St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-30

IL goes INTO the ngnC because
it believes prohibition to be right.
l hardly know at which point to begin,
there is so much to say on the subject.
The whisky traffic is so enormous that
it needs no eloQuence of mine to show
its evils. 1t shows for itself what it is,
and what ruin and misery it has caused.
The traffic is not of recent growth. 1t
has been growing steadily from genera
ton to generation, and is now the most
thoroughly organized power in the pol
ltlcal parties of the country. 1t has
friends and helpers in congress, in the
press and everywhere else in the world.
But the people have at last become
alarmed, am glad to Say, and are now
considering how best to control and
eradicate it. Other parties tell you that
there are more serious questions to be
considered tariff question for in
stance. But every man who is hOrest
at heart knows better. This tariff issue
is fictitious one and is simply put up
to blind you and get your votes. The
only thing that holds the two great par
ties together is the
STRIFE FOR PUBLIC PLUMBER
and to see how it shall control the
offices. If these side issues are so i'm
portant, why did not the Republican
party settle them when it was in power?
The Republican party has made great
spread on protection. but it is all bosh.
The party can change as many times as
necessary. The Democratic party said
it could settle the tariff question, but
why has it not done it? The settlement
is even now further away than it ever
was before.
What figure does the tariff question
cut when the liquor traffic is robbing
us? What good would it do us to have a
So per head tax abolished while the SAT
per head remains? If man will go to
Washington and visit the halls of con-
gress he can see what an insignificant
farce this whole tariff business is.
The only thing that saves the
entirely is the fact that our
representatives in congress do not
know what they are talking about when
they begin to talk tariff. The Republi-
can party claims to stand for great
things, such as keeping the Chinese
out, and wants your vote for doing that.
But as the Chinese were allowed to
come here by a Republican administra-
ton, it seems to me that the plea is
rather thin. So don't vote for the Re
publican party on that score. The Re-
publican party is responsible for all the
things it now announces itself OPP
posed to. Civil service reform was
brought about by the corruption of the
says ''let us go back and we will re-
FORM" So it goes with the Republican
party all the way there.
THERE IS NOT A PLANK
in its platform which is not in direct
| opposition to its own act. On the other
hand all the Democratic party has to
offer is big indictment against the Re-
publican party, and request to be kept
in power SO that it can feed at the public
crib. There is really no difference be-
tween the two platforms. But here
! is an issue on the liquor question. This
issue is on and has been on in every
| of every thinking man and woman in
the land. But the two great parties
| take no stand on the question. The
Democratic party, however, needs to
make no declaration as to how it stands
on the liquor question. The Republi-
| can party promised to do great things,
| but has done nothing. Why it took
! $4,000 barrels of beer to run
the Republican convention at Chicago.
Oh, yes, the Republican party has de-
| clared that if necessary it will drench
| the country with whisky to protect some
| of the few infant industries. The party
nature in it's platform for various rea-
sons, but the little temperance cracker
Oh the end was tackled on when the con-
vention found that John Sherman was
not going to be the nominee. Not one
Republican in the United States can
tell you what
THIS LITTLE CRACKER
means, for it really means nothing. 1t
may mean total prohibition; it may mean
high license and it may mean free
| whisky. There you are, and you can
take your choice. You can not tell
which end is first in the Republican
platform, but in fixing up this plat
| form it has displeaSed both the
temperance people and the liquor men.
| No one knows where the party stands.
| The men who have gone into the pro-
| hibitiOn party are men of too much
sense to be hoodwinked by the false
Republican party. l wish l could show
you picture of the stand the Demo-
| cratic party has taken on this question.
| The party has got itself into the liquor
business up to its ankles, but it's in
head first. But man comes to me
and says:
Small, come and join the G. 0. P.
| gone out permanently, l guess it
means) party. We are the high moral
| party, and mean to do what is right
| We have done all that has ever been
done for the temperance question:
| The Republican party has never done
anything for temperance in the world,
and there never was greater
lie than the statement that it
has. But the Democratic party,
| to its credit, has done something for
temperance, and its record on the Ques-
ton is far better than the Republican.
| Nnj0n-nn Nnrthar,,
| Southern Democrats? | refer to the
Democrats of the United States of
America, for know no North nor any
South. Democrats are alike in all sec
tons of the country, and SO are the Re-
| publicans. The section of country they
come from makes no difference.
THEY ALL SMELL ALIKE.
1 have Republican and Democratic
friends in the South and they are just
as good men and as pure men as you
have up here in your highly moral and
intelligent Northwest. You Republic
cans make me sick with all your talk
about your doing so much for temper
ance, when you are bound to
whisky interest, hand, foot and
soul. When you went out
of power you left the country worse
whisky ridden than when you came in.
You have the brazen impudence of the
devil to come up again and ask to be
put back into power, SO you can send
out more whisky.
A voice from the audience-"How
about Kansas"
Oh, thought you would chirp pretty
soon, and have been just laying for
you. 1t was not the Republican nor
the Democratic party that carried the
day there. 1t was the good and honest
!