Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1890 — WHO ARE THE PROHIBITIONISTS? [ARTICLE]

WHO ARE THE PROHIBITIONISTS?

Temperance Evangelist. —lt ■wa»“ arxreat-gt*ief - -t-o-PaiiLto see so many false prophets in his time. These men were very clamorous, but Raul - Udd- the- qAiuple te- marie, these. false teachers; Aiidtif theyLoliowed not the apostles, to have nothing to do with them. It has been that way always. Every once in a while somebody erects his own standard and blows his own trumpet, and claims to be the true church of God. or the genuine and only Christian body. The most marked instance of this kind of’ fanaticism, at present, is a little band of men who claim to be-the only Prohibitionists of the land. They blow their trumpet and hold their meetings and pass their by resolutions, while the real Prohibitionists go right along, passing prohibitory laws, where they can, or local option 4 laws, or other restrictive laws, reaching after prohibition all the time. During these twenty years that these false teachers have been blowing their trumpets, the real Prohibitionists, have got prohibition in seven States and local option in more than a dozen other States. Who are the Prohibitionists?