People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — Personal Responsibilty for the Liquor Traffic. [ARTICLE]

Personal Responsibilty for the Liquor Traffic.

What are we personally to do with this blighting curse of liquor selling? This is the all-absorb-ing, all-important question now up for consideration, and in the most emphatic manner demanding our most thoughtful and active efforts for its suppression. If we would retain our self-re-spect, this duty must not be shamelessly evaded, nor can we by shutting our eyes secure freedom from personal tyIf we are true to our manly convictions and seek to know and conscientiously serve the best interests of our country, we will soon determine that the manufacture, importation, and sale of alcoholic beverages not only produce the most traitorous and lawless outrages on our homes, rights of labor, and merchantile interests, but that they reqire and must have the most enthusiastic, determined, personal active and judicial condemnation for their suppression, assisted by the most effective means which we can command, which is the ballot.—From Demorest’s Magazine for March.