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VOLUME VI.
PARKERSBURG, W. VA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1886.
NUMBER 13.
Maryland Matters.
THE ANNAFOUiS KEFL'LSE.
The Devil’s Dodge in Maryland’s
Capital.
Albeit, the Saloon Must Oo !
Some good friend sends us a batch
of clippings from Annapolis pa
pers, containing facts and discus
sions of the late Local Option cam
paign in Maryland’s saloon cursed
Capital.
We have looked over these pa
pers with especial interest, to sat
isfy ourself as to the cause of the
remarkable change of vote from a
large majority for Prohibition two
years ago. back to a large majority
for licensed devilment, at the re
cent election.
To anyone, acquainted with the
facte, the change at the ballot-box
was no surprise.
In Annapolis it was simply Sa
tan’s old game played over again;
and the misfortune was that Mary
land’s laws, at least as interpreted
by Maryland’s Judges, were such as
to protect the Devil in his diabol
ical schemes to thwart anddefy the
will ot the good people.
Wherever Prohibition is tempo
rarily adopted in any city of con
siderable size, it is the first business
of the outlawed liquor dealers, to
make the new order of things as ob
noxious as possible, and by every
device known to devilish cunning,
they evade, defy and resist all law
and decency, to make drinking and
drunkenness public and notorious,
just to show that ‘‘they will sell
anyhow,” and that “you can’t pro
hibit.”
All this, of course, to change the
opinions of that large class of vo
ters, (Alas, many of them in the
church!).who have no convictions
on this hideous crime, above the
question of expediency.
In working political revolutions
of this sort, the “Club” ruse is one
of the Devil’s trusted resorts, and
in Annapolis the conditions seemed
most favorable for him to play it
most successfully.
In a short time a large number of
saloons became headquarters for as
many incorporated “Clubs,” or “So
cieties,” whose members, when
brought into court to testify as to
sales of liquors, refused to answer
on the ground that they could not
be compelled to criminate them
selves. It mattered not to these
“young bloods,” “dudes,” or con
spirators of any other name or
type, that by this refusal they
stood before the community as con
fessed criminals. They were will
ing to besmirch their own reputa
tion, if they had any, to shield the
liquor-selling criminals.
In this defiant position they were
upheld by the courts, and so the
popular verdict of Annapolis was
defied and set at naught, and the
public will trampled under the
feet of these liquor-peddting out
laws.
Appeal was made to the Legis
lature tor legislation to enable the
officers to reach these law-defiers,
but instead of the egg asked for,
the people got the serpent of “re
submission,” which these liquor
men had warmed into life for this
special occasion.
With the question re-submitted
at such a time and under such ad
verse circumstances, it was plain to'
see in advance where all that large
class of expediency voters would be
found.
But the end is not yet. The sa
loon will go on in its work of death
foraseason, but in due time the
throat of the infernal traffic will be
clutched as by the hand of the Om
nipotent, and no “Club,” “Society,”
or any other trick or device will be
able to save it from being thrust
down to the hell whence it sprung.
The tide of popular indignation
is rising as a spring flood; the vol
umns of public wrath against this
monster iniquity are piling up
mountain high, and soon the on
sweeping wave of State and Na
tional Prohibition will eternally
overwhelm every murderous saloon
in the land, with all their devilish
broods of petty tricks and devices.
The decree has gone forth, and it
is irresistible and irrevocable—
THE SALOON MUST GO!
A Sufficient Answer.
The Bel Air (Md.) Times comes
to us with a column ol exegetical
nonsense by a*Rev. W. F. B.. in
efforts to show from the Scriptures,
that the Church cannot favor Pro
hibition, and that “to be deprived
of wine is a temporal curse,” &c.
We think it unwise to spend
much time with ante-diluvian
ministers of this sort. We think
the editor of the Bel Air Times, in
the column adjoining the article,
sums up the matter most conclu
sively in this, his closing para
graph :
“Finally, not to extend these ob
servations, we again ad <pt the
sentiment which fell from the lips
of "deceived” Othello. We think
it a pity that any man of God
should lend the influence of his
high character and calling to a
proposition which carries rejoicing
into every secret bar-room in Har
ford county, and sorrow into every
pulpit but his own.”
Honoring the Brave Workers.
We are requested by leading
Temperance workers of Selbysport
district to make special mention of
the following ladies and gentlemen,
for their zeal in the late Temper
ance campaign: Miss Mattie
Loudermilk, Miss Jennie Collins
and Messrs. George Stuck, Jake
Meyers, Ed. J. Stuck. Ed. White,
Charles Stuck. Wm. Dunham, Ed.
