Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-02-07

that Indispensable element of Chris
tian and individual duty in the tenn
GRANGE movement. But outside of all
and always accompanying it, is a
appeal not the man, but to
the citizen as I view it, in regard to
the Importance oftemperance reforms
tion.
Every where society seems to be
divided into two classes, the con
seryative and the progressive. Men
seem to be born II or other ofthese.
They are hardly responsible for theh'
natures or moods. They can hardly
be considered as capable of looking
at the questions of life in any other
manner thar as they severely do. On
the one side there are individuals that
shrink from every change, and on the
other those that seek them with de-
light. Some are not contcnted unless
changes transpire constantly They
deem every change improvement,
others cannot as much as look with
any comfort on u new moon from re-
gard to that venerable institution, the
old one. These two clements CON
stitute society, they are its neseesary
Gle k and curb. They constitute at OF &c
its safety-valye and motive power.
Out of these spring the parties that
have masqueraded history-COnserva-
tive and RadicaI-Whig and Tory,
c: waller and Roundhead, Democrat
and Republican what does the name
Ksatter! These elements OF society
are always present. They exist in
evitably and honorably. You can say
Of them that both are conscientious.
They seek honestly to enforce their
views. But besides and between these
especially in cities, there is another
class. | won't call it the criminal
class. but | say ii is always a danger
IA class. They represent the men
that rot in vice and idleness, and
those that pander to them. In every
great city there are multitudcs that
flourish by panderiug to vice. This
is what opens drinking saloons. This
is what spreads the temptation Of the
streets before our citizens. This
element has but one object, to make
money out Of vice. 1t is al indie
pendent element in civil life, and
stands in the way OF moral advance
ment like the solid square that Well
ington planted at the battle of Watel-
loo. and around which the fight surg
ed. Now to speak more practically,
here is Il candidate OF the Republican
party, or 4 candidate of the Democrat
ic party. They must both OF them be
available by having it understood
that neither of them will offer any
ohrnse to this third element. that
seeks 10 coin gold ont Of weakness
and vice Of its noighbors. No mat
ter what laws have been passed, no
what high level Of Legislation has been
reached, it must be understood oi
both candidates that neither will exc
cute the laws that limit the right oi
men thus to coin money out &c their
fellows. The consequence is, this
third element holds the balance, and
| 10 not risk any thing, nor 10 l TO
it, for epigramatic effect, when say,
that for the last thirty or forty years
there has not been a Mayor or Alder
man of any great city in these forty
States that was not nominated by tie
grogg-shops of that locality, aud the
grave and solemn question of the
hour is the impossibility of remedying
it in the present condition of the ma
ton. Every man that has capacity
to analyse public and political life I'M
dtrstands the weakness that underiies
it. Every land has its peculiar vice.
Every blood has its peculiar Weakness.
Go to the tropics and there soft SEN
sual love of beauty in nature and
woman constitutes its temptations our
heaven, projected from deseres, before
Christianity tempered them, had no
relation to the beautiful. 1t was no
green field, no gentle brook or lovely
landscape. 1t was a yauited hall
beneath whose roof were gathered VIC
torious chieftains, dripping with blood
and qualifying INVESTIGATION from the
skulls of fallen foes. That was the
saxons ideal, and whenever you watch
that blood rs it marches the centuries,
whether in Germany, ON the meadows
OF England or on our mor beautiful
prairies, it always is accompanied by
It's ancient and master passion. Hence
when Craftsmanship looks ont upon
this blood. it has several points to
consider.
j. A race whose normal temptation
is drink.
z A race that although it Is not
paid in fair wages, receives Infinitely
more than it has been accustomed
to.
3. This is a time when chemistr,
does not wait for the grape.
The wine of to-day s,stains no re.
lation to the vineyard, Intoxicating
drink can he obtained from sawalnst
This is the liquor that ingenuity hold
out at cheapest rates TO weakness
loaded with money, and fourthly tina