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icsTonicAL society, ic::. WI-WIUW.-LJIiJ 1.8... . . OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE PROHIBITIONISTS IN NORTH CAROLINA. -V- VOL. IV. GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IT, 1886. , j ' RO. 36. . r. ' , : i,- , " -j, ' -- -",- ;, -7 -T: V . ! -V- . j . -.". U .- : ?,-"- Y;.'-. '-Sv.' j-'v ' 5 :. .., i. - - -"Vi - -. - . :-:;. ;x:-- .'V-'-' .-.ii.v :'iri-v-5i". - .:,;:,,'?v,"r mwt hMt -tan cspa-. ;. - . u .w--. . ... KliMffilTIOffiK: NOTHING " AND SOMETHING. Mrs. Po ancis E : W. Hahpeb .It is nothing to me the beauty saii. - -With jcareles.( toss f fcexp jpretty head The MaW fa weak if h daht refi-aitf ! A Anw iTAn avr n f.nnMliI ! 1 main It wa$ something to her. in after years, When, her eyes were drenched with bur'n- mg tears, - ,f . y An4 lewatchedltiJftnely grief and dread-, And startled to hear a staggering ' tread. . It is nothing to me, the mbthef said ; I have no fear that my boy will tread iucuuwuwkiu paiu ui siu auusuame, Ana crusumy neait and darken his name It was something: to her when-, that' only son , , , . , - From the path of right was early " .won, ? And madley cast in the flowing bowl AvMHnebodyia iirsinwreeked soat: It is nothing to me, the merchant said, : As over his ledger he bent his head , I'm busy to-day with tear and tret, And have no time" to fume and fret.' ' " sf fv w - s. X . j-f . It was something to hiexjf when oxet the wire . . ,rA A message 'came from a f aneral pyre i A drunken conductor had wrecked a train, And'Tiis wife and child were anioner thH slain. ' - 'i ' ''- it ia uuuuug wjiub, we vuuug uwu ciicu , Tl ? Li'. i. .1. S J In his eye was a flash of scorn and prid I heed not the dreadful things ye tell, I can rule myself j I know full well . - '. - i ' . ; ' "Twas something to him when in prison he lay, The victim of drink, life ebbing away. As he thought of his wretched child . and wifeilt f.-e. ?tf : " H4 ils'TUtf And the mournful wreck of his wasted life. ; It is nothing tome the voter said The party's loss is my greatest dread Then gave his yote for the liquor trade, Though hearts were crushed and drunk ards made. It was something to him in after life, When his daughter became a drunkard's wife - And her. hungry children cried for bread, And trembled to hear their father's tread. Is it nothing for us to idly sleep While the cohorts 'of death their vigils keeP ; . ; ,vA. - v To gather the young and thoughtless in 'And grind in our midst a grist of sin ? It is something yeSj :all,t for us to stand, And clasp by faith our Savior's hand To learn to labor, live and fight, On the side of God and changeless right. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. PREDICTION FULFILLED Text: First Samuel, xx, 18. "Thou shalt be missed because thy seat will be empty." ' : j Set on the table the cutlery and chased silverware of " the ; palace, for King Saul will giver, a state dinner to day. :A distinguishedplace is - kept at the table for his son-in-law, a celebrated warrior, David by name. The guestd, jeweled and plumed, come in and take Iheif places. "When people are invited to a king's banquet they are? verv apt to go. Bu1Clc&,l tbe eqyeta are lifted from the, feast Saul iooks around and finds a vacant seat at the table. He says within himself, or perhaps audi bly: ''What does this mean?; Where. is my son-in-law ? Where is David, the great warrior? '- I invited. him." I ex pected him. 1 'Whatl A'vacant tehair at a king's banquet?" The 'iact was that David tn warrior, had t been seated for the last time at his father-in-law 'stable. The dav beforer Jonathan iad coaxed David to go an4. occupy that place at the table, saying to David, in the words of rnv text: "Thou . shalt be missed, f&" tny seat will empty' " .' The prediction was fulfilled. David was missed. His'seat was empty. That one vacant chair spoke louder than all the occupied chairs at the banquet. In almost every house therticles of f urn iture take;a? living personality That picture astrangeT-jwould' not see any thing remarkable either - in its' design or execution, but it iar more to you than all the pictures. of,; the 'Louvre and the Luxemlxurg.