Show SOME THINGS NOT DECIDED the excitement of november ath has partially subsided and the country has commenced to resume its normal attitude for another four years things will doubtless move along as they ever have done etc tariff question about which so much hue and cry was made by the republican party will be allowed to rest for a time probably the stump orators will retire from public view for a season the newspapers will return once more to their normal size tone and condition and the business of nailing lies exposing forgeries and showing rascals up will be discontinued for an indefinite period the political cald ron which a few days ago was boiling and steaming so furiously has al readi calmed down into ita customary gentle and peaceful ebullitions and the world in general is coins on much the same as before tho election of november ath however did not settle everything there are some campaigns ehst it did not close they were under way long before the recent political canvas began and they are destined to continue conti aue it is more than probable through many political arus gacs 01 the future an exchange ably commenting on this theme says the national election just closed settled who is to be the occupant of the presidential chair at washington for alie next four years but it did not settle the far more important question aa to how much longer the rum oligarchy is to retain its seat of power in the nation it did nut decide how much longer the people of this nation must be taxed to support the vast army of criminals and haupers paupers for which the drink traffic is responsible it did not decide how much longer we are to continue to pour our three or four hundred million dollars a year into the cruel and voracious maw of the drink monster it did not decide how many thousand more of the helpless and innocent of suffering wives and starving children are to be sacrificed to the greed of tho some monster it did decided how much longer our homes are to be ruined our young men de botched bou ched our peace destroyed desti oyed and our safety imperilled imperil led by the katanic agency of the rum all these questions are still before the people the grand work of the temperance reformation is still before not far we trust but still before this is not the time for those who labor in this cause to lay their weapons down the legions of the enemy are still in the field as active as vigilant as merciless as ever equal activity and vigilance should be theirs who are fighting the battle for the home for god and for the peace and happiness of the land theirs it is to continue the work of educating public sentiment santi ment on the drink question theirs it is to continue tho work of besieging the legislative halls of the states and the nation for more effective and repressive temperance laws theirs is to take advantage wherever possible oi existing laws to bar out and crush out the rum traffic theirs it is to work and pray and and pray and work to be laboring in acason and out of season for therom and final overthrow of the liquor power in all the nation |