The San Francisco call., 1896-04-19

and barley and made more money than
before. They sold them to make beer
out oil
And here do you not see the paws and
the nose of another, more terrible lion,
In the path? Here are the great brewer
les, the great rye and barley fields, the
great hop fields. Consider the unem-
ployed, consider the ruined homes, con-
slider the desert you would make of Cali
fornia. And cui bono? DO you. not see
how terribly you tax the gallantry of Cali
fornia now when You say, "Give US suf-
frage, so that we can espouse prohibition" ?
Very easy it would be to talk loud and
talk long, as we have all heard very good
people do in denounclng and damning the
wine and the wine industries, but such
talk is out of date This would be to in
suit some of the best and most honest
common sense in the United States gath
cred here to-day.
Now there is third lion. He is lying
in the jungle farther on. He is not SO big
not SO devOuring, but he is terrible in bat
tie. The wine-merchant, the liquor-dealer,
If you please, the saloon-keeper. Did you
ever see and know saloon-keeper, his wife,
children? / mean the respectable saloon
keeper, not the keeper of "deadfall." /
was Judge of city of saloons, where
that poor woman was drowned. | had
to accept their bonds and give their license.
| knew each one, his character, often his
history. Well, in the first place coward
cannot keep a saloon. A stingy man has
'sober Injun." So you see the saloon
keeper is cool, sober, open-ha nded de-
termined man, 'ta sober, cool, determ ined
villain," if you insist, but he is the third
lion before you, and he is the hardest
fighter of the three. He is organized, he
is rich, he is relentless in war. Are you,
who want to vote and who ought to vote,
going to rouse this lion also?
/ invoke you, harness one, two, all three
of these lions, grid them in trappings oi
gold, as you can, and you shall ride in
such 8 chariot in the coming California
circus as YOU never dreamed of; or &c
around these lions in your path, as you
can and let them sleep as did the women
of New Zealand, but arouse them, then
face and fight them and you will be 'ssmit-
ten hip and thigh" you will be torn to
pieces, you will be so torn to shreds and
tatters chat there will not be left to you
even piece of petticoat big enough for
you to make flag out of for the next
battle.
Send everything but the one central idea
behind you, as did the women of New
Zealand. Pay no attention to the prayers
and pieadings OF timid men or ak grinding
cranks. They are Jonahs, throw them
over and sail on, and on, and on, straight
on, as did Columbus, in spite of prayers
and tears to set up the cross and say mass
for help in the middle of the sea.
"Time enough" said he in answer, ''to
set up the cross and say mass when on
solid land"
Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of shores,
Before him only shoreless
The good mate said "Now must we pray,
For 10! the very stars are gone.
Brave admir-, speak; what shall say?"
"Why, say, sail onl sail on and onP"
"My men grow mutinous day by day;
Ny men grow CHASTITY wan and weak"
The stout mate thought of home; spray
OF salt wave washed his swarthy cheek.
"What shall say, brave admir-. say,
IL we sight naught but seas at dawn"
by. you shall say at break of day,
sail on! sail oni sail on! and onl "
They sailed and sailed, winds might blow,
Until at last the blanched mate said
why, now not even God would know
Should and all my men fall dead.
These very winds forget their way,
For God from these dread seas Is gone.
Now speak, brave admir-; speak and say -'
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