St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19

accomplice of every national disaster,
worse than the terrible war that laid
in the same CORY trenches the boys IN .
blue and the boys in gray the war
that wasted the material substance OF
the nation. and left an enormous debt
upon the people.
1t DESTROYS more lives that yellow
fever in the South or smallpox at the /
North, and more surely by the always
enforced laws of hereditary tainting
the blood of the children of the nation
more sweeping in its unrelenting tides
than Gulf stream, or Mississippi flood. |
1t is more absolutely base monopoly, !
an infamous oligarchy, compact of
lies, a league with hell than any insti
tuition history tells us of. Yes, gentle
men, this criminal is doomed, and let
its friends arrange for the funeral OBJ
sequies which are very soon to take
place.
Gentlemen of the committee, | call
your attention to the action of many
states concerning this criminal. Maine
| for quarter of century has stood
erect as her own pines against 1t. Yer
mont as pure as her marble beds and
strong as her beautiful hills. Young
| Kansas, whose prairies roll and roll
and laugh outright i'll streams, so glad
they are the soil is free and Iowa
waits but a few months for the day
when she shall add her verdict, and Ill
every state of this Republic-North and
South-the law-abiding, Order-loving
people have said it is an enemy and
must go.
Not in all these states has it crystal
lied into entire legal prohibition, but
i'm every one is it nnder 'bOnds to keep
the peace" and the people only wait
the sometimes tardy processes OF final
Legislative enactment and yet toward
this criminal the general government
walks with open hand. The Congress
of the United States, exercising only
such powers of sovereignty us the peo-
pie themselves have transferred to 1t,
receives from this outlaw in trade. this
pirate in commerce, this corrupter OF
morals. this assassin of life, part OF
its ill gotten gains-its stolen booty
, its price of blood. Is it possible that
such an iniquitOus system can long en-
f dure &? Under monarchical govern
p ments, where political power rests Ill
. one, or in few, these great wrongs
wide oppressions-ma endure for
:
but in popular form OF government
! like our own this is impossible. Edu-
cate the people, arouse the people, SUI
the people, and Legislative enactment
must follow for the people make the
: law. Any system under the condem-
. nation of popular distavor must GO
Y down. This system is under this con
= demnation. and it shall 90 down, and
T. that right speedily.
Gentlemen, do You not remember the
a petitions, so numerously signed, which
nj have come before both Houses of Con
4 gress. asking for Il commission OF IN
: Guiry concerning this traffic i'll alec
n holic beverages, and do you not re
n member the action of the honorable
;. Senate in former years, and also lately
- taken in voting for the appointment
- of this commission More than this
there are immense petitions before thl'
Congress asking that 1t prepare ant
adopt and submit to the legislatures o
. the several states an amendment to thu
=. national constitution forever prohibit
=, ing the importation, manufacture ant
sale of these beverages. In the yea
- 1876 the Hon. Senator Blair, then
y member of the House of Representa-
tivcs, known and loved i'll his owl
Granite state, and hOnored Throughout
! the entire nation. introduced such al
, amendment.
: Now, Il Senator he has introduced
t the same amendment before that body
= as also Senator Plumb, of Kansas, on'
u more sweeping i'll its provisions
u These amendments express the powe
i behind all legislation, the popular will
J. and this will. held in solution awhile
e by the appetite of the consumer an'
II the aVarice of the dealer, shall certain
ly crystalline into the organic law o
u this nation. | know such views arr
I held to he visionary; such advocate
! are called fanatics but not less sure
! " does the truth march on. The SUI
{ shines and the moon looks down al
unconscious of devOut astronomers, o
o signing maidens, or barking dogs.
Is The constitution of the United State
e is full of fanaticisms. The grand un
q DERIVING doctrine that all political pow
h er inheres i'll the people is IL fanaticisn
1t to the despotisms of the old world
The great fanaticism of the old abOli
l. ton movement is now embedded Il
e the NIIIth amendment. Neither sla
e very nor involuntary servitude, eXcep
Z for crime, whereof the party shall hav
3 been duly convicted, shall exist within
= the United States or any place subIec
to their jurisdiction. Gentlemen, eac
/ generation builds Monuments to til
Is fanatics of the last. There are name
u II day cast out as Odious, names laugh
IL ed at as SYNONYMS of foolish enthuSl
Il assn, that shall be emblaZoned in letter
/, of light when their scotfers are fade
Il in the mud colOrs of dead oblivion.
IL History is biography of the world
fanatics The literature of the worl
lS is Il compilation of their vagaries. Yes
u the liquor traffic is doomed its in
% trenchments in social custom and lega
III enactments are crumbling. Shall
; glorious structure of popular nations
education shall this lighthouse to a
Y banks that come and go upon the wa
II tiers of its social, its industrial, its pc
VI ltcal life shall this he built upon tn
u barbarism, the usurpatiOn, the idOlatrN
It the treason of the liquor traffic
ne find in "A current newspaper thi
y dreadful incident that comes froI
le across the waters
= MORTAR MIXED WITH MAIDENs' BLOOI
T. "A story comes from Africa that tn
king of Ashantee has killed 200 yOun
he girls for the purpose of using the
he blood for mixing mortar for the repai
rh of one of the state buildings. The re
al port was received at Cape
" from "A refugee, who was to have bee
he one of the victims. 1t receives som
'e. confirmation, also, in the fact that sue
es wholesale maSsacres are known to be
h custom with the king"
go This was in Africa Shall we riV: