The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-02-24
Extracts from Speech OF Senerai Siin-
Ton H. FISK.

baby sleeps tonight, and should say
f'Doctor. what in the world is the use of
this baby, anyhow let's destroy HIM =
why, he would put me out of the house at
once The baby is going 10 grow and be y
mau-be DR.. Carroll some time llaugh-
teri and the Prohibition party by-and-b by
will be party, my friends, beyond any
doubt, and DR.. Carroll will be one of its
honored members. Laughter and APP
plause.
Our new party is the immediate neces-
sity OF the hour. The National Prohibit
ton party, demanded by the aroused CON
science of the Nation, has for its chief
issue the overthrow of our Governments
greatest enemy. The prohibition Of the
liquor traffic is not only great moral
issue, but political issue, made SO by the
arrogant assumptions OF authority by the
saloon in both of the dominant parties.
We would make prohibition an ail-con-
trolling force in our National politics, and
build all other political interests around it
Civil Service revenue, labor municipal,
and suffrage reforms and other great is
sues which can never be settled 50 long as
the liquor traffic is permitted to exist.
Applause
Great parties are created for a specific
purpose, to grapple it'll some great issue,
to overthrow some great wrong. An
aroused public conscience forms an ASSOC
citation to uphold, advance, and develop
certain principles regarded by them as i'm
portant to the wcll-being Of the State.
sion and disintegrate.
Daniel Webster, in 1925, differs nom
Dir. Carroll in 1888. He said in Fancuil
Hall these words: "New parties will
arise, growing out of new events and new
questions; but as to these old parties
which sprang from controversies now no
longer pending or from feelings which
time and other causes have now changed
or greatly allayed, do aot believe that
they can long remain"
How senseless the cutlery against So
called "Taird party" 1t was once the
old party of freedom that was SO bitterly
denounced-that organization at whose
cradle as boys some of us stood and rocked
the infant party. AS the infant Hercules
in his cradle strangled The serpent, so the
old ant-slavery party gave token of like
precocious strength, and in its day Of power
accomplished more than any other political
party on any continent in this great cen
tury. Yet it was once contemptuously
called little party, a third party. The
monopoly of the corn laws was first assail-
ed by the Radicals Of England. They
were reinforced by aristocratie Wings, but
were yet third party. By-and-by the
leader of the Tories, Sir Robert Peel him
self stood in honor able coalition with MIR
Cobden and the final overthrow of the
great monopoly was accomplished. All
England had been ringing for years with
the cutlery against the new party. Men
wrote and spoke of its utter useessness,
and proclaimed that all necessary reform
could be secured through the old parties.
SHORES under the soothing lullaby of 10y
atty to party right or wrong, good men
should pause and protest. When any man
has learned to value his political party
more highly than he does truth and justice,
it is time for him to sever bis connection
with that party.
half-century ago, when the little party
for freedom began TO be disturbing ele-
memt among the Wings of New England,
and learned men became eloquent over the
folly of a new party, writing able essays
and declaiming on every corner that all
heedfnl auti-slavery reforms could be Sc
cured through the Good Enough Free
soil Party" already in existence, up rose
William Ellery Charming in his pulpit,
and among many " Use and eloquent words
said this "The Wing interest seems to
be too strong to he put down at once; but
it cannot survive unless it can speedily
build on some higher principle than now
governs it. The political state of the eoun-
try is exceedingly perplexed The Wing
party has but little unity aud is Threatened
with dissolution. Would the Democrats
break up, too, and could we start afresh
how glorious would be the RESULT" and so
it would be now. GApplau>e
The Rev. DIR. Francis Wayland, in re-
senting the snecrs and SCOTS which, like
an avalanche, threatened TO ermhelm
him and drive him from his pulpit, he
cause, forsooib, he dared to look higher
than an old party platform, said to the
throng clamoring for his life's blood al
most: "Iou must surrender party for
moral principle. Let all good men do this
and they will form party by themselves,
party acting in the fear of Cod and sus-
tanned by the arm of Omnipotenee Let
yirtuous men unite on the ground Of moral
principle, and the tyranny of party will be
crushed"
In this, orr time. all good and true men
should stand together in one party, MAX
ing the prohibition Of the liqnor traffic the
paramount issue. 1t oycfshadows all
others in results, economic social, poiti-
cal and moral. 1t is the only question alb
solutely National in It's character. Every
section of our great laud, all ATTITUDES and
longitudes, every State and county, city
town village aud hamlet is Threatened