The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-01
NTEMPERANCE.

IN GlNA1 AlAe&AAOOA/s
The only argument used by our OPP
ponents against Hon. 3. St. Julien Cox
is that The is incorporate.
No one believes more thoroughly
than we do in the necessity of tempe
rance in all things, to a clear head, q
healthy body and successful life; and
we have therefore taken pains to make
some inquiries touching the facts in the
case.
We learn that some years since Mr..
Cox was an Incorporate man. But so
was Grant. General Grant, then Capt.
Grant, while stationed UPON the Pacific
coast, was compelled to resign from the
army on account Of drunkenness. But
every man will admit that whatever
other faults he may have had that vice
has not disgraced his administration.
We learn that for years past Mr..
Cox, while not total abstinence man,
has not been Incorporate; and that
from the spring Of 1873 to June 1874,
during period Of fifteen months, he
did not touch liquor. He was perfect
ly temperate during all the last session
of the Legislature.
Senator Ramsey carries enough whis-
ky every day under his waistcoat to
keep Cox drunk for six months. We
don t mention this fact with any inten-
ton to disparage the Senator, the waist
coat or the whisky, for the Senator is
one of those phlcgmatic natures that
alcohol simply elevates to state Of
normal activity. But there are men
who, as John B. Cough used to say, if
they take glass of liquor, feel it
tingling out to the ends of their fingers,
and a second or third glass sets them
crazy. But if the leader of that ''party
of moral IDEAS which, as we are often
told. embraces all the virtue and re-
spectability Of the nation,' can keep
his corporosity, from years end to
year end, like bottled specimen in
medical cabinet, soaked in whisky; we
do not see why his followers should
raise such hubbaboo over man who,
under the inducements Of good fellow
ship, takes glass or two in six months.
Look at the contrast! Cox is
conducting this campaign on strict
~ temperance principles. He is max
ing able and statemanlike speeches
! to large audiences, discussing the great
questions which underlie the prosperity
of the people. Where is Strait What
is he doing!
Two weeks ago, on a Sunday, he
stood at public bar i'll Young Ameri-
ca, Carver county, for two mortal hours,
drinking beer and treating the multi.
tude. He consumed beer enough. in
those two hours, on that Sabbath day,
to have laid ten ordinary men under
the table; but like his great co.patriot,
Ramsey, he waddlcd off with it at last,
his equanimity scarcely disturbed.
This is his kind Of political campaign.
And yet his lackeys raise shout
against Cox, that he is Incorporate I!
And they claim that Strait represents
the moral ideas Of the day
Yes as Ramsey does. That lanentcd
wit, Cooley Of St. Paul, once said, years
ago, that Ramsey wrote letter to q
friend in Pennsylvania in which he re-
marked:
t.Therc are three kinds of Republi-
cans in Minnesota
Il. The whisky Republicans.
2. The beer Republicans.
i 8. The cold water Republicans.
snow said he, Il represent
oil three of these elements and hence
my great political success; for | can
drink whisky with the whiskyites, or
beer with the beerites or beer and
whisky mixed with mixed crowd; and
thus | AIN all things to all men. n. B.
use the water for washing purposes. =
Our word for it, that il Cox goes to
Congress he will make one of the most
able, industrious and temperate mem
bers we have ever sent there.