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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 189?-190? | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1900)
I County Correspondents, MONMOUTH. Ralph Ford is deputy marshal this week. The sick in town are improving this fine weather. Rev. Albyn Esson is over to Turner this week. Saturday was a lively day in town with our business men. Mre. Esson and Mrs. J. M. Pow ell drove over to Salem Tuesday. Mr. Alderman, father of Mrs. Dr. Parrish. is visiting with his daugh ter. Some of the people are trying to get Monmouth turned into a cow pasture again. T. H. Halleck is making Eome needed improvements on his house and will paint the pame. Mrs. Charles McTimmonds, of Kings Valley, visited with the fam ily of S. Bush Friday and Satur day. Mrs. Rolla Waterhouse went to Kalama, Washington. Monday, where she expects to stay for awhile. M. F.lrreen, candidate for sher iff on the prohibition ticket, and a citizen of Falls City, was in town Monday. Rolla Waterhouse has accepted a position in a shop for the Luckia raute Mill Company, and went up there Tuesday. The quarterly meeting for the last quarter, Evangelical church, will be held Saturday and Sunday, Rev. N. Shuppe, of Salem, presid ing. Carl Coats came home in rather a bad fix one day last week from the effects of the shot he got, but is getting along pretty well. J. H. Moran has built a shed on the north side of Main street, op posite the business houses, to keep machinery in. He will handle the Oeborne machinery this summer.' Ten Reasons Why I Am a Pro hibitionist. I do not say there is no good in the old parties, only the devil is totally depraved. I do not say that there are no good planks in their platforms. Prosperity, tariff, free-trade, 16 to 1 and gold stand ard have their arguments and claims. I have my own ideas on these things, but I hold them sec ondary to the great temperance is sue. I know the old parties bow to the saloon. I know they are afraid ot it; they dare not speak, to speak would mean political death. The Methodist church went strong for McKinley because he belongs to them, or they belong to We Are Conscientious. Substitutes, and impure drugs have no place in our store. We know physicians do not want us to use them, and we won't do it. Every prescription here is compounded of pure drugs by careful, competent and accurate pharmacists, who don't make mistakes. You can trust us with your prescription preparing. A. S. Locke, Druggist, MAIN STREET, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON. him. The believers in xiryan chant his views and hail him, the silver knight of deliverance, but when the evidence has been weighed on both sides and the vir tues of both men paraded, I re member that from the beginning to the end of the great campaign of '96, and to the present time, neither McKinley nor Bryan have ever said one word against the sa loon. Why? Because they dare not; that would seal their doom. This silence is not due to the fact . - T that the saloon is not of enough conseauence. but just the opposite. They are afraid to oppose it and everybody knows it. The old parties have good m them, so did Benedict Arnold. The old parties have good in them, but it must be lonesome. The old parties have good in them, but it is an awful bad company. If a candidate fights the saloon he does not get there. The prohibition candidate fails for the same reason, Bryan pleads for the Philippines and McKinley fathers the canteen and takes Griggs against congress, so from the primary to the presi dent the political machines tako off their hats and bow to the sa loon. The prohibit ion party is the only party that dares to oppose it and put their men out on a clean ticket. I do not plead pertection for the prohibition party, it has its tanks, but with all, I have some reasons why I am a prohibitionist and some reasons why I think every one else should be. My party is not perfect, but as an old lady said, "It is mighty nigh it." There are some things I wish we had; I wish the women could vote. I wish that was a plank in our platform. I believe in woman's rights. There is no danger of foul polls when a woman's vote counts in with the rest. Office seekers know which piece is buttered. I think the womanhood of the land should have a chance to fight for life. My first reason for being a pro hibitionist is because I cannot sup port any other party and be true to the God of America. We have a God and we believe in him. We believe in the church iounded upon His Son. Ien have said that they do not belieye in the church. Such men should go to Africa; they have no business here. We say on our money that we trust in God. Every legal document must be dated in the present year of the Lord, or it is worthless. God has made America, and he will put us down if we forget him. Now, as a believer in God and the church, how can I stay with a party that I SPECIALTY CHRONIC DISEASES J Men and Women Suffering from Chronic Diseases are Invited to WRITE TO DR. PIERCE and Consult Him by Letter Free of Charge. All communications ar held as sacredly confidential and all answers are sent in plain envelope, with out printing upon them. Add res DR. R. V. PIERCE, BUFFALO, N. Y. fosters the greatest sin on earth? I want to be consistent and no hypocrite, so I must vote as I pray. There are now in the United States 250,000 saloons, according to John Wooley. There are 80,000 churches, making over three sa loons for each church to handle. Now. the Question is, how shall the members of each local class th t.hpir three saloons. I V X 1 " i. - - - - - - koor tVi nhnrph nrav that these sa loons might be-Hlled find done up, Unt. iUaxr wntfl with a bartv that crowns King Alcohol as God and make laws to protect saloons. Any party that the saloon is satisfied with is not the party for a chrt- jjtaSavc your dollars and cents by trading with us-.a.' we carry a complete stocks ! J J J new Books now in stock. By A. D. Hall. The Philippines. Puerto Rico. Victoria. Hawaii, Uncle Sam's Ships. A Life Of The Pope. By Barclay North. The Gredt Franklin Syndicate n.T Tiov Hhns M. Sheldon. The Crucifixion of Philip Strong Bert Hardy's Seven Days. Bv W. H. Van Orden. "Life of Gen. W. T. Sherman, i " Phil H. Sheridan. " ' U. S. Grant. Life of Admim! Dewey. By Rev. C. Myers I), u. 1A f!hriHt. Belong to a Labor Union? , , Paul Kroger and the Transvaal. Spain and the Spaniards. The Storv of Queen Esther. By Rev, S H. Hocking. Allan Eyre. By Mrs. H. A. Cheever. "Brothers All. By T. De Witt Talmage. 