The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-10-20
W. g. II. u. Column.
Some Thought Provokers.

=" Some Thought Provokcrs.
II 10 condition which confronts
-not . theory. -Grovee Cleveland
message to Congress.
'OI Upon my honor, | could not name
I9uestion OF any moment dividing III
democratic from tho Repu biIcan,
rernaps soiae Of you may cay the 4
rim Oil. Believe ne, there is no issu
Ioi parties In America on the tariff az
''Icept % to detail, and any change that /
made viii not disturb the man facture
(which they have seen fit to establish. :
andrew Carnegie in q speech, Dundee
I6cotlsnd.
! Talk Of political questions; | believ,
that u. the liqpor traffic, IL the Rrcstes
Ipo'itical question Of the future. Prof
Huxley. ~
!, Ine politics Of this country are now
dominated BY the whisky trust a. abao.
lutely % they were by slsvery before
the var, and King Alcohol is proving
that DO 10 - hostile 10 national develop.
ment % King Cotton ever was. Our
dis' tlIsries. whose interests are protected
oy inc existing tsrid, and by the monop-
10Y Greeted and vested In the whisky
trust" 6y the internal taxes on distilled
|spirits, both Of which methods OF GRO.
lection the majority Of the committee on
ways and means eeem to regard 90 vest.
Cd rights Of the ''trust" which no legls.
!ation may repeal or modify. w. D.
Kelly in Congress on the Mill Bill.
They are protected by . prohibitory
tsrih at the coast, and by penal enact.
ments that put oil email people In the
interior 10 !ail who attempt TO come In
composition with them. They are pro.
tected on one side by high tariff. and
on the other side by law makinR Il
for people TO compete with
'hem: so that 10 every sense there Is
no other class Of manufacturers In thia
country 30 extravsgantly and 90
thoroughly protected ss the wbisky
Fing. The Senator from Kentucky ssvs
bat no Democrat 10 10 favor Of protec. i,
Ion. snd still the Senator from Ken. {
ucky ds:ends the whisky ring, which |
lss more protection than any other pro.
ected tnterest 10 this country,
3ut the manufacturer Of whiskey has |
Don't three times % much protection /
y The manufactures Of blankets. :
n. President, the true issue 10 be. =
weeu the 0illlons OF men, women, aud I
htIdreu Of this country who ere de. r
'sndent upon the N msnufscturing In.
ustries Of this country for their SUB.
'ort. aud the whisky monopoly, Who.
ndsr the present laws are ENJOYING
outrageous privileges. by which they
70 accumulating enormous profits With.
ut any benefit to others. Shall be. b
wesn three and four millions Of persons q
ngsged In manufacturing machines, j
nd mining, bs crnshed and reduced to b
overly. or shall the iniq uitous system o
{ Internal revenue be repealed, with y
. spies end Informers, and the profta q
{ the "whisky bsrons" be reduced n
'het is the true issue which the people y
this country have to meet. Yes, the >
|sue 10 between the 026 "whisky 10
arons," With their enormous profts, o.
. the one hand, and the millions OF de.
eudent women and children OF this m
0untry on the other hand J. E" 81
rown. 10 U. 8. Senate, March 14th. re
s66. on revenues. h'
Every man who votes for license be- v
'mes Of necessity psrtnor to the II pt
nor trs6ic and ell its consequences. to
IN. Mckinley, Jr., July 5th, 1884. ca
But until Prohibition 10 destroyed or =
} political e6orts broken, | repeat that =. =.
1r best weapons to fight It with are =.
gh license aud local option y town. :"
ips.-J. n. Atherton. whisky king, Of !.
2uisville. KY, March 2, 1889. :, -
In view Of the severe arraiguments =. 81
the liquor tra6ic, think one Of the o =.
ddest thiugs 10 TO see, the same :"
nds which passed the emblems Of eter. y"
! life at communion service. casting
llots on election day TO lie nse the II. - =
or trsfhc. =" ~
DR. A. HUNTsIH0Ea. e
Nishs wsks, Ind. .n