjce shun drinking emigrants by thehundreds lie spoke upon prohibitionTand de- ....... that goes in a Hock. ,, If that.break it as. they would this, deyil. bimsqlf, of~ thousands from other foreign clared, while it had iVccn b(it patti- - is ahead you may know the other and remember that in shunning it aíly enforced in Jv^nsas, the time countries ? .. breaks thaLfbllow. In other words, they do slum the. devil.—-¿»¿nr of was near at hand when not ono strong drink unballances and de Hope. 'V\\e National Temperance Advo place of public sale Would be thrones, and makes him the prey cate says that in ä recent debate in The Board of Managers of the tfia Senate of the Cnited States up-' tolerated 4n the State. He said to of all the appetites that choose to the liqubr dealers, many of whom alight upon his soul. There is-not National Temperance Society have on a resolution to investigate the were present:I tell you men who ' a place of sin upon this continent adopted the follow ing paper: “ To crooked ways of the whisky lobby aré violating the law’ here, that but finds its chief abetter in the the United States Senate and House at Washington, Senator Beck,“of there is no spot on Kansas soil places of’ inebriety. There is a of Jle/n'esentatices : The Board of Kentucky, came forward promptly where nullification can exist after drinking ¡»lace before it, or behind Managers of the National Temper as the earnest advocate of the Bond the next session of the legislature.” it, or a bar over it, or a bar under ance Society respectfully ask that ed Whisky Extension Bill and as In reference to prohibition in*' it. The officer said to me that the pending bills to enable the the special defender of the whisky national ¡»clitics, and tlie cry that night, “ You see how -they escape ¡♦cople of the Territories of Dakota business, declaring it tobe “ as hon Prohibitionists were going too fast, legal penalty ; they are licensed to . and New Mexico to form constitu est and legitimate business as any he said : “ We are ticketed clear sell liquor." Then I thought with tions and State governments be so' other.” He made also the striking through, and we don’t propose to in myself, the court that licenses amended as to require in their res statement that in the single city of stop this side the grand union depot the sale of intoxicating liquors, pective constitutions the proviso Peoria there wero forty thousand of absolute prohibition for the en- licenses gambling houses, licenses that the distilling, brewing, and bushels of corn, or “ the product of tire nation.” He declared prohibi libertinism, licenses diseases, licen sale of all alcoholic liquors for a thousand acres of the best land tion to be the.only live issue before ses death, licenses all crimes, all I drinkirg purposes, shall be forever of Illinois,” used “every day” in the people of Kansas in the Cam sufferings, all disasters, all woes. unlawful in the proposed new the distilling business. At the time paign al>out to open, and predicted It is tho legislature ami courts who States.”— Ex. of Senator Beck’s election to the that the Republican part}’ of the —“—’ • — ' -aT--.-. .___ swing wjde open the grinding, United States Senate by the Legis nation would throttle and choke tho In a letter advocating the-exclu rearing, stupendous gate of the lature of Kentucky it was said that sion of the < 'hinese from this coun life out of the liquor traffic, as it i lost.— whisky ilowed freely in his behall . -- u.. • c » try, says the National Tempe rance at his hotel quarters. He repre had out of human slavery?— Ex, The Rev. Dr. Cyrus 11. Hamlin, Advocate; General Butler, who has sents a large distilling constituency, True temperance men arc not the well-known missionary in Tur rarely been heard from of late in and lie may fairly be considered.the discouraged—theyh avesown tem -public affaire,men key, in a I letter to the champion whisky senator. Perhaps perance seed and in due time will Presbyterian liceicu;, speaking o.t tions that two years since lie went Kentucky may some day be pre the workings of the prohibitory to the Pacific-( 'oa ^ . that one of his pared to dispense with such Sena reap as they have sown. One with God is a majority. They are the law of Maine,“ says: “ We have errands was to examine for himself torial service. men that would “ rather be right passed through the whole length of the condition of the Chinese, and Tbe Bloomington, 111., Prohibi than the president.”— Prohibition- the State from Mew Hampshire to whether it was desirable that they New Brunswick, and have con- should—ar should not come here. tionist says: “Weconfidently believe : ■ • ■———1------ , • ' • > .1 —-— r. -/ ———— )
