The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-12-19
house in tbe land. xon xould answer BAN

house in the land. you would answer ban
ish intoxicating drinks. As patriots.
philanthropists and Christians. we are
the means of doing tins thing.
There is nos a man in the State of Indiana
with intelligence enough TO 60 TO Mill OF
market who does not know 1t IS the biast-
ing. damning curse OF this country. We
lind a great many good people who say yes.
it is an evil. a terrible curse, but there's no
remedy for it. We have got to stand It. 1
cannot account for the Indifference mani
tested even by good people in this mater:
But We "a become SO familiar With ID
that indifference is a result of that fam,l-
iarty. When Ellsworth was killed NJ me
breaking0ut of the rebellion it caused o
more profound impression than later. when
a Thousand men would be killed In q sineie
fight. We got used to ii. 1t is so with any
evil. Let any calamity occur in any local
ity in this country, and the whole Nation
will be stirred. vet a thousand men, q
week are tumbling into
graves and all along, their pathway TO ,ne
olated homes. There are in this iand OF
Ours-this land of Washington and OF Lin
coln-more than a hundred thousand OF our
citizens who are calling for us to send ME
boats to them, and the heart of the people
is as dull and unfeeling as though made or
marble.
The man who says there is M remedy
against any evil in the world utters q SIAN
der against God. the General said. There
must be, or Gods government is a failure.
1T is our duty he continued, Ito hunt
out and apply tine remedies that are within
our reach. Lecturing npon this supJect III
England, / was spoken to by an
Englishman who said the remedy
not become drunkards. As a TACT.
more educated men die as d~runkards IN
proposition to their numbers than those VINO
are not educated. Many. very many from
Hx..-- - - - A. nDlIafoc haVQ
tnmbled into ~drunkards' graves. Some OF
our good sisters, some years ago, tried 10
pray il out. j do not say it did no good.
1t led men to think of the evil these women
were fighting, but it was no remedy. Inc
curse of drink is a self-inficted curse. and
we will have to remove it ourselves. L be-
lieve in the efficacy of prayer, but we must
work, as we'll as pray. God never dld any
thing for the human race that we can do
for ourselves. There must be rene
must correspond to. the evil. II
it is an individual evil there
must be an individual remedy; IL q soclaii
evil a social remedy. Some men say that
means, but it is a moral evil to steal. Sup
pose a man steals, it becomes the interest
of the state to see that he Is punished.
Some say that the true principle is for men
to learn to take care of themselves: to drink
moderately. and when a man feels he can
not drink moderately to quit. as II a man
cOuld quit at that time.
"SonIe say just let liquor alone and it
wont hurt you. The fact is, that those who
let liquor alone are the worst hurt. and
that is why society should interfere:
1t is the druDkard's wife and
family that is hurt. There are taught
more than 100000 children of ~drunkards
who ara in a more pitiable condition than
the slaves of the South before the war. 1t
is a social evil. 1t affects the the we'll
being of the state. 1t would appear to be
the business of the state To build jails. pen
itentiaries, po0rhOuses and lunatic asylums
and then to provide a way to fill them. L
have been asked if Cincinnati did not have
a very inefficient police, because the laws
We're not obcyed there. Suppose we had
5000 men in Cincinnati peddling the itch
and a law that nobody could scratch, do you
suppose that anybody would be kept from
scratching2 Where there are grOg-shops
and saloons there will be scratching
there will he fights and crimes. Regulate
and never will be by any law. human or
divine. 1t is in itself an irrsgularity, and
yOu cannot regulate an irregularity. Puta
b~read-and-milk p~oultice on a cancer. and
you send the virus all through the system
and kill the patient. Either kill the cancer
or leave talOne. Itisthe respectable saloons
that are dangerous. 1t is there the young
men begin. and they finally graduate and
get their diploma at the three-cent ~groggery.
Kill Oft the ones that produce the low dog
geries. Where there are p~olecats there will
be polekittens to produce them"
In conclusion, the speaker expressed him.
self in favor of prohibition, but not by
means OF 2 third party: he rave bnt little
how the thing was to be brought about.
The conference will reassemble this morn
ing. at $50 o'clock.