People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Important to Voters. [ARTICLE]

Important to Voters.

Voters may well ask the question: How can we atone for the terrible results of our delinquency or our wicked remissness on this great question in the past? How much misery and wretchedness could have been averted by a proper use of our moral influence and political opportunities? How many wives and children have suffered and died, and what terrible crimes have been instigated by this dreadful demon of intoxicating drink, and who are the parties responsible for these legalized allurements to crime and misery.

There is but one answer: The voter -whose ballot sanctions in the most effective way throws around this awful curse all the safeguards of law and protection. The legalization of the liquor traffic is a perversion of the objects of law, or, rather, a moral depravity that challenges .the world for its enormity; and who can wonder that we are having our financial interests so paralyzed with uncertainty, our com mercial industries depressed with idleness, and that every branch of trade is in a state of despondency, when the resources of the people are so largely used and exhausted by the vicious indulgence of an alluring, deteriorating poison,—a poison that reduces their ambition, their moral strength and their physical strength, to the lowest limit of human endurance.— From “A Strange Anomaly,” in Demorest’s Magazine for May