The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-16
wendell Phillips OIL the next
Political struggle.

In q late number of the National
Standard is I'M article from the pen
of this gentleman on the next polit-
zeal struggle. Mr.. Phillips may be
regarded us ultra in his views. some
what ahead of the age" but it is a
weli-known fact that he but leads
the Way, and The cautious and those
who look TO present personal advan-
t;ige more than he, IN due time have
to come up to his mark. Read care.
fully what Mr.. Phillips says:
1T seems how as if Temperance
and the struggle between capital
and labor would form the basis Of
the next parties.
AT one lime, whether woman
should have the ballot seemed likely
to be tue next political question:
And no doubt that movement is
writing its W rapId victory upon
every statutc>book. Still no scpa
rate political party for that purpose
Is proposed anywhere. Ii any new
and infamous outrage on woman,
like the contagious diseases, laws OF
Great Britain. should reuse popular
feeling here, possibly on such IL wave
the movement might rise Immeii-
ately to distinct political character.
IL is more probable that gradual
changes IN tho taws will render amy
such mastering into political ranks
unnecessary.
"Mednwhil0 several angry issues
will crowd out old questions, AMI
make the national election of 1872
turn largely OF the claims OF the
working-men. This year Massa-
chusctts will follow the OLD lead OF
Maine and divide at the box
on The question of Prohibition.
Ut is luli time that IT should be
so. The Temperance movement lies
at the very root OF popular govern
mcnt. This vice is the Inol by
which bad men WELD our cities for
every vile purpose. The money
power buys up legislatures. Incor-
porate wealth is the great danger in
Time to come, threatening to swallow
up legislative independ,n The
struggle between that and the mass.
rs will yet DO terrible, and how
much popular victory in that strug.
Gle may destroy, will depend on the
education and self control of that
day. Unless We are TO he Il calmer
ana more discriminating mass than
any history shows, the victory will
be Il mad one and make Il wide rum.
The growl OF Reputation a few
years ago is indication enough to
warn the most Iistless. Tho gov
crhment, or anJ other 'cock-boal
built OF banK-nOtes,' will find 1t hard
10 sail thoes fiery seas
But there Is q lower tier than
lcgislutures-the masses 1T the bal
lot-bOx. The grGg-shOp is the Icadi
est means TO manipulate thcs'. You
can not rest Il ballO:-bOx on Il drunk
en- people. Neither the wealth of
New York nor Its virtue will ever
redeem that city from the control
of it's criminal classes while these
last cah undermine law. defy Justice.
and m~onopolize office by making an
election Il drunken riot, Without
the help of ten thousand grOg-shCps,
crime could never put its agents IN
In the City Hall and police ofi"e -
Paris l. ruled by n despot, and Lon
don by Il company of utied cousins.
New York is ruled by drunkarGs.
Men whom murderers serve that
they may, and because they have,
escaped the gallows, rule the city.
The ribald crew which holds them
mp could neither stihe its OVID ron-
science nor rally its reiInue hut for
the help of the grUg-shop. Rcpub
lican institutions, undermined by
this social vice, are obliged TO cOn
fcss that they have never governed
IL great city here on the basis of unit
verSaI suffrage in such Il way as to
preserve order, secure lite, and Sc
cure r speech.
Temperance men in smaller CIT
les have failed TO see What goes so
.shameiully up and down the streets
of New York. Hence they have
toIled TO bring now one and now
another party TO adopt their cause.
The movement has been always
cheqted. At last it wakes ND to the
fact that it is warning with tha:
which in many cases is the sole ba-
sis, and in nil cases is 10 some cx-
tent the basis of party strength
The people have two enemies, wealth
and rum. Tic first grinds them up
into dividends. The second betrays
them shOrn TO their enemies. The
battle against this has begun. But
the truth will mover get frankly
spoken till We launch the discussion
in tho political arens."