The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-01-20

been times when life and liberty
: and property were imperiled and
destroyed by mobs in open defiance
: of law.
The domestic craftsmanship oil
the next thirty years is TO grapple
with the problem Of governing
great cities. The country hangs
on it. Great cities are the centers
of thought, of journalism, and o.
liberties. Out from them radiats
all the rays Of civil, industrial and
intellectual life. Now what is q
great city7 Why, it is a half q
; million of men, embracing mevIta-
bly, q certain proportion which we
cal criminal, d~emoralized, or dan.
gerous classes. Behind them are
from 3, 900 to 10000 drinking sa-
looms. Behind these the great force
of. modern society, S200, 900, 900.
There is the trinity of the peril of
great citles. How are you going
to grspple with IL?
The lecturer did not regard in
temperance az q skin disease, II
was n OF the bssetting SINS OF the
Saxon race, for, said the lecturer,
all nations have their cardinal pro-
pensities. Take q race before
Christianity came and clothed it.
Man in that state takes his cardi-
nal propensity and projects it into
the infinite, caryes o god out Of 1t,
aad his god is the reflection of his
highest self as he supposes his
highest self to be. Take the trop-
les, for instance, before Christianity
came 10 them. The ideal tropic
heaven vas . place of sunny skies,
pearly streams, luscious fruits and
beautiful women. Go to the North,
whence our ancestors came. Thor
heaven was a vaulted wall. I'm
derneath its roof were gathered
victorious soldiers, their battleaxes
dripping with blood, and they were
quafing the means of intoxication
out OF the skulls of their ensmies.-I
That was the ideal heaven of the
North, and Il arose from two quail
ties /: inordinate love of triumph
and q thirst of intoxication; and as
you watch the race marching down
The centuries under all Its names on
each side stalk those two passions.
In the forests of Germany, the mea-
dows of England, or the prairies of
the West, wherever you see this
hloodthirsty, o~verbearing, lmpsr-
ious race to which We give the name
of Saxon, its first thought is to
sweep Its path, and then drown
the furious joy of its victory in tho
maoness of drink.
Now, modern domestic statssman-
ship has these three elements to
deal with: 1st, a race whose bssett-
ing sln is this necessity for mater
ial stimulus; I'd, 8 race that has
shaped its Institutions 80 that SIX
millions Of men share its soysr-
eIgntg; Sd, . = C whose system, per-
feet as il IL. gives q man the means
of bong drunk 3 month on the wa
gss OF q week. The education that
Is acquired in schools can not Crap
pie successfully with this problem.
In Boston we gather $4,000 boys
and girls under the roofs of our
school houses. With infinite cost,
with great pride, laboriously at
work day and night, we lift them
mp 70 intelligence and virtue for the
ballot; and then on the other side,
according TO the police, 3,700 open
pitfalls into helI' thro'gh which 23,-
600 adults drop Irto pauperism and
the States Prison. With one hand
we lift and with the other we Grip
pie. The education of p%auperism
and crime is that Of lntemperanee.
You cant laugh 1t aside; you can't
sneer it out of Importance. The
Yankees thought they'd dIscovered
q remedy for this evil, and that is
prohibition. Ii this invention don't
work we will invent another, for
the evil must be met. Lock 81 Now
York. Her great counties, with
Infinite labor, rotlup their Republi-
can majorities, and when the echoes
of triumph are just filling the atmo-
and tho total success is
mi.de out, the drunken city manu-
features enough votes to balance
it, and you haven't found yet, no
white man has yet devised, the !,
remedy. \
A young, eloquent widow of q
soldier, Mrs. lockwood, of Boston,
tells a story of a Western city,
where q wealthy man, . large land
holder, was walking through it's
with q comrade, and said to
him: "Give me the vigor TO pass
that door, which led to q saloon,
land l will SHARE my lands with ,
you tomorrow" he couldn't do it.
Nobody. but Sod can plant in q hui
man soul the vigor of resolution {
which % trample his Appetitss
under his feel. But u thing ne
could do, oBe thing law could do, !,
one thing the welfare Of republican
institutions demands, and that Is
to shut that door.