Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03
ST. JOHN.
a Stirring Address by the Able and
Courageous Prohibition
Leader.
1t BriStles with Telling Points. and
Will Well Repay a Careful
PcrusN!.

AT the annual business meeting of the
National Prohibition Bureau, in New York,
eA-Gov. John z. st. John, of Kansas,
spoke as follows:
FOR nearly forty years this country has boon
unuef toe control of tine two old parties and
what is its legal, social. moral, and political
condition to-day! Let us SEQ.
r., we hung ind imprison Anarchists, and at
tne same time legali2e, protect, and perpetlate
saioons' The hot-beds where anarchy is propa-
gated, ,hrives, and fattens. Tho drunkard
goes to nerdition, tho drunkard-maker to the
Legislator, to enact laws for the people.
WINE children cry for broad, the father is
sent home penniless and drunk. While the
mother mo 1 is powerless to protect her home and
destroy both with his ballot. While tho Sab
PAIN bells invite the people to tho house of God
inc brass band leads the way to the Sunday
horse rnce, prize fight baseball and beer gar.
den. For every dollar we expend for home aud
Foreign missions Slo5 is spent i'll 8 lloons. The
t ta s o. on free + ballot I'd demanded for
for exercising that right 'n IN the n Nor 'sy
Ministers Of the gospel were prosecuted and
for the Abolition arty forty years ago, and
they have been prosecuted, boycotted and
driven from the pulpit for preaching and voting
Tor the Prohibition party of to-day, I4ovejoy
fell martyr to freedom in the fight against the
slavery curse. Haddock and Gambrell and
four others have fallen martyrs to our homes in
a fight against the saloon curse. In the face of
political platforms declaring for "a fair count
the Dlfack man is counted out in Mississippi and
south Carolina in his race for Congress, and the
whlte man counted out in Michigan and Ohio in
mis- night for constitutional prohibition. While
heavy import duties are placed upon foreign
goods, the scum of foreign labor enters our
country tree.
American ships practically driven from tho
seas, our country without navy, the peoples
money locked up in the vaults of tho Treasury,
and half-dozen monopoists absolutely CON
trolllns the nations highways to the markets OF
the world; protection Tor the b acksmith's ham
mer, but free trade for the blacksmith mus
cle For every dollar expended to educate and
make strong for the right through tho influence
OF our public schools, fifteen dollars is expended
to tear down and destroy through the in
huence e the public saloons Ignorant
eyed bummers and tramps are allowed to
vote because they are men; but our
mothers, wives, and daughters educated re-
vote becarse they are women. While in one
breath bride taking ia condemned, in the next
bribery bureau, with political anarchist at
its head, is unblushingly admitted to be part
of the machinery OF q great party. While
poor woman is fined heavily for playfully
throwing pancake ut n Presidential purity, an
SS,OJu dinlnond-nounted gold belt is given to
John H. Sullivan as champion slugger of tho
world.
And yet the people are asked to perpetunte
condition of things has been brought about.
And why? Surely not because either of these
parties stands pledged to the suppression of
the liquor traffic: Il higher standard OF morality
and greater protection to our homes and our
boys, for no such pledges are made by them.
Then what would BIO tho result of voting
for such parties? Why, it would simply aid
in continuing the old order OF Things, and per-
petuatins the sectional and political prejudice
OF two old parties who have no issue between
them except to determine which shall have
the Offices and control the public plumber.
1--WE have frequently heard it charged during
tho past three years that the Prohipitionists
killed the Republican party, to which charge
,,1a NOV in va
that the party was not murdered but died of
natural causes, and without issue.
In 1872 the Prohibition party nominated it's
first national ticket, which received but 5,6O7
votes; it pollod about 10000 in 1876, and an
equal number i'll 1880, and u little over l5uO0O in
1891. Now let us compare the Republican ma
with tho results in the same States in 1884.
Here it is;