The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-30
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ORATORS IN DEBATE.
Howard Speaks EIoquentIy Fer Prisei-
pie on which oil are Agreed.

year in Livingston county, n. T.,
a great annual picnic Of which ID
eighth, was held on Aug. Is, wit
Is, 900 paid admissions to th
grounds. The drawing card was
triangular debate between Hon. A
Yates for the Republicans, Hon. J
b. Staunch6eld for the Democrat
and Clinton N. Howard of Roches
ter for the Prohibitionists. w
give the speech Of the latter in psrt
Throughout he was frequently IN
terrupted with shouts OF approval
and very evidently had innuenceo
most of the vast throng to bis way
~ propose, +" he said, Ito speak
for a principle on which We are al
agreed Senator Staunchheld has
told you of the dire calamities that
we're in store for this country il the
Republican party is not checked in
lite policy Of world aggression, and
that il can no longer be trusted to
interpret the constitution or con-
serve the sacred rights OF the peo-
pie. Judge Yates has told you
that the Democratic party could
never be trusted with anything,
never ought to have been trusted
and ought to be sternally busted fol-
the good OF mankind. | am here
to vouch for the verscity of these
gentlemen, and to congratulate them
upon the unity and sanity OF their
conclusion, by insisting that they
are both right, and that it would be
a calamity to the homes OF this
country to have either ono OF them
win in the coming election.
He continued: Neither one OF
the gentlemen who preceded me
has named the worst thing that
would happen to this country 10
the event Of either Republican or
Democratic victory. The Demo
cratic party may stand for free sill
YER, free trade, populism, Organism
Tammanyism and may visit upon
the nation oil the evils that Judge
Yates bespeaks for ii, but that would
not be the greatest misfortune OF
Democratic victory.
The reelection OF President
Roosevelt may mean all that Senator
Staunchfield said in the way OF inn
perialism, bossism, high prices for
food and coal, and . surrender to
the monopoly and money power,
at the expense OF the common peo-
pie; but shat would not be the
worst result OF Republican victory.
A curse worse than any OF these,
aud worse than all Of them put to-
gethsr, is already upon Us, in the
presence Of 20O. 900 Government Ii
csnsed rum shops, that like wild
beasts are leaping upon our sons
and daughters, despoiling our
homes, rotting our manhood, cor
rupting our politics, making cow
ards OF our policemen. and periur-
els Of our public officials; and it 10
this everlasting curse which Abra-
ham Lincoln said threequarters Of
acknowledged with their
mouths and the rest affirmed with
heir hearts, which will continue to
scatter the mildew Of psrdition upon
our civilization in the event OF eth
or Republican or Democratic VIC
is the very worst calam-
ity that can happen to Us all.
"And in making that declaration
have the consent Of this great au-
diencs without division. There is
no minority here at all. Every
man Of you ct your best is Prohi-
bitionist in has heart aud despises
The cowardics Of your own party in
the presence OF the saloon. You
may be split up into . hundred diff
tsrent religious denominations, you
may differ in character, in color, in
creed, and on every other political
proposition under the sun; you
may be . Republican g Democrat
or a Christian, but on this declara-
ton the heart and conscience OF
every good man and every bad man
and every indifferent man agrees,
that the American whisky saloon il
an unmitigated curse and that it
ought to be suppressed. And !
will not take further time to argue
q fact that science, medicine, reli-
gion, education, industry and
statesmanship-and God and your
selves admit to be q fact.
l will not use my time in show
ing how the removal OF this curse
would be . greater blessing to the
farmer, TO the laborer and to the
business Of the county, than the
solution Of any othes question, or
by continuing the present policies
Of the government on all other
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