Whisky and Election Corruption by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 21, 1882

Whisky and Election Corruption

By Editor

The Monitor-Journal says: "There were shipped to Morgan and Brown Counties, Indiana, arriving the preceding week to prepare for the election, one hundred and thirty-eight barrels of whisky and several hundred half-gallon jugs. It was divided up so as to give to Morgan County one hundred barrels, Nashville, Brown County, thirty-one barrels, and to each township in these counties, fifty jugs."

This is a fair sample of the way elections are carried. The man who is elected by such means should remember that his real constituents are not the reading, thinking, respectable citizens of his district, but whisky jugs and beer barrels. It must be a great honor to hold office under such circumstances.