Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-05-08

forever.
In the evening at Coopers Union. before a
large audience Mrs. j. Ellen Foster. OF
Iowa, made powerful and admirably
timed speech. of which the following is
full report:
THE STORY OF THE FUoIIIvE SLAVE.
Some of Us in our childhood heard the tale
of the fugitive slave. We remember how
our mothers ministered to those who fed
from the teeth of the hound and the no less
cruel lash of the matter. We were girls
when the tocsin of war sounded. We saw
brave sires marshalled: we saw boys witt
whom We played in childhood and firted in
zirlhood, grown men brave aud strong AT
Lincon's first call for troops; and many
woman still living remembers how heI
strong young husband came from the war
meeting the pallor in his face revealing the
.oul-struggle--love of wife and child plead
ing with love of country and human rights
applause. But from the wave of an
zuish that rolled over the soul there was Nc
recoil. 60" she said help to save III,
country; God will take care of me and my
children" loud applause.)
Other women not pressed with grief at the
present necessity of daily toll remember
that the Republican party stands for pro
tected industries. in which women as well az
men have their share. They know that the
factory girl in Massachusetts and New York
is fed and clothed and housed with decent
reference to her necessities, and not as are
women operatives of Sheffield and Man
chester. (Applause.) And many woman
who went with her pioneer husband to the
West remembers by whom homestead laws
were secured. (Renewed applause Wal
widows, too, who receive their pensions in
spite of the too frequent protests Of thankless
time servers, know BY whom their interests
have been championed.
LooKIso FOR RESCUE FROM THE DRINK EVIL.
Neither do | forget the women whose
sorrows are ever present in my thought
they in homes out of which all joy has gone,
because husband or brother or son is under
the curse of drink, under the lash of
appetite perhaps inherited. perhaps acquired
but always nourshed or sustained wherever
the saloon exists These weary women look
to the men who stand in the ranks of the
Republican party and know that from them
if from AIRY party source, their help mus,
come. (Applause.) These, gentlemen. are
my constituents these are they whose voice
| hope to be. Never a woman had grandeI
constituency. / covet for them such
championship as the Republican party is able
TO give; | covet for the Republican party
such benediction. such a cohesive power
their prayers, their aggressive support
would give. loud applause To what
forum do | Gomez To you, gentlemen OF
thu Grand Old Party. The party was born
of patriotism; in its strong youth it helped
the people free the African slave. and then
it gave him equality before the law. The
sdom of its MAJ hood has devised and
executed great enterprises of material and
educational Developments it has inaugurated
and sustained a fiscal system unexampled in
successful operation and benetcent results
Never woman pleaded at grander political
forum uniting greater intelligence. integrity
opportunity and consequent responsibility.
For what do plead: That the Republi-
can party shall to the extent of its opportunity
and ability aid the people in their conflict
with the saloon. The temperance move
ment involves three considerations First
the obligation of personal temperance and
the means of teaching it. Second, the
relation of legislation to the traffic and how
to secure the best. Third. the attitude OF
political parties to temperance legislation
On these considerations | believe.
First, total abstinence is the only safe rule
of individual conduct.
Second, constitutional prohibition, witt
enforced statutes, is the best legislative
remedy for the evils resulting from tn,
traffic, and that local option is Temporal,
expedient, useful and sometimes very
effective.
Third. | believe political party shoulC
aid the people in the execution of their will
through forms of law.
This is my temperance creed.
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pressible conflict against the saloon. pro
longed applause believe that in the tenn
perance question with its related Legislative
and political features are involved the
destinies of the nation. find in the rank
of the Republican party great predominance
of the brain and conscience and the material