The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-05-11
w. c. u. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. 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.

the favored roost for incapables, [,
thieves and plunderers. 1t has be-
come almost impossible to carry on
any public work that does not re-
suit in raid Of the treasury. Once q
to our cities, to-day 1t lays :
its leprous hand on the State and 7
the Nation. Canal scandal in
New York; Capitol scandal in :
Pennsylvania; ALLEN law scandal ,
in Illinois; City Hall scandal;
Gas plant scandal Sewer scan
dal ? street paving scandal Pub
lie franchise scandal; > Grand Jury
scandal > Senatorial scandal ;'War
scandal
There is danger ahead, il we do
not stop this wholesale public de-
Ibauchery. 1t is high time tor de-
cent citizens to wake up and organ
ize with no less an aim than to
clean up house and retire to private
life some of the bottle SCARED veter-
ans who misrule our great munlcl-
palities, to demand fol public oilice
. brand of men who would rather
IGll hole in the Potter's Field than
It'll public office by trucking to
the rum-power.
.sWe have fought one holy war,
Ito throw off the yoke OF Spanish
misrule in Cuba. | go IN Tor an
other holy war to throw off the yoke
of bar-room misrule in America,
for there is absolutely no hope OF
4 regenerating the politics OF this
country and rescuing our great cl-
elites from the political leprosy known
ne boss-rule, while the saloon lives.
You cannot sweep gin mill politics
into perdition ard leave the gin
i, mill in New York at the same time.
The saloon is the fortitication OF Sa'
tan in American politics, and We
have won our last victory Tor per
ID manent good government, until We
k. turn our guns on those notifications
ANY plan for civic righteousness tha
\ does not provide for a closed rum
shop. is monumental civic nonsense
We will win no victories tor perma
nent civic righteousness In the state
,,f New York, with our LETT hands
"a willie we vote with our right to le
en- galize 2S,OO0 rumshops to propa
st gate civic rotteness. =,
"Do you say it is impractlcabl
= and impossible to clean out tn
whole iniquitous system? n Nothin
i impossible that is right; nothln
= that is right is impracticable. On
YOU saw. | do not know New York
that a fight like that would resul
in wholesale butchery; that assassl
! mo nation would lurk in every dar
~ hallway and alley. Well the mean
eat coward who walks the earth ca
die a natural death; it takes a ma
70 face death for a noble cause.
, hel;eve that New York would b
= better of if some Of you gentleme
: we're in heaven to night. 1t mlgi
= he pretty hard on heaven, but
81. eth vou died in the fight, il would wax
are The rest Of the country up to u
fact that the question now facing
4 whether we shall suppress tn
iniouity or be suppressed by !
The potato crop may survive II
dry rot. This republic cannot li'
! on and endure the wet-rot.
I'm a speech before the 50 Clr
I. Of London, Lord Rosebery called a
= tention to the effect Of the llqu
.nltrafiic on the institutions OF I'm
and and and said it was political Ri
,o%i mi that threatened to throttle and co
. trol the commonwealth itself.
that be true Of England it is doub
true OF the United States, whe
every man without regard to VIII
'in- he has. what he is, or what
dav ~, knows, has an equal voice in q
on Gliding how and by whom we shall
and governed. And if Americas expe
"a, 1, ment Of popular government G ev
AZ falls in the words Of Wendell Ph
ips. 1T will not be incapat
- Civil Service, nor an ambitious g
ce. der. nor venal legislatures, nor t
der greed of wealth that will put VI
hip, versal suffrage into eclipse; it v
sach sh no rum. intrenched in our grt
, toIcities. making popular suffrage
him failure and a curse Whatsoeve
man soweth, and whatsoever 7
III - Il. all ~ oIs.s