Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-07-16
Sam Jones on Temperance.

From his Lake Pleasant address, July 5ih.l
Well, now, brethren, III say this to you
we never would let politics mix up with the
temperance cause and prohibition movement
in the South. We just mix prohibition " it'll
politics. Do you get the idea 2 Laughter ]
Here, instead Of letting a candidate ride into
power on Us, we harnessed up some reform
Democrat or Republican who had been con
verted and jlined the prohibition party, and
we rode him into power; and riding beats
walking-there'sn no doubt about that Loud
laughter You go down in Georgia now, and
fellow announces himself for the legisla-
ture, or for judge, or anything. About the
first line under his name he says: II am
| square out on the prohibition question" 81
| stand square on that issue !" aud | tell you
all to-day that prohibition mixed with politics
will help politics but God bless you, don't
| you put any politics in your prohibition. If
you do, you are gone, Laughter. You see
put sugar in my coffee to help my coffee ;
but II you put your coffee iu your sugar, your
sugar is ruined. renewed laughter
When you 60 to vote against whiskey, you
| just vote the plain issue, straight out, and
then when We can poll enough votes on that
| question to show the politicians that we mean
business, the next thing you hear, the politi,
clans will do anything you want done. That's
fact. But you go now and try TO run in
your prohibition candidate. Why, every
Democrat in this country's got his sleeves
rolled up ready for the fight, and the Repub-
licans have got their sleeves rolled up, and
they are ready for the fight. I'll tell you Just
exactly how the two parties stand to-day
The Democratic party is a-straddle of bar
| rel Of Whiskey, aud the Republican party a.
strsdde beer keg. That's fact and it's
| just nip and tuck now which is going TO get
into the Presidency every four years-wheth-
or the beer key will get in or the whiskey
barrel. You see, now, l would pray, Great
God, give New England grit; give her oour-
age to stand up like men On this issue" APP
plause That little Malone of Virginia, he
only weighs about 80 pounds, and some fel
low asked him what he weighed. He said,
~ only weigh % pounds but 90 pounds of
that is solid backbone" laughter Well,
| now, that is Just what We need-about % per
cent of backbone when we go into a fight
like this. Brethren, II there is anything l
despise it ia a coward. man says, Il am
| going to take no sides" You little puppy,
you l would have called you a dog and
have done with it, but you amt grown yet.
| Laughter. I'm not going to take any
sides !" Well, now, I'll say this: this ia an
issue upon which every man must make de-
cision every true man. II you have little,
light cotton string in your back, with a rib or
| tNo huN W " anu Jail tnht YOUR Dachoonei
you won't. [Great laughter.
say another thing In every conquest Of
morals and good government aud right in the
past, wherever God chose the leader of that
movement, God always chose man who was
gamey from head TO foot. God himself de.
spises a coward. You reoolleot when Joshua
met the enemy and pressed on him, and they
fought bot and heavy all day long, and anal
ly, when Joshua saw the sun going down on
him and said, Lord God, il you will but put
the brakes on the old sun and stop her there
two or three hours, I'll get victory here over
thine enemies that shall last forever" God
told the old sun to log back on the dial plate
and Don't you move an inch till Joshua getE
this victory, [laughtei aud Joshua went into
the battle, aud no pushed the battle uutil he
secured a victory that has made him famous
down through the generations to the present
hour. That consecrated Christian woman