Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 75, 22 September 1894, Page 4

Temperance Items.

Said Senator Jaraes F. Wilson, one 1 of lowa's noble sons, from the stump J some years ago, and when men were c being- weighed in the balance on the t great liquor question : •If every I political aspiration of my life goes j down this moment I will go down also, with a clear conscience. So help me God, no drunkard's pale-faced wife shall point to me as I paps by and say. ' There goes a man who contributed, by word or act, to my sorrow.' • No half-clad and hungry child shiver i ' in tue cold as the result of any act of ! mine. I am in favour of rational, j consistent, persistent, Prohibition. ' j Prohibition is now the law of lowa. The N.Y. Mail and Express denies \ that high license is a Republican doctrine. It says — 'We utterly repu- [ diate the proposition that the'Repub- ! lican party is a ' high license party' I That is not true and never will be. The men who think they can plant the party permacently on that kind of a platform will find themselves mistaken, and if they could succeed, the immediate disruption and destruction of the party would be the inevitable result. More than half of its members are nnalterably resolved that sooner or later the accursed liquor traffic uiust and shall be suppressed. Probably the first Prohibition petition issned in America has been discovered in the dtate archives of North Carolina, On May 26th, 1756, King Hagler, of the Catawbas, thus petitioned Chief Justice Henl-y: 'I desir c a stop may be put to the selling of strong liquors by the white people, especially near the Indians. If the white people make strong driuk, let them sell it to one another, or drink it in their own families. This will avoid a great deal of mischief which otherwise will happen from my people getting drunk, and quarreling with the white people.'