The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-11-07

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,r The tetotal-prohibition meeting las
f. Tuesday night would have been
decided success but for one thing
that was the scarcity of hearers.
= Brother Browns prelude to thu
If lecture was more than interesting
lie undertook to prove that the wins
our Savior made at the wedding fens'
a was not intoxicating. Why, my deal
d christian friend, was not the last wine
. the best, the sweetest and the strong.
;, est? Did not the wine-bibcrs gIoa,
over its inspiring stimulating effects:
Did they not declare in their estecy
5 that the best wine had been reserved
to the last? Wine is wine tic world
over, and drink enough of it, it will
make drunk.
} But to tie lecture. The c. W. T.
t L. or whatever it is, sent their
r pretticst. handsomcst, best cultivated
and rioSt talented speaker TO shbdue
|, the most hardened, most drunken.
most Wicked, most brutal home-des,
trotiug sunk-in suffering city in the
west. There is 10 croY feet, or
at%tenuated form about the speaker,
but 4 plump, handsome, charming
woman. who would draw compliments
in any crowd. She uses fiue Language
which COWS sofi and sweet; just the
kind TO hehiadle a handling de-
5aathet hali-ovcr in his cups, but un-
fortunately for the speaker and
fortunately for is. we have none such
at tbs city, which accounted for the
sliEhr..s of the audience both nights.
From all We Could gather from the
arguments the speaker wants an
autocrat 10 rule over this country in
lieu of q president. Not content with
Il Democratic form of government,
but would prefer such a one is they
hath got In China. where one man
power is SUPREME. Right there is
where ali lady speakers are at fault;
they do not understand the under
laying principles of our government
they do not know that the people,
not The President. rules in this country.
They ID not know that otr rulers are
but u agents TO carry out the will
of those who Elected them, aud this
want of knowledge, or c~oncealing of
it, is their weak side, rendering their
lectures stale. dry aid of no force;
! and this weakness Is tic club that The
distiilers use to support their cause.
Such men as st. John and some lady
speakers are doing more to support
s~alooi:s ard niake drunkards than all
otter causes put together.
81 wish the speaker had been more
pointed regarding the suffering. want
and hcstitution that she talked so
pretty about. Where is it, where can
ii be foundI Ii is not in this land,
and % know 1t: though you speak
TO the contrary. Your association has
blackened the good name of this city
by CHASING il as drunken, dpbauchod
city; but it is false. There is no more
:emrefate. orderly, law abiding peo-
pie in the world than those who live
here. We have 10 drunkards. no
destitute homes. no suffering children,
no weeping wives. or dcbatched sons.
In :lic face of all these facts YOU want
q law passed thst would change all
this peace and prosperity. Look at
Kansas. The State where your prohibi-
lion law is now embedded in the con-
s.itutiOn. Let facis speak for them
selves. No enc will accuse the writer
of being a trimmer or favoring
Drunkenness, yet what we have seen
We Know TO be true. We had occa-
sion to visit that prohibition ridden
state two years before prohibition
was adopted and did nc see one
pcnson under the influence of liquor.
We visited after the law was passed.
and while riding ove the country
SAW a number OF Young men dead
drunk lying. some tr the wGyside.
others in the furrow, their teams
standing idle. On orr first visit there
was no saloon in the town We visited.
and on our last visit there were three
blind tigers in full blast. dealing out
liquors without restriction to men
and Go-3 alike. numbers of whom We
saw drunk on the streets. and what
was worse of all. a c Jail about
finished 10 take care of the drnnkards.
No restraining law TO regulate the
Traffic, but it running riot, and the
youths runring 70, with it. This is
the curse you would bring on our
peaceful. prosperous State, you /,
brought on Iowa, and to-day those 8
two grand States arc grooming under
the curse Of Prohibition and ST.
Johnism. |.
Ex-senator Ingalls, says, and says ;
truly, speaking of his State: "The
prohibitionists have got the law, and
our boys have got the whisky" +,
THIS IS what rou would bring to
Missouri had you the power-the H.
restricted sale of whisky by "blind
tigers" TO our boys. We want none
of it.