The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-07-10


chose laws to scorn and to say to other in
terests: Observe those laws ~ you will.
We. the liquor dealers, are above law,
and yet, deny IL AZ some may, this is the
ease In many places.
1T Il . danger to tho whole nation.
What arc We coming tor We may well
ask In wonderment. Is IL possible that
this nation, for the life and preservation Of
which we have made 90 many sacrifices,
for which we have freely shed our blood on
battlefelds, is to be ruled and dominated
By the abettors of intemperancei
''They bcsiege our municipal council
halls and our state and national legisla-
lures They make no secrecy about 1t.
They have their organization In every city,
a every village, throughout every town
ship in the land. They collect large sums
of money for the purpose Of extending and
xortifying their interests. They control
our elections. Is 1t not time today. In free
America, In the country Of liberty par
excellence, that a candidate for public
office and public favor Is compelled, II he
wishes to succeed, to worship at the shrine
Of vile whisksy and vile winei Is 1t not
fearful that whatever may be the laws for
closing the saloons on Sunday, they are
kept open In spite Of those laws, and mock
nt yon, and sco6 ut you, II you protest they
care not for your They openly proclaim
themselves your masters.
svThs hquor trnfficl Oh, II you would SEQ
lts fruits, 60 into the asylums and hos
pitals; 20 into the cemeteries and potter's
fields; 90 upon the scaffoldf where life is
offered up for the preservation OF society.
In the great exposition there are tri-
umphanu arches and gorgeous pillars
erected with whisky bottles and beer bot
ties and wine kegs The display In incom-
plete They show the drink to the eyes
Of Americans and the world at large, but
why show the springtime without the
autumnf Why show the seed without the
fruitf Est them 20 with me TO the Cook
County hospital and sec the victims of the
liquor traffic, dying in delirium tremens.
Let them go to the jails; let them 60 upon
the scaffolds and, II they would see more,
Let them 20 through the many slums of the
city and see vice most hideous, fed and fat
fening on liquor
"Go through the homes Of the land:and
- the woe and terrible suffering in every
hovel-aye, In every mansion In the land,
bemoaning some dear friend or some rela-
tive, ruined and damned because of in
1smperance.
"Ths Greatest Enemy Of Religion
today II intompcrance; not that it Is the
sole evil, but IL is at the root Of SO many
other sins and evils. There are millions
in America who, II the fact of national
degradation from intemperance was
brought home to them. would arise as
Americans did arise when the republic
was in danger and say: We will bare our
breasts to the battle; we will die for the
country II necessary, that this internal
domination of drink must cease
"Let US all, in the direction which we
think best, deal the heaviest blows and
not mind 90 much the directions that
ethers may be following. There is TIE
enemy before us menacing our homes, our
souls, society and religions, and I say to
the friends Of temperance, goat the enemy,
enc with . gum, another with a Krupp
cannon, II you like, but hit him. want
20 call attention 70 the tone and entire
drift Of che speech Of Archbishop Ireland
upon the tremendous evils and the horrors
Of the liquor traffic, a hundredth part Of
which be did not even allude to, and to
the manner in which the same matter was
treated by our Legislature Of 1893.
'With the exception Of Mr. Shaw of
Aroostook, there Was not voice reported
% protesting In any way against the
proposition Of the judiciary committee 10
open the state 90 the free admission of
liquors Of All kinds for the supply of our
GroGshops, Whose only business IL 20 I'M
Doverish. pauperize. degrade and brutify
oor people and make miserable and
wEe<cked thousands Of our homes that
St1srwiss would b. peaceful, prc.perous,