Show PROHIBITION Prohibition is just now the great bugbear bug-bear of political warfare and it is the particular par-ticular shuttlecock with which all but the Democratic party will play until the political pulse is felt and known and if a majority of the sensible men of the nation na-tion agree that it is illegal and unconsti tutionalto do which is only a question of timethey will drop it and yell out I never did it Prohibition is the word however which chance and the wants of the age has selected to cover a movement move-ment looking to the bettering of the human hu-man race in checking the evil of intemperance intem-perance and as a name the word must enter into political battles The New I York Independent the great vehicle of great clergymen the strong bulwark of the Church the bible of all protesting religious re-ligious denominations sizes up Prohibition Prohibi-tion in the following terse sentence i Prohibition has a great future thank God but not the Prohibition party This strikes a key in the heart of everyman every-man Democratic and otherwise as it permits of using every legal means to check the inordinate use of liquors without r with-out making political capital of the work and illegally ruining the business of thousands that is legally licensed by the Government While no Democrat can Bee right in the crushing out of the liquor traffic through erroneous laws I every man in the party can see right in using all the influences in the church and the good hearts of the people to dissuade men from ruin through liquor By that i means employed on a great National 4 F scale untold good to the people can be derived and by that means only can any legal steps be taken to check the use of liquor The men who have set 1 themselves the task of electing the officers of the nation on a Prohibition platform have entered on a hopeless task and it is very likely that the foregoing detonator from the Independent will be instrumental in proving it to them The extremely religious clement in the nation has always been the nations safeguard but when the hobby of that element conflicts con-flicts with the legitimate business of thewhole people it approaches to an union of Church and State and as such it will always be called by the I American people Divesting the subject j L of Prohibition of its moral and religious aspect and placing it in a purely business I busi-ness light how would these same goody good people relish the idea of paying on the necessities of life taxes sufficient to I make up the deficiency caused by the forced closing of distilleries A thousand clerical hands will go up in answer to that i1 < u > o > f < J question and cry forever A million hands of suffering wives and mothers will go up and echo the preachers cry I but will these cries pay the taxes necessary neces-sary to run the Government When the Prohibitionists as a political party have satisfactorily solved this puzzle they can hope for National support and not before I |