Connecticut western news., 1890-06-18
BLOOD MAY BE SPILLED.
Prohibitionists Are Ready to
 Use the Musket. {
JOSEPH COOKS WARL1KE WORDS.

JOSEPH COOKS WARLIKE WORDS. Several Orators at the Temperance Con- gross Think B1oodshed Alone Will Sup- ] press the SaIoon-Samue1 Gompers Says
 Workingmen Are Indifferent.
 NEW YORK, June 13.-The National Tenn perance congress finished it's labors yester- day. No conclusions were formulated in khe shape of resolutions, but most of the speeches were overwhelmingly in favor of straight out prohibition and against any compromise with the liquor traffic in the shape of high license. The speeches were even more aggressive than on the first day, and sanguinary hints were dropped that the fight against the saloons might become a fight in dead earnest in which blood would be spilled.
 Ready to Shoulder the Musket.
 "Should there be political party whose dominant idea is the prohibition of the liquor traff1c?" was the first query pro- pounded to the convention. The Rev. Dr. H. K. Carroll answered it in the negative. The constitution, he said, conferred no power to impose upon the people national prohibition law.
 John Bascom, D. D., ex-president of the University of Wisconsin, favored politi- cal prohibition party because nothing to help the cause could be got out of existing parties. Then followed a lot of red hot prohibition speeches. Henry Clay Bascom said that if the constitution didn't permit prohibition it was time to get rid of it. If whisky was dominant in this country he was prepared to shoulder the musket
 Explaining Recent Defeats.
 The first topic taken up at the afternoon session was "To what causes is to be at- tributed the failure of the prohibition amendments in the late contests in Massa- ohusetts, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island?" MT. H. H. Faxon, of Massachusetts, under took to explain how it happened in Massa- chusetts. He said that it was due to high license, the corrupt use of lots of money by the rum power, scarcity of cash in the pockets of Prohibitionists, a venial press that sold itself to the highest bidder, apa- thetic politicians and so on. In practically the same fashion Henry B. Metcalf ex- plained the defeat in Rhode Island and Gen. Palmer the reverses in Pennsylvania. Col. Hadley, of this city, was down on beer, and said that the cause of temperance wouldn't make any headway as long as the temperance people were disposed to let up on it.
 The Laboring Man Indifferent.
 The next subject taken up was 'The at- titude of laboring men toward the liquor traffic." Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was the next speaker. He said that most work ing people looked with considerable in- difference upon temperance agitation. Liquor traffic reformers, when they were employers of labor, were generally little more harsh and unfair than other en- ployers Prohibition meant stopping the poor man from getting his beer by shutting up the saloons, while the rich man could drink his drinks in comfort at home. Where prohibition had been tried it re- quilted only in worse liquor at higher prices. People couldn't be made total abstainers by law. What laboring men needed were better wages, shorter hours, and more com foftable homes. Then the saloons would not offer the temptations they now do. Then laboring men would have time and, perhaps, inclination to think the matter over and might come to the conclusion that it would be worth while to be total abstainers.
 No Sympathy with Prohibitionists.
 Mr. T. B. Wakeman said that laboring men as class had DO sympathy with Pro- hibitionists Prohibitionists stood for sumptuary laws, backed by religious fan atheism. The Prohibitionist said in effect to the working man, "1 am holier than thou; sit down. Cries of dissent resounded Through the church, but Dr. Deems stopped them by insisting that MT. Wakeman should have fair hearing. MT. Wakeman repeated his assertion that Prohibitionists hs class put on airs of righteousness that <,ffo, ,,e;xy To Ri Gonists would never succeed unless they got the workingmen with them. At pres 9bt the labor question stood athwart the path of prohibition. To bring the work mgmen to their side the Prohibitionists would have to change their methods. Some plan would have to be devised that would put rich and poor on an equality with re- spect to the application of prohibition. Joseph Cooks War Cry. Then Joseph Cook, of Boston, made an "Appeal to Philip Sober" It was decid- edly sensational Speaking of the power of the saloon he said, "I fear that we may ultimately need the musket. We may have barricade riots yet When the path to po- litical preferment leads through the gin mill free government is farce and the future may conceal tragedy" He pitched into high license, and quoted with approval du 0p4HTd1u, Glo dUUuOI OI WA1CA 4S SeSAO ought to be remembered 1000 years: "Low license asks for your son; high license for your daughter also.''
 Rumsellers, he said, were excluded from membership in most Protestant churches because their business was so mischievous | and discreditable He wished that he could pull the Roman Catholic church up to the same high level in this respect. Then the rumseller would be practically without a | church.
 Blood Would Flow.
 "No Sectionalism in the Temperance Work" was the subject assigned to Gen Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky. He, too was very much afraid that the musket would have to be used and blood would flow before the fight for prohibition could l be won. The last speech was made by the Rev. John H. Hector, colored brother He said that in slavery times the negroes were kept free from whisky Because o1 this they were today the healthiest and strongest race on the continent.
 | To Die Before Kemm1er.
 PLATTsBURG, N. Y, June 11.-Judge | Fish has fixed the time for the execution
 by electricity of Joseph Chapleau for the
 week beginning July 21. When Chapleau
 was convicted last January the execution
 was fixed for the third week in March, but
 a motion before the court of appeals for 6
 new trial acted as 8 stay. The motion was
 denied and the prisoner was brought here