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Th..» DaHy Reporter. D. C. IRELAND A CO. PUBLISHERS. Mub.criptioii Hate». By Carrier per week.......................... 10 cents (Payable on Saturday.) Single Copy............... ....................... 2 “ By Mail >0 cents per Month (In Advance.) n ;• f ------— tt .J .Hale» for Advertising Will be made satisfactory to all applicants. ===== McMinnville, Or. Meli. 9, 1887 ■ 1 Letter From Dr. Watts. The liquor traffic is founded in superstition. There is nothing modern othing intelligent, customs of the land were born way back in the misty past, and is hoary headed with ignorance and superstition, and moss-backed with age. They are remnants of the leg ends of the past. ‘ They have come to us, not through the educated minds of .therace, but perpetuated in the Tlkswiu'ss of the lusts and passions m humanity. It comes to us from the pagan worship of devil Gods. Men drink the nasty, dirty, bitter swill called beer; gulps it down, his manhood is soon gone; gets drunk and cries out, “Great is Gambrinus, the son of beer.” Saloons are temples of Bac chus and Gambrinus, two of the most beastly heathen gods. Moro money is paid to their devotion than for schools and churches. Alcohol is a poisonous destruc- iVe of health and even life itself. Nothing can live in it; kills veg etable and animal life. Its nature produces disease of whioh a tierce demand for itself is one of its evils and of human cupidity which is willing to make money by ministering to this depraved.jannatural appetite. An inlnunan and God defying greed for money to carry on war first devised * the jf . scheme in Enii- land of making revenue out of the.sale of liquor and hence fix ed the cursed license system of an evil. Under this license system for revenue the most monstrous abuses and crimes have resulted, destructive of everything valua ble to humanity, embarassing to capital, deranging labor, cor rupting politiyp, jeopardizing to property and life itself. Increas ing insanity, idiocy, misery, poverty and crime. Sapping the very foundations of our great republic until its friends are already boasting that their gods are greater than our God or fhï people. “That you prohibit the*liquor traffic. We will soon see which is the greatest, the God of Israel or the god of Bacchus. We have tried many ways to regulate the monster, but it fails to regulate. Richelieu, the French cardi nal, whose niece was pursued by bold and slanderous enemies, plucked from his own breast a cross, and drawing the circle of the church of Rome around her, hurled in the faces of her ene mies the defiance “Look and see where she stands, around her form 1 draw the « awful circle of our kingly church. Step across its hal << lowed lines if you dare. And on thy head, yes though it wear a crown I’ll hurl the curse of Rome.” They did not cross it. Let us as parents, Christians, patriots, lovers of humanity, let’s draw the death line around our homes and children, our loved ones and the goddess of liberty, on the 8th of next November, in Oregon, by using our sovereignty as electors, and pass the prohi bition constitutional amendment by an overwhelming majority. What say you. Everything else has failed you can appeal to. Let’ us do our best. Kansas, Iowa, Maine and Rhode Island have placed pro hibition in their state constitu tions. Tennessee, Alabama and Ore gon vote on it this year. West Virginia has already promised to vote on it next year. About twenty states have started in this same direction. When three- fourths of the states place pro hibition in their state constitu tions then they will have the power to put prohibition in the U. S. constitution. 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