Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1883 — “The Prohibition Party.” [ARTICLE]

“The Prohibition Party.”

The Democratic papers seem to'delight in applying to the Republican party tlie name which heads this article. Well, in view of the splendid line of prohibition measures which the Republican party has adopted and enforced in this country, the name is not so bad after all. See what the Republican ya&ssSg; VsaiwMi: / [ * 1. It has prohibited slavery. 2. It has prohibited discrimination in the civil and political rights of citizens. 3. It has prohibited treason and rebellion from disrupting the republic. 4. It prohibited the Southern Democracy from repudiating the will of the majority of the people of this country as expressed in the Presidential election of 1860. 5. It prohibited the arrogant and -.aristocratic slaveholders of. the South. from owning the husbands and wives, the workingmen and women of the South, the parents and children of the lowly and oppressed slaves, and from appropriating the earnings of the labor of the workers to fflie use of the oppressor who would not work. 6. It prohibited the suppression of the freedom of speech and press in this country. 7. It prohibited the suppression of moral force which pushed forward the anti-slavery discussion until it drove the slavery from the republic. 8. It prohibited the extension of slavery into the Territories of the United States. 9. It prohibited the Blave drivers of Missoi#i and other Southern States from making a slave State of Kansas. 10. It prohibited the Democratic party from continuing the administration of the Government in the interest of the most godless oppression that ever disgraced a republic. jll. Ttprohibited the application of the old doctrine of kings and despots from applying to our naturalized citizens that “Once a subject, always a

subject,” is a higher law than the one which, confers on persona of foreign birth the dignity and rights of American citizens. 12. It prohibited the Democratic party from destroying the pnblic credit of the United States. 13. It prohibited the Democratic party from repealiog the resumption of specie payment act which lias given to this country such unprecedented financial stability, prosperity and success. 14. It prohibited the Democratic party from continuing the rotten State and local banking system, and established the best paper currency ever possessed by a people. 15. It prohibited the Democratic party from crushing out onr own industries for the benefit of foreign capital and labor. 16. It prohibited the Democratic policy of requiring the pioneer to pay for his ; farm on the public lands, and enacted the Homestead law which gave every man a home who would settle on the public domain. 17. It prohibited 1 the Democratic policy of excluding colored children from the benefits of education, and made ample provision for all. And now it proposes to prohibit the legalization of saloons in lofra, and to provide for the proteetioH of home. It proposes to prohibit the legalization of the temptations which the dramshops—once denounced by the lowa Democracy as “public nuisances”—place before the young men of the State. It proposes to prohibit the abandonments! that doctrine of the National Democratic platform which declares: “Absolute acquiescence in the will of the majority—the vital principle of Republics. So yon can go on, gentlemen of the Democratic press, and call the Republican party “The Prohibition Party.” Yon used to call us “Black Republicans,” because we were fighting against slavery and for the rights ol men. We accepted the name, put it on our flags and banners, and, under it, drove you from power, and made this country in very fact “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Tlie moral forces and convictions were against you then, and they are against you now, arid no cry of the “Prohibition Party,” nor all the aid that all the saloons and saloon-keepers of lowa can give you, will save you from a repeti- j tion of the disaster that overwhelmed j you when for slavery yon fought as you now fight for tlie saloons.— Fairfield (lovea) Ledger.