Prohibitionists to say: "We will vote
for temperance men; we will stand with the party that is the nearest
in favor of what we deem to be the right"? They should also take
into consideration that other people are as honest as they; that
others disbelieve in prohibition as honestly as they believe in
it, and that other people cannot leave their principles to vote
for prohibition; and they must remember, that these other people
are in the majority.

Mr. Fisk knows that he cannot be elected President--knows that it
is impossible for him to carry any State in the Union. He also
knows that in nearly every State in the Union--probably in all--a
majority of the people believe in stimulants. Why not work with
the great and enlightened majority? Why rush to the extreme for
the purpose not only of making yourself useless but hurtful?

No man in the world is more opposed to intemperance than I am. No
man in the world feels more keenly the evils and the agony produced
by the crime of drunkenness. And yet I would not be willing to
sacrifice liberty, individuality, and the glory and greatness of
individual freedom, to do away with all the evils of intemperance.
In other words, I believe that slavery, oppression and suppression
would crowd humanity into a thousand deformities, the result of
which would be a thousand times more disastrous to the well-being
of man. I do not believe in the slave virtues, in the monotony of
tyranny, in the respectability produced by force. I admire the
men who have grown in the atmosphere of liberty, who have the pose
of independence, the virtues of strength, of heroism, and in whose
hearts is the magnanimity, the tenderness, and the courage born of
victory.

--_New York World_, October 21, 1888.

ROBERT ELSMERE.

Why do people read a book like "Robert Elsmere," and why do they
take any interest in it? Simply because they are not satisfied
with the religion of our day. The civilized world has outgrown
the greater part of the Christian creed. Civilized people have
lost their belief in the reforming power of punishment. They find
that whips and imprisonment have but little influence for good.
The truth has dawned upon their minds that eternal punishment is
infinite cruelty--that it can serve no good purpose and that the
eternity of hell makes heaven impossible. That there can be in
this universe no perfectly happy place while there is a perfectly
miserable place--that no infinite be