Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-20
PARTIES RULED BY RUM.
Hamilton Disston Says the Repub-
licans Must Fight Hard
TO WIN TIE NOVEMBER BATTLE.
Senator Quay Is poing All He Can to Assist
the Committee.
FAYETTE PEOPLE WANT STEWART

what the leaders termed "Prohibition
Tariff Rally" in the Grand Opera House.
The attendance was not large, only the
lower portion of the house being comfort
ably filled and nearly half the audience be-
ing ladies, but it was enthusiastic and
liberal of applause. An odd feature of the
meeting, It being political one, was that
the theater entrance. the lobby and the
stage were protusely decorated with waving
palms and potted plants.
The opening exercises of the meeting also
seemed out of place in politics. j. B.
CARRIER acted as Chairman. Printed pro-
grammes announced "My Country 'Tis Of
Thee" as the opening hymn and it was
Joined in by nearly everyone present. A
prayer followed and then Miss Anna Parks,
a graceful young lady who knows how to
play a cornet. rendered a solo.
Voice From Indiana.
Mrs. Helen NJ Gcuger, of Indiana, a
public speaker in the employ OF the Ma
tional Prohibition party, was next intro
duced. The interested attention she re-
ceived in her one hour and ten minute
speech should have been gratifying to her.
with white hair, stout enough to look we'll
and with clear distinct delivery which
penetrated the whole building. Her speech
was the only feature of the evening which
seemed to smack of politics. The style was
the other political parties would have done
credi; to any frst-class campaign.
The subject of Mrs. Gouger's address was
cause and Remedy for Labor Troubles,
and during the course of her remarks the
good old lady frequently addressed her
hearers as ''you working men of Pittsburg,"
evidently under the impression that every
man in the audience was mill striker.
There were few if any such in the building,
but she was applauded just the same. At
the close of her speech Mrs. Gouger an
nounced that she would speak in Home
stead tonight
Civil War Predicted.
After her preliminary remarks Mrs.
Gouger launched into her subject She
said: To-day this country is on the verge
of a civil war Martial law prevails in
many sections and the wave of unrest, of
anarchism and of mob law which is sweep-
ing over the land is threatening our Re-
public 1t seems to me that instead of great
parades of men carrying torches in the
coming campaign the Lord in His wisdom
intends to bring us all down to our knees in
a campaign of prayer and Christianity.
s'To what is the present state of affairs
to be charged? To the rum power, which
controls our two past great political parties,
from Mr.. Harrison and Mr.. Cleveland
down, not even excepting Brother Wana-
maker. The labor troubles which are sur
prising the country are the result of two
great evils.
Voters Are Responsible.
''The first and greatest of these is the
liquor traffic. You good people of Pennsyl-
vania, do you know that the drunkenness
in your State as compared with other
States is appalling? Well, it is; and who Is
Any man who votes any
ticket but that of the Prohibition party.
The voters are the power behind the throne
of rum power. The statistics of this State
show that insanity is increasing 16 per cent
faster than the population. The number of
criminals is increasing q per cent faster
than the population. Liquor is the cause
in nearly every case. Liquor causes dis
eases which are being transmitted to our
children and their children, and our asy-
lums are multiplying to hold the imbeciles
which it produces.
'Mob law is running riot on every hand.
The record of brutal crimes in this country
of the past two years exceeds any in the
world. During a little over two years
8, 900 wives have been murdered in this
country by drunken husbands. The truth
must be told.
Placing the Responsibility.
"There is condition of civil war in Penn
sylvanis, in Tennessee, in the great State of
New York and in the baby State of Idaho,
The Republican party must be held ac-
1t has controlled this Gov
ernment ever since 1861. The conditions of
to-day are therefore attributable to it. 1t is
not the party of Lincoln or Grant or Sew
ards time. X has been led away and is
now as corrupt and as much in the power
of rum as its counterpart, the Democratic
party.
'That we are living in state of anarchy
and mob law is directly attributable to the
rum power. The effects of rum are seen on
every hand everywhere. A few weeks ago
the country was aroused by the inhuman
treatment of boy in your State militia-a
boy who made an unfortunate remark in
with the assault on Mr.. Frick.
Burning Arraicnmpnt
"a man in command, under the influence
of drink, had that boy hung up BY the
thumbs until exhausted. L don't know
anything about that man or his habits, but
will stake my reputation that. before in
flicting that punishment he was brutalized
by rum. [Applause. If it were not for
rum that unfortunate incident would not |
aroused will result in downing the liquor |
traffic in this country, unfortunate as it was,
it will have served good purpose.
"You workIngmen here tonight, if you |
want to stop strikes, if you want to put an |
end to the convict labor which is causing so |
much trouble in Tennessee, and which is
making your wages low byunfair competition |
N nearly every branch of trade, go to the
polls next November and vote for General |
Bidwell and prohibition.
Does Not Blame the Miners.
81 don't blame those men in Tennessee
or refusing to compete with criminal labor
know they are sturdy. peace-loving men,
)ut they could not stand it to see their
abor taken away from them, their wives
md children starving because of the in
If the convicts And yet convict labor
Gems to be necessity. The expense of
,eeping the inmates of our prisons in idle
less is so enormous that in those States
vhere it has been attempted it is being now
bandoned.
"Stop the liquor traffic in this country
nd you will stop the necessity for prisons
nd dispose of the convict labor question.
You will not then have a small body of men
lolding the government of great State at
'ay. The situation in Tennessee is only the
itua:ion of every State in the Union unless
We soon apply the remedy
eff you workingmen here who are Justly
rylng out against the Carnegies and the
tricks would assert your manhood at the
'allot box and place the Prohibition
,arty in power there would he an end |
o the misrule of the liquor traffic