A Desperate Fight

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 34.

A Desperate Fight.

THE enemies of Prohibition are making a desperate fight. They have tried to destroy with dynamite the Baptist Church building at St. Clair, Penn.; they have blown up with dynamite the house and store of D. W. Lewis of the same place; they have sent threatening letters to Rev. J. T. McCreery of Pittsburg; and they have assassinated Rev. E. C. Haddock of Sioux City, Iowa. Besides all this they have succeeded, in Iowa, in getting the question before the United States Court, upon the plea that the enforcement of the Iowa Prohibition Act is in violation of that provision of the Constitution of the United States which declares that “no person shall be deprived of property without due process of law.” This of course will delay the settlement of the question until the Supreme Court of the United States has passed upon it. And then if the Supreme Court should pronounce against Prohibition?—Well that would only the sooner, and the more prominently, make it a national issue, and insure a Prohibition Amendment to the National Constitution. So whatever this decision may be, it, with all these acts of destruction, intimidation, and assassination, will only forward the cause of Prohibition. The case of whisky is getting desperate and may it be annihilated forever.