Show The Rom Question j I New York 12The Commercial Advertiser Ad-vertiser says The aggressions of the 5 lager beer and whisky partymustbemet 5 by the conscientious moral intelligent S friends of good government just as they met the aggressions of the slave power We do not favor making the republican parly a temperance party The republican repub-lican party in days past was not an abolition ab-olition but a conservative antislavery party respecting the rights of the south j within tho law The republican party must meet this rum question as they met the determination of the south to force slavery into the territories The question ques-tion of regulating the sale of intoxicating I drinks is fast becoming a national question ques-tion The people ot the south are making mak-ing it a prominent issue In most states S south of the Potomac temperance organizations are springing into existence ex-istence much after the manner that 1 antislavery societies were being organized or-ganized forty years ego in the south S We realize that intellectual and well S meaning men will differ in regard to the details of the law for the remedy of an evil or the enforcement of any right Realizing this we hope the republican party will have courage to say for itself C j that the production traffic in and use of i S alcoholic drinks are problems that challenge chal-lenge the most earnest consideration of S the highest intelligent because they involve l in-volve questions of the highest political and social importance It cannot be denied l de-nied that intemperate alcoholic drinks is one of the most corrigible evils of the and S 5 age Republicanism free whisky desecrated Sabbaths cannot associate together to-gether If the republican party hopes to retain power m the nation it must appeal S ap-peal Ip the intelligent moral and conscientious 4 con-scientious voters of the country without regard to the queston of faith or nationality 4 5 nation-ality S |