St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-19
EX-GOV. ST. JOHN.
The Kansas Orator on the Beauties OF
Prohibition.
His Address Heard by Very Large
Audience.

Long before the hour for the commence
ment of the exercises standing room was at
premium, and great many persons were
turned away.
The services were opened with the hymn,
"Oh, for a Thousand Tongues to Sing"
after which prayer was offered by the Rev.
DR.. Lane.
The congregation then sang the hymn,
"a Charge to Keep Have" after which the
congregation was addressed by the Rev. Mr..
Satterlee, who con gratulated those present
on having secured the services Of Gov.
st. John; he alluded to the great expense at
tending the enterprise, and called on the
audience for generous contribution to help
defray the same.
GOV. ST. JOHN.
The usual announcements were then made
| by the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Forbes, when the
orator was introduced in clever speech by
Or. Satterlee.
In commencing his address Gov. st. John,
medium sized and rather slender built
man, with iron gray hair and mustache, said
that while he came as stranger, he was sure
that all were interested in the subject at
heart; he did not come to appeal to the pas
sion or prejudice or to indulge in personal
| tiles; he came to speak the truth as God had
| given him to understand it. He would say
nothing that would bring heartache to any
home; he did not believe 1t W as sin to hold
temperance meetings in Gods temple; the
cause of religion and of temperance were so
closely interviewer that one could not help
but aid the other; no man could be Chris
tan and not a temperance mau; he be-
lieved the subject of temperance was
the greatest before the American public;
there was scarcely a home that did not feel
its curse; the liquor traffic of to-day governed
the nation the city of New York had 1000
Of soul-destroying dens: of the $4,000
saloon keepers in New York 10000 were ex-
convicts; these saloons had controlled the
last election; the Christian people to some
extent were responsible for this; they had
the power to crush it; if they stood as close
| to Christ as the saloon keeper did to politics
they could wipe it out in a year. The sum
| of 5000, 100000 were disbursed in the
liquor traffic in a year; il the cost of the
| prisons, aims houses. etc, were taken into
consideration it would amount 81 800, 0O0,-
| 900. There was good deal
Of talk about the oppression of labor;
$3.50, 100000 more was spent In each
! year than it cost the country for
labor; for every $50 spent for
clothing $3.50 were spent for drink there
were six times as many barkeepers as minis
tiers for the devil where there was one for
Christ; for every dollar spent in mission
work $40 were spent for the devil; for every
church there were a dozen saloons; it was
said that the way TO control the traffic was by
high license; every man had a right TO this
! opinion. The speaker recognized that he
was in a city where the good Bishop Ireland
| lived, man who had done noble work in
the cause: but the license system had been
tIied for over two hundred years; at that
time there had been "A law to gag scolding
wives; this law had never been half as OPP
pressive as the law that protected
the liquor traffic by license;
the scolding gag only hurt the body at worst.
but the liquor traffic destroyed both the body
and soul. The speaker here alluded to the
dlsreputable tricks resorted to at the polls,
at election time; suppose the license, he
said, was put at ST. 900; well this might shut
! out the low dives, but II was not the deus,
but the glded saloons that made the ruin Of
the country: there were fine carpets on the
floor fine paintings and other seductive in
fuences 10 rome In the young men and boys;
! they we're seduced into these glded saloons,
when they would not think of entering the
dens; the whisky business was either right or
wrong, and il wrong you could not pile up
! arguments enough In the world 10 make II
right; this question, like slavery, could
never be settled until II was settled right,
aad Il could never be made
right by the payment of money;
! Minnesota bad four times as many dens as
South Carolina; Clay county, in Missouri,
the home Of the James BOYS, had not had a
saloon in years; comparisons were here made
between the number Of saloons In this and
several southern states by which IL YVES shown
that the North Star state had MANIFOLD more
than the average; reference was here made
| 70 the provisions Of the con sttutiOu, in quot
I ing which the speaker adduced facts to show
that the sale Of liquor was prohibited; II It
was right 20 close Rrog shops from II at
night 10 > in the morning it was right shut
them three hundred aud sixty-ive days IN
( the year: Minnesota had law which prohib-
tied the sale Of whisky to Indians; in the
| judgment Of the speaker a white man was
| Just as good as an Indian (spplauseJ; there
I
/ itol grounds; this showed that the Indians
and the legislators were protected Oaughter) :;
the speaker thought that II the latter were
protected the common citizen should be pro-
/ tcctcd also; the time was coming when the
! two cities St Paul and Minneapolis, would
/ be one, and the time was also coming when
/ Minnesota aud South Carolina would march
to the music Of prohibition. Minnesota ex-
pended over SIG. 600. 900 for whisky every
year; IL used to bu said that slavery could
not be suppressed: II was now said that the
liquor traffic could not be suppressed; the
speaker thought thst by the help Of God II
| could: there could be no partnership between
law. order and temperance and the soul
| destroying power OF the dram shops; the
latter must be extirpatcd. The speaker here
gave some excellent advice 30 the boys and
young men present, advising them that
pretty soon the reins Of the govern =
meat would be in thcir han DIS
and he adiurcd them 10 regard their trust as
sacred. and above all 70 lend their efforts 10
the suppression Of the liquor traffic; be eI-
horted them 20 be honest, sober and indus
trious; be had known a town constable who
had conducted himself better than United
States senator; he advised them that going
into a saloon would not he a good card for
them; that business man never vent 10 q
saloon to procure good clerk; that smok-
ing imported cigars or chewing tobacco vas
not good card for them; he aiiured them
10 be fond Of their mothers, aud that when
ever they were tempted to enter gambling
saloon or a rum den they think Of God, or,
IL not Of Him. Of their mother; to ask them
selves when tempted. what would mother
have rue do nov - 70 remember that enter
ing these places caused mother to weep tears
and the time would come when every tear
would have 10 De accounted for; It Is not a
fact, be said, that whisky let those alone who
let Il alone: whisky let no man
alone; is cursed blight was over