-"You remember who bought if and- who admired it. And that hymn! book' you remember who sang out of it. v And that cradle you remember who rocked it. And that Bible you remember who read out of it. And that becWyou "remember who slept in it. -And - that rooin you remember-who died in it," -But. there is nothing in all your house o eloquent and so mighty -voiced " as the vacant chair. - T suppose that before Saul and his guests got up from this banquet there was a great clatter of wine pitch ers, but alf that racket was -drowned out by the j'oice that came up from the. vacant chaif at-the table.; Many navel gazed and wept.t John Quinoy Adam s vacant chair in the House of Kepre sentatives, and at Mr, Wilson's vacant chair in the : vice,,' presidency, and at Henry Clay's vacant cbair in the Amer ican Senate, and at Prince Albert's va cant fihair j Jn Windsor Castle.And JLf Thiers vacant chair in the councils m the French nation; but. all these chairfe are -unimportant to you as ; compared with "the vacant chair .' ; in your own t , it- . yr it. . T . 1 XlOuseuoici. . nave luestj cmuxs ies- sons fpr you to learn? Are we any bet ter men and women than when they first addressed us? "' -. : :X Firsfc: J, poin oijt,tQjou ..tUe father's vacant chair t Old men always like tb.sit'in'the aaih6 place and in the same chair. f They-jBonVehow feel , more at hiome," and sometims when you are in their placemnd'they I come into the "room-, yo; jump, up.uddenly and say: "Here father, here'a, your chair." Thie psbbability,' is Jt is an ; arm-chair, foj he is aot so strong as he once was, and he needs a little upholding. His hair is a little frosty, his (rums a little de pressed, for in his early days there was not -much dentistry. ; Perhaps a cane chair and , old-fashioned apparel. . for though you may ; have suggested some improvement, iatner does not -want any or your nonsense. . urancuatner never had much admiration for new-fangled notions. .. I sat; at the table of one of my parishioners in a - former congre gation; an aged man .was at the table and his son. . was . presiding and . the iather sdmeWhat . abruptly ' addressed theson and said; i"My; son, -don't now try to show off because , the minister is is here! . lour iatner never liked any aew customs or manners; he preferred the old way i of doing things, and ho i never looked so nappy., as., when, with his eyes closed, he sat in the arm chair in the corner Front wrinkled brow" to the tip of the slippers, whet .'placidity? The wave of the past years of his life broke at the foot .f that f hair. Per naps.; k sometimes ne , vras a littieim-; patient; and? sometimes told the saine storywiceX but over that bid chair how many blessed memories hover I I hope you did not crowd that old chair, and that it did not get ' very much in the way. Sometimes the .old man's chair gets "very much in the. way, especially if he has been so unwise as to make overall his jproperty to his children with the.Tanderstanding ; that - they are to take care ; of him. , I have seen in such cases children crow d the old man's chair to the i door, and then crowd it clear into the street, and then crowd it into the poorhouse, and keep on crowd- ring it until the old man fell out of it into nis gray-. ;; . , , - But your iather s -chair was a sacred place. . ; The children used to climb up on the rungs of it for a good-night kiss, and the longer he staved the better you liked it. . But that : chair has been va cant" now for some time. The furniture dealer would not give you' 50 cents for but it is a throne of . influence in French palace and in the throne room the chair that Napoleon used to occupy. It was a beautiful chair, i but the most sisrnificant part ot it was the letter "N" embroidered into the back of the chair in purple and gold. And your father's old chair sits in , the throne room of your heart,1, and . your affections have embroidered into the back of that chair in purple and gold the letter "F."' Have all the prayers of that old chair been answered? Have all the counsels of that old chair been practiced? Speak out, old arm-chair! History tells us of an old man wbose three sons were vic tors in the Olympic games, - and when they came back, these three sons, with their garlands and put them on their father's brow, the old man was so re joiced at the victories of his three chil dren that he fell dead in their arms. And are you, O man, oing to bring a wreath, of joy and Chiistiatf usefulness and put it on yOur. father's brow, or on the vacant chair, or on. the memory of the One departed? Speak out, bid arm chair With reference to your father, the words of my -'text -have been1 ful filled: "Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." IX I go