St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-08-09

in danger, we are here to protect
American homes. Is that your answerf
Then that is our answer: We are here
to protect american homes. You said
at Chicago: ''The first concern of good
government is the sobriety of the peo-
pie and the purity of the home" You
forgot all about it till the last moment,
but you said it at last. What will you
do for the sobriety of the people and
the purity of their homes Will you
pass laws, or try tof Perhaps not,
but we have your word for it that you
,UiH cordially sympathize with all
wise and we'll directed efforts for tenn
perance and morality" Plumley's res
Olution would have pledged you to the
support of la,cs. You voted it down.
Why2 Don't you believe in laws Z
Do you draw a distinction between a
law and ga wise and we'll directed eff
fort Z" Didn't you dare to say what
you believed 2 Did the party of Sum-
ner and Garrison want the beer-guz-
zlers of Wisconsin more than the
Christians of New England . Then
take them, but don't expect to have
your cake and eat it too. Did you
think to catch a single temperance vote
with a resolution which DR.. StOrrs, one
of your own leaders, said, "nO man
outside a Jail or Il lunatic asylum would
think of disputing 7" You have turned
your backs upon us. If we still fol-
low and you triumph will you respect
us more four years hence IfyOu face
the defeat your timidity deserves you
will revise your arithmetic if not your
morals. There is one way to teach you
temperance and one way only. 1t is
through the hides of your leaders and
you will learn the lesson if all who
think as we do vote as we do.
Mr.. Stafford then cOntrasted the tar
iff with the rum question, and in argu-
ing that the latter was a national
question, said Our enormous increase,
one quarter foreign born, is centering
in the cities. Every national election
hangs on the city vote. That vote is
in the hands of the saloon, the saloon
is in the hands of the demagOgue, and
every fourth year the government
founded by the children of the Puri-
tans is bought and sold by drunkards.
Great evils demand heroic remedies.
Hew to the line no matter where the
chips strike. The question is in poll
tics and will be settled there. The
moral sense of the continent cannot
long be stiff1ed. The day will come
when Gods host will find themselves
on one side, and the devils on the 9TH
er. Our work is to bring on this day.
When it comes the result is as sure as
the throne of God.
The next speaker was S. G. Small of
Boston, a former republican who had
been for 10 years an officer of the
Winchester, Mass, republican town
committee and co-laborer with Mr..
Griffin and others in the anti-saloon
movement. Disgusted with the action
of the Chicago convention he had left
the party and joined the prohibition
lists. Mr.. Small related at some length
his experience within and without the
old party expressed his disgust at the
temperance plank of the Chicago plat
form, which he declared was nothing
but board up edgewise, and stated his
belief that three e-fourths of the repub-
lican party are still in favor of tenn
peranee, but that the leaders are not
He believed the old party through it'
leaders to be drifting astern, but thai
the whole tendency of thought was in
the direction of the suppression of the
LIQUOR traffic. Mr.. Small discussed
somewhat in detail the general ques-
tions of the tariff, emigration, th'
progress the temperance cause is max
ing and the financial problem.
The Rally.
The rally was held in the evening a
Music hall with about 200 in attend
ance. w. P. Stafford presided. Rev
T. P. Frost offered prayer for "th'
success of the cause by any party or n
party"
Mr.. Stafford spoke briefly, declaring
that the whole temperance agitation
reduced was merely the application o
the golden rule to our social life
Many believe that this question mus
be settled politically. A man who be
lieves in prohiOitory law and wishe
to deposit his vote where it will say 8
can vote with but one party. Th
claims of the various parties for cor
sideration were then discussed an
their attitudes on the question com
pared.
Mr.. Small followed. After paying
: the customary compliments to S
Johnsbury as an orderly, law abidin
: community, ETC., ETC., he said that tn
! third party only ask for the same con
8 dition of things throughout the Who'll
} country. The Chicago conventiO
with its rs per cent. of drunken del'
gates, violation of the Sabbath, timid
ity in dealing with great moral ques
r tiOns, ETC., furnished material for
half hours talk or more, and the rail-
T, closed with an appeal to the youn
r men by Mr.. Stafford, to vote with thi
e party that promised the most prOgres
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