The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-18

have the usual uaj rity" ia ia that's
PERFECTLY RIDICULOUS, ~
I told the Central Committee, In the Ire
mont House, two years ago, that 1t the Re- 1
publcan party continued its profession of |
being the party of mora ity, it would sink |
so deep that it could never rise again. / |
tell you gentlemen, sumptuary laws have
helped to kill the party. Do YOU know
that loo, 900 people who always supported
the Republican party have been
KICKED OUT BY sUMPTUARY LAWS,
and they will never go back. l believe
what Robert Collyer said in his pulpit, that
we are educating nation of hypOcrites,
who have an ice pitcher on the table and
whisky in the cupboard There is no use
in legislation of sumptuary nature. Men
will not be legislated into righteousness
The pulpit and the school-house are the
places to inculcate morality. You may
control railroads and stage-coaches by your
laws, but you cannot control the appetites
of the people. Why do you not pass laws
to make, me carry Bible around on my
head or tie it to me with chain, and COM
pei me to read it for an hour every day2
The time is coming when you will find out
your mistake. The country is corrupt and
rotten; it is
GOING TO THE DEVIL,
and the time is coming when not an honest
or decent man will be left in legislative
bodies. Let US look over pretended NOR
atty and pass laws for the benefit of the
people. The country is going deeper and
deeper into corruption. 1t has gone to
grass, and you will soon be mourning that
there is not an honest man left All that
a man needs now, is to be a religionist or a
good temperance man TO get an office He
then goes TO Sunday -school, makes speeches,
is elected, and turns out thief Look at
your temperance aud religious men. There
is Schuyler Colfax,
| PROVEN PERJURER
lhissesl, who was shown to be a villain
misses and yet because he is good tenn
perance man, and makes Sunday school
speeches, the party shields him, aud the
people of the South Bend District ask him
to run for Congress. Look at Patterson
and other frauds. 1t is only necessary to
be hypocrite to be bright
| believe the country should
RETURN TO SPECIE PAYMENTS
as soon as possible. and the currency should
be based on bonds of the United States
| would support free banking law, based
on bonds The issue Of $44 ,O00.OO0 or
top of $3.50. 0O0,00O is a disgrace, and every
man who votes for it drives nail in bis
own political coffin. | want to
TAKE THE STUMP AGAINST LOGAN
when he comes back Let him take his
platform, and will take mine and go be-
fore the people, | believe in encouraging
home industries, so as to protect the labor
ing classes against monopolies and the pau
per labor of Europe.
Your party, gentlemen, has not kept it
pledges and promises. There's not MAJ
in this room who does not believe the cru
sading women were out of their sphere, bu
you were afraid to say so, and tell them t
stay at home and
COOK THEIR HUSBANDS BEEFSTEAKS
until they could get them well done.
/ am much obliged to YOU for lstenin,
to me. | was called upon to speak.
have given you my opinions, and, having
done so, shall take my leave.
Mr.. Hesing stated subsequently, to tn
Tribune reporter that he also intended t
arraign the Republican party for the out
= rageous taxation of franchises in the State
for which the party was responsible, but
= slipped his memory.
. THE FAT IN THE FIRE.
|, When Mr.. Messing concluded, he pickle
up his hat and overcoat, and made for tn
= door, the crowd parting to let him out wit
as much alacrity as half an hour befor
they had parted to let him in His speec
struck everybody dumb. They hardl
knew what happened. They had been cor
graduating themselves and the party o.
n having the German vote once more, an
+ now the fat was in the fire Had barre
E of nitro glycerine exploded and blow
! them all away they would not have bee
more surprised. They were evidently yer
sorry they had invited Mr. Hesing, auC
6 sorry. toe, they had not excluded the re
porters. After the lapse of few moment
, talk was resumed