The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-30
PROHIBITION AND PROTECTION.

MADISON, Wis, July Eek Governor
st. John of Kansas, Governor Mckinley ol
Ohio and w. C. Warner OF the New York
Reform club spoke at the Monona Lake
assembly today. Mr.. ST. John addressed
hundreds of Prohibitionists in the morn
ing. He said, in part:
I'm 1868, when, under Democratic and
Republican rule, our government went
into partnership with the liquor traffic,
the amount of Intoxicating liquors
consumed equalled but 259 gallons
per capita OF the population. From
that time until 1891, under the
fostering care of these two old
grow until it equalled ID. 81 gallons Tor
eveEy man, woman and child in the United
States. The question | PROFOUND to YOU
Democrats and Republicans is this: How
long will it take to get rid of this home
and soul-destroying evil al this rate? At
the close of 1889 we found in this nation
11l.369 retail liquor houses; at the close of
1890 the number had grown to
l966i0; at the close of 1891 it
reached 240, 80. In other words. we find
that the liquor traffic had grown more
rapidly than during any other three years.
Over the counters of these 240 197 Dem
ocratic and Republican liquor houses was
expended. in 1881 the sum of one billion
five hundred and seven millions of dollars
DID you ever think what that means? Let
us put it in 81 dollars-and, by the way,
in view of the Iact that we have heard So
much about silver lately. it may not be
out of place to declare now and here that
i am IN favor of the free coinage OF silver.
lApplauses Let us put this enormous
waste over liquor counters into silver dol
lars, Load 2,OC0 pounds in wagon and
start it westward, When it has gone 100
feet load up another wagon with 1000
1, I'D Z hn
each wagon occupying 100 feet, and when
we have loaded the last 1000 pounds of
these silver dollars, spent over these liquor
counters Of the nation, we will have a pro-
cession $50 miles long. This expenditure
over liquor counters would more than pay
of the national debt in a single year
For thirty years whenever these two old
parties said anything about the tariff they
have claimed to be for some kind of tariff
reform. | take the position that the
whole tariff system is wrong in principle,
because it levies its burdens on what we
consume instead of on what we possess
1t is making day laborers contribute as
much to the support OF government as We
impose on the millionaire. Any system
that does that is robbery. Fifteen or
twenty men control today the means we
have for reaching the markets of the
world, and our merchant marine has been
practically driven from the high seas.
carrying in 1882 l.164,o00 tons less than
we carried in 1869, with less than half the
population we have today. While the
farmers are over 80 per cent. of the popu-
latIon, they owued of the wealth OF the
country in 1850 five-eighths; in 1860. less
than one-balf; in 1870, little over one
third; in 1880. "A little over one-fourth: in
1880, less than one-tifth, and still the
farmer is eonsoled with the blessed assur-
ance that he is protected. Under this
system capital has taken SIG net income
from ton of steel, while the gross re-
ceipts of labor Is but Sl57, and in
the face of these facts the laborer's
wages is reduced p per cent, with
a demand that his contract terminate in
January instead of July. And because he
refuses TO submit TO this reduction and
sign contract that would enable the cap
italst TO turn himself, wife and children
into the midwiuter storm, capital con-
fronts him with an army of hired Pinker-
TONS aud when be defends his interests he
Is called murderer. In this country.
where we have a government TO protect
every interest it should be made treason
10 organize "a private army to inIimidate
the humblest citizen in our land"
Governor Mckinley spoke on the tariff
IN the afternoon to an audience of 10, 600
peOpfe.