a little further on in your house,' and I find the mother's enair. It is very apt to be a rocking-chair. She had so many cares and troubles to soothe that it must have rockers. I re member it well. It , was an old chair, and the rockers were almost worn out, for I was the youngest, and the chair had rocked the whole family. It made a creaking noise as it moved; but there was music in the sound. It was just high enough to allow us children to put our heads into her lap.' That was the bank j where : we deposited ' all cur hurts and worries. Uh, what a chair that was! It was different from the father's chair; it was entirely dif ferent. You ask me how. - I cannot tell; but we all felt it was different. Perhaps ; there was about this chair more gentleness, more tenderness, more grief when we had dene wrong. When we were wayward father scolded, but mother -cried. '. It was a very wakeful chair: In the sick days of ' children other chairs could not keep, awake. That chair always kept awake, kept easily awake. That chair knew all the old lullabies and , all those wordless songs which mothers sing to their sick children songs in which all pity and compassion and sympathetic influences are combined. That old chair has stop ped rocking for a good many years. ..It may be set up in the : loft or the garret, but it holds; a uueenly power yet. When at midnight you went into that grog shop to get the ; intoxicating draught, did you not hear a voice that said: "My son, why : go in there?"-1 And louder than the boisterous encore of the place of wicked amusement, a.: voice saying "My sou,' what do 1 you here?" And when you went into the house oi sin a voice saying: "What would your moth er, do if she knew you were here t And you were provoked with your self, : and "you charged , yourself, with superstition and fanticism, and your head got hot with your own thoughts, and you went home and went to .bed. and no sooner, had you touched the bed than a voice said:' ? 'What a prayerless pillow ! Man, what is the matter?" Thi8:"You are tod near your mother's rocking chair. 'Oh,! pshaw !" you say : there's nothing in that. Tm 500 miles off from where I was born. I'm 2"000 miles off from the church whose . bell was the first music I ever heard;" cannot help that; your are too near your mother's (rocking chair. : Oh," you say, "there can't be anything in-that; that chair - has 4 been vacant . a, great while. : I eannot help that; it is all the mightier for that; it is omnipotent, that vacant mother's chair. It: whis pers: it speaksr it weeps;' it carols; ?it mourns; it prays; it warns: it thunders.' A young"man!went off and - broke' his mother's heart, and" while he was awav from' home his mother died, " and ' the telegraph brought the son, and he came into the' room where she lay and looked upon her face, and he cried out:' "Qh,. mother, mother! what your life could not do your death" shall effect. This moment I give my heart to God , And he kept hisj promise, Another victory for the vacaut' chair.. With reference to vour mother the words of my 1 text were fulfilled: 'Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty. A- -Some one said, to a Grecian general : "What was the proudest .moment in your life?" i He thought a moment and said. "The proudest .moment in my life was when I sent word home to my parents that I had gained the victory. And the proudest and most brilliant moment in your life; will be .the mo ment wlien you can send ; word, to your parents' that you have conquered your evil habits by the grace of God,! and be-1 come eternal victor. . Oh, desoise not parental anxiety The time will come when you' will have neither father nor mother, and you .will go "around the place where they used to watch you, and find "them gone from the house, and gone from the field, and gone from the neighborhood. I Cry as loud, for forgiveness as you may over the mound in the churchy afd.they will not answer. Dead ! Dead ! ; And then . you will take out the white lock of hair that, was cut from" your, toother's brow, just before thyhurifidJiejaad'-You will take tlieshaU be vacant, may we beWorshipping cane with wiiich your father used to walk. And you will think and , think and wish that "you ; had done just as they wanted von to. and Would arive the world if you had never thrust a pang through their dear sold, hearts. ' God pity the young man who ' .has brought t T r a , , - 1 uisgrace un - uu iauei 8 .name: - uoa pity the young ; man. who :' has broken his mother's heart ! Better if . he f had never been born; better, if in the rfirst hour of Lis life,- instead of being " laid against the warm bosom: of maternal tenderness,' he had. been coffined and sepulchered.' There is no balm poWer-i ful enough to heal the heart of one who has brought parent t--to a sorrowful grave, and who wanders about through the dismal cemetery J rending the hair and wringing the hands and crying: "Mother! mother!" Oh, that to-day by all the memories of the past and by all the hopes I of the - future, f you; would yield your; heart to. God! May .your father s God and : your ; mother s God be your God forever! u i ; i -it-h: HI. I go on a little further; I come to the invalid's chair. What? How long have you been sick? - : "Oh I have been sick ten, twenty, thirty years.' Is it possible?.;. What" a story of endur ance! ; There are in many' families of my congregation these invalid chairs. The occupants of them , think they are doing no god in the world; but that invalid's chair, is the mighty pulpit from which they have been preaching; all these years, trust in God. ; One day on an island just off from Sandusky, Ohio, I preached, and there was a great! throng of people there; jbut the throng; did , not impress me so much ' as the spectacle of just one : face the face of an invalid iwho was wheeled in on her chair. I ; said to her afterwards : 'Madam, how long have you been pros trated?" - for she was lying flat in the chair.- "Oh," she: replied, "I have been this.; way, fifteen years." I said: "Do you suffer very much?" "Oh, vea:" she Tenlied. f fl suffer verv much: I suffer all the time? part of the time. I was blind, I always suffer. . - "Well," said, "can you keep your courage up? ."Un, yes, sne said,! am nap py, very happy -mdeed. Her-face showed it. She looked the happiest of any one on the grouncL.: Oh, what a means of grace to the world, . these in valid chairs! . rV, I pass on and I find one more vacant chair. It is a high chair. It is the child's chair. If that chair be oc cupied, I think it is the most potent chair in all the household. All the chairs wait on it; all the chairs are turned toward it. It means more than David's chair at Saul's banquet. At any rate, it makes more racket. - . That is a strange house that can be dull with child in it. How that . child breaks up the hard worldiness of the 'place, and keeps you young to 60, 70, and 80 years of age! If you. have no child of your own, . adopt one; it will open heaven to your sould. It will pay its way,' Its crowing in. the morning will give the day a cheerful starting, ' and its glee at night will give the day a cheerful close. ; You- do : not like chil dren? . .Then vou had better stay out of heaven, for there ' are so many there they would fairly run you crazy. Only about five hundred millions of them! The old crusty disciples told the moth ers to seep tne cniiaren away irom Christ. "You bother Him," they say; "you trouble the Master. " . ' Trouble Him? He has filled heaven with that kind of trouble, r f A pioneer in California says that fr the first year or two after his residence in Sierra Nevada county,' there was not a single child in all the reach of a hnn dred miles; But the Fourth of. July came, and the miners were gathered together, and they were celebrating the Fourth with oration and poem, and a boisterous brass band;- and? while the band was playing, an infant's voice was heard crying, and all the miners ! Were startled, and the swarthy; men began to think of their homes on the eastern coast, and of their wives - and children far away, and their .hearta' were filled witn nomesicKness as iney. nearu .me babe cry. Buf the music went on, and the child cried, louder and louder, and the ;brass . band played. louder ; ud louder,, trying to drown out the in fantile interruption, ; when a swarthy miner, the tears rolling down his face, got up and shook his fist; and; said: "Stop that noisy band and y give the baby a chance." Oh, there was a pathos in if as well as good cheer in it!" There is nothing to arouse, ; and melt, and subdue the soul like a child s voice. ' : But when it goes away from you-the high chair becomes a higher chair, and there is" desolation all about you ..In three-fourths of the homes of my con gregation there is a vacant Jiigh chair. Somehow you never get over it. . There is no one to put to bed at night, no one to ask strange questions about God and heaven. Oh, what