Broken Reeds (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Stewart, Gideon Tabor) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Broken Reeds One is an open, nudisguised enemy of our cause. The other has been a pretended Iriend, but has proved itselt the worst foe, for the same reason that a traitor gaining access to place and power with-in the walls, is worse to contend with than the foe without. The Democratic parly has looked with but one face and has spoken with but one tongue on this question, in all the States where it has made any expression, during the last twenty years. Now, as in the past, it everywhere advocates the license and regulation of the liquor crime, and opposes its prohibition. Not a Democratic convention, press or politician of any prominence, can be found in all the country, appealing to Prohibitionists, by any professions or promises, to induce them to vote the Democratic ticket on the ground that they will thus advance the cause of Prohibition. Here and throughout the nation, we meet the Democratic party in uncompromising conflict, and whatever we obtain from it when in power, in the way ot temperance legislation, we take by such concessions only as are won from the foe in battle. It never invited or received the confidence of the Prohilntionists. It has broken no promises to tbem, for it has made none. It has not, for it could not betray their coufldence. Hecce it is, that the men who leave the Democratic party and unite with the Prohibition party, influenced by their regard for the temperance cause, seldom are seen returning to the old party standard. We count them by the thousands in our ranks in Ohio, and by the tens ol thousands in the nation, standing firmly by the Prohibition flag. But the course of the Republican party and the tft ect of its policy have been very different. It has been double-faced, doubletongued, double-hearted and double-handed on this whole subject, from the beginning of its existence. Althoueh at first temierance sentiment had some influence in its councils, now in all but the two States of Maine and Vermont, it is entirely subordinate to the liquor power, and only the overwhelming strength of tbe Maine Law among the people there, compels its support in these two Slates. Yet appeals have been and are unceasingly made by its leaders, presses and politicians to the Probibition voters to give their sufl rages in its behalf, on the nretense that it is more friendly to their principles than tUe Democratic party and that they can accomplish more in its success, than if, by independent voting, they permit th Democratic party to take power in the government. In the present canvass, the Republican party comes, as usual, with one face to the temperance voters, repeatiug its old cheats, and with the other face looking down into the thousands of dram-shop-i of our country, protesting the sincerity of its servility there. Let us no longer act the part of the fleeced gambler clinging to his cards, by coming up again to be cheated at every new election game, as if we loved to be cheated for the sake of the cheat itself. Let us as rational men, take us the record ot the Repubican party, and demand the proof of its professions and the test ot its pledges, in its past administration of our public aflairs. A candid examination of that record will fshow that the reliance of the friends of temptrance on the Repubhcan party, is treacherous as that of Israel on Egypt, of which the Assyrian tauntingly said: io, t?iou tiusfeih in the staff of this broken reed on Ugy2)t, ivhereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it: so is Pharaoh King of Egypt, to all that trust in him. Slavery And The Union A False Assumption. The Republican party in its platforms and through its representative organs and advocates, arrogates to itselt the glory of having abolished slavery and restored the Union, and for this, it claims the gratitude and continued snftVage of the people. The assumption is false. By the fiat of the Almighty, enforced by military necessity, slavery was abolished. The President
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