Prohibition and Pure Politics by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 26.

Prohibition and Pure Politics

By Editor

MR. L. A. MAYNARD, one of the editorial staff of the N. Y. Observer, has been making a tour through Kansas, for the purpose of ascertaining the facts as to the working of prohibition. In one of his communications he writes:—

“I miss the presence in political gatherings, and a happy ‘miss’ it is, of the burly, dirty, and insolent rumseller who ‘bosses’ our primaries and ward caucuses in the East.”

And this is just what would be true of every State if the liquor traffic were prohibited. It is the greatest foe to pure politics and good government in existence, with the possible exception of the movement which would make our Government a religious oppressor.