The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-28

and money now allied Herewith and sup
plant thereto, could successfully cope with
al other and lesser problems of govern
ment In legislative halls and in the execu-
tive chair, and that it is useless for any
party 10 make declarations In its plat
form as TO any questions concerning which
there may be serious differences OF opinion
In its own membership and ak TO which,
because OF such differences, the party could
leeislate only on a basis of mutual con-
Germ when coming into power.
we submit that the Democratic and Re-
publican parties are alike insincere in their
ASSIGNED policy TO trusts and monopolies.
They dare not and do not attack the most
dangerous Of them all. the liquor power.
So long as the saloon debauches the citizen
end breeds the purchasable voter money
viii continue TO buy its way TO power.
Break down this traffic. elevate manhood
and a sober citizenship will find a way TO
control dangerous combinations OF capital
we purpose as a first step in the financial
problems of the Nation to ave more than
q billion dollars every year now annually
spent TO support the LIQUOR traffic and TO
c0mplished conditions Will have so improved
that with a clearer atmosphere the country
can address itself to the questions as to
the kind and quantity of currency needed.
I'VE reafirm as true indisputably the
declaration of William Window when Sec
rotary CT the treasury in the Cabinet OF
President Arthur that. considered socially.
financially, politically OF morally. the IL
censed liquor traffic is or ought to be the
overwhelming issue I'm American politics
and that the destruction of this iniquity
stands next on the calendar of the worlds
progress We hold that the existence OF
our party presents this issue ~squarely TO
the American people and lays on them the
responsibility OF choice between the two
parties dominated by distillers and brewers
with their policy OF saloon perpetuation
breeding waste. w~ickedness, woe, pauper-
ism. corruption and crime. and our one
party of patriotic and moral principle. with
a policy which defends IL from domination
by corrupt bosses and which insures Ii for
ever against the blighting control of saloon
politics.
I'VE face with sorrow. shame and fear
the awful fact that this liquor traffic has a
grip on our government. municipal. state
and national. through the revenue system
and saloon society which no other party
dares TO dispute. a grip which dominates
the party now In power from caucus TO
Congress, from policeman to President,
from the rim shop to the White House. a
grip which c0mpels the chief executive to
consent that law shall be nulliied In behalf
of the brewer, that the canteen shall curse
our army and spread intemperance across
the seas, and that our flag shall wave as
the symbol of partnership at home and
abroad between this government and the
AHCA III ugly dilu Till u " lllCll OWL
profit and gain.
I'VE charge upon President Mckinley,
who was elected to his high office by ap-
peals TO Christian sentiment and patriotism
almost unprecedented. and by a combina-
ton of moral influences never before seen
I'm this country. that. by his conspicuous
example as a wine drinker at public ban
ouets and as a wine-serving host in the
White House. he has done more TO en-
courage the liquor business. to demoralize
the temperance habits of young men. and
TO bring Christian practices and require
ments into d%isrepute than any other Presi-
dent this Republic has ever seen. We fur
her charge on President Mckinley respon-
sfbility for the army canteen. with all its
dire brood Of disease, immortality. sin and
death, In this country, in Cuba, In Porto
Rico and the Philippines, and we insist by
his attitude concerning the canteen. and
his apparent contempt for the vast number
Of petitions and petitioners protesting
against IL. he has outraged and insulted the
moral sentiment of this country in such a
manner and to such a degree as calls for
its righteous uprising and his indignant
and effective rebuke.
I'VE challenge denial or the fact that our
executive. as commander-ln-chief of the
military forces of the United States. at any
have closed every army saloon.
called a canteen. by executive or
der. as President Hayes did be-
fore him, and should nave closed them,
for the same reasons which actuated Presi-
dent Hayes We assert that the act of Con-
gress. passed March 2. 1899. forbidding the
sale of liquors in any post. exchange or
canteen' by any officer or private or by