Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-27
SCORING MIR. TOmLINsON.

Ex-Governor St. John Talks For
 Prohibition - The Evils of the
 Liquor Business - High License
 Pronounced a Fraud and . Sham
 He EloquentIy Appeals to Support
 the Amendment-Chalk Talks.
 The Atheneum was almost two-thirds filled last evening with an audience composed largely of ladies when ex-Governor John B. St. John of Kansas spoke in behalf of the proposed prohibitory amendment upon which the freemen of the State will vote October 7. Rev. MT. Lee presided and Rev. MT. Meserve opened the meeting with prayer. In his in- troductory address Rev. MT. Lee referred to the influence Connecticut had upon the formation of Kansas, good prohibition State, and welcomed the ex-Governor of that commonwealth.
 At the outset the speaker appealed vigor- ously for liberal money contribution for the cause from the audience. Proceeding, he argued that the higher law was against opposed the abolition of slavery and now oppose the abolition of the liquor traffic.
 The metropolitan papers tell us that pro-
 hibition ia failure; that it's supporters are composed of short-haired women and long, haired men, of cranky old maids or Sunday school teachers, just as tnough it were 3
 crime to be an old maid or Sunday school teacher. They talked the same way about
 the old abolitionists forty years ago. And yet you can't find an anti-abolition- ist in Connecticut to-day, they are dead or left the state. The abolitionists won and the Prohibitionists will win. Years from now there won't be an anti prohibition l ist in Connecticut; they'll all be dead or will have moved elsewhere.
 l Now see that my old personal friend Tomlinson has been here. Tomlinson Is 6
 real clever fellow, good neighbor. He is l not gambler, not an ex-saloon keeper, not
 8 drunkard, not an ex-deacon; he is simply l the paid agent of the rum power, and as 1 such has got to earn his money. He would naturally like to tell the truth, but if he told | the truth he would not get ten cents a week | from the rum power. The speaker spoke in refutation of Mir. Tomlinson's statements
 made recently in the city by quoting Gov. Martin of Kansas, whose utterances are di rectly contrary to those of MT. Tomlinson. He even quoted Tomlinson against himself, disproving his own statements. "The un- | truthfulness of the poor man is enough to cause Annanias to turn over in his grave and move a vote of thanks" was the speakers final comment on MT. Tomlinson.
 License high or low is a fraud and sham.
 If the liquor traffic is right it is shame to put upon it burden that is not borne by any other business, and if it is wrong you
 cannot pile up money enough to make it right. believe that the New Haven saloon
 keepers are just as good and pure as the sa-
 looms they keep, and believe that the sa-
 looms are just as good and pure as the Con-
 necticut law which sustains them, and that
 law is as good as the church deacon who votes for it. The speaker closed with an eloquent
 and touching peroration, appealing to the | linen of Connecticut" to fall if need l be with their face to the enemy. The chalk taker, Rollo Kirk Bryan closed
 the meeting. He made several sketches rep
 rssentative of the struggle of prohibition | against the liquor business and the trans-
 formation that the adoption of the amend
 ment would bring about. He made his sketches while constantly talking. At 10 o'clock the audience dispersed.