Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-26

Methodist Church.
EXTRACTS RoM MISS wlLLARD's AENuAL
ADDRESS TO THE W. O. 4. U.
One thousand and two political meet
inRs we're held Ia New York city last
year, and 1872 OF these were held in sa-
looms.
Tha national convention OF distillers
and brewers held this week in Chicago,
declared as follows: "The efforts now
being made to make the anti-iiquor
iseue one OF the fundamental principles
Of one OF the two great political parties
has proven to us that this agitation is no
longer TO be ignored; aEd that the time
has come when we should ASSERT our
rights, onr principles and our position
with no uncertain sound
There is just one Issue upon which the
people, not the politicians, of America
are united Il is notthe tariff, for that
il the chameleon among issues, taking
its color from the personal selfishness
oil capitalists or tho interests, real or
imaginary, of different Industries. Il is
not the southern question. for that is the
dead lion among issnes, in whose skele-
ton We White Ribboners have found al
ready the honey comb OF loving com-
radeship. It is not the labor question,
for that is the elephant among issues, not
yet grown to fuli size, and generally
feared save when attended by its keeper,
Grand Master Workman Powderly. But
it II the prohibition of the liquor traffic,
that earthquake among issues, which,
, by blending our homes in ln~distlngulsh-
able ruin, has shaken us together In one
great brotherhood of fear aud anguish.
This earthquake extends under the sea.
Listen to this declaration:
"IhaSe 10 q distiileryin Massachusetts,
sthe largest rum distiiierY in the world"
SO says an eye witness to the following
account, and ethe amour manufactured
averages ninety barrels q day, some for
s.ss::.. assss ss.ssz . part
for export to the coast Of Africa. The.
barrels contain f~orty-three gallons, and
the internal eyenu tag is ninety cents
per gAllon-thirty-eight dollars and
seventy cents q barrel. For ninety bar-
rels, o days work, the treasury OF the
United States lie enriched $$3,4S3, minus
the cost of the services OF revenue
wRtchrnen That the governments may
not be defrauded OF q farthing Of this
nngodlY gain. and that not one drop of
the fre-water may not be lost, govern
ment padlocks are placed upon the rum
reservoirs, guarded and opened daily for
measurement, by internal revenue Off
cers.s,
If ! were NOT already . piohibitionist
this single awful fact would make one OF
me tor oil time, The curse OF Cain was
not 80 deep AZ shall be Gods aurse upon
the nation that in the light OF Chrias's
gospel, curses the barharians of Congo
with .the crazy drinks" Senator Blair
wrote me that under the madness ofin-
toxicat;ng liquors. sent from Massa-
ohusetts, two hundred Of those people
slaughtered each other in q single day.
Letters come to me from all sides asking
ssCan not the w, q. L. q, do something
TO pravent these civilized atrocities r
Yes; we can petition congress to pass
the constitutional amendment proposed
by Henry W.. Blair, which is now pend
ing. and which, prohibits the manufac-
tnre, sale, exportatlon or importation of
the firy drinka after the year 1900. To
do this will be a great point gained, and
serve s q basis for future legislation.
Bot | am proud to belong to q society
which is devoted to no one method OF
ACQUIRING prohibition. 1t is unique in
the tolerance OF lts spirit, and says s'no''
90 nothing that will advance the interests
to which it's faith is pledged. IN ell
non-partisan measures it is foremost.
Constitutional amendment has not 10
this nation q friend 80 loyal nor a helper
30 persistant as the w. @. Il. q. Local
option has scored numberless victories
as the sequel Of your hefoism, notably
in the south. Scientific Temperance
instruction 10 q fair daughter of youi
household, Political prohibition claims
your large hearted sympathy, aa q
growing youth full of the noblest
impulses and destined in his majestic
manhood to be the liberator of the
republic. Some nave called our views
marrow but / think they are the broadcast
that can possibly be cherished. What is
more tolerant than the do everything
policy and the helping hand for all?
We have but one test: License OF
hnaEcial alliance between the govern
ment and tho poison crime We always
oppose. be the amount paid large or
small, DO it disguised under the name of
tax or arowed under that OF license,
4 while prohibition, the total sep
aration OF the government from the pois-
on crime, we always work for, be il in
the municipality, the state or the nation
be it talked about in the pulpit, prayed
about AT the alter, voted about at the
polls as q principle or ciinched as q sue
scess by the election of enforcing officers
We are firmly persuaded that the sep-
GRAFTON Of tho people into two distinct
armies, one voting for men who will out
law b poison curse, and the other for
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