Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-11-23

and yet because of the memories of that
war the South is more solidly Democrat
ic than it was in 1868, and the North more
solidly Republican than then. This con-
dition of politics is abnormal, is a con-
slant terrible menace. We must get the
voters of America to turn their faces to
the future. A normal division of voters
must be brought about; the men of pro-
gress North and South be brought into
one party and the conservative men of
all sections into the other. The body DO
litic cannot be healthful until this result
is accomplished. And conscience must
be gotten into politics.
"Now if the South will let 90 the past
and place itself in the front rank of DO
litical progress on the side of the future,
of the best ideas, of the best impulses of
the nation, it will greatly help in the for
nation of the National party of the New
America, and it will have its legitimate
influence in that party.
"For a work of this kind the South has
great advantages. In the South more
than in the North the church is supreme.
The foreignizing of our institutions has
gone forward less slowly there than here.
The imported saloon has got feebler
grip the American Sunday and the Am
erican home have felt less its corrupting
power. In this respect, at least, the
South is more American than the North.
To-day majority Of the Southern peo-
pie are ready for prohibition, and could
be led by the best of its leaders into a
national party that has prohibition as its
dominating issue.
VA successful movement of this kind
will divide the negro vote and the white
vote in the South, and will thus eliminate
the color line from politics and free that
land from one of its greatest dangers. 1t
will end the solidity of the South, and
that ended, the solidity of the north will
disappear. In this way the South will
end two great dangers that beset it and
the country. Our politics will be lifted
to higher level; they will carry torch.
not as now for destruction, but for the
giving of light; they will be educative.
| Politics can be made, and should be made.
A: the most potent of all instruments for the
education of the American masses.
. "To the better manhood of the South
: we speak. Is not the course we have in
D.. dictated infinitely more worthy of YOU
4 than for you to give heed to this despair
r ing cry of the Atlanta Constitution. your
n leading paper:
: SIT is with deep forebodings that we
look into the future. What ills NAV
: come to these Southern States, so lately
e put in the way of peace and prosperity,
q we have now neither the time nor the
l.. heart to inquire. Fortunately, the way
: OF our duty is clear and definite. 1t is to
:, close ranks, stand firm and at any hazard
: and in any despite to maintain the integ-
rlty and the supremacy of the Democrat
ic party in the South. Let us do this and
the essential things may be saved to us.
e III we can be instrumental i'm
j. restoring the grand old party to the
place from which it has fallen, and in
X clothing it again with the cover of which
a 1t has been so wantonly stripped we
V shall therein have worked the sum of our
r earthly ambition. If this may not be-
II if the wounds from which the party suf-
:. fers are mortal-then we shall be content
4; to take our place with the old guard of
Democracy, which may die, but which
|, will never surrender"
l. "All this heroism of dying in the last
:, ditch doesn't count on voters tally
n sheets. 1t is better to hold your heroism
V and vehemence in the leash of common
l. sense and of patriotism. The hour needs
Y you, your country needs you living, not
L dying. You are standing upon the thresh-
h old of magnificent opportunities. De-
4. feat? An angel has opened door before
l. you in the dark to a new and grand fu-
T. ture. VIII you not enter that door,
r Gen. John B. Henderson of St. Louis,
% an eminent eX-Unted States Senator, was
d few days since interviewed by repor-
4 ter on the Washington Post on the prohi-
al bition movement in the West and South
he Gen. Henderson said
e, 81 do not look for the Prohibtionists
st to cut much of figure in the present
1t contest, because they are sensible enough
/; to know that they can accomplish nothing
lie that they will, in fact, be throwing
D. away their votes; but | would not be
A. surprised to see the movement assume
lie gigantic proportions after the election.
OIL The Prohibition sentiment in Missouri is
& very strong, and it is very strong in Tex
is as, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia and
IL North Carolina. We see what has been
n done in Iowa and Kansas. If vote was
H. taken on prohibition in Missouri it would
at carry Overwhelmingly outside of st.
tie Louis. | mean, of course, if vote could