Middletown transcript., 1895-10-26
MISS WILLARD ADDRESS.

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| Convention in Baltimore discussed
many of the leading questions of th'
day, and as she is everywhere regarded
as one of the foremost reformers OF
the end of the century period, her ut.
terances are heard and read with no
little interest. She said:
"To-daY we are met in city that is
the cradle of the personal liberty idea.
for as John Hancock was first signer
of our corporate Declaration Of In.
dependence, John Hawkins was first
Esigner Of that Washingtonian pledge
which was the individual declaration
of personal liberty, and in 1910 raised
national revolt against rum, led by
its victims. Sympathy with this strike
of sex tempted almost beyond endur-
ance by the legalized liquor trade led
an army of Kind hearts to take the
pledge along with the inebriates.
"My own father and mother, and
doubtless the parents of a majority of
the delegates whom l address, signed
for this reason, and my fathers Wash
ingtonian pledge, always before me on
the walls of the old home, was my
first lessen in personal liberty, which,
multiplied in the arithmetic of life
time, has led me here TO preside over
and you to be the chosen delegates of
a convention in John Hawkin IS FAM
GUS city that is but one sequel of the
movement he began.
swell nigh sixty years have passed,
and. from the personal pledge-point
with which it started, Gods temper
ance cyclone has swept its widening
way until now it is part and parcel of
every worthy movement under the
sun.
MILLIONS SPENT FOR LIQUOR.
For the fiscal year 1895 the United
States government issu ued 226,000 liq-
uor licen ses, which is equivalent to a
licensed saloon for each 29S people, to
say nothing of the liquor dealers that
are unlicensed. In the capital of the
nation there are COS licensed barrooms,
or one for each AS people. II we take
out the women and children and the
people as class, there are |
less than 100 drinkers to support each |
saloon in the United States. The esti-
mated annual consumption of intoxicat-
ing liquor is per capita of wine, one
gallon; whisky. four gallons; ;beer. forty
six gallons. This, at the lowest whole
sale price, amounts to S833, 900, 900, to
say nothing of the indirect cost repre-
sented by loss of wages, loss Of health. |
loss of position and of life ITSELF"
HOME PROTECTION PARTY.
Miss Willard has very interesting
views on political questions and sug-
yests the possibility of Theodore Roose-
Velt as presidential candidate. She
still holds to the idea she has advocated
10 long-that the prohibition party
should change its name to home pro-
lection party. She stated that the use
If the word prohibition as the name of
. party has given an excuse to the pull
pits of the land to cease from advoca-
ing the principles Of prohibition.
I'VE have no right thus to diminish
the total amount of instruction and
arousing of the people that must be
lone before prohibition can ever be-
come uccessful in politics and law"
The said. .'The word prohibition is
wholly negative term. and distasteful
% Americans, bat the words home pro-
.ection are positive, attractive, and
contain an argument in themselves.
We urge our brothers, beside whom we
hope ere long to stand as voters at the
POLLS, to heed our earnest rtquest, re-
,eated for SO many years through our
publications and addresses, and to
sdopt the name prayed for by their
most loyal and dev. ted allies and call
'urs the home protection party"
SOCIALISM AND SINGLE TAX.
The great reformer also confessps
herself socialist and fav0ls the single
ak.
''The work." she says, lis not equal
zed, but certain thoughtless, selfish,
privileged classes have heaped the
work they ought to do upon those who
lad already more than was their share.
am a collectivist or socialist because {
believe these burdens shall be distrib- {
tied according to those principles of /
ustice which ought to teach every hu-
nan being that every other has as much
light as himself to life, liberty, the {
'ursuit of happiness, the pursuit of
the pursuit of holiness. II
''This is to my mind the whole case '
n n;snutshell, and the time will come S
When those who do not work will be q
lrummed out of the camp and stung
ut of the hive and placed by them ]
elves as lepers are, and win learn that '
is the law of Gud written in ourI I
nembers that he who will not work /
either shall he eat. 10
"But today we are confronted by a G
aristocracy on the one hand j
nd an agitating democracy. on the t
ther. When matters have reached n
his pass'and the lines are more clearly
rawn than in any previous age some.
hing will have to give way, ard what
ve look for is the interspersing Of the i
wo classes as the only road TO peace 4
nth honor for The human race. C
eff the Federation Of Labor and the k
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