A LIVELY LETTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2466, 2 December 1886, Page 2

A LIVELY LETTER.

At a meeting of one of the many Pro. hibifcioii Convention* hold in tho United States, tho following letter, addressed to the.Chairman was read, and as oan well, be imagined, tho reading made something of. a sensation in the Convention;— "Chicago, August 24, 1889.—8. M, Dayenport, Chairman Cook County Pro» • hibition'Committee. • Sir.—Yonr Prohibition cranks have broken op our. business in Kansas, lowa, Maine, Rhode Island, Gerrgia, and.other parts of the) country, and you are now working like mad devils to drive us out of business. in • Illnois. Perhaps .you think you will sometime olobo up tho saloons in Chicago. Wo want to toil you before that is doneevery damned Prohibition fanatic will die as Haddock did. Wo will kill every preaoher, burn overy churoh, massacre every member of every temperancosooiety, and all the praying women, betojflj we will surrondor ourliberty.or give" our lawful buaincas|r If we pay our liconso to help support the schools, the city authorities arebound to protect us. If they don't :do'it- wo will protect oursolves, it it takes aoruel war to do it. Wo want to tell, you that unks you resign your position on the. County Prohibition Committee and quit organising Prohibition Clubs" in \ Chicago, you have not got many More days to live. We must make an example of? somebody hero in Chicago to let fhu cranks know that w» moan business. '' We have not marked for our first victim, If you don't want to bo sent after Haddock, letup on the temperance business at' at once and attend to your hotel. Iu earnest.-SAMON-KEEMBB,"