Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-21

The third, or Prohibition party. of this i, |
the Fourth congressional district OF Mi n
nesota. made its first public demonst Ia
ton in this city at the old court house last
evening.
At 8 o'clock Mr.. Satterlee, in beh; Lf of
the central prohibition committee called
the meeting to order, and no minated
DR.. D. G. Wright, late of De-
troit, Mich. distinguished tie importance
worker, for chairman. In accepting
the chair. MIR. Wright said the time had
come when the people had to throttle rum,
Or rum would throttle the pc Nple. Moraa
saasion had been tried for years, during
which time hundreds of. thousands of
drunkards had sunk int o blackened and
dishonored graves. The ime for temporiz-
ing with the evil had pas ssed Temperance
was living principle, and it must be in
corporated into part y organization just
the same as were the principles of the two
old parties, and when this was done, the
temperance people would sweep the coun-
try. Mr.. Wright concluded his remarks
by Introducing
DR.. c. W. EMERY,
of Minneapolis, who spoke substantially
as follows:
"To BK RIGHT Is BETTER THAN TO BE A
RULER
is a tritely accepted maxim; bat, looking
out on the mighty seething, surging mass
of humanity we find confronting this &C.
knowledged truth, the struggle by avarice
and falsehood, of error, to become ruler
and occupy high position, regardless of
right or principle.
To-day throughout the length and breadth
of this nation the contest is pressed under
many guises and names. Capital at times
seems arrayed against labor and labor
against capital, high tariff against low tar
if, vice versa; NorthIagainst South and
South against North; railroads against ag-
riculturists and .agriculturists against
railroads.
Yea, even sawdust may become an i'm
mense bone of contention and threaten
the peace and quiet of t,co great cities.
Any thoughtful man must see, if he in
vestigates these subjects with candor for a
few moments. that they are entirely of
local character, many of them self-adjust-
ing and governed only by local circum-
stances and equitable reciprocity. For ex-
ample, it may be of great advantage to
the New England and Eastern manufactur-
ing states, that high tariff be enforced,
while to the South and West low tariff may
appear to be the best. There may be
time when high tariff is absolutely necse-
sary and again the time surely comes, when
free trade may be most conducive to the
Interests of the people.
''The wise statesman representing you
o. the northwest may bring forth measures
and soundly advocate them, which may be
considered oppressive to those people of
other portions, and while they may appear
to US just the things we want, yet the OPP
posite may appear to the residents of New
York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and other
parts of the country and we must see such
measures quashed, until they may be M de
to appear for the greatest good of the
greatest numbers, and SO our representa-
tives in congress, are there, to watch oar
interests and oppose and prevent las far as
in them ie) sectional legislation. Now in
these facts consists the division of indiv.d.
ual parties, both Republican and Dem
ocratic. The Republican party of
Minnesota does not on every meas
ure agree with the Republican
party of Massachusetts,, and as observed
In the last important appropriation bill,
which was of such benefit and necessity to
US. How divided were both the parties,
and yet strong enough in their division to
override the veto of our Republican pres
ident.
''Neither does the Democratic doctrines
of these different sections and states agree
any better than their opponents. Now if
these propositions are true, you ask me
the use of the party? Ianswer to uni
fy, crystalline and teach great fundamen-
tai principles, and lead the
of intelligence, comfort and civilization.
and every body of men banded together
to oppose monopoly or expressions of any
kind or to suggest measures lessening
crime or vice, poverty or woe must ex-
pect to meet opposition and win their way
by argument, agitation and sometimes'the
sword, and having faithfully and success
fully obtained an object, they must, like
Alexander, either find fresh fields to con-
quor, or weep and die.
"We come to you to suggest that the
time has how arrived, when both the
old political parties in almost every state
in the Union have passed their meridian
of usefulness and are rapidly approaching
their sunset and night; when the Republi-
can (the now dominant) party has ceased
to be party of principle and has been
turned into pandemonium, wherein may
be found all manner of political hucksters
and place-seekers, without a defnable
principle, and with an array of plighted
and broken pledges, which ought to, and is
ringing the death knell of the tricksters
and political mountebanks Herewith con-
nected.
eve come to ask you to join with us, as
party, in our efforts to produce condi-
tions which will be more beneficient to the
human family, than was achieved nv the