Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-07-10

drinking habits of the American people.
am ready to assert that with generation o
experience, if there is not enough in the
American people to grapple with this pro-
blem, then the Republican theory has prov
ed itself failure. If we cannot deal with
the intemperanee Of these 10000, 900 OF
people, then our government is 4 failure.
Mr.. Phillips then spoke of the tendency
of this century as being the aggregation OF
Of people into great cities. 4 city is half a
million Of men and four or five millions of
dollars gathered together, and in this mix
ture are always to he found class easily
tempted to crime, owing to poverty caused
dangerous, designing men, always present,
too. Any government that undertakes to
deal with the Nineteenth century must be
able to grapple with the problem of keeping
this weak, ignorant, dependent, half-crimi-
nal class in its place under the law. not
above it. but amenable to control
The Tory ofall Europe, Disraeli, to-day
at the head of the English Government, who
deSpiSeS the Declaration Of Independence
and mockS at the folly of trusting every
man with a vote, who believes that the
theory of this nation is 4 sham and delu-
sion, and soon to come to an end-he and
the Tory men looking across the continent
say to Us, ''You cannot show Us n city with
two hundred thousand inhabitants that has
not bowed once in twenty years at least to
| the mob, and has not the other nineteen of
those twenty years seen its Mayor and Alder
men nothing but 4 standing committee of
nomination of its grog-shops "Is it not
truc2
lie commented upon the c, -ruption which
| existed in New York where twenty, thirty.
/ or fifty men managed it as ifa private piece
! Of property, and the frauds practiSed there
at elections. through the influence of intem-
perance. bribery, and corruption In city
! there are always two classes of men, conSer-
yatiyeS and progres~iveS, whatever their
names may hc. Each endeayors dutifully to
put into the magistrcy the man who repre-
sentS their thought, but in the middle Of
! these stands the power of hundreds of mil
| lions of dollars invested in the manufacture
and distribution of drink This power
stands like a solid square of hayonetS, such
a- Wellington put into the centre of Water
loo. and the battle surges around it, The
men having this money have no idea. Their
one purpose i 10 coin gold ont Of the weak
ness and wee OF their neighbors All they
want is Mayor and Aldermen who will not
have their eyes wide open enough to see
them. The result is that both parties are
obliged. politically speaking, 10y calcula-
tion of numbers, to put mp men agreeable 10
this gigantic holder of the ballots power.
For thirty years there has not been a Mayor
nor Board of Aldermen in Boston that
were not practically, when analyzed. a COM
mittee nominated by the Srog shops The
last gentleman. Mr.. Pierce. who was eth
cr lifted or degraded TO the House of Repre-
SentatiycS. Is as honorable a man as YOU viii
find in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,.
lake lantern and 20 up and down the
highways and byways of the State and you
won't find a better, higher-toued more
liberal, public-Spirited and honest man than
that Mayor Pierce of the city Of Boston.
recently. It is not the men | am speaking
Of 1t Is the force that Is deeper than men.
below all our institutions, shooting up its
influence through all parties, and the gravity
Of the occasion Is not that we have had such
a Mayor and Board Of Aldermen, but what
shall we do to make 1t any different!
defy any man in the audience TO find
me a town with more than forty thousand
inhabitants whose leading selectmen or body
of governors Is not practically named by its
dangerous classes. He Is named in submi--
sion TO them. and he moves in chains which
they impose. The Mayor enters intc his
office and records an oath On parchment that
he viii execute the law. but he promises
his constituents that he viii not. and he
breaks that oath and keeps that promise,
and every man that has had occasion to APP
proach Mayor or any town, city or county
officer for thirty years in the name Of this
cause knows thar he Is either knayc that
looks in your face and Gefe~ You, or he is
an honest man who feels his slavery and
beg~ YOU not TO crowd him. That Is the
condition of the American people in their
Republican experiment, but | stand on the
ballot-boX ~olicitou- Cor the safety, for the
success of this Republican experiment. and
the thing that troubles me most is temper
ance.
Where doc the force come from in Ma>~a-
chusett, who dare to say that law is not
obevel? Ii comes from the men that mean
to double their one hundred thousand dollars
in three year- by making ruins Of the hapri-
ness and prosperity of half their own fellow
creatures They are the men who look in
the face of the Legislature and -ay your laws
cannot he obeyed.
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can r''i,' ile nat "i government. ll We 40
h1l want 'dt une'>- -NI'@'oeIa'N j. IKE "
lrsate SpIendidIy nniIt' ltS spar tiaperrd to
the heavens, It's mas ana ITS Nhrouu' 'ire il,
perfect; h''H'is nu' Sl' storm that VIII
make the ocean k'-~ lne SHy VIII SINK IT,
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lance IL Is absolute education. Just so
m1cn norman cir5uc' ehaflcJeriSuc Seli,e'
haol'IaI rove ol I'H Il, you nave "c'naHy
crowded ana rl'eieu ih,o 'he very blood ana
bones ol '9e peop.e, JUST 80 niuch govern
ilehl you nave Sot anu no more ana Wheh
'h' great l3r'eS ol .'o'ety 'riSh ana .lo>tc
against e;lch o'ner IKE Ir'sa'es' as they oid
ia lhe olu aitI-9ia''Il u1y'' "Heh lhey crash
ed ana loStled ana SHOOK magistrates out oi
theT chairS' theh you nave got no more
government tilan ll'alS IN 'i'e heart' oil the
millions m, oi people you see IA the SLreetS
lnat Is the 10" water iihe oi the pos7lDiiiiiy
oi human government II Is not any super
heal cause 1t l. NOT any sentimental cru
Slde-lt Is not any interested man : or NOR