Evening journal., 1890-06-13
BLOOD RAY BE SPILLED.
Prohibitionists Are Ready to
Use the Musket.
JOSEPH COOKS WARLIKE WORDS.

neNefAi orators AT the Icinnerance ton-
gress Think Bioodshed Alone WIN sup
press the saloon samuel Gompors Says
Worlsingmen Are indifferent.
NEW YORK, June 1s.--The National Tenn
perance congress finished It's labors yester-
day No conclusions were formulated in
the shape Of resolutions, but most Of the
speeches were overwhelmingly in favor Of
straight ont 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 sangunary hints were dropped that
the fight against the saloons might become
fight in dead earnest in which blood
would be spilled.
Ready 10 Shoulder tho MnsIsct.
'Should there be a political party whose
dominant idea is the prohibition Of the
liquor tratiiem was the first query pro
pounded TO the convention. The Rev. DR..
II. X. Carroll answered il ia the negative.
The constitution, he said, conferred no
power 20 impose upon the people national
prohibition law
John Bnsoom, 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 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. II
whisky was dominant ia this country he
was prepared TO shoulder the musket
Explaining Recent Defeats.
The first topic taken up at eEe afternoon
session was ITO what causes is to be at
tributed the failure OF the prohibition
amendments Ia the late contests in Massa-
chusetts, Pennsylvania and Rhode IslandGn
Mr.. II. H. Faxon OF Massachusetts, under
took TO explain how II happened In Massa-
chusetts He said shat 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 sanre fashion Henry B. Metcalf ex-
planned 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
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 az home.
Where prohibition had been tried 1t re-
suited only in worse liquor az higher prices.
People couldn't be made total abstainers
by law. What lahoring men needed were
better wages, shorter hours, and more com
Portable homes Then the saloons would
not offer the temptations they now do
Then laboring men would have time and,
perhaps, inclinationa to think the matter
over and might come TO the conclusion
that it would be worth while TO be total
abstniners.
No sympathy with Prohibitionists.
Mr. H. B. Wakeman said that laboring
men as a class had no sympathy with Pro
hibitionists. Prohibitionists stood for
sumptuary laws, backed by religious fan
atheism. The prohibtionist said in effect
to the working man II am holier than
thou; sit down. Cries Of dissent resounded
through the church, but Dr. Deems stopped
them by insisting that Mr. Wakeman
should have a fair hearing Mr. Wakeman
repeated his assertion that Prohibitionists
as a class put on airs Of righteousness that
We're offensive to workingmen Prohibit
tionists would never succeed unless they
got the workingmen with them At pres
ent the labor question stood athwart the
path Of prohibition. To bring the work
ingmen 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" 1t was decid-
edly sensational. Speaking OF the power
Of the saloon he said Il 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 a farce and the
future may conceal tragedy" lie pitched
into high license, and quoted with approval
an epigram. the author Of which he said
ought TO be remembered 1000 years: Low
license asks for your son; high license for
your daughter also.n
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
be won. The last speech was made by the
Rev. John II. Hector, a colored brother.
He said that in slavery times the negroes
were kept free from whisky. Because Of
this they were today the healthiest and