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Show .. THEIR 'VISIONARY SCHEME. I How tha Frohibs. l'ropose to Obtain a Million Totes. New York, July 9. In connection with i the blank prohibition pledges which are to Lc scattered throughout the country in the course of the next month the following address ad-dress has also been issued: ''The time has come to capture this nation. There are already four million votera in America, on a reasonable estimate, based on the amendment lections, who believe In prohibition, and want to see it prevail. One million voters banded together at the ballot box in hostility to the legislation " of drunkard drunk-ard making and to all parties upholding it. means the crack of doom to the legalized liquor traffic. If one voter out of every four who believe already in prohibition can be secured, the mill will be obtained. If one new voter be secured for everyone that has already, in the last six years, at one time or another, voted the prohibition partv ticket, the million will be secured. And there will never be a time when new converts con-verts were made as eaajly as they are today. In our opinion this simple agreement has in It enough of potency to overthrow the giant evil of the Nineteenth century. We urge that this agreement be circulated in every country and unionship of the United States. We urge every prohibition speaker to sec that at every meeting held .from now until November, 1892, these blank agreements be circulated for signatures. We urge every prohibition club to take up this agreement and push it vigorously aud continuously. And we extend an invitation to all other organizations or-ganizations and individuals to co-operate with us in the same effort. It should be remembered re-membered that the effect of securing the j the signatures of one m'llion voters will not be limited to one million votes. Once let this country know that one million voters have signed the agreement and no man can measure what the effect will be. . It will be nothing absurd to suppose that such an announcement an-nouncement as that might give to the prohibition pro-hibition party, in a quadrangler contest, a good fighting chance for victory in the year 169i' ' |