The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-07-06

| mass meeting W dS iltid III btit 4iSbi'i'Pi'
tan Opera House, New York, last Friday
evening week, to ratify the nomination oil
Fisk and Brooks, the national candidates
of the Prohibition party. In abseEce OF
space to give a full'report Of this grand
meeting we give below the speeches deliy-
cred by Clinton b. Fisk and Frances Il.
Willard:
GEN. FIsK's SPEECH.
This thronging multitude of noble men
and women-this vast assemblage-reprc-
sentative of the best life in the Republic,
crowding every part Of this vast temple;
this group of strong, earnest, resulnte man
and ~womanhood on this platform, in which
Georgia and Illinois, Missouri and Michi-
gan, New York and New Jersey clasp
hands in one of the hottest covenants ever
made; these eloquent and sonl stirring ut
terances of speech and song; these waving
banners and waves Of enthusiastically
these give inspiration and help to one
whose heart, throbbing with grateful emo
ton for honors undeserved-for partiality
which ought to have been bestowed on an
other-[Loud cries of No! No!l would
with imperfect utterance respond to the
message borne to HIM from that most Won
derful gathering at indianapolis,
"sBeneath whose banners, proud to stand,
Looked up the noblest in The land
that Convention which commanded the re-
spect, the wonder and admiration Of the
country. [Applause.l What it has said
has received the hearty co%mmendation of
the friends of true and Christian govern
ment all over the land. without distinction
of race, color, sex, or previous condition
of political seryitude. What it did in its
closing hour has seriously disturbed the
peace ofatleast one household, which in its
home by the sea has these many days been
inquiring, What are the wild waves from
Indianapolis saying?' The response comes
to us this evening by the way of Evanston
and Atlanta.
"Let us see for a moment where we
stand. On the indianapolis platform, Of
course, which, after solemnly acknowledge
ing Almighty God as the source Of all
power in government. has for its Alpha
and Omega the Prohibition of the liquor
traffic. [Cheers. First and last that is
the dominant, the all-controlling issue in
our national politics. IGreat cheering. ]
Differing judgments there may be
on other issues but on the utter
Affirmation. - H. -n.n g,1ANy
we are Of one mind, and heartily invite to
full party fellowship with MS all who are
with us on that point agreed. LChcers.l
eve believe that u host of good men
will come thronging into our camp in the
immediate future, [Cheers. men OF
thought and conscience, who have been
waiting the weary years away, hoping that
the political party with which they have
had alliance would say some emphatic
words, do some brave deed, on the side OF
this great reform, and declare that the sa-
loon should not sit supreme in caucus,
convention and canvass. The campaign
for 1888 has opened. Loud cheers. It's
banners and bandanas have been thrown
to the breeze. Platform |utterances have
been read in every hamlet and carefully
studied in Il million American homes to as
certain what was said in indianapolis, st.
Louis and Chicago u the greatest qucs-
ton now being debated among the people
of this country. Home Protection stands
at the head of the list. Applause. Homo
protected against the saloon will be tho
greatest factor in protecting the honest in
dustries of our people. [Chcers. In
d%ianapolis plainly declared That the man
ufaeture, importation, expectation. trans
portation and sale of alcoholic beverage!
shall be made public crimes and punished
as such; that such prohibitions must b,
secured through amendment to our Ma
tional and State Constitutions: that any
form of license, taxation or regulation o
the liquor traffic is contrary to good gov
ernmeDt Lcheers F.; that any party which
supports regulation, license or tax enters
into alliance with such traffic and become,
the actual foe of the State's welfare.
Great applause. 1t declares for the i'm
mediate abolition of the Internal Reyenu,
system which now glGts ournational treas
ury with revenue from the blood and tear
of American homes. Applause. There.
no ambiguity nor want Of clearness il
these u%tterances. Let us turn oyer a lea
and see what st. Louis said ON this all
absorbing question. Not a word do V
find. There was a repetition Of the sam
old story-1S84 was reaflirmed-'We mus
not vex the citizen with sumptuary laws.
In the gray of the worlds morning the OF
iginal chairman of the committee OF
sumptuary avs said the same thing in
discussion with Mother Eve on the subjec
of Prohibition. No word Of hope from St
Louis.
''Surely from Chicago, on the wings O
lightning, there would come del~iycrance
ON this question that would gladden. tn
hearts of thousands who in all s%incerit.
believed and waited with patient faitl
and prayer for the words that did not come
The AntI-Saloon maiden, never very ro
bust, after a lingering Illness, during whicI
kindly hands had ministered to her. an
sleepless eyes had watched over her, FINAL
found rest, after life's ftfnI fever, in Chi
cago. Death stole in so gently upon tn
suffering one We know the faithful-to