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ing merely for place and not for any prin-

ing merely for place and not for any prin-
ciple.
The speaker then devoted short time
to the tariff He wa in favor of q tariH
that would protect the laborer, furnish
enough money to pay our debts and pen
sion every old soldier in this land. Then
we would protect the laborer from The
dram shop. The right way to deal with
the liquor question Is to make the manu-
facture, transportation and sale of liquor
a crime and then there will he no trouble
some surplus in the treasury. 1t Ii Il
queer state of things when the govern
1nent comes here and sells Il man for $25
the right to sell liquor in a prohibition
State The temperance issue is national
issue, the Supreme Court has made 1t 50
The speaker then read New Jersey
newspaper extract, which stated that the
experience of Vermont showed that more
liquor was sold under the prohibition law
than with license. a member OF the an
dieuce said it was false. The speaker sad
he knew it, but there were places here,
many of them where liquor could be oo-
tanned If the ropes were known. That Is
a great violation of the law and the re-
publican party being so strong here that
nomination means an election, is respon-
sible for this state of things. lie closed
by urging his hearers to stand up Tor the
right and thanking the audience for the
reception given him.
The glee club then sang The liquor
traffic in our land has got to CO."
At this point Gen. Fisk left the hall
amid cheers to take the train for St.
Johnsbury, where he spoke Saturday eve
ming.
PROF. sEELY's REMARKS.
Prof Seely expressed his qualification
that the party's standard bearer had been
able to be present. Let us remember that
we are here as citizens of Vermont and TO
give cheer to each other. We have felt it
our duty to break the bonds asuuder
which have bound us to other parties and
join ourselves to the party which we feel
will ultimately be victorious. We feel
that we are bound together rs never be-
fore. We come together AS Christians,
feeling that we are all members of one
great body under the Lord Jesus Christ
We come together rs protectlonistS. We
favor protection for the la6orers and a
duty on foreign products and manufac
lures, but we are chiefly in favor of pro-
lection for the laborers' homes. They
call rs the third party we ae the first
in our love for country While we are
true to our own national leader, we are
under still higher leadership. Above
the stars and stripes we have nailed the
symbol of the cross and with it we entwine
the white rose, the symbol of our homes
Prof. Seely then introduced the Hon w
NJ. Jones of Rochester, candidate for
governor of New York, who spoke in part
as follows:
MR. JONES's SPEECH.
This is the first time that have had the
pleasure of walking upon the soil OF Yer
mont. ! have sailed down your lake be-
fore and | have wished he q
books of the empire State bore the same
temperance laws that yours do, and
have wished the republicans of New
York had done for you what the republi
cans of Vermant have done. But ] find
they do not 90 far enough. We are fight
ing the same battle that did William Lloyd
Garrison. The country was then half
slave. What did you republicans do ?
You set out to make the country all free.
But first you started to save the country
half slave, and the Union soldiers
were defeated at Bull run and elsewhere,
until the great leader said that the coun
try must be saved all free, and then you
went to work and won. The democra is
want to save the country all drunk, the
republican party the same as 25 years ago,
half drunk, and the prohbitionists all
sober.
The prohibition party is trying TO get all
the good out of the old parties. There is
get it. find that it is not difficult to
evade the law in your State. Good tenn
perance men tell me that the law is viO-
lated constantly. | know you have all the
machinery for prosecution if some one
Will make complaint, but | am opposed
to throwing the responsibility upon the
individual. We pay our taxes, and the
officers are paid large salaries to enforce
the laws, and they are the ones RESPONSE
bic. on can not secure the enforcement
of the law until you have a party pledged
to Its enforcement.
| cannot understand why the republi-
cans held "A convention and nominated Il
candidate for president. The prohibition
party was the first to nominate a candi-
date, aud then Cleveland was renominat-
ed. Now the republicans can not say if
Cleveland is reelected that the prohibi-
tionlsts helped elect him, for the republl-
cans came into the field last.
The speaker then said that the temper
ance plank in the republican platform did
not amount 70 anything as the liquor
dealers went further in their resolutions.
He then argued that there was no issue
between the democratic and republican
parties, as both are pledged to tariff re-
form and both favor having certain arti-
cleS Oh the free list. The tariff can never
De national question as one State or
section is interested in one thing and an
other i'll another, so that the only way to
do is to elect Il compromise.
The success of the saloon is depen
dent upon the debased manhood,
he wronging of womanhood ami
the defrauding of childhood. The
speaker here gave some Instances of de-
privatlon and cruelty on which the success
of saloons was built. There are 100000
such homes as liquor makes N this coun-
try, am glad to be a member of a party
which dAres to take up the defence of
American homes We are under obliga-
ton TO protect all homes. Not in the
State of Vermont alone do the homes APP
peal to your protection but from all over
this broad land, and they say we must
have all.
The glee club sang Get There and
the meeting closed with cheers for pro
hibton.
Col. Browns Opinion.
Col. w. l.. Brown of the New York
Dd{ly NcCS is known to be one of the
= hrpUdpst noliticHl observers in the conn.