Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-06
THE THIRD PARTY.
GENERAL A. s. HAINRs, OF NBw YORK,
SPEAKS IN ITS INTERESTS.
Some Of the Arguments hs Advanced in Favor Of thu
Abolition Of tho SalOon-He Rakss
the Two Old Parties.


of New York, arrived at ~ Mcclure
House, where be was soon called upon by
the local County Committee of the Third
party, and last evening, in accordance
with previous arrangement, he addressed
an audience which varied in size from one
to four hundred, at the corner Of Market
and Fourteenth streets.
The meeting was called to order by
George E Fuller, the chairman OF the
County Committee, and then Mr.. Cart
wright led in prayer. At the conclusion,
of the invocation, General Haines was in
troduced, and he spoke for about an hour
and a quarter. On the platform were q
number of the local Third party men,
among them Thomas Cartwright, Noah
Beck and J. NJ. Clouston.
He said the liquor traffic was the great
est curse of modern times, and quoted
from the New York Tribune to show that
it depended for its existence upon the
lowest traits of the human character. No
one had ever heard of the business doing
the least good for anyone. He said:
mo one ever heard Of the traffic eleyat-
ing anyone. It hiss done nothing to make
the world wiser, or greater or better. On
the contrary, it depends upon debased
manhood, upon degraded womanhood,
upon defrauded orphans, and upon mort
gagged homes" These assertions he illus
trsted in turn, telling in connection with
his illustration Of how manhood was de-
based, q story of Long Island man, who
coming home drunk one day, gcuged out
one of his wifs's eyes, and little later,
coming home in the same condition, he
gouged out the other. Proceeding with
his argument he said:
And vet il is gravely proposed to Il
cense this monstrous iniquity-a not
only that, but 20 give it high license.
What proposition in an enlighted age !!
What license something which rob the
man of his reason; which defrsuds children
af ther food; which dsgrades womsnhood,
and mortgages the home, and fllsthe poor
house and the Jail, and the asylum Mon
strous. What spectacle! Sell the lndul-
gsnees Of nation, for that is what IT
amounts TO. Sell the robber of the family
and the home Come on, who bids? How
much for that boy? How much for that
girl? How much for that wife? How
much for that home? What will you give,
brother, for right to become debaucnee?
We license this things high license !!
Come and bid
What is this high license, of which we
hear so much, and which is to be psnacea
for all our ills? Well, that depends In
New Jersey il ia $50; in New York, $3.50;
in Minnesota, $500, and in Nebraska ST.
900. Il depends on the locality. 1t seems
10 be harder to restrict the traffic in some
States than in others. Its wonderful,
isn't it. In Omaha they Seem to have
hard time restricting the people, for there
licenses are $1,000. / met the Treasurer
shile was there, and he said: We'll,
I've lust turned in the last of the license
money-$1S,OOO said, Is that SO, how
much does it amount to? He replied,
Two hundred and fifty. one thousand dol
lars / said, Aud so you have two hun
bred and fifty-one saloons? Yes Tell
rue, how many people do you propose 10
kill during the year Why said he,
what do you mean?' said: I mean,
how msny drunksrds are you going to
make in return for that money!
I'm st. Panl they told me the high
license had shut up 80 low dives That
was 80, and they still had 300 high dives
open. What benefit is it to lsboring
mans family, if he has been accustomed TO
spending half his wages in the saloons, II
one half of them are closed? The other
bali still afford him all the facilities he
wants to get away with his money!
Referring to the two old parties, he said:
The Republicans say they are in favor
of restricting the sale of liquor. Certainly
they are, and so are the Liquor Dealers
Association. Right here l want to say to
the Democrats, that they needn't think
L IN sighting them because / don't refer
10 them. don't refer TO the Democracy
because its gone up, anyhow. There's no
hope for it. Now let's see how the Re
publicans and the liquor dealers pull to-
sether upon this issue. The National Re-
publican platform declares that the first
concern of all good governments is the vir-
tue and sobriety of the people and thepur-
ity of their homes. The Republican party
cordially sympathizes with all wise and
well directed efforts for the promotion
OF temperance and morality They
tsympa;hize' do they? That sounds good,
don't it. l don't wonder they 'sympathizs
for it comes cheap, and sounds nice. But
when our Republican friends got that in
their platform, they found that they had
forgot something, and they passed another
resoluticn-of which you all know. Now
let us look at the declaration of the Liquor
Dealers Association. / find it has about
the same ring to il, as the Republican
plank which / have just read. They
are in favor of morality, and the
purity of the home and above all,
are opposed to the abuse OF liquor,
aud are willing to do anything to Lessen
that abuse. OF course they are. When n
man gets full, so full that he can't hold
any more, the liquor seller has no more
asa for him. It's spectacle which he
abhors. because be can't sell q man in that
condition any more liquor. He wants you
when you are about half full, for then the
money flies, and he has something to work
on
I'VE hear a great deal about protection,
but prohibition is the word. When you
get prohibition you have the best possible
kind of protection. 1t amounts to some
thing. If we could shut up the saloons Of
this city tonight there wouldn't be 3
hatcher shop in the town, Saturday night,
(which would have o beefsteak for sale.
who governs this country? We have
an idea that the people do, but they don't
I'll bet 3 nickle to an apple that you
haven't got an official in this city or couu-
ty who isn't dictated to, or afraid OF, the
liquor dealer and the saloonist. The IL
quor power controls the country.
About 10000 breweries, 5000 dis
tillers and rectifers, and saloonists enough
to make up 10000 or 200, 900, con-
troll this land, from Constable up to Presi-
dent This 200, 600 dictates the laws and
run things generally. And the power be-
hind the throne is always greater than the
throne itself 1t is case of the tail wag-
ging the dog. Look down the line from
the ward meeting to the election, from the
election to the caucus, and from the caucus
to the framing of laws, and see if am not
right. And are we to continue to let these
200, 900 control $4,000, 900. No, q thous-