Blue-grass blade., 1892-09-03
DR.. j. 3. CRANFilL,
Prohibition Candidate for Vice-Presitlen
speaks In Michigan


Prohibition Candidate for yIce-Presitient.
speaks In Michigan
DIR. Cranfill spoke ut Philharmonic
Hall, Detroit, the other day. lie was
attending, as delegate, the National
baptist Young Peoples Convention.
lie lilened the two old parties to the
Siamense twins. and said they are
bound together by the common bond of
the American saloon. To sever this
bond would kill both the old parties.
These parties had at last admitted
there was no living issue with them
and had settled down on the tariff.
question that never has been settled
and never will be.
Il am free to confess, said the speak
er, ''that | don't care anything about
tariff know that if the worlingmen
of this country will stop paying SO
much for liquor they could pay the high
est kind of a protective tariff and still
be money ahead, and the manufacture
ers could stand free trade if their trade
were not diverted to the saloons. IL Is
by this see-saw game of the tariff that
the old parties hold their following in
line. and by appealing to their section
alism and prejudice. Down south they
have only to yell yankee and up north
rebel and the poor fellows hurry to
get back in line. | was told by Bap-
tist minister from Kentucky that he
would like to vote the prohibition ticket
first rate. and he would do it only he
was afraid the republicans would get
in: and l was told scientifically the same
thing by good Illinois Christian. only
his fear was that the democrats would
right to vote the prohibition ticket. and
that the only way to get to Heaven was
by doing right.
| was brought up a democrat, and
gave to that party for many years my
earnest work and prayers, but when /
saw that it was utterly impossible for a
man to be either a democrat or repub-
lican and be a Christian. | made up my
mind that would rather give up party
than my hopes of Heaven. ! have been
labored with earnestly by many of my
former political associates and told that
il and others kept on in this course we
would break up the solid south; and to
all such l have replied: "Ail right. so
long as we break up the solid rum devil -"
In the language of an illustriOus patriot:
Let 'er bust" The consequences never
| fall on the man who does right, they
are always on the other fellow. But
| the salvation of this country means
more than the liquor question. II means
the preservation to America of the in
| estimablc boon of American institu-
| tionS For, unless this terrible influx
of foreignization-I don't say foreigners
unless this Reorganization is stopped
the time is coming when we shall in
America have n Babel that will rival
pandemonium.
1t is for American boys and girls that
we are called upon to do service; to
save, in the generations near at hand,
American womanhood and American
| childhood. | met a small Kansas boy
in st. Louis, Mo-, and asked him if he
had ever seen a saloon? ''Oh. yes: lots
! OF them here in st. Louis" he replied.
But did you ever see one in Kansas?
asked. NO" said he; Il never saw
! one in my life till came to st. Louis. ="
did You ever see saloon sign, or
| liquors for sale anywhere in Kansas"
NO" said he: Il never did" And
that's only republican prohibition that
| they have in Kansas. Wait till we get
! prohibition prohibition: then the boys
and girls of America will not have their
! pure young minds and hearts blackened
| by the familiarity of these snares set
\ : II.
I the damnation of their souls. The pro-
| hibition ticket is the only ticket that
represents the true rising manhood of
this nation. 1t is the only party that
is even talking temperance.
The republican party never has done
anything since it dill that first thing.
1t has been living on wind ever since,
and is getting fearfully and wonder
| fully thin. Thus we have one party
| glorying in what it once did. and the
other glorying in what it kept the 9TH
er from doing-never having done
anything itself"
/ Referring to the recent labor riots in
Homestead. Idaho and other places, the
i speaker said that when things have
reached that pass that American work
men must be shot down in cold blood
it is time for all men who love their
+! country and their fellow men to do
some heavy non-partisan thinking. lie
asserted that when the billion dollars
that is annually spent for drink is
stopped, not all the power of all the
trusts and monopolies in the nation
will be able to manaele the hands OF
the American workingmen- The
trouble is that we are treating the
| symptoms and not the disease" said
DIR. Crantill. The disease of the
American workingmen is the Amcri-
can brewery. | see in this audience a
colorcd man from Nirginia; and YOU
all know how much has been said
about the terribly serious race prob
lem in the south. Let me say 10
you that when the bar-room is abolished
in the south You will hear no more
of race troubles, nor of the force bill
either"
DIR. Cranfill facetiously urged the ere
alton of a new college degree in place
of t. n, a. VI. of Ii. ID. He would
create the degree of T. H.. Back-Bone
for special application to a certain class
of preachers. The hit elected laughter
and applause, the manner of the speak
er implying that the pulpit was not do
ing what it should for IA cause that il
knew to be righteous.