Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-08
PR0HIBITI0NISTS.
THE PROHIBITION CAMPAIGNING, AT MOUNDS
WILLIE, WAXING WARM.
An Address by Walter 7. Mills, Of Ilinois-Ex-
Governor St. John Gives En- a Dose Of
the Tarif-The People Still
Kept Entertained.
sp.eiaL corrs.pon.i.aee Of ne Reqt.,ec.

Special Coryespoadsace Of ne Register.
MorNDsvILLE, w. Va, July II don't
care if do say il, | think sam
Jones IL Jest horrid, there now,n spoke a
little chattering female in the branch |
station of the Moundsville Camp Ground |
yesterday.
sam must have gone and hit pretty |
tarnal nigh home, by gosh, in her family, |
he he. hawr' broke out a strapping big |
fellow who had ridden over seven miles of
hard road TO hear the Georgia spOuter.
''You needn't laugh, Sam Jones amt no |
gentleman, he talked right out, and I
know lots Of people that are jest as mad
he amt got no born business, no he amt, |
to go and stir up old sores among us people, |
and don't'-and so the conversation grew
until there became quite
A GENERAL DEBATE
in the little branch station as to the merits |
and dement's Of the Southern orator
Last evening the Sabbath programme
was continued by a platform meeting
which was addressed by +. r. Carskadon,
eX- Governor St John and Rev Mr. Meade
The subject discussed was the all absorb
ing liquor topic, and each speaker present
cd various illustrations to show the enor-
nifty Of the evil. While there was Il fair at
/ tendance in the evening, there was great
falling off from the appearance of things in
/ the afternoon. The meeting last night
/ closed about 10 o'clock, after which large
numbers sought their respective homes by
train, carriage and foot.
/ When the spiendrous orb rose yesterday
morning il shOne again upon the cold-water
hosts encamped upon the sward. The
resident population bestirred themselves
unusually early in the morning. many of
them being up with the lark, to enjoy what
proved to De the only brief
SEASON OF COMFORT
that was experienced throughout the day.
There was hardly any breeze stirring, and
In the middle of the day il was necessary
TO keep perfectly quiet to keep comfort
The morning meeting opened at O'Clock,
and was conducted by Mrs c. b. Buel, OF
Chicago, who called upon Mrs. A. ID.
Alien to offer prayer. The first number on
the programme was another of those very
interesting innovations in the way of an
illustrated talk on Hygiene Food and
Physical Culture by Miss Hattie b. Jones,
of Weston The lecture was all the more
comprehensive from the fact that colored
charts and maps Were frequently brought
into play. At the close of the lecture Miss
Jones requested all present to ask any
questions they desired, and Tor several
minutes the speaker was the center OF Il
hot vOlley of interrogatiyes, which she
successfully met. Some OF the most uneN-
pected questions were answered hardly
without a moments thought Twenty vol
upteers from the audience then went
through various calsthenics under the
guidance of Miss Jones' and the eXer-
else concluded with running match
among the ladies' Just TO see If they
could do it any more gracefully
. than they can throw rock at hen. They
cut queer capers, some OF them. "Inat
, more fun ner goat hollered out ielloW
i'm the audience And so il was. This
closed the first part.
At 1890 the regular temperance meeting
began with Mr. Carskadon in the chair.
o Rev. j. Z. Lynch opened in prayer iol-
lowed with
, RECITATION
by Prof Hawkes., of Baltimore, entitled
Mr.. Grumblc and Mr. Cheerful. The
chairman next introduced the chief speaker
of the morning, whom he was pleased 10
style the original package of prohibition
dynamite Mr. Walter T. Mills, of Illinois.
. The speaker seemed like a Vcrtable bun
die of nerves. He is small in stature. but
wiry and full of vim. He is perhaps too
. Ovcr-chargcd with his subject TO
keep always within the bounds
of rationalism, yet he was very
fluent in his remarks, and kept the
audience well in tact. The subject of his
% address was the relation of the church to
temperance. and he dwelt particularly upon
the fact that it was the duty OF the church
as an organization TO fight against this
wrong He went into the history of the
church from the foundation, and the
speaker is evidently well informed on all
ecclesiastical matters He said if it was
not the duty of the church to make
THE WORLD BETTER
whose duty was it, 4 good many people
didn't want TO bring politics into religion
but did want TO bring religion into politics
What was needed just now was little
, more religion mixed with politics. lie
made an earnest appeal to all church mem
hers outside of the ranks TO shake of the
shacklos Of subservicncy ana Join the great
party of the future, the Prohibition party
At the conclusion OF his remarks Rev. Mr.
Meade called upon the people TO read more
of temperance literature and cited several
. publications which he believed would be
beneftting in the great work Of reform.
At the close of the morning session there
was an informal meeting of the Prohibition
State Committee The members Of this
committee who were present were L. Il.
Carskadon, of Keyser; Dave ID. Johnson,
OF Parkersburg: Frank Burt, of Manning
Richie county: George Leonards, OF Jack
son county; j. y. Bodley, of Ohio county;
wi. McKuskey Of Marshall county, and
H. r. Fleming, of MonOngalia county. The
object of the meeting was 10 formulate
plans for campaign work, and to select a
committee TO draw up an Official address to
the people of West Virginia for the coming
political contest. No definite action was
taken at the morning meeting, and another
ff,.sr a..far a. &C.
tterday afternoon.
THE AFTERNOON MEETING.
The afternoon meeting was called to or
der at half-past two, Mr.. Carskadon, as
usual presiding After few choice seiec-
tons by the Silver Lake Quartette eN-
Governor St. John, of Kansas, was again
presented to the audience but in differ
emit role The audience was light in fact,
I the great pyramid of seats was very sparse
lv filled Whether this was due TO the
extreme heat. or from the fact that II was
I generally known that the afternoon sub
/ iect was TO be on the cold. abstract suDlect
/ of the tariff, we leave our readers TO Judge.
| Mr.. St Johns remarks were almost wholly
confined TO tariff II was no tarln on
/ the half-shell Ii was tariff on
the whole shell. The speaker began by
/ saving that his political life up to 1854 had
| been spent in the ranks of a political party
/ that adhered TO a doctrine OF high tarllI |
| | ike thousands of others | was high
/ tariff nam simply because my party was
| for high tariff So wrapped up was
IN HIGH TARIFF
/ that when my party touched the hlgn
tariff spring. danced high tariff jig. J
am here this afternoon not as tariff re-
| former | am not tariff reformer, one
reason for which is, that don't believe in
spending time in trying to mend a
/ thoroughly through and through bad thing |
/ Nv Judgment IS that we can never re-
! form the liquor traffic Consequently we
must get rid Of it altogether So with
tariff The tariff system is all wrong
through and through. And the great rea-
! son is because il levies its burdens upon
what we consume instead Of what we pos
sess. 1t imposes as great a burden upon
the poor as upon the rich. II IS increasing
tbe extremes in poverty and wealth. The
sneaker then went on and gave long line
of statistics relating TO
THE CEREAL PRODUCTS
If the country since the war, and showed
how the tariff had since played havoc with |
those same articles, and impoverished the
producer He spoke in sarcastic way oil
how the farmers were getting along, and
ave graphic picture of their present Tor
Torn condition under the sO-called protective
system. The iniquities Of high tariff were
! .bo,,.,, M, in startling light. This closed ]