People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-10-30
Wright, Hill and Gambrell Ask
Votes For Them.
THEY ISSUE an ADDRESS.
Call on POpulists to Support the
Prohibition Candidates-Let-
ter From Wright to Hill.

Prohibitionist nominees for president
and vice president.
The correspondence and state.
ment follow:
Rome, Ga, October 26, 1896 -
Hon. Walter B. Hill. Dear Sir: You
ask me for brief statement of my
reasons TO, supporting lowering and
johnson.
! shall vote for them because they
stand for the abolition of the licensed
barroom. They are the only csndi
dates whose platform sounds call
to the defense of the homes and
affairs Of the people.
The more I study the liquor ques-
tiop, my friend, and realize its awful
bearing upon the moral, social and
economic life of the people the more /
am convinced it will soon become
the leading political issue before the
Am rican people. 1t is useless TO
talk about keeping it out of politics.
'ssiu3e The doors of the first liquor
sbo were opened in this republic it
has been a political issus and until it
ceases to pauperize and brutalize the
people, until the red stream of blood
and crime ceases to flow from its IN
hallwed abode il will be political
question. Men are foolishly, crimi.
nall blind, whc fail to see tfat the
lqsE shop is the controllin power in
America politics. Your great brewers
and distillers are the unorowned po-
itic,l kings of the repu bic. Moral
sCaaon cannot reach these men Local
option cannot abolish their damha-
BILE tiafic. Nothing but the strong
arm Of the state and federal govern.
mem will ever teach them to respect
,he liberty and life of the people. A
nan is Of more value than a dollar.
] X Il ssAt and life AMI moig imp ortaneqg
. tha&Ns relative value of coins. The
I people will some day awake to this,
and hen the liquor shops are doom.
! cd.
Do you remember, my friend, the
words of Henry Gfady-his terrible
arraignment of this trafio9
aTonight," said he, ''it enters an
humble home to strike the roses from
a woman's cheek and tomorrow it
challenges this republic in the halls
of congress.
"Today it strikes a crust from the
lips Of q starving child and tomor-
row levies tribute from the govern
>>me itself.
"4Aere is no ottage humble enough
to escape it, no palace strong enough
to shut it out.
cit defes the law when it cannot
ooerce suffage.
at is flexible to oajole, but merci.
lessin victory.
at is the mortal enemy of peace
and order, the despoiler of men and
terror of women, the cloud that
shadows the faoe of children, the de.
mon that has dug more graves and
sent more souls unshrived to iudg-
ment than all the pestilences that
have wasted life, since God sent the
plaques to Egypt, and all the wars
since Joshua stood beyond Jericho.
sit comes to ruin, and it shall pro-
fit mainly by the ruin, of your sons
and mine.
"lt C mes to mlslead human souls
and to crush human hearts under its
rumbling wheels.
sit comes to bring gray.haired
mothers down in shame and sorrow
to their graves.
sit comes to change the wife's
love into despair and her pride into
shame.
sit comes to still the laughter on
the lips of little chill iren.
at comes to stife all the music of
the home and fill it with silence and
desola ion.
at comes to ruin your body and
mind, to wreck your home, and it
knows it must measure its prosperi-
ty by the swiftness and certainty
with which il wrecks this world"
If this be true, my friend (and
who that is not blinded by the lust
of office or the greed Of gold doubts
it), then how can any Christian man,
who would follow in the footsteps