Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-20
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PROHIBITION.
One of It's Advocates Pays His Respects
to high License Advocates.

One of Its Advocates Pays His Respects
to Eigh License Advocates.
Lou j. Beauchamp, prohibition orator
who halls from Dayton, Ohio, came to this
city some days ago under an engagement
with the w C. T. T., and is lecturing againe.
the liquor traffic Last night az the Sixth
street N. L. Church he addressed large
meeting, majority of them being ladies',
and will continue 10 lecture from the same
rostrun each evening throughout the
week, Mr.. Beauchamp came heralded as
an eloquent and interesting speaker, the
Cough of the West" and all who have
heard him concede that 10 be a fact. He
is a clear and forcible speaker, rapid in his
utterances, and makes telling points in
every sentence. His has fine appearance
and his facial expressions and imitation of
foreign dialects at once place the audience
in the best of humor. As one gentleman
who sat next to reporter last evening re-
marked, " 1t is better than a circus or a
minstrel show. What an excellent end
man he would make" He claimed
that assertion incidentally referred
TO the tact that he was
graduate from newspaper office This
caused broad smile, and he said the
newspapers East were no worse than those
in California. He made a good speech
from Democratic standpoint against the
Republican party. He was oppose to high
| license and tried to shame any one who
would advocate the closing up of half the
| saloons by putting on u high tariff He
said, Suppose you do shut up 200 of the
| saloons in Sacramento by system of high
| license, you still have 200 left with 400 bar
| EppnprC He fhnnOht rho
mentan could get just as full in 200 saloons
| as he could in 400. He knew to be fact
| by personal experience, that man who
| had a appetite for drink could get as
Z" chock full, and as boiling drunk" in
one saloon as he could in 4e0.
He said people called him "a crank"
When this was first applied to him he felt
| inclined to resent it. The man who called
| him " ii crank" however, was of such i'm
merse proportions he thought discretion
| the better part of valor and as surcease for
his sorrow went to Webster for definition
of the word. Here he found it defined
that principle in mechanics that makes
| things move" He had been proud Of the
appelation ever since. He and other cranks
of his kind were making the grog-shops
move, and they were moving quite rapidly
in some sections of the country.
| He said in Rhode Island prohibition was
| getting hrm hold. 1t is a very small
State, bat it contains high. minded people
A Stockton man, he said, once stopped
over night in the central part OF the State
| of Rhode Island and found fault with its
size. When he went to put OH his shoes
the next morning his toes were sticking out
| over in Massachusetts.
The general impression, he said of Ken
lucky was that it was the home of whisky
| that the source of all her streams were
stills, but such was not the case. Three
| tifths Of that State to-day is under prohibit
| ton.
To-day four-fifths Of Tennessee is under
| prohibition laws. In that State no saloon or
grog shop can be maintained within four
miles of a school house. Whenever a sa-
! loon is opened in any portion of the State
| a farmer who has regard for his bows
builds log cabin school house, hires a
teacher, and if there is but one scholar that
saloon has to go.
tanned within three miles of a church or
school-house, without the consent of a
majority of the citizens of the community,
and the laws of that State construe the
word citizen to mean men and women
| No community of mothers and sisters will
ever allow grog shop to be established in
the neighborhood of their loved ones, when
| they can prevent it.
| The speaker related many touching incl
dents of the evils that follow in the wake of
the liquor traffic.