Frantz, Ed. Liston. Richard Liston
and Robert Liston.— Oakland Re*
publican.
OAKLAND I. O. G. T. REMEMBERS MRS.
MARTIN AND HON. W.U. M. PRICE
OF PITTSBURG.
Oakland, May 4, 1886.
Whereas, Hon. Wm. M. Price,
of Pittsburg, and Mrs. S. H. Mar
tin, of Baltimore, aided very
materially in their earnest and
effective labor to secure the adop
tion of Local Option in Garrett
county, and success is to a great
extent the result of their efforts,
therefore be it.
Resolved. By Oakland Lodge No.
114, 1. 0. G. T., that ail the Tem
perance people in the county are
under obligations to them for their
services, and that this Lodge does
hereOy extend to them their
hearty congratulations on the re
sult of their labors and the election
in the county.
Resolved. That a copy be sent to
each of them and that the reso
lutions be inserted in the Oakland
Republican and the Cumberland
Independent.
L. E. Townshend,
John Shartzer,
J. M. Boyer,
Committee.
—Cumberland Independent.
Rejoicing at Deer Park.
The lovely spring weather con
tinues.
The corporation election yester
day for Mayor and Councilmen, re
sulted in the election of D. F. Gra
ham for Mayor, and E. F. Droege,
Jos. Lashorn, and A. H. Williams,
for Councilmen, with one vacancy
yet to be filled.
There was quite a brilliant show
of illuminated houses on Thurs
day, the 29th, in honor of our Lo
cal Option victory. * *
The Band of Hope held their reg
ular meeting, last Saturday eve
ning. The Program was very en
tertaining, and at the close. Mr.
Vanmeter, of Mountain Lake Park,
delivered an intensely interesting
address, giving a vivid account of
his experience during the late
campaign. Thanks were tendered
to him by the society, also to the
ladies who assisted during the elec
tion, and to all who helped in any
way tosecure the victory. Resolu
tions were adopted, thanking Sen
ator Getty for his earnest work in
the same cause.—Cor. Oakland Re
publican.
Good Cheer trom our Maryland
Brethren.
The West Virginia Freeman, a
most excellent Prohibition paper,
published at Parkersburg, W. Va.,
comes to us in this mail, with a
kind request to exchange, which
we accept. By its columns we see
that the Prohibition party of Mary
land have adopted the Freeman as
1 ts organ. * *— Woodbury News.
“the three states” greets us.
The Freeman, from Parkers
burg, comes to us, a full-fledged
Temperance advocate of high or
der. The Freeman is not a born
to-day-and-die-to-morrow Temper
ance paper, but is one that has long
been in the journalistic field. It
is an eight-page, “home print”
hebdomadal publication, filled with
good, solid Temperance news at
home and abroad, along with five
or more columns devoted weekly to
Temperance in Maryland. It
should be in every home in this
and other States. The subscription
is SI per year. WiHh it success.—
Three States, Cumberland.
Victory Only Deferred.
The election of Wednesday shows
there are three hundred and ninety
two men in Annapolis who could
not be deceived by sophistry,
deterred by threat, nor demeaned
by bribery to vote for legalizing the
sale of intoxicating liquors. Such
a band of men who publish to their
fellow-citizens, that it is a con
scientious principle of their lives
to unalterably oppose the legali
zation of the infamous traffic is the
nucleus of eventual victory. They
are there for all time. Not so with
our opponents. With our foes are
the elements of disintegration,
with us the foundations of strength.
The contest will go on. The
courts will he tried first, and so, in
one assault or another, the eternal
warfare against the worst evil that
afflicts mankind will continue.
The victory is only deferred.—
Annapolis Record.
Our Maryland Exchanges.
The Freeman is most happy to
get on more familiar terms with
its Maryland brethren.
Among our new exchanges, com
ing from over the “Ridge,” we ex
tend the warm hand of fellow
ship thia week, to the Talbot Times,
Baltimore Methodist. Bel Air Trib
une, The American Union, of Den
ton. The Three States, and Inde
pendent, of Cumberland and still
they come.
We shall take pleasure in inter
viewing these new visitors, each
week, and note what of good cheer
and encouragement we can glean
from them.
PROCLAMATION.
State of Maryland, j
Garrett County, SS.: }
1, W. H. Towor, Clerk of theCircuit Coart
for Garrett county, do hereby certify, that it
appears from the returns made by the Re
turn Judges of a special election held on
April 27tli, in the year 1886, in said county,
slid election resulted against License for
the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors or
alcoholic hitters in said Garrett county :
Therefore,] do certify and proclaim that
no license can he granted after thts date for
the sale of spirituous or fermented liquors
or alcoholic bitters within said county.
