The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

who were beaten in four states tina
stood for constitutional prohibition
in 1885, with our guns that ART
ballots, as we are now helping with
our bullets that are ideas.
l never expected to speak with
pride about the "Solid South" al
such, but surely l may 90 this
now that it is becoming "sAid" for
the dry ticket, "and you who dwell
there may be glad that the North.
ern heart is "lired" once more, this
time with the same war.cry as that
which fires the Southern, and it is
Protection for our Homes" That
is the spell to conjure by" That
is the rallying call of North and
South, of Protestant and Catholic,
Of white and black, of men and wo-
men equally. Bourbon Democrat
and radical Republican will seek
in vain to stifie this swift,swelling
chorus, that "Chorus of the Union"
for which great Lincoln vainly
prayed in his first inaugural. Do
you not recall his marvellous con-
Guiding sentence q quote from rec
ollection): "The mystic chords of
memory, stretching from many a
sacred hearth and patriots grave,
all over this broad land, shall once
more swell the chorus of the Union
when again touched, as surely they
will be, by the better angel of our
nature.' That angel is the tenn
perance reform, and the fuifillment
of that prophecy we have lived to
see.
The greatest party stands for ma,
tionalism as against sectionalism !;
it stands for the noblest aims and
aspirations of the wage-workers as
against monopolies that dare to pro-
fame that holy word, ''trust;" it
stands for the future in politics as
against the past, the home vote
with an educational test as against
the saloon vote with beer breath
as its credentials; and, best of all,
it stands tor the everlasting and
absolute prohibition of sin as
against any alliance between sin
and the government. For while the
greatest party will never hesitate
to be the champion of these causes
good and great, 80 closely linked
with it's own central purposes,
neither must it fail to put prohibit
ton by law and prohibition by
politics so far in the lead that no
candid man can for moment ques-
ton the august supremacy of these
overmastering Issues ; for we are
firmly persuaded that the separa-
ton of the people into two distinct
armies, one voting for men who
will outlaw the poison curse, and
the other for men who will legal.
ice it, must come, and that such
separation cannot come too soon.
We are not here to speak harsh
words of armies rallied under 9TH
er ensigns, but simply to declare
that in this emergency we cannot
depend upon them. Party ma
chinery and the ambition of party
leaders to-day stand between the
people and their opportunity. We
would clear the track for prohibi-
ton. We are bound to do it. For
this were we born, and for this
cause came we into the world.
When | think of Lexington and
Paul Revere; when | think OF
Bunker Hill and the dark redoubt
where Gen. Warren died; when l
think of Washington, that great
est of Southerners, upon his knees
in prayer at Valley Forge; when
| think of Stonewall Jackson
praying before he fought; of
Robert Lees and Sidney Johnston's
stainless shield when l remem Der
Sheridan's ride, and Sherman 8
march to the sea with the boys in
blue behind him, and Grant fight
ing the battle out and on to the
glorious triumph of our Northern
arms, then my heart prophesies
with all patriot's gratitude, Amer
lea will win as against the awful
tyranny of King Alcohol and King
Gam brinus, and proud am I to have
a part in it, for, thank God, IL
too, am an American.