Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-08

for US to keep on, too, until the curse Of intern
perance has been wiped away from our country.
We cannot, dare not, stop half way. No more
than this country could exist as the peer among
civilized nations, by being composed of a part
of freemen and the other part slaves. no more
can we allow one part to be drunk, while the
other part is sober.
Now these people tell US that liquor is a
wholesome beverage. 1t brings color in the
face, and makes a man look rudy. Yes. but
the only part in the face that gets real red is
the nose, and that spoils i'll
''Then the people say that high license would
reduce the saloons. l tell you II saloon licenses
cost 500 each their number would not de-
crease; but what has decreased our saloons?
1t was Judge White, with his little axl
with this which l have observed, and must
tell you what it is. We know that only SO
licenses were granted in the city of Pittsburg;
but tell you all the saloon keepers nearly are
hence we have really 27s saloons in the city
after all.
'Still, we are told the high license law only
allows respectable saloons to be kept On that
point will simply say that, in nay opinion the
places of mirrors and outward elegance and re-
spectability are just the places which attract
our boys and lead them to the goal of perdi-
ton; and / say therefore: Let the respectable
saloon 60 first, and the low, disreputablSAdives
will 20 out of existence anyhow.
"But then, look at the enormous revenue we
get from the liquor tradei That is another cry
we hear, and it reminds me of the story in the
Bible where the Lord drove seven devils out of
a man and cast them into herd of swine. The
Lord who had every reason to expect that the
Hebrews would be grateful to him for what he
had done was told:
.'It is all very well to cast devils out of man.
but Just think of the hogs; they have drowned
themselves, where we might have sold them to
That is just what good many people say, who
do not drink themselves, and have nothing to
do with the liquor business: Give it to the
white-aproned army, and let them create rev.
enue for our State
"Ah my dear friends, the Lord has given us
the power to get this amendment into our Con-
stitntion and hope we Will get it there. 1t is
all the Constitution requires to be perfect. And
not only that; it will be out of reach of our six
penny Pennsylvania Legislature and no legis-
lator viii be able to touch it to make political
capital out of it. What consummate asses
legislators can make of themselves has been
sufficiently demonstrated to you in the last few
daysi
Just consider the iniquity of endeavoring to
impeach man, Judge, who construes the
law in a sense highly beneficial to the people
and the morality of the masses. Amy constit-
uency that will again return such man and
support him. have my opinion of, as an Ameri-
can citizen.
"Dear friends the country is in about the
same position as it was during the war. The
Union forces, our boys in blue, were driven
steadily back from Richmond. Back back,
they had to CO. until they came into Pennsyl-
vania. But here, on the field of Gettysburg,
they rallied themselves, and from that day vic
tory upon victory was fought, until the rebels
were defeated. Shall it be the same this time?
We were defeated in New Hampshire, in
in West Virginia, in Ohio and
In Michigan; now then, let us once more make
q Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, and defeat the
curse of liquor on June L."
The speaker was repeatedly and enthusiast
cally applauded during his discourse. At the
conclusion the motion was made that every
body in the meeting express his determination
10 work and vote for the Constitutional amend
ment on June Is. and everybody sustain Judge
White in his course of action in the last License
Court. The resolution was unanimously
adontad