Given under my hand this 29th day of
April A. D„ 1886,
Test:
W. H. TOWER,
Clerk Circuit Court for Garrett county.
Maryland News and Notes.
A severe thunder storm passed
over Deer Park, Garrett county,
Wednesday evening, and Mrs.
Shoolev, who was in her residence,
was killed by a bolt of lightning.
No one else in the house was in
jured. -Cumberland Independent,
A woman was found, Wednesday
night on the Railroad track near
Deer Park, with both legs cut off,
and dead.-Oui. Rep.
Tobacco and BoYs.-The law pas
sed by the labt Legislature, and
nowin effect, prohibits the sale of
tobacco in any form to boys under
eighteen years of age, without a
written order from their parents.
— Talbot Times.
OUR NEW NAME.
What our Friends Think of It.
Clarksburg, May 8.
Dear Freeman.
i think the change in your name
a good one. It indicates a broader
field of labor. While I trust that
that you have no less interest in
freeing West Virginia from the
curse of the rum traflic, I take it
that the change denotes your desire
an<l effort to free our sister State,
Maryland, and in fact, all. the States
in this glorious Union. The short
er name is an indication of strength
and force.
May The Freeman spread its
balmy wings of peace over the
homes of the whole Nation ; and ere
long may it not be known and
sneered at as the West Virginia
Freeman, but be recognized as a
National organ. L. E. Peters.
THE GENERAL ADVANCE,
ALONG THE PROHIBITION
LINES.
The Methodist Ministerial Asso
ciation in session at Illipolis, 111,
adopted a resolution “lending their
influence to the Prohibition party.”
Senator Wilson, of Iowa, says
that Prohibition is a fixed fact in
that State, and believes it to be the
corning issue in national affairs.
Hon. Neal Dow, who recently
passed his 82nd birthday, gave
seven addresses for constitutional
Prohibition in the recent campaign
in Rhode Island.
We notice through an exchange
that sixty-three towns in Massa
chuseta voted last year for license.
This year, out of the sixty-three
towns, twelve only went for li
cense. So we see the ball is moving
on, and as it rolls it increases in
size.
A grand offer; read it: “We agree
to protect the dealers in towns and
cities where no license rules or
those in licensed places, by furnish
ing them the best counsel and pay
ing all lawyers’ fees.”—Liquor
Dealer's Association.
That is grand, is it not. for law
abiding citizens to declare?—
Christian Statesman.
The New York Sun predicts that
the Prohibition party will make it
sels felt in the Congressional elec
tions. Doubtless you are right,
Mr. Dana, and soon it will be your
privilege to chronicle that Prohibi
tion candidates are not only nomi
nated to keep the party before the
people,but to be elected.— TheVoice.
THE FREEMAN
For a Hollar.
MOW’S TIIE TIME TO PUSH
THINGS.
The Freeman has no other busi
ness or purpose than to rendsr the
best possible service in the cause
of Prohibition to the largest pos
sible constituency.
If it can materially enlarge its
constituency, it can come and con
tinue to come at one dollar. It is
for our friends to say whether its
subscription lists shall be doubled
or trebled. If they so decide, the
matter is settled.
If Prohibition sentiment is de
veloped and crystal i/.ed into law, it
must be done largely through the
medium of Temperance papers.
To get these papers into fami
lies, requires the active work of
friends in every neighborhood.
We earnestly ask all such friends
to whom this message comes, to
start at once the work of getting
up
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MORE NAMES WANTED.
For the Maryland Convention Free
mans.
We have already mailed the
Freeman containing proceedings of
the two Maryland Conventions to
more than 260 ministers, as well
as to all lists of names sent us.
We still have several hundred cop
ies left. Won’t our Maryland
friends at once send us additional
lists of Temperance workers, to
whom we may send these copies
Help us put them where they’ll do
the most good.
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Please examine the Freeman care
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Twenty-Eight Solid Columns lor
a Dollar.
Brother Editor :
The Freeman of this week reach
ed me last night, and a grand is.-ue
it is. Twenty-eight and a half col
umns of solid reading matter for a
dollar a year, is certainly cheap
enough.
And yet there are doubtless some
•sore-heads’' who will read this is
sue and growl because it contains
no more news. If more West Vir
ginia professed Temperance people
read the Freeman, there would be
less ignorance amongst them re
specting the Prohibition question.
Disgusting it is to hear partisan
demagogues of the old schools.criti
cising men of integrity and Chris
tian character, and wanting to dic
tate how they shall vote to secure
Prohibition most speedily.
“Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis
folly to be wise.”
W. M. Weekley.
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