The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-10-10
Hanson On Temperance.

Harrison, the Republican candidate fol
president, to his Indiana friends ane
neighbors at D4ngille, on November p
OF last year
On the great question Of temperance
General Harrison sai'l.
Another question that wanf to tab
about FOR little while is wh.ls ! viii still
call the temperance question, thoHgh
notice that Distinguished bislsop Of tbs
Methodist ehurch South said the othel
day that down his way they have goi
past Temperance. and refused 70 appoint
any confrnsnce eomnaitteeon Temperance
because they hal .eot by that When
you =, piSt temperance beware Of IN
temper,uc yourself believe there 5
IN authority shieh ali olr Metho'iisl
brethren reeognize, Is well a. We Prs-sby-
terians. to the effect chat We SHOULD be
temperate in all things The apostle
had not got p'st temperance.
'NoS what IS this temperance or liquor
question: Primarily, to me II X ques-
tion ofthe absolute, universal obesieace
70 law. as law. by everybody. ltireat ap-
plause That i the first and brosdest
statement oft. I say, absolute, universal
Obedience to law, Is law. without any
reference TO what think OF Won think
about the law.
And yet, when that very issue Is made,
as it was made in our last indianapolis
campaign, when good citizens are stand
ing for law and order. Irrespective Of
party, are combining to defeat TIE inso-
lent attempt Of tine liquor league to dom
mate our city politics. and to re-elect u
man as mayor who had the Courage 10
put work-house sentences upon The liquor
sellers when they persistentIy violated
the law, we found some gentlemen Of
the sort who had got past temperance
voting an independent ticket and 80
helping, indirectly, TO elect a man who
would have given loose rein to lawless-
ness
Thank God, there were not enough Of
them to sucreedl don't impute this as
the purpose atall or any ofthem but
nevertheless the effect Of Withdrawing
from this column Of the law and order
people some votes that might have been
necessary to prevent the triumph Of law
lessness, was to put the cause Of public
order in peril. Ny eountrymen. be-
lieve that the question Of enforcing the
laws is assuming an Importance now that
it has never had before IN our country.
We have been careless, thOaghtless. a.
We saw violations ofthe law going on
from day to day; but the nation has been
startled into a realization Of the fact that
its only safety, the only anchor it has out
on the side of social erder and domestic
peace, is the enforcement Of the law.
what WAS it that eliminated At Chi
cago less than two years ago, on that day
when the guardians Of the law were
5utchered2 Where did this aed flower
find its seed? 1t was, as believe, in that
defiant, persistent violation Of law upon
which We have 50 long looked indiaer-
~ The nation IS waking up. Ny first
on the temperance qu stiOn
i, that 80 long as the law IS as it IS.
whether you ike ii or lise Il, we shall
still stand together and declare that the
law shall be enforced Great applause.
Now, | know there are some people
who seem to me To be greatly misguided
who say we don't care about the law
being enforced We would raiher have
free whiskey than taxed whisky; We
would rather the sale should be open and
unrestrained; would rather that the vio-
iatious Oforder might be increased and
because thereby We nope to
awaken the people to fuller realization
Of the evil Of this thing, and thus secure
state prohibition. hope no friend here
takes that ground. if you do. you find
yourself in bad company, and evil eouse-
quences following hard after you
stand, rather, as all good men must
stand. for the rigid enforcement, without
fear or favor, Of every statute upon the
statute books. That Is i good start. And
when this principal is well established,
and you stand with Us now for II, We viii
stand With you when you get law that
suits you better, and you will have sen
timent that will back it up bat # you
don't stand ~ilh US nov, but eHcourlge
in any way. directly or indirectly. the
spirit Of fIawlessness, to what will you ap-
peal when you get the law you want?
81 want to say this further; There may
have been time in the past when the
party ofIndiana had dalliance
with the liquor interests; but beg TO say
TO all who hear me today, that when the
platform of the last state convention was
read and received with cheers BY the great
masses who heard it, any daiIiance be
tween the Republican party and the
Liquor league was severed once and for
ever. [Great applause ] When the reso-
luton fell from the lips Of the chairman
of the committee on resolutions, a trump
ct was sounded that will never call re-
treat.
~Why2 Simply for the reason have
already given the Liquor league Is an
framed to defy the law, and,
therefore, we are against it, and it i
against Us. IApplause. And yet, not
withstanding this, and notwithstanding
the fact that whenever you open the robe
in which the Democratic party masquer-
ades, you see some liquor ieague Doodle
sticking out, there are those who, Ike nv
friend, the Methodist bishop, South, have
got past Temperance, and are third party
men who make the welkis ring with the
cry, Smash the Republican party r. Well,
that is not a cry likely TO draw the Repub-
licans into your party.
Before me to-day IS great body Of
Republicans young and old, full of pride in
the old party. who believe that il Las,
under God, wrought out the best things
that were ever achieved by any political
who believe that il has in
il yet high capacities, and are not aniia-
bly, disposed when anybody says, Smash
the Republican party [ApplAuse.l II
you want to persuade Us, YOU viii have to
change that cry. And what next Why
10 ycu want 10 smash be republican par
ty2 Does the shield it carries cover the
liquor league No my cOuntrymen