Temperance and Politics.
By Editor
A MAN in Wisconsin notices our item headed “Prohibition in Politics,” and gives it as his opinion that our remark is very unchristian! We cannot say that he is not perfectly consistent in his estimate, because we have no means of knowing by what rule he measures Christianity. Some people have great confidence in the potency of the name, “A New Party,” but if they can get up a new party which will have a voting majority in the United States, and all be high-toned Christian-principled men, we are anxious to know whence their voters are to come. We can readily see how a party may suddenly become popular among demagogues and office-seekers, if it appears that it is likely to win. But how long then will it remain “a reform party”? We still insist that the cause of temperance will be best served by keeping it out of “party politics,” and working up the prohibition sentiment among men of all parties. A political triumph is uncertain, and may be of brief duration, because there is necessarily a strife for party supremacy every few years. But if prohibition is adopted by members of both parties without their yielding their party preferences, then there will be no such danger of reversing the decision at the next election. And we must insist that there is nothing unchristian in the expression of such an opinion.