Prohibition and Politics.
By Editor
The following item we clip from the daily Chronicle:— “Lansing (Mich.), Feb. 27.—In the Senate tonight a joint resolution submitting the prohibition amendment to the people failed to pass—ayes 18, noes 13, which was not the required two-thirds. The vote was strictly partisan, the Republicans voting aye and the Democrats no. It was then reconsidered and tabled, to be brought up again after the spring election.” We can only repeat the regret which we have before expressed, that prohibition is anywhere made a political question. And we have not changed our mind in regard to the mistake made by the prohibitionists last year in forcing it in the field of politics. If time does not prove that the effort to create a third party was an injury to the cause, we shall have to confess our mistake. There are friends of temperance in both parties who will vote for prohibition if they can do it without sacrificing all their party preferences for that one issue. We are pleased to see that so soon after the strife of a general election the cause of prohibition received so large a vote in Michigan as it did.