Appeal To Lovers Of Good Order

Editor Argus:- Wonder if it ever occurred to those persons cured of the drink habit during the red ribbon revival, that some of them would now in all probability be filling drunkards grave, but for the repeal of the prohibitory law and the substitution in its place of the present law, which allows the sale of intoxicants under certain regulations? But such is the case, the writer of this believes - under the prohibitory law the temperance workers expended their entire energies as informers and spies in tracking the liquor seller to his secret places of business. What were the Revs. Shier, Smart et el doing for the cause of temperance during those days? Let Ypsilanti with its arson and destruction of records answer. Let Manchester with its perjuries answer. Let Ann Arbor, through its circuit court answer. Let every justice court where prohibition was tried to be enforced, answer. Let every old resident of Washtenaw with a memory unimpaired, answer.
Prohibition never saved any man or women from the evil effects of the drink habit. The temperance revival known as the red ribbon movement was only made possible by the repeal of the old prohibition laws.
Conservative temperance men, practical temperance men, lovers of good order, on Monday next we are asked to partake of the same old prohibition dish, although now called "local option." Let us do as we did last spring, spurn it.