The Hartford herald., 1885-02-25
81. John nt Louisville.

ducet him rs the orator oi tne evening
in his usual happy way. He alluded to
him as the most noted Temperance
man i'm the United States. He said he
would make slight personal reference.
He had been in almost every county In
Kansas, had been in many of the
homes of Kansas, and he stood there To
say that st. John had II place in the
hearts OF that people such rs John 4.
Breckiuridge had in Kentucky. At
Olathe, where he lives, when he came
away the largest hail was packed with
people testifying i'm resolutions ofregard.
He had faced an audience of 10000
people in Kansas once, and when ST.
John arose he would never forget the
greeting he received. Such shouts !!
Those people would never die of con
sumption. Mr.. Balm said he was scared
at the hue and cry raised against st.
John when he refused to withdraw in
the Prohibition leaders blood might
spill and flames devOur his frame, his
principles could not be burned. He
applied to st. John what Emerson said
of Carlyle: : "He is trip hammer with
an Aeolian attachment"
After the applause had suhsided, Gov.
st. John addressed the audience. We
give the substance of his remarks. He
said that Bro. Balm had sound mind,
but got off occasionally. Balm said st.
John in the late campaign took the
collateral consequences. st. John said
the facts were, another party got the
collateral and he got the consequences.
You would never know, he continued,
how mean a man you were till you
had run for office.
"All over the land we find the
Women's Christian Temperance I'm
ions, wives and mothers, seeking to
give us greater home protection ald
better government. In response to
their request | am here to night.
want to appeal To your reason. ! have
long thought that total abstinence is
the only safe side for the citizen. Young
men, the first drink is the first ster
every drunkard took on his road to
ruin. The Government, or State, ol
city that sanctions that first step Is
responsible for what follows. APP
plause. The citizen who sanctions
such sale can't stand guiltless before
God. We are told that this is gov
eminent Of the people. yet one-sixth o
the people govern the other five-sixths
How are we educating our voters? w,
have la 900 schools educating Godwart
and 200, ZOO saloons educating the othe
way. For every 81 spent for school,
We spend SIS for saloons. Vet they say
"A man is a crank who talks of it. lik,
q crank. A crank Is thing that yOl
lift things with. Laughter.
"The question of educating the mass
es is the question of the age. The city
of New York has 1900 saloons 10,0O'
of the are kept by ex-convicts. Thes,
saloons control the city; the city con
trolls the State; often that State control
the nation. 1t matters not how pur,
your votes i'm Kentucky are, you cam
overcome those 10000 convicts. w
find four churches for every school, ye
we have six barkeepers for eyer.
n preacher. For every 81 given to hom
and foreign missions, S270 goes e
|, saloons; and still we call ourselves
Christian nation You ask how Ion,
this will be. 1t will go on just as lon
as a man prays 1854 days in the yea
Alright, and on the 365th votes wrong
Applause.l
, In 1850 there were spent $4,000, 90
dollars more for drink than all the wag
workers earned. The sober man behin
the prison bars was freer than th
drunkard outside.
He next spoke of the tariff. "rhe
say the tariff is the question. l don
understand the tariff and never ss,
man that did. Men on the corre
talk all day of taxes who never pal
= any tax, save dog tax on their own thei
: own heads. Laughter They sa
I protection is needed. That's so; bu
e the people don't get it. l WAS in Ne'
+ England and saw three fourths of tn
factories shut down after twenty fou
5 years of protection. They said il va
= over production, and told OF our pr,
duction of farm products. Too niue
wooden goods, yet the people were ra:
: ged; too much to eat, yet people
, starving. There are $50, ,OO0, 900 gotte
by the tariff. The Democrats want th
: industries aided by the tariff the X,
4 publIcans want a tariff that aids th
4 industries. We suggested that If tl
81 ,5O0, ,OOO, 900 whisky waste WAS stoppe
. !. the industries of every home would
protected. They say We are fanatics
wild. Well, it is time TO be wild.
: III was in Buffalo, saw the two poll
:. ical PROFESSIONS, and heard both sid
V speak in front of a saloon. Each prom
i ised that the German should spend Il
:. Sabbath as he pleased, and that Il
n Irish should see the English Cover
Il ment tremble. Laughter Neith'
!; said word for the poor American
a wanted to be born again In Il
L rural districts they cried wool WOO
and pig iron. 1t was like the tin
, when the man started to kill the ra
+ in his barn and the hay caught fir
l. He said, Let the hay burn; this is r
e campaign It was a pig iron campaig
Then they said we had turned Il
= Government over to the whisky ID
mocracy; they talked az though Repu
lican whisky made man pray al
| x,,I,;aEy u,aha man bsa