The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-05-04
w. u. COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. M. L. HOBBS.
THE DRINK EVIL IN HIGH PLACES.
Mr.. c. N. Howard's Eloquent Arraign.
ment OF the Liquor Traffic at the Re.
cent Great Mass Meeting in New York.

ment Of the Liquor Traffic at the Re.
cent Great Mass Meeting in New York.
One of the most remarkable ad- {
dresses on the liquor question which |
has been delivered before metro !
politan assemblage in recent yeais, .
was that Of Mr.. G. n Howard, OF
Rochester, N. u, who was one OF /
the principal speakers at the great
meeting at Cooper Union, New York,
on April "A. His speech, which
deserves to be read by all who be-
llieve in the suppression OF the vile
drink traffic, is given below. lie
said, in substance
"It God ever gave a people a,
country that was worth fighting tor,
worth living for, worth dying for, ne
has given it to the people OF the
United States. 1t holds the key to
the future destiny OF the race. In
The sense that Paris is France,
America is to be the world. King
of commerce, king Of science, king
of civilization.
81 have faith in my country. !
have faith in the people. But
stand here to say, that if America
lis to be king Of anything, we must
/, down the whisky king. II we are
TO fill our divinely appointed mis-.
= SIGN as the civilizer of mankind, II
we are to carry the blessings OF lib
erty and self-government around
: the world, we have got to raise the
standard Of public life at home We
have got to reform our civil service
from the bottom up and from the
top down. -.
!, ITO fathom the depths OF pc lltl-
E cal incapacity and debauchery in
e the great cities of this country,
would require sounding line that
would reach from Hoboken to He
lena, Montana. Public scandal is
!, the order of the day. Pick up you
New York papers; what say those
big types at the head of the column
on the front page? Public Scan
ID dali 1t used to be said that mar
T. was rich in this town if he owned
his home. To day a man In New
: York who owns only his own home
= must sell it to some rich man wht
can afford to pay the taxes on it
a,d nust move his family in to
rear tenement or garret, where lacl
,alof sunlight, foul air and hl,h arr
an making pig sty out OF the Amen
st can home. Public scandal and po
litical corruption are making 1t to-
- Expensive for the common people =
live. and the coffin trust is maxim
it a luxury to die. The water work
\. scandal in Philadelphia has smitte
that city with the plague OF typhoid
that has slain more people In te
weeks than died Of the result 9
nd wounds in the war with Spain. tn
= -lCity Hall in Chicago was recent
the scene Of mob that threatene
to lynch the aldermen who ha
been bought up like cattle by II
street railroad lines Of that city. a
X, ST. Louis, where organized a Pr'
hibition Union OF Christian me
!. last February, an excise comml
eth sioner locating saloons within u
%,' are proscribed limits of places OF wo
ship and public schools, and a
. cspting the petitions OF boys, WI
owned bicycles AS taxpayers again
the remonstrances Of their parents
who owned the house. A pole
commissioner, who instructed bur
( {. mers to ignore the State law, :
ouiring license to sell rum, so lor
= as they patronized his brewer.
,,Saloons operating the nickel in-th
and slot living picture machines, IN
ion; N; would outrage the moral sense
perdition.
"The devil has fused the salo'
IS and the brothel into one colos'
machine to attack the great cente
in Of madern civilization, and unle
at we can fuse the patriotic, law-aol
nag on ling, God.serving citizens OF
and country and meet organized iniqul
Ii with organized righteousness, I
at situation is without hope. To-da
'ee the rum power owns this imper
. citv in the sense that a hen owns
&c. |egr-before it gets into the nest.
der The situation in this city,
hip, depth of depravity, its open dis
zach 5 gard for law, and the indifference
ano its citizens, are positively alarmir
him Il does not concern New York on
il concerns the whole nation. \
at only do bad men administer its
fairs, but it would seem that
q. more incompetent and unscrul
ri