is ; the use of that high chair? : It is to call you higher. What a drawing upward it is- to have children ; in heaven 1 ""And then it is such a preventive' against .sin. If a father is going away into sin he leaves his living children with their mother; but if a father is going away into sin what is he going to do -with, his dead children, floating about him and hov ering over his , every ; wayward - step? Oh, speak but, vacant Tiigh chair, and say: "-rather, come .oack- from sin; mother, come back from worldliness. I am watching you. I am waiting for you." ' With respect to your child the words of my text have been -fulfilled: "Thou shalt be:-missed, becanse thy seat will be empty." . V't'i my nearers, 1 nave gathered up -the voices, of your departed friends, and tried to intone them, into one ; invita tion npward. I set in array all the va cant ehairs of your, homes,- and of your social, circle, and : I bid. them; cry out, t 'Time is short. Eternity is near.; Take my Safiour; Be at peace with my God. Come up- where "X am. : We lived to gether on earth; come, let us live to gether in heaven." " We answer that invitation. - We come. 5 Keep a seat for us, . as ? Saul ' kept a seat: for David; but that seat shall not be empty. When we are all through with this world, and we have Bhaken . hands all around' for the last time, an'd all our chairs in the homes' circle and in. -the ' outside world God in. that .place from, which we shall go out no more forever. I thank' God there will be no vacant chair in heaven. THE FIELD AT LARGE. Habbisbubo, Pa.,Aug. 28 1886. It was well, perhaps, that I came from Silver Lake to Harrisburg. Other wise the atmosphere of enthusiasm, in which for two days I have found myself, might have been too sudden and overpowering in its effects. That magnificent Temperance- Assembly of Brother Mead's in the western end of my" own state, would tone one up anything. Sunday last" was the finest of its eight, season ; and while all the days, by" common - testimony, surpassed former years in attendance and power, Saturday and Sunday brought an immense climax.' I should like much to write at length of Silver Lake, its methods and re sults, as an inspiration to the ' estab lishment of other camps like it, and the dissemination of like influences more widely. Proper regard for the great movement here, however, ' for bids. A brief word only, may be said: - - "However fine and successful other camps may be, ; remarked one who has held the platform at many, it is at Silver Lake that we get the view farthest on toward victory, in this re form." . One look in. the faces of those who gathered in that forest temple, on the two days . mentioned, would have satisfied anybody on this point, and made plain the , remark. Three thousand Saturday afternoon to hear Mrs. Lathrop, four thousand Sunday morning to hear her again anil five thousand Sunday p. m. to greet and be delighted by Col. Bain these figures tell numerically the story. But the oneness of conviction, the unity of feeling, the uplift of those vast audiences, how shall all this be told ? It could not be save for years of regular instruction by the best apostles of Prohibition, and the solidifying effect of such instruction on miscellaneous " mfnds. Put half- a-dozen Silver Lakes in any . State and in a decade their power, will be mighty, for . our cause. Where though, 8hall .,we find the half-a-dozen Meads to run them and utilize their force in creating public opinion? From what I i hear, Missouri has found the man, in Dr. John A, Brooks and he has inaugurated some of the places, this year, in that state. Let lour friends throughout every state, take a hint and act upon it. There is no public educator-a long reform lines after good litera ture. which equals a well locatedt well conducted : steadily maintained camp meeting., This theme is tempting, but I turn from it to the, wonderful Prohibition State Convention which, last nigh. here came to an end. .The details of 1 it will be supplied amply ? by special reports telegraphic and other ; I can only touch a few salient features, and give some . of, the - rare.