The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-10-25


children. Under tho old law in Maine they used
to take ell who got sodruak that they could not
got home, and put them in the lock up;undor the
new law they look tho liquors and locked them
up, and let the p,en 90 home sober. They SER
we'd the liqnor tho sumo in both cases, locking
up about us much under tho old law as undor
the new, only they had different sort OF casks to
hold it, Under tho new law they turn the liq-
uors into the ditch. That wss what they did,
also. under the old law, only they would hrst
turn il into some man, and then turn him into
the ditch along with it. He thought the ope-
ration Of the new law was decided improve
ment, and referred to number OF statistics,
showing that its effects had been most bene-
fetal Crime had diminished, jails and aims
houses had become empty, begging had ceased,
and men had become sober and industrious,
| and their families happy.
In conclusion, he asked what should prevent
the people of this State from having this lawl
Nothing could do it except their own fears
their o wn want of Independent action If they
would all Join together, and do what they know
to bo right, they would surely have it. We
can have it, we must have it, we ioai have it.
(Great aud prolonged cheoring) He said
they must not listen to politicians in this mat
ter. They would get set a men who were
opposed to the law, and would then go around
to the voters and "Oh, yos! we know item
pcrance is good thing-the law is all right,
and next year we will 60 for it; but now these
men are up, and you must vote for them-you
most stick to your party now, for there Is
great crisis, (Laughter) This "great crisis
he said. was a great humbug; bigger than any
he ever had anything to do with, and he had
been humbugged by it himself (Renewed
laughter When he was travelling in Europe
with Tom Thumb under his arm, he received
I g. A. - G.. Il. III
him he "mast come right homo to vote for Mr..
Polk, for there was great crisis in this conn-
try" He wrote back that he should like TO
have Mr.. Polk elected, but thought ho should
not come over just to give one vote. But they
again wrote him that he must come, and that
| if he did not. the whole responsibility for the
consequences that might happen, would rest
on him. That crisis then began TO loom up in
| the distance He went and got another man
to act as Snowman in his place and went TO
Liverpool 10 take passage for New York. He
said no had never been on the sea half an hour
without being sick,an when he had fine NUT
| ton chop for breakfast tho morning before he
started he did not say farewell co it, bccansc
he knew he should sec it again before night
| (Laughicr.) He did see il again. before noon,
aud for fourtecn days ind nights he was sea-
sick necessarily. And when at last be arrived
| in New York, and crawled out on to the wharf,
he supposed that another such looking NOR
| tai never landed there. But The fr-t thing no
did was TO hail somebody, and told him he
hoped he would be kind enough to vote for
Mr.. Polk! CLauehter) Tho election came,
| and he Deposited his vote and felt then that a
great responsibility had been met But after
| rejecting pn tho matter since that, he had
| come to tho conclusion that the Union would
have stood, and the crisis been got along with,
| even if he had not come over at all. The
great crisis was great humbug, and he had
never seen one yet. Io would give any a
mount to capture one, 10 put in the American
Museum. But any one who listened to the
| politicians. hoping that they would do better
next year. whould find that they would have
| two great criss then, instead of one. Tenn
perancc men must do somewhat es the little
| boy did. le had been talking TO somebody in
the street, in manner which his mother tho't
was rather impudent, and she called him in
| and read to him from the Bible where the chill
dren said to one of the prophets, $50 up, old
bald-head," and a bear came out and cat them
up. The boy had never seen bear, and the
story excited his curiosity more than his fears,
and the next thing his mother heard of him. he
was out in tho street, and when man went by
no sung out, "Go up, old bald d-head--Go UP,
old bald-head Now come on with your boars"
| (Laughter.) In the same way the people
should go for the Maine Law, and tell the pol
| itcians to come on with their crisis. If they
would do this, the great curse of intemperance
| would be done away.