Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1886-07-23

YOU know they have turned that
round and now it is the liquor IN
terest that controls the legislation
Of this country. That is the way
it works. Here the speaker told
the story of the Democratic party
riding q whisky barrel and the
Republican party straddling q
beer keg, going full tilt in a hunt
after votes.
He then Paid his respect to the
preachers who were mealy-mouth--
ed on the prohibition question
Said he: "The preacher that ID
afraid to speak his mind, the
preacher that is afraid to say what
he wants to say anywhere and
everywhere, the man that is afraid
to get out of his pulpit to discuss
moral issues, never was fit to so
into the pulpit to start with. That
is my doctrine, and I'll tell you
whats the matter. They have all
gone to preachers and haven't got
any man left. Laughter and ap-
plause. And / would rather put
a true man, noble man, coura-
geous man up before poor, down
trodden humanity, than to put a
mealy-mouthed preacher up in the
pulpit with white cravat and velvet
cushioned pews-I had. Laugter. ]
And if l belonged to a church in
this town and my preacher didn't
have grit enough to declare him
self, I would tell him. "You work
for another call, old fellow; you
have got to get from here. Idon't
want any pusi!lanimous puppy in
my pulpit" I would call him a
puppy because he amt big enough
to be called dog, you know. Call
him "Trip" now, you know, and
call him something else when he
lis bigger, but the little fellow is
named "Trip" all the time.
| Mr.. Jones here told how the
preachers worked together in his
town in Georgia, till in six months
the whisky had all been put out
and said:
| And a preacher is efficient in
this country just in proportion as
| he grapples with the engines OF
the devil that are destroying the
people of this country. I know
what I am talking about. I have
been in twenty different States OF
this Union with my sleeves rolled
up, and l have gone into the mrl.
titude just where they live. And
[ tell you another thing: If you'll
find what hole they are in and
shoot into it they viii just come
out of there. No doubt of that
Laughter.
You have got enough dignifed
preachers in this country-so
many, indeed, that you ought to
have room in it for one undignifed
preacher who just goes right down
to bottom facts. If you haven't,
1 am ready to emigrate any day
you say so; but as [ stay here I
am going to the bottom facts and
mud sills and see what you have
got hid out. Laughter. / have
had many woman sit in church
turning up her nose at me; right
then she had a poor drunken boy
she could not tell where that boy
was to save her life; and there sits
| the old still-house wretch by the
side of her. She has got her nose
turned up at me. You had better
turn up your nose at your old hus-
bands breath-you better had.
believe in seeing noses turn up al
the right thing. Now, I tell you
what [ want to see in Missouri
mad every State in this Union. I
want to see every county call its
Convention. Listen, now. Let
every county call its Convention
call its temperance Convention
and let every man who is in favor
of sobriety and right go there that
day. Get all the old wool-hat
fellows you know out there. These
politicians are afraid Of you.
You old wool-hat fellows, you &c
and pass your resolutions and say
first, liquor is a curse; and, second,
it ought to be put out; and third
we are the fellows to do it ap-
plause land then let them gel
together $500 of the yeomanry ol
each county, meet in the Court
House yard ON certain day and
let it be set out in the papers
through the country, and I tell you
what, every old Democratic poiiti.
clan and every Republican politi.
clan will step up to the stump and
hurrah for prohibition law; they
amt going to be left. Not at all
When they see the strongest side
they amt going to be left.
Mr.. Jones then said that the
last or rear of the liquor column
was composed of an interrogative
point of men, who asked, aDoe:
prohibition prohibit?" Said he,
| tell you what they ought to do,
to you. They ought to take you
out in the woods, and tie you to a
sapling and bore you for the hol.