The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-07-05

rum The negro question, in its old
phase, is settled. The negro question
that means the inviolability Of the bal
lot box and the rights of free men as cit
liens and at the polls-has not even
been faced, much less faced down and
done. 1t can be settled NEXT NOVEMBER
ONCE AND FOREVER.
IT'S question of government and
state craft that can be closed. The
other is matter of the appetites and
passions of every new generation Of
men. Fight drunkenness. Yes, But
don't strike the life out of great cause
by using it to club the breath out of an
abominable one. You have no right to
close the saloon door by the body of
Southern Republican citizenship. Fight
local issue on local grounds, You can
do that, and yet cover every square inch
of American soil, and stand or fall on
the issue you make; but don't try to
dragon men who honestly differ with
you into supporting your faith by the
threat that it is a Just way, when to
have your way by such road is to
trample on the slsin. Nearly thous-
and years ago, the world weary of
slaughter, decreed the Peace of Cod
There should be no more battles, no
more blood. Presently the world was
well content to declare so many days
for fight, so many days for repose.'
Not the peace but the truce of God
My honest Prohibition friends, fight you
honorable means. Don't think to gain
the Peace by threatening death to
those who would break il, and yet are
LII IN, ofhnr
fields Of righteousness, and above all
don't do evil elsewhere that good may
come to your own-for no real good
ever yet came to one by the crucifixion
of the rights Of others.
Beaten! Yes, l am glad we were
beaten four years ago, since humanity
learns lessons of justice by suffering en-
dured. 1t is the degraded labor Of the
South that is hampering the honest
labor of the North. 1t is the disfran-
chised blacks thrust to the background
that have left the old masters at the
front door to crack the whip over North
ern industry, and forge chains for North
ern enterprise.
ProtectionP Workingmon? The place
to honor labor is in the South, with
its convict system, it chain gangs, its
leased labor, its fifty cents day, and
the way to honor it is by every North
ern workingman saying what degrades
one of my order degrades me, land / will
sweep all this away How? In No
vember, The way to protect the indus
tries Of the North is by protecting the
citizenship of the South. That one vote
shall count as one vote. No more, no
less, everywhere.
Will that winP Yes, will i'll The East
want protection and that is the speediest
way TO its end. The West wants JUS
tice-always did fight for it, and given
rallying cry, it will respond, Pass
the watchword down the line: Con
gress shall guarantee to every State a
Republican form of government We,
the Republican party of the North, mean
to elect so overwhelming a majority
that the South will understand once for
all that that provision of the Constitu-
ton is to be enforced, and that she will
submit to the inevitable or she will fight
and take the consequences, and on her
own head be the issue. May God de-
fend the right. So be it, and amen.
Who for Standard bearerP The man
who has always known brother under
black skin, who has never shirked duty
who has courage as well as integrity,
and who is put forward to win. AT.
TENTIoN! COURAGE! EARNEsTNEss
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER! FORWARD!
Miss Dickinson's talk called forth ia
vorable and hearty editorial endorse
ment from several Of the New York
dailies, as well as numerous letters of
the same tenor, from.the readers of The
Press in all parts of the country,