Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-22
Mrs. Lathrop's Speech.

The following is synopsis of Mrs.
Mary L. Lathrop's remarks before the
State Prohibition convention:
Mrs. Lathrop, who is president of w.
C. T. U. of Michigan, said that she un-
derstood why it. was difficult for the
Kansas w. c. T. U. to work. In Mich
igan it was different. The work done
by that union and the way it was re-
ceived by the politicians left them no
choice, and when the red-breasted robin
called the republican breathed its last
that union wanted to claim Eve killed
cock-robin.'' This third party question
is wider than Kansas and the declara-
ton of principles formulated here to-
day will ring around the republic. She
was glad to be IN Kansas and see St.
John received with honor in his own
state, because they said in the east he
would not be so received. She did not
feel ugly toward the grand old party
she was one Of the mourners at the fu-
neral, and it was customary to speak
we'll of the dying. The republican par
ty of Kansas had shown more earnest
ness than in any other state. Prohibi-
ton in Kansas has proved a good thing,
and the question would be asked, why
the need Of new party and new tick
et The reasons were:
First-A great wrong exists, and
that is not so much intemperance. Il is
the saloon back Of intemperance. We
cannot always moan and 1--we. Indigna-
ton dries the tears, and that's where
we are to-day. We boast of our insti-
buttons, but they arc not the nation;
back of them is the unit of manhood
On which the nation is built. The sa-
loon tears this unit to pieces. The cit
izen means more than physical manhood
it involves character in the citizen
and at the ballot box. The thing that
destroys this is the great wrong Of to-
day. 1t not only attacks man. who
votes now, but the woman who will vote
bye-and-bye, and that civilization is not
worth much to which its womanhood
appeals in vain. Then it ruins its
children, and that nation is not worth
much which cannot protect its babies.
Viewed from humanity side, We should
get rid of the dram shop.
2. It attacks political power-in ev-
cry rami6cation is its power felt.
This impudent, greedy, fcrceful liquor
traffic says it viii live on the vitality Of
the nation. 1t establishes the caucus in
the saloon, or the saloon in the caucus.
We cannot exist long as nation with
this kind Of thug going on. Patriot
ism demands that the internal saloon
must 60.
We need new party because there
exists no organization which is willing
to do this thing or announce itself as
willing. The church is not there; it
prays all right, sings all right, talks all
right, but when it gets to the caucus it
does not know.
Political organizations dare not an
nounce themselves ready to doit. You
may ask, with the republican horse
saddled and at the door, Why wait to
raise a colt?' Because the horse has
not been trained to trot the prohibition
read. We must use the thing adapted
to our use. The democratic party can
not do it. We must have. an organize
ton that can force this to the front.
1t is larger than Kansas, Atlanta or
Rhode Island, it is national question.
We must have a party to give ua
to express our convictions:
Good men agree with principle and
this soul, born of the W. c.
T. e. needs an embodiment. The re-
publican party did not fit our soul; the
party would have been an
awful home for such soul.
We need party to do some work