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

lose votes, and here the poor little
starved orphan is going through
this country with nobody to look
after it but the poor women OF the
country Amt that SO? Ii it
hadn't been for the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, /
tell You the poor little thing would
have been dead and buried to-day.
[ Laughter and applause.
Now, this second rank IS COM
posed of the politicians of this
country, who are opposed to prohi-
bition on party grounds. Well,
now, we will take the Democratic
party. l expect the st. Joseph
Gazette is the best exponent of
the Democratic party, in the State
of Missouri. / know no brainier
man than its editor-in-chief in the
State, or that edits a Democratic
paper in America. Twill say that
for him. And now here listen to
what he says, / say again the edi-
tor of this paper may be consider
ed the exponent of Democracy in
Missouri, because he is the brain
lest man on the editorial staff of
any Democratic paper in the
State. You all agree to that; now
see what he says:
want to stop, frs, and say,
What is democracy? Democracy
is the political party assuming and
pronouncing the fact and the
principle that the voice of the
people is the sovereign power
in this nation. The voice of the
majority is the voice of God. That
is democracy. Do you know
again, pure democracy means that
even the petition of the minority
shall be respectfully considered:
Now, that is simon pure democra-
cy, and here's an editor who is the
exponent of democracy in Miss
ouri, and he says that submission
that is, the voice of the people
on this prohibition question
means prohibition, and prohibi-
ton means death to the Democra-
tic party" Now, you see, he
stands up and says that if the peo.
pie could speak out-and that is
what true democracy means
the principles of democracy are
carried out democracy will die
Don't you see? He has the whole
thing in a nutshell. He say:
himself that if the question of pro
hibition is submitted that prohibi-
ton will carry, and that if prohi
ton carries it is the death of Dem
ocracy in Missouri, and he wind:
up by saying: 81 had rather see
Bourbon whiskey run ankle deeI
all over Missouri, with a cup fol
the drinker of it upon every tree
branch that would bear bird
than that the Democratic party
should perish in Missouri.
Now, what do you see? 81 woult
rather see great foods Of whiskey
sweeping over America like floods
swept over the whole earth wher
only Noah and his family rested
above the waters" And now i'm
agine Noah as he looks out upor
world and sees the last strong
swimmer sink beneath the fooC
and then, as he rests above the
highest mountain top, he says, %
and my family only are saved from
this fearful wreck"
| Now, imagine America with its
|.wives and mothers and its children
all engulfed in this flood tide ot
whiskey, sweeping over our lane
until the last man of us sinks be.
meath this fearful curse, and thai
the Democratic buzzard (laugn
ter as he perches yonder on the
dome of the Capitol in Washing
ton City and looks down upon {
nation drenched and debauchec
and doomed and damned, anc
lifts up its voice and says:
"The world is doomed and deac
and drenched and damned, bu
/; Democracy lives on forever
/; CHEERS. there are some demo
Gratis and some editors that coulC
not drink any more whisky if i
was running ankle deep. They
are now where Tom Tuckett wa:
in Georgia. His father went tt
the barkeepers and said: Gentle
men, don't sell my poor Tom any
more liquor. | don't know wheth
er liquor will kill him or not; bu
he is starving to death. In the
morning he gets up SO sick HI
can't eat, and at dinner he is 81
busy drinking he can't fine
time to eat, and at night he is tot
} drunk to eat, and if the whiske,
don't kill him he will starve tt
DEATH" And there are a grea
many politicians in this countr,
who are busy drinking one half o
the time and keep their docto,
, busy the other half trying to keel
them out of drunkards' graves.
have known just such cases as tina
in America. Preserve our party
and do it if you have to debaucl
America. Do it if you must max,
drunkards out of every man woman