A FORECAST OF POLITICS.
By Editor
FREDERICK F. WHEELER, a leading Prohibitionist of New York, thinks that out of the Prohibition party and the moral elements which survive the wreck of the Republican party, a new party will be formed, “a clean, new, progressive, and aggressive party, that will take up the questions of the saloon, immigration, transportation, finance, education, and others which have been too long relegated to the rear, and, led by new men of courage, positive and intelligent conviction, will carry them forward to a successful termination.” And then when this is accomplished, he draws this pleasing picture:— With the moral elements of the nation all centered in one party, and the immoral all in the Democratic, we can certainly soon expect to see the happy day when the American flag will not wave over a single legalized grogshop, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and no American child will go to bed hungry because a saloon licensed by Christian men has robbed it of its food. With the politics of this we have naught to do. In the results contemplated we should heartily rejoice, but that time will never come when all the “immoral” elements are found in one political party. A party may vote itself so, but the morals remain the same. The Pharisees considered themselves the most moral of men, but they crucified the Son of God; and he who spake as never man spake, declared that the “publicans and harlots” would go into the kingdom of heaven before them. Morals in the individual are as good in politics as elsewhere, but as a part of politics, as a matter of legislation, they had better be let alone.