'Crumbs Swept Up jFJll tfie atwe ar w cents eacl). j J ian. But you say, "My father was a democrat; my father was a re publican, and rll vote as dady voted." Well your father might have been hung for hoise-stealing, but will you follow his nxample? Our fathers improved on their fathers, let us improve on ours. There are 12,000,000 voters in America and 1,000,000 of them are in the church. Think of it, 4,000, 000 christian voters, and yet the saloons have run up to 250,000 and they have American law to pro tect them. Out of these 4,000,000 voters there are 250,000 prohibi- bitionistB who stand firm for sobri ety. The other 3,750,000 give their influence to the devil of rum. 1 know men excuse themselves and all that, but as sure as God lives, the presence of 250,000 sa loons shows that the church is red with the blood of neglect. I claim that the possession of every other blessing is not equal to the curte oi the saloon. I claim that to kill the saloon would be such a bless ing that all other losses would not be noticed. Mv first reason for being a pro hibitionist is because I want to ask the blessing of Almighty God on my politics and I could not in any other party. Second, lama pro hibitionist because the party pleads for the home. The most deadly, the most hellish blight that ever fell upon the American home is that of the ealoon. Across the fu ture of the disappointed wife comes the cloud of intemperance ner husband drinks, and upon his children comes the infernal odium, 'their father is a drunkard." W ho was that woman so poorly clad at ihurch todav? A drunkard's wife. Who is that woman who cannot ride on the street car be cause of poverty? The wife ot a drunkard. Who lives in that un kept shanty yonder? A drunk ard's family. Who is that young man who seems suffering from an unjust shame? A drunkard's boy. Who is that young woman, beauti ful, yet unsought, unwooed, whose fair face is sobered by a dozen woes? A drunkard's daughter. Oh, my God! Let the savages ol heathen night swoop down upon my home, let unmastered disease rob my affections, let oceans divide us, and death destroy us, but in that mercy which is infinite, so save me from a drunkard's home. Some late figures show that in one year 500 wives were murdered by drunken husbands, and there were 200,000 children with drunk en fathers. When the American home dies our days as a people are over. Third lam a prohibitionist be cause the death of the saloon would nean the salvation of great intellectual resources, wheh such men as John B. Gougb, John G. Wooley, Francis Murphy, Jerry McAlle'y, etc., are numbered among reformed drunkards, then 1 am bound to believe that men as great and grand have never been rescued. I believe that Lincolns, Wanhingtons, Websters, Beechers, Chases; men as grand js those who bore thone i.ames have gone down to insanity and graves in th Potter's field through drink. How can we expect, a brawny minded public when the oncoming genera tion? are bred in lrunkeness. The drinker at 250 000 bars will trans niit their weaknesses to their children. We never can hope to fUJ-tain our standard ff intellect eo long as the general mind is De forced bv the poison of 250,000 sa loons. If I should strike a boy on the head and reduce him to an idiot, the law would send me to the Den, but the saloon strikes him a ' all over and sends him to the asy lum in ten vears, and still the old parties make laws to protect them in thejob. Fourth I am a prohibitionist because temperance stands for hu manity in a physical sense. Ohl the human shapes I have seen as the saloon had left them bloated form, red eyes, sensual lips, cloud ed brain, ruined stomach, lost hope, lost manhood, lost body and lost soul. The average heigbth oi man today is 5$ inches less than in 1610 A. D. Whiskey has helped to do this, and I say, take away good bodies and our ruin is near. Our war with Spain lasted 114 davs and in that time from all causes we lost 2,000 soldiers, but in those 114 days there were 32,- 832 human beings killed by the sa loons, and over 100,000 bodies are thrown to drunkard's graves every i year. Oh tor a nation oi peopio whose bodies are free troin saioon blight. Fifth I am a prohibitionist be cause to remove the saloon would reduce prostitution to the mini mum. The saloon is the greatest factor in the social evil on earth. Prostitution is the scarlet bride of the saloon they go together. If any one doubts this, let them walk along Fourth street, Portland, and be convinced. Vermont has no saloons, has not had for 47 years, and there are only two houses of ill fame in the entire state. Wo manhood will always be in the market so long as manhood rolls in the gutter of intemperance. Sixth To have prohibition would reduce taxes it couldn't help but do so. The saloons fill the asylums, the jails, the peniten tiaries and the courts. A man is murdered in a saloon.it goes to court, taxes meet the bill. So the saloon is to be reckoned among the greatest agencies of waste, to bur den the people with taxes. Go to the record of the state and you will find that 75 per cent of the county expenses are produced by the sa loon, Seventh I do not believe in high license. The old parties show the white feather here. If the sa loon is all right, then take the li cense off. What right have we to tax lawful trade? But you say we need the money for streets and schools. Great Godl Hear this sidewalks paved with hearts and schools boomed with blood money. License againBt bouIs, money against men. Who takes the place of every drunkard that dies? A bright boy, and so we lead our children up to this modern Moloch and offer thetn for license money. I thought the sale of men was pro hibited in the United States, but Concluded on page 8. J S J. S. Bohannon f (SLTCESKOH TO Mitchell & Boliannon Manufacturer ol and Dealers In Saeh, loora, lnoMinps glass, sliinjzU'3. Kvorytliinportain inortohoupe finishing manu facture! to order Main Stkkkt, n dp; i'EN den ce, ok e.
