The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-03

ttunts hHu sugar ttuses "H"s VI s~ license of the liquor traffic. Here is the shame and crime of what is known as class and sectional Legislation - the shame and crime of what may be char acterized as trade and manufacture legislation.
 g. A third principle would suggest. viz.. that every American citizen In the casting of his vote for office where laws are to be made and laws are to be ad- ministered should seek men of staunoh- est integrity-men who will not be blind when they ought to see. or deaf when they ought to hear. or who have per- sonal interests to be promoted by any form of vice. or who for a considera- ton will shelter the vicious. That men are in office, blind when they ought to see; deaf when they ought to hear. personally interested in allowing vice 10 go unpunlshed and undiscovered. and who for considera- ton have given to vice immunity. can not be questioned in reference to sev- eral of our larger cites, and is more than hinted as true of our own fair cityl
 Who put these men In office? The people!
 Who keep them In office? The people!
 Who Is responsible for effecting a change?
 The people! You and I. All who | vote!
 This leads me to say that while on great national questions, involving the principles of national and international affairs, national parties are inevitable | and men may be expected to vote with the party, for parties give express sion to opinions and shape policies. Still in all municipal affairs, national parties should be Ignored. In refer ence to township adn city legislation and administration, In my judgment party politics have no place, no use, but are our peril.
 | Very well aware am I that politi- clans assume it practically impossible to keep up the national party unless 1t can be held together in township and city elections. This. however. l think is more fear than fact. But be this as 1t may, the national party, whose life depends on a don't care spirit regarding the social good, would better die than livel
 Any party which cannot survive the surrendering of party affiliations, when considered, would better prepare for burial, for think the grave diggers are at work.
 | What all our cities and communities need is the union and hearty co-opera- tion of all good citizens in elevating men to office who shall legislate and govern with regard for the good of alto whatever party they may be- long.
 We are coming to this. May God hasten the time when communities will be divided, not into democrats and republicans, but into order-loving citizens and into rioters and robbers, if such there be!
 The cry of our cities is for a peoples party, uniting all it's forces against immoralities of every kind. Such a party, believe, is pregnant now in the churches of Jesus Christ. May I this child of promise soon have birth and be installed in office. | Finally-Every American citizen in his vote should have supreme regard to what may be termed protective laws and a protective administration!
 All communities have menace of one kind or another.
 There is menace to health in un- cleaned streets, imperfect sewerage, crowded tenement houses, ignorance among certain classes
 There is menace to homes in laxity of law and in official connivance at crime.
 There is menace to morals in the pool room, the open saloon and the allowed or protected brothel.'
 There is menace to religion, in per- mitted desecration of the Sabbath and holy things.
 If a city is to be healthful, streets must be paved and cleaned, public and private sewerage must receive at tention, tenement houses must be regu- lated, sanitary measures must be adopted.
 If our homes are to be protected pro- tective officers must be men of sterling character-policemen in sympathy with purity, prosecuting attorneys and judges uncompromising courts of justice loving 8 and justice administering, from which l no offender can pass out because he has l prominence or by the payment of a nominal sum.
 l If our morals are to be preserved temptations to immortality must not be l allowed to deck themselves in gaudy colors and Haunt their witchery in the faces of men along our streets. l If the Christian religion is to hold on It's triumphant way among us proniti- tions must be plain and positive regard ing things universally recognized as evil. Every municipal government should be protective in it's laws and in the administration of them.
 If the pool room and the open saloon are in danger of corrupting the youth of the town or city, then duty is upon the people to provide better place in which to bring up the boys-by closing the pool room and the saloon, and so of all harmful places in the community.
 Whatever touches others touches our selves, and whatever touches ourselves touches others! and to put 1t Chris tianwise, whatever touches man touches the man of man.
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