- impressions made. As to numoer ot , regular delegates in attendance Pennsylvania has beaten all her ; sister: states there were 658; . Their spirit, their liberality: their : enthusiastic zeal, well matched their numbers. Hon. A. A. Barker, chairman of the state ; had committee . for three years,';1 worked : unweariedly . to insure the greatest convention ever known ; and his success inspired everybody. The very air seemed : electric. Mr. Bar ker's speech in calling to order on Wednesday set enthusiasm spreading lilrp a contasrion. The fever of it did not cease, until adjournment yester day at 5 p, m. I venture to asser that no two days eyer witnessed more effervescence of real unselfish - patrio- tism. than has been: bubbling w forth here. " ' There was no elaborate opening address made to set the keynote of the campaign a? last year in ,Ohio and New r York though temporary chairman . Hunter" ? and ' permanent chairman": Stevens, . each spole in brief, stirring fashion on accepting there was Vermere their place of trust. But no lack of good talking. men need not feel humiliated at the confession that a woman made the speech of the occasion. : Mrs.-V Mary T." Lathrap's argument on Wednesday evening captivated and convinced the whole great assemblage and "will longmbarrass our Bureau because of the calls foir her Jseryicerin'lhis state' which it has excied:r That the audience, should vfiiav until eleven o'clock to hear any one else," after her superlative impression, was a wonder." "How could she do .'it?" I over heard one woman ask another." And the other woman gave it up. Of the many brief speeches made, four were noteworthy in " various ways. Two of these came from colored men; Thev had the ring of genuine negro eloquence, and that k as genuine as any I know. They set the. convention fairly wild. The third was made by a white delegate, Mr, Price of Allegheny, when one of the colored speakers, Rev. J. M. Pal mer, had been nominated for a place on the ticket. " Feeling and -ardor had manifested themselves in extrav agant degree foran hour, and what ever might follow, it appeared, must come as an anti-climax. But when Mr. Price rosein a parquette chair of i he opera hous, ,. and ' said with clarion tones, 'The son of a Virginia slaveholder, born myself to a heri tage of slaves, I desire to second the nomination just made !" the" effect was tremendous. It was the scene of Wolfe's nomination over again, with a certain quality of poetic justice thrilling it which .can not be de scribed. ' Men and women did more han throw up their hats, and wave heir handkerchiefs, and cheer .till they were hoarse ; their cheeks grew wet, their voices quivered, their hearts throbbed My own eyes get dim this moment, while I write of it; my throat chokes me ; I think of that prayer heard every morning of my boyhood at the home altar "Lord, break the bonds of the slaves !" and a hush -oi solemn grantuae comes over my soul. The fourth of the four brief I am referring, Chas. S. Wolfe, peeches to which was that by Hon. nominee for governor, when he and his colleagues on - the ticket were brought before and introduced to the convention. It was rather a dra matic picture. The . chief -standard bearer is younger even in looks .than in years, ana ; he. is , out; ioriy-one. Slight and im, he . made striking contrast to the patriarchal; Barker, of burly form, florid face, alnd flowing silver beard, who had ; received nomi nation for lieutenant-governor. Cool and calm, and. heroic, he stood amid that jubilant mass of heroic human- ty, most self-contained of all. Cooly and calmly he spoke ; of the work to be done, of the foe to be met, and we who sat there, with nerves keen strung and quivering . could only, marvel at his, self command. But, when: he said, don't . know whv I am . here : it has come about through no seeking of . mine ;" hig tones grew-mores tender, and a lady atlny side. remarked: There's heart under there. , alter, all.". VY hen he said, "I am in , this , cause to '. stay ; I shall give it my talent, if I have any, my, time, my money, and ji need. be, my life, the true spirit ol consecra tion - shone : forth. , luminously ; and when in speaking . of the influences present in. that convention, he rever ently .declared, .But i.best of alL;, we have had God here, the holy touch of faith and trust was felt upon each heart, and a thrill pervaded. the place with which political conventions are not familiar. . v ; .., . . ' . i It seems almost a pity that a man of Mr. Wolfe's parts 'and promise ah mi Id thus :be sacrificed to the de mands of party building. He was a Republican, became disgusted with ring corruption, led the. independent movement of Pennsylvania, r polled 50,000 votes, and might have gone back into his party with this power as a whip in his