Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1884 — Restrictive Temperance Legislation. [ARTICLE]

Restrictive Temperance Legislation.

Olio significant fact must nbt be lost sight of: ‘ The restrictive legislation against dram-shops has seldom or never been gained by the creation of a ‘‘‘third party’-’- The Legislatures that have "or TocitfjFE Democratic, as in Maine, Georgia and South Carolina, or else decidedly Republican, as in Vermont ami in Kansas. A third party, founded on the single idea, has never attained to the control of a majority. It is not even a “makeweight” in legislation, for it so seldom succeeds in electing members of legislative bodies. The. temperance idea is exerting an increasingly powerful influence within both the great parties; but it is not, likely to create a perm auent and dominant third party in any State in the Union.—Rev. Theo. L. Cuyler, in Harper's Weekly. Call at B. F. Ferguson’s and buy groceries at cost.