Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-10-15
Inc prnhlbltlOn Party "a Massaehnsetts.


weeks hence. CHARLES BRADLAuGH.
The Prohibition Party IA Massachusetts.
} The straight temperance men of Massa-
, clusetts held convention last week. The
} gathering was not very large or very enthu-
siastic, bat it was made notable by a speech
of Wendell Phillips. lie told some plain
truths, but, in his advice. was as illogical
and impractical as usual lie said:
grow more and more profoundly con-
WINGED every day that live that this tenn
perance movement holds 10 its hands the
possibility Of the success of republican in
stitutions | believe that Europe is able, to-
day, truthtully to assert that, 10 the govern
ment Of great masses Of men, so far a. We
have tried the experiment, republican instl-
tutions are failure. Whether it sound
sad to Us or not, at the close of the first ceE
tury OF republican life, believe that, de-
cidei by any one Of our great cities, every
student OF American affairs is obliged to
comics. that, instead Of being ruled BY num-
bers. by the common sense. Or the deliberate
opinion of d majority, We are ruled on the
one side by wealth, and on the other by the
criminal classes and in this comparison,
New York aud New Orleans cannot bear the
test moment by the side of Paris and Lon
don. To-day it State street, representing
the wealth, and Beacon street, representing
| the fashion, and Harvard college, represent
ing tie education, should try to elect may
or Of Boston, publicly resolved and pledged
to execute even the present laws of the
State, they would be defeated. The rum in
terest of Boston, so strong. 50 practiced, so
well organized a. it Is, could easily defeat
the three great dominating influences of So
ciety, and they have done it.
| believe, therefore, that in the success Of
the prohibitorv movement rests the ultimate
success and triumph of tue publican ex-
pertinent. | have closely followed the dis
cussion of this question here and in England,
| where the press gives it a far more deliberate
discussion than it favors Us with here-I
mean the opposition press--and am ready
deliberately to affirm also that | have never
! heard or seen anything alleged against it,
that, even courteously described, deserved |
the name of an argument.
You will find the journals of the next ten
days or three weeks blowing with the loudest |
bugle the cry that it is unsafe at the pres
cnt moment TO weaken the Republican
party AM one OF those that believe
that abstractly. believe that the idea which
most influences men connected with the Re-
publican party in their minds should be up-
permost in this nation for the next eight or
ten years. When | read the Boston journals
and look upon the scorn sarcasm and contempt
that they pour upon every honest man that
comes and tells US that the experiment of
civil life is not yet finished south of Mason
and Dxon's line that this nation has
hard fight yet when see the insult which
followed Senator Morton IN the columns of
the Boston press because he proclaimed the
purpose of the white race to bring that other
race into practically mental condition and
defeat tie amendments, | say to myself, the
loyalty of this press during the war was the
loyalty Of fear. They would have been glad
to draw down the stars and stripes except .
that they feared the mob believe, there
fore, that in the interest of the idea that
founded the Republican party, We should
not strike an unnecessary blow against that I
idea. c
| therefore narrow my attack. If man '
can vote the Republican ticket, | would let
him vote it in general if he sees anything
Objectionable upon it, of course he must re-
ioye it, and the difficult with that ticket i
to Us is one name. The bond of imfamy is I
lne stamp, and it is the nomination for Gov r
,rnOr. | wish the ticket could go ahead so {
q to rival the palmiest days Of the Republi-
an majority, provided only that there be a u
,eggarly count of three or four thousand Il
otes for Governor. 1t Is the finest oppor- a
unity that the Temperance party has had c
o show the Republican party the absurdity >,
[ their conduct. y
would have you take the Republican y
arty and watch it with everlasting vigi- q
ince SO that no bargain or sale could be II
lade. Then 10 that coming arrangement of
ew elements in the combinations that are de-
} be formed 10 carry our political design ot
'rward IN the next generation, the ten +.
nee movement viii have its proper weight " "
nd be properly consulted. It has alwavs H.
zen wonder TO me-the slackness Of some of CT.
lie temperance men in the month of Novem- tn
IT. If we could only know where the Dem on
attic party gets that & ue which joins their y,
INKS together, and put little among the d.
importance men if We could only make ma
cry temperance man in the commonwealth MI
I'd some principle and stick to it for once or du
nee, their political life would be secured ri;
and up and be counted, show the strength
at really belongs to us-the strongest SEN '",
nent in the commonwealth. | haye been
.eetotaler ever since 1886, and have been the
Iiting all that time to see the temperance ma
dy counted. | wish you would consent ,sr
be counted once before die. -.
But it became very plain that all the Re q,
blicsn prohibitionists of Massachusetts
not by any means intend to be counted !
o the support of this peculiar idea. that it can
Unsafe to weaken the Republican party, Col
safe and proper to knife the Republican ..
Iet By cutting from it its leading name,
that the name Of as unexceptionable n
es.imable a gentleman az Mr.. Rice nm,
u. John z. Goodrich. Of Stockbridge, ex- Low
nber of Congress, and a prominent ODD
publican as well a. lifelong prohibi- tt
list, was present and said that Mr.. hgi'
was practical temperance man. m:
, thing Mr.. Rice had done was, last izen
r, at the Worcester convention to move dote
make Mr. Talbot's nomination uuani- moi
Is, and he went home and voted for him, dist.
What was the Use OF saying they "a, a.
iu Aa'e p'oh'oi''ou' OF nothing Ihey fri
dn't possibly get prohibition, this year. Orar
was, therefore, in favor of trying license , i.s
'ne OF two year,, and he was pretty sure Est /.
that time victory for the prohibit on at hi
would he certain. This was altogether
moderate position for q convention con- In
tied just like that, and it accordingly not t
on and nominated 9 candidate for rcse,
ruor-s Mr.. Baker, Of Bevsriy-apd Do
'sed an address to the people. Il can 70 th
v be po,-ihIs that ,h,. d;,.,.,, .. a. shout
'' ~''''S'on ~ 'ns ~
est Of che rau-Dsmocrscy Of Maasachu. IN,