Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — A FUNNY SET. [ARTICLE]

A FUNNY SET.

Temperance Evangelist. We like funny people, and for that • reason we like the Prohibocrats. or we j would like them if they were not such a hindrance to temperance legislation j in close States that it is impossible to I get any material improvement in Tags. ' The House last week passed the Senate bill giving States the right to enforce their prohibitory and restrictive laws’ against the traffic. This original package episode has had more funny ! features than anything in politics for j half a century. The decision itself | had its funny phase. The opinion was I written by a Democrat, but it was indorsed by two or three Republicans, while Judge Brewer, the. appointee of Gen. Harrison, made, as these funny people had averred, solely to please the saloon element, wrote an able dissenting opinion. The funny part of this was that these funny people averred that Judge Brewer had been frightened into this by the noise the Prohibition party has made over his appointment. Then came the Senate bill. It passed the Senate, but there was nothing in it worth praising until ,the House passed a modified bill. This ' was so much worse than the Senate bill that they were sure- that the Re. publicans of the House had sold out to the saloon. Last week the House receded from its amendment and passed the Senate bill. Can anything be funnier than the idea of a party which, in ; twenty years, has acquired a strength of less than 3 per cent, of the vote of the Nation, and has never anywhere elected even a constable, so frightening Congress that it has acted in raorcall the Prohibooratic party a funny set.