The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-01-27
JOHN z. ST. JOHN.
His Speech On Liquor and Tariff
Matters at the Court House.

The State Prohibition conference
was Gale 10 or er at the criminal!
court room, at $50 o'clock last night.
The room Was crowded with ladies and
gentlemen. After ringing temper
ance song, and a prayer by Rev B.
F. Boil er. pastor of the Congregation
al church, Chairman Vaughn INTRO
duced the speaker of the evening, Elk
Governor John p. ST. John. He
was received with hearty applause ahd
spoke for al hour and baif on the
liquor traffic aud the tariff question.
Governor St. John salt
that he wss proud to
speak in the future capital of Mis-
souri,. II am not prophet nor the
son of prophet, but mark my word
Sedalia will be the capital of Missouri.
1t is certai1 to come to pass.
A recrgstalization of political forces
is needed. said the speaker, an then
he cited the disturbances in the New
Hampshire legislature, the row in the
Colorado general assembly and the
recent state of affairs in Nebraska.
All this unseemly conduct between
the two old parties is going ON when
there is no important pubic issue at
stake, save the scramble after the
spoils of office. 1t is largely the
legitimate outgrowth of our American
saloon system.
There are two hundred thousand
liquor establishments in the United
States and the government is in part
nership with everyone of them.
Uncle Sam says to the saloon keepers.
have your money, and ycu can go
ahead with your work of destruction.
This government ought to be revolu
tionized, God pity the government
that baptizes itself in the revenue that
is derived from rum. The liquor
traffic has no inherent right to exit.
This is the opinion as delivered by
Justice Field of the United States
supreme court.
Placed in a row, the saloons of
this country would make a street
four hundred miles long. Theevil- arts
ing from this legalized street of hell
are bribery, bull-dozing, ballot box
stuffi3g, thieves, murders, bummers,
dead beats, tramps, sucidts, wife
beaters and not a single blessing.
"You men who favor high license,
tell me why it should exist and what
good thing has come from it.
The Prohibition party stands by the
truth. When it ceases to do that, let
it 60 down,
Governor St. Johns references TO
Vice President Morton's saloon at
Washington City, were exceedingly
sarcastic and humorous. 81 have
right ~ vOadvu... tho -iOo president.
His saloon may be more fashionable
and he may sell liquor at twenty cents
a drink, but it is practically no more
respectable than McGinty's saloon ON
the Bowery, where you can buy a
drink for ten cents. Talk about Bel
shazzer's dissipation. Why, at bis
table there was only one glass of wine
placed at each plate in the fashion
able modern times, five glasses are
put before each guest. AS to the at
ti'ude of the church on the liquor
question, st John said that the
preacher who is too timid
to denounce from his pulpit
the liquor traffic, deserves to be
kicked out or cast into the sea, as
Jonah Of old.
The latter half of the governors
speech was devoted to the tariff-''a
monumental fraud aud sham, because
it levies its burdens upon what we
consume instead of what we possess. |
The Mckinley bill was bitterly de-
nounced, and. he characterized the |
Force bill as the most infamous assault
ever made upon the liberties of this
country. 1t is desperate measure
to perpetuate in power a political
party. 'God forbid that / should |
ever have to vote under bayonet
rule"
As a humorous speaker, Governor
st. John is a great success, and as an
of democratic doctrine, he
surpasses George G. Vest in his palm
lest DAYS f!