The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-05-05
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY. NAY s. 1874.

personal liberty. A similar resolution was
previously adopted by the state convention ;,
after had spent an hour convincing the
committee that it was right and should be
passed. / have carried out the prin-
ciPls embodied in that resolution.
the "usual Majority Hal hal that's pei
fectly ridiculous. told the central COM
mittee, in the fremont House, two years
ago, that IL the republican party continued
its profession of being the party or morality
never rise again. item you, gentlemen,
sumptuary laws have helped To kin the
party. Do you know that 100000 people
who always supported the republican party
have been kicked out by sumptusry laws,
and they Will never go back. believe
what Robert Collyer said in his pulpit, that
we are educatinga nation of hypocrites, who
have an Ice pitcher on the table and whisky
in the Cupboard. There is no use in legis-
lation Of q sumptuary nature. Men will
aot be legislated into righteousness. The
pulpit and the school house are the places
to inculcate morality. You may control
but you can not control the appetites OF the
people. Why do you not pass laws to make
me carry bible around on my head or tie
1t TO me with chain, and compel nae to read
1t for an hour every dayf The time Is COM
ing when you win find out your mistake.
Il
to the devil, and the time is coming when
not an honest or q decent man will be left in
legislative bodies. Let us look over pre-
tended morality 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 In not an honest man left. All that
man needs now is to be religionist or good
temperance man to get an Office. He then
goes to q Sunday school, makes speeches. Is
elected, and turns out thief. Look at your
temperance and religious men. There Is
Schuyler Colfax, proven perjurer-( hisses)
who was shown to be William hisses)-
and yet because he is good temperance man
and makes Sunday school speeches, the
party shields him, and the people of the
South Bend district ask him TO run for con-
gress. Look at Patterson and other fraudse
1t In only necessary to be hypocrite to b.
all right. believe the country should re,
turn TO specie payments as soon as possible
and the currency should be based on bonds
of the United States. would support a
good free banking law, based on bonds. The
issue of s44 100000 on the top of 1856. 900
is a disgrace, and every man who
votes for IL drives nail in
the stump against Logan when he comes
back. Let him take his platform and will
take mine and go before the people. / be-
lieve in encouraging home industries so as to
protect the laboring classes against monop-
olists and the pauper labor of Europe. Your
party, gentlemen, has not kept its pledges
and promises. There is not a man in this
room who does not believe the crusadiDg
women were out of their sphere; but you
were afraid to say so, and tell them to stay
at home and cook their husbands beefsteaks
until they could get them we'll done. am
much obliged to you for listening to me.
was called upon to speak. have given you
my opinions, and, having done so, shall take
nv leave.