hands to compel party preferment. He -had hor-st pnnci pie, and could not go. iA Prohibi tionist always in practice.; and belief he quietly allied : himself with the Prohibition party,4 seeking- nothing, biding duty's.calL It hasbeenwide ly announced that he is a recruit of this season to our ranks. : Let ,'him here have proper credit. U While he did not publicly : avow himself ' he was -with us in heart and - vote last year, and then, Un. a tlong interyiew; which I had, with him, made full statement of. the fact. I might then have, published it, and have since been sorry I did not. . ,' .'K . , The convention was fortunate ;in its choice of, a chairman, w,ho. served it; admirably Mr.. A. .A-r Stevens- and-whose wise appointment ..'of. the committeaVbnesolu lions helped much to harmonize action and insure satisfactory .;:;---resulvijjn.dgeJames' Black was at 'this "committee's , head and the regard .shownTor" him;byhis fellow Prohibitionists, amounts prop erly to reverence. ; W hen he reported the piatform yesterday at 2 :30 p. m., all were on the qui- vive. There had been, rumors of disagreement about woman snffrag, and I fears were felt that trouble on this line, lay ahead. Amid breathless ' attention, broken only, by frequent applause, Judge 15 lack read his committee s report, and at its close, without one word of dissent, the Platform- received unan imous adoption. Judge ; f Black waj given three cheers. How deftly the suffrage . question - had " recognition this plank will show: v" ! s 3d That; moral efforts ? to reclaim the drinker and. to educate on . the nature and effects of intoxicants must not be relaxed, and nye approve of all or gahizati6hsir "' having' 'these " objects 11 1 1 "w--r specially in -view, notably the Wo- man s Christian Temperance .. unions dv ineir uevoieu, practical ana per- severing laoors commana our ad- miratioh, emulatioh and appreciative recognition. I The Prohibiliori party pledges its co-operation and influence in ine prosecution oi.wnacever meas- ures ana to whatever aegree our mhtherR. wivftR arid sisters maV deem I - needful for the protection of home from the drink curse, including .civil eoualitv under the law. and their miiTispl fiTifl hihnr in nnr nartv work of "down with the saloon and up with the home" is cordially invited kind welcomed; ... . A little complaint was made about i-iiXD, uj uiic wiCga,ic0, and one said in my hearing. "We have been sold out ; but what more than civil equality could she ask ? The platform is broad, though it subordinates everything to Prohihi tion, and is recognized; by the. daily press of this morning as amply in- elusive. Of course Republican pa- pers do not approve . the declaration that their-own party's ; so-called sub- mission resolution is Receptive, ana a snare to catch voters, xney want the votes, ana thought : they would get them with the snare . they spread. Are they going tor - . 1 , ... fTiov orrvmcr t Touching the convention, its re suits, and the effects that' may follow, find a significant', editorial 'in to- day's Philadelphia .Times. Among othef notable -'utterances 5 in it are these: - 1 ; ; w - - - . x," a. 1 -Ts he nomination of Charles. Wolfe "as ' the Prohibition candidate or governor is a political event that portends .revolutionary .results m Pennsylvania.; Just how far-the old parties may be affected by this move- meht defies safe calculation from even the wisest, political oDservers. twill certainly strike the Republi- uau," ,v": w . u' f HftTio anas n , may .uwtuwf. buuxcux thousands from the Democrats. ' The 1 1 'fL J Xt- ir.'il..' Tl 1 ' J' 11 " will suffer vasamoreAthan the pemocruts by prohibition .diversion: tmt e rxjiitanwii.assumemt the Democratic ranks will not be broken by : the same issue is or the class that learns nothmgand forgets nothing. : . x-' rS -. J;?;.V,:W mates the strength of the Prohibition movement f.bia veaT mnat be wilfullv blind to clearly-foreshadowed results. WolfS willpp 11 hearer iuo ,uw votes tnan ?2'rt0 he 1)011 m4y m.f ,than 100,000 ; and his campaign will stamp iW:9hJ of &e natorial.:andr .7. . . .. .' r Thre will be stranffe results w ... vi , 17 0 i the - legislative . elections,; and none can calculate whether prohibition, or nigh licence wm oe in uie jiiasujiy, or whether Charles b. AVolle or -Mat- thew S. Quay maybe the next United States senator. ; The movement - is colossal in proportions, not so much because the:, people . os rennsyivania 1 gooa sense, x ne