Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-21
AppEALs ron PROHIBITION.
John q. wooIcy of Chicago Delivers
nm ImpnssIonc Address.

Wooley. the speaker Of the evening, the
audience INDUCED in a second service of
song. Four hymns, all from the Psalms,
we're sung in a spirited manner. When tho
eloquent Chicagoan did arrive from the over.
flow meeting he was greeted with an en-
thusiastic reception. The applause was long
and hearty, and the honor OF the Christian
Endeavor salute. the waving Of handker,
chiefs, was extended TO him. His address,
which follows, was received with the great
est interest, and he was frequently com.
pelled - cease speaking until the applause
subsidized:
blessed is the man that walketh not in
the counsel of the u%ngodly, nor %st9ndeth
seat of the s|cornful. but his delight Is in
the law of the Lord and in his law doth
he mediate day and night. And he, shall
the streams. that bringeth forth his fruit
in his season, his leaf also shall not witler
1t has been discovered that David was
not the author OF the First psalm. 1t IS
at least equally certain that he was. II
Of thing, to greatly add to or diminish his
fame. Somebody wrote 1t; it is very old,
and so simple, as to both form and sub;
stance, that it seems to me that l should
ave written something very like 1t myself
If no one else had done It. And the de-.
wrote it did so by the inspiration. of God,
and l reckon that is so, whatever definition
u lllSIll dllOll Dt dtttDlth. lul ~ MONlh bt
hard TO find one, learned or simple. who
would not put his finger ON that s~ticltful
OF P mirac ld prP fbat ah is r 5eSi 'G tbnt is r 9T a tbM,
that is true. that will do to tie to- At any
rate, this church imputes to it absolute
verify and accepts 1t unequivocally as the
very word of God, and in the most earnest
circles of church work 1t would greatly de-
stroy 1t altogether. even to express "A doubt
upon the subject.
RULE TO VOTE BY.
And so because 1 prize this hearing. and
sure place today and bar ont of this hour
any possible personal vagary, | propose to
lay a pattern upon a piece of cloth. we
lay this ancient. accepted evident, true,
inspired scripture upon our politics and
tion as the toga willis of our Christian citl-
r. nship, wear It. ! say, for 1T matters very
is, If he takes it off in the polling booth, as
men take off their overcoats indoor, for
fear of not feeling" them when they come
1t is a marrow gauge psalm, its silence
as to any. corrupt contemporary money
system might be objected to by a super
fetal mind with boiling tendencies. as in
the nature of a sanction of conSpiracieS of
banks 0 or 59Te I is u thins Sf A fE@ m ! Ss@ 5ss
feminine sensitiS e6e:s, IA slight to woman
But these infirmities of the holy scriptures
we shall have to put up with, in view of
the general good character Of the book.
very moderate ability as | can bring to
bear upon the money question of today. l
am persuaded to favor the present gold
standard, upon grounds of the most ele-
mentary honesty. but l think him "A most
noisome and residential ,bigot who keeps
saying that there is no respectable or hon
orable argument upon the silver side.
And l am in favor of woman suffrage.
upon grounds of a b c decency. My wife is
married to q wanderer and is the mother
Of three tall straight men, and. in the
seems where her heart is-in her home
while we men do the voting.
FAVORS WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
But whenever. as a wife, mother, Chris
tian. citizen, she may deem it well for her
to add the ballot to the gentle ensinry of
her power, we four stand pledged by every
to it, against the world. But | confess to
omit the subject are to be deemed an insult
to our Christian womanhood; But Chris
many, and must deal with politics, in its
elementary forms at first. and while each
direct legislation, etc, i; worthy Of the
time and thought of any man, yet neither
involved. unreduced to distinctly moral
terms, and ,unready, by so much or so
little, for solution.
on the other hand, the question of the
liquor traffic is already reduced to a simple
question, from which the reduction of a
single election day will suffice TO give the
value of "X",the cross of Christ upon a
free mans ballot slip. An election is an
example, in division; the voting body is
the dividend. the issue is the divisor. If it
be single the quotation will be simple and
viii be but another pTobIem' as ID diffi cII" as
The first; The one bright spot in the sky
campaign upon single issues. The choice
of divlsors is one of three-an amiable med
m meg $ 1re of Fg a maG." OF What fG tRe ch ana v WIZ
get out of this ELECTION depends upon what
ley, she will, get confusion, more or less
hopeful: If she divide by money, she will
g s6e m wiII yet and nc, nb6 she divide by manhood
I do not say that any of the great eco
nomic questions, are without the pur-
view Of this psalm but, going ont to meet
spirit cannot clearly see where to strike,
MAIN the wrong or kill it.
Blu the liquor traffic is not economies.
but treason. overt. ,insolent; bloody as the
night. / hate it, and when l think of it,
All the voices of memory, the words of the
book. and every fiber of my soul and body
cry. "Kill!'
NOT INTENDED AS ARGUMENT.
I would not ask you to accept this red
hot, lashing fever of my blood as any ar
gument. ! have eaten hell ashes until my
mind is alkaline and cuts up the u~nctlous
lubricants of calm and decorous debate, and
spoils the play of thought. Perhaps there
may be something to be said in favor of
the drink FOR all my hatred of it.
i VIII not offer you the testimony of the
Woman's Christian Temperance union; most
of those women have been chained by the
implacable tyranny of their own love TO the
Caucasus of drink, with bosoms barred to
the beaks and claws of licensed and pro-
tected vultures, and shame and wounds
have made them hypochondriacal, maybe.
Let us have something level-headed and
dispassionate.
The speaker quoted the words OF sundry
courts and statesmen and continued:
But NAV not these he unpDD Silarp1 Iipfo
of fallible men and overburdened courts?
Yes; | shall not ask you to rest on what
they say. But ! do thank God and take
courage as ! remember that though Lin
coin died and his party with him, thirty
years ago, there survives to this betrayed
and plundered people an incorruptible jul
dietary In the main. But II ought 10 be
high treason for the confidence men who
do the people in the dominant politics
TO call their organized conspiracies ''tle
party OF Jefferson'-''the party of Lincoln"
God save the mark!
No sore-hearted appeals shall warp your
Judgment here: No outraged and indignant
womanhood shall obtrude her tears to
stampede your ~sympathies. Let stricken
childhood wall on through the ~starless,
yoiceless midnight of It's wrongs, UNDECIDED.
Let craftsmanship find audience elsewhere
tonight. Upon the certified record Of the
church herself. and his own admissions to
his inner consciousness, | will indict the
let him plead guilty or mot guilty"
Hmf DnnN not tho church lA YrrnrpD We.