Huntsville gazette., 1888-08-11
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. SATURDAY. AUGUST II. 1885,

my own idea Of the Governments 'chief con-
Germ set forth, 1 search the long platform
throogn IN vain to find condemnation of the sa
ioon' or mint OF purpose to assai it, or any sign
OF moral CONSEQUENCES that the saloon Is
curse and Its income too unholy for the Nation
10 snare II this is its ''chief concern that
party does not deserve the support of men who
love good government and would see ii main
taihet,
Inc Republican party knows to-day, and
AneW at Chicago in June, that the public sur
pius, winch. in 1884 il declared dangerous, ana
then proposed to reduce, comes about ninety
per cent. of it from source more dangerous
thah the surplus-the liquor traffic. When the
greatest Republican statesman declared, in
1883, that 1t is better to tar WHISKY than farms
and homesteads and shops, he knew, as ne atid
ms colleagues now know; that to tax whisky is
70 tax farms and homesteads and shops-since
IL IS always these which pay the tax-that nine
tsnths OF the surplus represents want in the
bata.3 Impurlty in the home life, crime on the
street. paralysis in the shop and an impaired
demand for the products of the farm. These
men must know these things, for these things
are plain as the multiplication table. And
they must realize that the swift way to reduce
the surplus is to end the National policy OF
revenue from liquor; that the right Way is I'd
end it by declaring the manufacture; importa-
ton, transportation and sale thereof public
crimes against good government, and by pro-
hibitihg and Furnishing them as such;
The Prohibition party's ''chief concern is
for the purity Of the home and the virtue and
briefly Of the people. 1t asserted this in
plain and unmistakable terms at Indianapolis
ard It further plainly said that THE bd1dens bf
taxation should be removed from food, cloth
ing and other necessaries of life 1t is to-day
the only avowed and consistent party ally
which the home and labor have for it would
nahe the BLESSINGS of home cheap and reniote
altogether its curses; 1t would bring labor to
sobriety and insure employment; it would
keep the factories busy to clothe labor, the
farms active to feed it, and would give to our
whole industrial system the impetus of pros.
perity never yet known, and never possible til
the saloons are put away.
That party is not labors truest friend which
would bar the Importation of pauperS from
abroad or close the tariff door of competition to
pauperiZe foreign industry, and then by
hguor system perpetuats the manufacture OF
paupers and criminals in our own midst With
whom honest labor must compete, and whom,
largely, honest labor must support. [ shall
bear with glad and reverent hands the only
party standard on which is inscribed " For God
and Home and Native Land the standard of
tic Gnly party which recognizes God as the
source of government and would defend His
holy day from desecration; which is the guardi-
an of homes best interests and defender of the
Nation through these; and which, burying the
dead past of sectional strife and bitterness,
would build q living future, on the sure basis OF
sober manhood and pure womanhood and un-
tainted youth, for all our united country,
1t was my privilege to aid in the good work
of restoring peace and goodly fellowship and
IN assisting to establish industrial relations
under the new order of things at the South.
af4 h.,ra 1arcr arna pf
cur National heritage and I hold no other
service of life of such account as that which
brought order and the return of property and
the rights of protected labor to large region
Frustrated by the arbitrament of arms And
now, when more than twenty years have
passed and the last sword of rebellion has been
beaten into the ploughshare of loyal peace, and
New South, knowing no other than the
Union f1ag rejoices in the Nations new birth
of freedom" I count it the truest glory of pa
triotism to lead where men of the South and
men of the North alike may follow, black as
well as white, with equal faith in the National
reform to be achieved, with equal fidelity to the
Union we would protect from its only remain
ing foes. And I rejoice that, standing on the
platform so well fra med at Indianapolis, which
so admirably recognizes other great principles
than this of MISUNDERSTANDING as we de-
clare, that citizenship RESTS on no mere cr-
cumstance of race, color sex or nationality"
and affirming, as we always shall affirm, the fu II
rights of citizenship for ALL standing ever, as
we must, for the defense OF the weak and the
oppressed; we can and do assert that prohibl-
tion Is 'the dominant issue in National poll
tics, and we can and do Invite to full party
fellowship all who on this one dominant issue
are with us agreed" believing that as we settle
this broad question for the right, SO shall we
best conserve the welfare Of our entire Nation
and of every class within it, so shall we max e
certain the wise and speedy settlement of every
lesser question involved and arising, so shall
we prove ourselves Christian patriots and or
dain the perpetuity of this Christian Republic.
Faithfully yours,
CLINTON B. FISKE.