Smyrna times., 1882-10-25
The Coming National
Question.

DIR. Talmage i'll Il recent discourse in
his Brooklyn Tabernacle before an
immense audience, struck the key note
for the coming political temperance re-
form party. His text was from ReVC-
lation. xii: 8, ;: Behold a great red
dragon, having seven heads and ten
horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads. And his tail drew the third
part of the stars Of heaven" Some
commentators think the red dragon of
Revelation means one thing and some
another. There is such a wide differ
ence of opinion that feel at liberty to
think it may be suggestive of the great
monster OF intcmperance. Last Sab
bath i'll my discourse | reprehended
the degradation of the two political
parties Of this day, and suggested that
rs probably they might have fulfilled
their mission, the loss of both of them
would not be very great loss. The
Republican party was organized TO kill
/ slavery. Well, slavery is dead and
/ damned. The Republican party hay
ing accomplished its objects, if it
should pass out of existence could
see no very great loss. | said to YOU
last Sabbath there needed to be in this
country some great party with a God
given, sublime idea. said to you
that the first principle of the party
ought to be the recognition of the
eternal God in the affairs of men and
governments. | went ON, also, to show
you that such party ought to be an
tagonistic to all national wastcfulnes,
and the friend to all national economy
This morning ! take Il step further
and say that such Il party ought no
only to whisper but to thunder agains
the curse of curses, the abOminatiOn O
denominations the infernalism of infer
nalisms - the intemperance of thi
country and that with national-no
State, but national - prohibition i
ought to go forth to slay this ret
dragon of my text. If you have am
idea, my friends, that the prohibition
victory of Kansas and in Iowa is
fanatical paroXysm you have made
very great mistake. In six years tn
prohibition party will hold the balanc
of power in every State of the Ameri
can Union. 1t may not have n major
ity of the votes, but it will hold th
, balance of power, SO that no man ca
be Governor, or Lieutenant Goveror 0
Secretary of State, or hold any impol
, tant position in the State until he is
pronounced Prohibitionists, and i
twelve years il will have its Presidcr
in the White House Applause.
wish that what | say this mornin
: might he received in entire s:lenc,
: No party has ever risen into power ;
S rapidly as the prohibition party is no
: rising. The anti-slavcry party cam
. out from under the mountain of scOr
. and contempt to take the President;
b. chair and both houses of Congress, bl
: the Prohibition party, you will watC
t the statistics, is coming with four time
h the celebrity. | give fair notice to Il
2 politicians in America of what is con
v ing. Better lead OFF than follow
/, afterward as stragglers.
h nominate for President and VII
d President of the United States in lS|
II caring not which is the first or whiC
h is the second name on the tickC
d although one is n Republican and Il
e other Democratic, and the one
e Western man and the other n Sout
IS ern man, but both pronounced prol
J. bitiOnists-GOvernO st. John, of Ka
h sas, and Governor Colquitt, of Georgi
e The far West ought TO have by th
n time a man in the White House, al
=. now that the war is over let us pro-
J. that il is over and that we realize tn
v it is over by nominating to the highC
* Office the illpstrious Georgian. o, n
s, Lord and my God, what country IL
st would be with no dramshops! !
lie dramshops, no poorhouses, no penetC
Is tiaries, fewer broken hearts, and few
n desOlate homes no woman, brOug
up in luxury, afterward married tC
n, man who sets her with shrivelled III
IS and hollow eye and pallid cheek a
Ie consuming lung to fight back the w
~ that thrusts its nostril through t
M window pane snufIing for the blood
e, her helpless babe. let the 10000 m
j. belonging to the temperance societ
st of the State of New York Join han
he with the hundreds of thousands Of te
he perance men in other States and {
10 millions of men who belong to no te
peFehGe GoI,jety, but who are anxiO
q for the salvation agd the discnthr
Il. ment of this country, and the VIC
ch will be done, and done In less I'll
d, than j tell you. First of all we wa
ey an amendment to the Constitution
IL the United States, ratified by thr
nd fourths of the States = ap amendmt
tie prohibiting tho manufacture and
lc- sale of alcoholic liquors in the Sta
by and Territories, except for medicin
artistic, mechanical, and scientific p