The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-17
LECTURES LAST NIGHT.
"rHE GVFsT@ Of Io-soR1oW"

rnn,nre nv IYenden Phillips.

Lecture by Wendell EutiiApas
Tne second OF the star course o. lectures ~ eeIh
way nall was delivered last evening az saat fayore
mace OF assembly. TAe attendance was lar, but
The nan was b. no means crowded. Wendell Phl-
,ns was the lecturer for the occasion, his subject
being ,,rhe Question Of To-Morrow.n
Tho lecturer commenced b giving some early
"reminiscences OF lie IN Boston. and, after refer
ring 10 a riot IN that city, he stated that he drst
learned at mar time the principles OF republican
government ana that law was made from the
opinions or mob Thirty years later, In
1901. lie learned . further lesson. meeting
when was being held in fremont Temple was
broken up. The Legislature was appealed 10, and
inc AnitSiaYery Society was denied the use OF The
State House for its meetings. The Intelligence and
virtue OF the people we're the shield Of freedom Of
speech and the custoaars OF liIe The lecturer went
back TO these "reminiscences because there were
great questions looming up which could only be
understood by looking al the fact OF the necessity or
grinding out lie fact OF personal security. II was
generally supposed that seifgovernment was sue
cess; but this an error. No great city had ever
existed ana ruled Itself for twenty years.
San Francisco Tor instance looked at its
beach ana saw it filed by thieves anu
lis police selected from the criminal classes,
ana lad TO constitute a committee or safety. II
George Curtis right in his lecture, this city did
acknowledged this TACT IN London, when he framed
his bill which rules that city with government iiSe
that OF the Car or Russia. The lecturer would
rather be citizen OF Paris ana open MS charter
book and see What lie could do, than be a citi-
zen OF Boston and not know what he could
do and what he could say without con-
suling the caprice Of 4 mob. TIE first question
TO which he should refer was temperance:
lie should look mt the question with regard
this question The pecuIarues or race must he
he COnsdered-the ballot box heating ABOUT without
an anchor, race called 10 encounter grave tempta-
tons 10 drink anu science holding ou5 means tcF
ntoXCatlon ut half the price. ny furnishing bY the
labor u the 0ay means FOR the crime OF week. IN
Boston there were 1900 drinking saloons, which
gave 1000 votes and 10 mayor could pe elected
VINO woud not shut his eyes to THIS TACT. Every
tenth man IA Boston was arrested every year ana
every seventh man was sent 10 tie poorAodSe
every year, A universal ballot box coQd not
s1ely be rested upon 2 drunken people. "
0as thought that remedy had been found, and
he thought II was. TWO Thousand years or trial had
proved licensing failure and ii prohibition proved
Nrong statesman could DO nowadays was to en-
ocGyor 10 tnd sGmo means Ior fesculng the ballot
hos nom tue drunkenness on WAch It now rested.
Another OF the great Questions OF the 0aT was that
OF labor The time Wo1ta, he believed, s0oa
come when man should have eight hours
for sleep, eight hours for work end eight
hours Tor his soul. In Europe there was a
great guif between cauital ana labor bat that hal
not get been IN America. The protest oil labor TO-
daY was only protest against the aggre94Ung
power OF wealth. capital had NOW began IS DlF0-
MAJ career; there was an arstoCTaCy Of capital.
The stGtesnGnsbip Of to-day dat not CONSIST N sIe9r
Tug at the ignorance OF the working classes; they
raised themselves yesterday IN Massachusetts ana
fens twenty-five voices IL tle Legi9,ature. The otner
question was The woman question. some looked az
TINS question nom a humanitarian point III view
ana this was not 70 be wondered at, Tie lecturer
here reellea two INSTANCES exhibiting the disad-
vantages under which women labor, one refer
r.ng 10 the disposition OF properly, ana tle
otlier Q story OF the incarceration OF woman Tor
from lis influence the morals OF yolitcs. liz this
connection tie lecturer referred 20 the antl-gavery
movement and spoke OF his appearing ia London in
company with the champions Of anu slavery, ana
stated That sir Robert Peel was on q platform with
nun ana acknowledged that he tSr Nobertl had been
nlaipRt the movement. THIS sort 81 thing was
waited III Amerca: IL was wanted 10 know where
man haa been ana where he was. TINS was the
case ia society, ana ID was because
women were IN society. II women were in p0nfics
thus would he the case in them Also Ii women were
edmitted INTO the political heid they would influence
men and raise them; there would he action aud re-
action. lie did not want in politics be-
cause she would bring an angel there, but because
then politics would be made upon the model OF the
Chnrcn. The lecturer spoke Of the war between
races IN the far West between the Chinese and the
dweiers on the Paelbc shore. Already In Western
charter books was placed a slavery clause harsher
than any written IN South Carolina. hr. Philips
concluded with an appeal 10 his hearers 10 WatCh
this conflict, and with the ballot box planted upon
s0briety, the woman element summoned TO Tier
help, LET Inc ifgate aoas gu; aud GOD aetend sue
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