ib, uie j;uuu atc are running wild after prohibition, J publican ship is in imminent danger, as because mere is a spontaneous auu given all parties a system 6f saloon political domination that cannot last intelligent states Pennsylvania's Prohibition conven tion of 1886 has gone into history. Its results will "make history. ; Here, as in New Jersey, the campaign is bound to be magnificent and mem orable. .There will be old soldiers in it, for the one hundred and" forty eight -veterans who stood up and were counted as delegates Wednesday mean business. There wilt be colored men in: it : the nomination of Mr. Palmer guaranteed that. And there will be in it also, grit, grace and greenbacks. , Mr. Wolfe's leadership, the christian element following hinv and the splendid fund of $7,000 con tributed in the convention, insure all these; "'-How the caipsin .rc for- ward I may chronicle later, whe my promised week of service in it shall have been enjoyed. -' A. A. Hopkins. IN DANGER. , The Prohibitionists have never been so active or so hopeful as they areM the present year, , In Maine they arp making the very pines eacho with the, music of, their .cause, Jn Pennsylvania they are marshalling for a great battle, !with yiTolfe as their leader. - A great temperance meeting was held last weekjat Monsey's New York," at, which wonderful 'enthusi asm was displayed th many of the States in ihe TJfaion they are fighting as a th&d jarty,? boldly, Courageous ly, determinedly I 1 They mean to wrestle frorii the old parties all the votes they can," and, as a matter 6f course, a great majority of the votes they receive will be from the. ranks of the Republican party. It is high time. .bprfo fnr 'PorMiMWna k niXna;Aa ,1,1, 4-v, consider where they stand, or rather, where they will stand when "the re- turns are in," -ine-ioiiowing : words irom Harper s Weekly are , signin niTif lhev Republican party was not iormea as a temperance party, it is not Douna Dy any kind ot obligation ueuiart;: iui jrruuiuiuuu. xuu n 1X8 snence wnen .urgea to speak is Pontic because it could not speak satislactorily to temperance Kepub- LTXrl as against the liemocratic party. silence cannot jziin the liauor vote. But mav it not lose the temperance vote ? ' Would not the party in New York be stronger if the Republican Legislature had not truckled to the. saloon and had refusal to enter into corrupt political partnership with esquire and X lynn i The Independent exposes, in a timid way, what the New ,York Tribune boldly calls "the true inwardness of tne rroniDition party. xne ionow mg is what the lnaepenaent says ana the Tribune quotes : We have BOmetimes feared that not a fev of the leaders of the third tarty are actuatea largely Dypoiiucai am I bition that their ; aim and- end are not the triumph of temperance simply, n. rkPTsnnal and "nolitinal rtreffiTTnpnh Their course has been in entire har- mony with this assumption. In dis- tnct alter aistrict wnere one or tne other of the old parties has nominated e candidates . . -, -fw fllimaf , iia nwn mon ufiol-i frannil v pIpa. L-i 1, ttCOi nAUaia rph.v WavOL derided and discouraged attempts to t either of the old parties right .TM1-im- nfiAn on 1 .n W1 - in f hQ r Damn. Blblican or non-nartisan - - - .. x . temperance measures, "The Voice," if Bnderfitand its course toward the prohibitory t WxlC CUU1U W IJUKIB iiv piuuiuiirvi 1 amenament. resolution tnrougn tne Kew-York Legislature,' has not only not igted in either case. It hi cburaged the friends of both. If we hav7 mistaken , its attitude, we . Vrt -,nA tA oU ' Mofinn It ceiaiSiv belittles Jand discourages i.X, nmnAn; TVamT a-raa-o n .Am. mit the Republicans against the saloon. ,It ; true this movement . - --.1 1. Li.i.-Li . t:x il- i-l j. . Ita iritis hostile to the gal Itigft temperance movement; and what is. it but party prejudice that arrays the influence of "The Voice" against it ' What: is it but blind devotion to the party that pre- I yents our neiguuur, hvlu uciyiug guv 11 i"9 Pt. j 9 movements au v w uere auu c v cry wiierc i , 1 :This is "a stab in , the. dark, and the . ineiepeiuieni wni t i-utj uay, Uh-hlv before this year is ended -, n . . , , t h - &, "r . , , r ., lowed its partisanship to dwarf its Republicans who close their eyes movement, or deride it, are going to (Continued on fourth Page.) in one of the most of,4he Union."
The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.)
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