The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-07-06
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litical party making Prohibition the corner
stone of its creed. Great cheering. No
party can successfully combat the mon
rations as shall ALLEVIATE from its ranks
every rumseller. [Cheers. There are a
host of good men in this land who, in these
Jane days of 1888, are reaching that con-
clusion for the first time. [Chcers and
cries of That's SOL They, like many of
us, hoped against hope. They are coming
into our camp. Public opinion, the might
lest advocate of any canse, is gathering
force day by day and is ~marshalling that
force a mighty host in our ranks. The
day is not far distant when the nation will
rise as one man, and demand that the
liquor traffic shall cease throughout our
of a great national campaign for the right.
Our watchword is not the destruction of
any party, but the destruction of the
American saloon. Cheers. Let Il
Hume every valley in the land. The COM
bined forces of Christian home, Christian
church and Christian commonwealth must
be put in battle array against the infamous
wrong.
"In response to the command of thechosen
thousand at indianapolis who babe me go
to the front of this sharp conflict, | have
now to say, God helping me, | will carry
,,.,r tl,r Ia fli, ooptaef. 7 Ippv- wall what
will be the cost to me and those whom |
hold as dear as life itself; ! also know that
God thrones the right at last in kinglier
royalty because it's coronation is delayed,
and that neither earth nor hell can per-
manently harm those who are followers
of that which is good
1--WE uplift a National banner under
which sectionalism aud sectional strife
shall be forever buried-North and South,
East and West, all join hands in our good
cause. [Great cheering.
''The will be those who will be exceed
ingly mad against us and who will perse-
cute us even to strange cities. Let me OK
hort our friends everywhere to give our
enemies q monopoly of personal scandalons
methods of conducting political ca npaigns.
Let us exalt our holy cause, and, trusting
in Him in whose hands are the destinies of
individuals and nations, go forward with
courage, faith and hope until victory, GER
tain to come, shall be ours" IGreat APP
plause.
MISS wILIARD's SPEECH.
Among other things Miss Willard said:
eTo-night, in the palace of the rich Re
publican party, King Tariff sits enthroned
on an Ohio woolsack, welding his scepter
of pig iron.
"'Protection' is the war cry of thisc cam
paign-protection for infant industries
that have grown stable as Samson, but
none for the infants in arms; protection
for lambs that bleat in the pastures
of Ohio, while home itself is a shorn
lamb to which no wind is tempered.
Now to the main principle Involved in
the huge Cunarder of a platform inst
launched upon the country, | am agreed.
1t is only to the application that | take
exception. Let me venture to give you a
woman's definition of Government. 70
me it seems that, even as a college grinds
out graduates, and 4 grist mill grinds out
-four, so government is but a great clang-
ing mill, with just one product, and that
is PROTECTION for life and limb and prop
erty. If Government succeeds here, then
its success is splendid. If it fails here,
then it has failed in its crucial test. But
the best government will most carefully
protect the best treasure it possesses. Tried
by this test our own must take 4 new de-
parture or it will fail.
'Lord Erskine said that tkc choicest
treasure of civilization is twelve honest
men inside a jury box. | will venture a
different definition, and will give it in the
words of our own Quaker poet, ~whospeaks
about
The dear home faces, whereupon
The 1ittul freight paled and shone.''
Applause.
"Now comes along the Republican par
ty, and in the interest of the monopo-
lies it has fostered, and the war tariff it
would maintain. assumes the same posi-
ton as Sam Randall, the high-tariff Dem
ocrat, who never posed as a reformerl
threatens to take off the tax, and brazcnly
talks Of its disregard of "Whiskey Ring
behests' on the very day when it showed
under the plea of gifted J. Ellen Foster
and good Albert Griffin for an Anti-Saloon
plank,
"Nerily, the hands are the hands Of
Jacob, but the smell is the smell of Esau!
democrats as of old are sold to the
liquor power, and Republicans have flung
their standards to the breeze, inscribed,
Protection for Vested Interests-Free
Trade in Boys Prohibitionists take up
the challenge and reply: Protection for
the H0mc-no trade at all in Alcoholic
Poison LGreat cheering.
"Wehave before us vivid illustrations of
the difference between Republican Prohi-
bition, as in Iowa, Kansas and Maine;
Democratic Prohibition, as in Georgia,
Mississippi and Tennessee; and Prohibi-
ton Prohibition as represented by Fisk
and Brooks and the million men who will
vote for them this fall. The crack of the
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