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"HJSTCaiCAL COCIETY. 1CZZ. r VA to Air. 1 H I - t I ! II-'. GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1888. VOL .VI. NO. 31. Iorie LD"fd T"jj"rTT;"r" TTTXT-'A ALKjALo -i-L. - .- : W X 7 LJ LJ t J 1 j L J L J Piedmont Air - Line 1 :i ..V . ' - Jtcouxe. Richmond and Danville System. CONDENSED SCHEDULE IN EFFECT " : SEPT 4 1887 Trains Run by 75 Meridian Tims DAILY SOUTHBOUND - Lv. New York "Philadelphia , " -Baltimore " Washington :". . Charlottesvlle Lynchburg At. Danville, No. 50. 12 15 nig't 7 20am 9 45 " 11 24" 340 p m 5 50" 8 3 " No. 52. 430 pn 657 " 9 42 " 11 uu " . 3 00 a u 5 10"- 7 4 '. Lv. Richmond Tfc 1 111 3 10 " 5 17 " 5 57 " 613 8 50" 2 30 "... 4 24 " 5 05 " 5 20 " 8 05 ' . 9 42" t8 10 pn 1 45 a m 3 12" 7 25 " 4 06 " 7 40 " 6 30 " 9 5 - 1016 " 11 18 ": 12 12 p m .4 31 " 9 1" 11 23 a m 12 01 p m 12 40 " 3 37 " y448." 9 40 " No. 5?. ; 7 10 a m 151pm 2 53 " - 5 30 " 6 30 " 7 05 " 1140 a m " Keysville -" Drake's Br'ch " Danville Ar. Greensboro - i i .... Lv.Goldsboro " Raleigh " Durham " Chapel Uill " Hillsboro Ar. Greensboro Lv Salem ." Greensboro, High Point Ar Salisbury " Statesville, " Ashevillo, 10 35 ." 2 40 p m 5 00 p m r 6 04 " tl 15 " 6 37 " 8 35 " f615, " 145 " : 11 16 " 12 01 am 1 51 " 7 28 " 9 15 " 12 26 " " Hot Springs Lv. Salisbury, Ar. Concord, " Charlotte " Spartanburg " Greenville Ar. Atlanta NOTHBOUND. . Lv .Atlanta Ar. Greenville " Spartanburg " Charlotte " Concord i " " Salisbury Lv. Hot Springs " Asheville, 1 10 " J 155 am 440 " 5 50 " 11 00 " No. 51. 6 00 p m 106 am 2 13 " 4 50 " 6 43 " 6 22" 8 05 p in 9 55 " 3 30 am -437 " 6 27 " ' 7 32 41 8 00 " 11 40 " 9 50 " .11 55 V 12 35pm tH 05 am . 1 55 pin 1 25 5 56 6 38 p in ni ... etatesville, Salisbury, , Salisbury, High Point Greensboro Salem Ar Lv. Ar. 4 ft tf Lv Ar 7 15 - 815 " 8 40 " ' tl2 34 a n 10 50 p ns 3 10 " 4 30 a m . 5 20 p m " Durham " Chapel Hill " Raleigh " Goldsbbro ... Lv. Greensboro 6 55 am 4 10 til 45 " ; 8 05 a. m. 9 47 " 8 50 pa 10 20 p ni 123am .1 45 " 2 36 " 5 00 " 12 55 " 3 05 " 7 00 8 20 " 10 47 " 1 20 p m Ar Danville Drake's Br'ch . Keysville , : " Burke ville " Richmond - - Lynchburg " Charlottes v'le "Washington " Baltimore! "Philadelphia New York. 12 25 d m 12 40 " 1 5 " 3 30 " 1240 p m 2 55 " ' 7 35 " 8 50 " 3 00am 6 20 " .. Daily f Daily, except Sunday SLEEPING CAR SERVICE On trains 50 and 51, Pullman Buffet Sleepers between" Atlanta and New York. On trains 52 aud 53, Pullman Buff ei sleepers between Montgomery and Wash ington and Washington and Augusta Pullman Sleepers between Richmond and. Greensboro, and "Greensboro and Raleigh. Pullman Parlor Car between Salisbury and Knoxville. . " . " Through tickets on sale at principa- stations to all poibts. . For rates and information apply to anj agent of the Company, or to Sol. HAas, T. M- ot.Jas. L. TAYLOR. Gen'l Pass. Agent, Washington.. 'D. C. oi J. S- POTTS, D P. A., Richmond, Va., oj W. A. TURK, DP, A. Raleigh, N. C. CAPE FEAR & YADKIN VALLEY . RAILROAD COMPANY Condensed Time Table. To take ffec:- at 5 15 a. m , Monday, Aug ;- . ; 13 1888. , MAIN LINE Tkain North . Pass and Freight Mail nnd Pass Leave Bennettsville,v, 6.00 am- 1 15p m Arrive Maxton, 7 05 3 10 Leave Maxtn, Arrive Fayetteville, Leave Faytle ille. Arrive Sanfrd, ; . Leave San ford, Arrive Grcensbro A Leave Greensboro 7 15" 9 00 " 915 " , 11 15" 11 27 " 2 30 p'ni 3 35 7 15 y.so am 1 4Up m 2 30 - 725 3 00 7.15 10.15 a m ArriveMt. Airy 5.15 p m Pas-. aud Mail Nol rdinner Greensboro Train South: Pass, flrid Freight Mail , ai.d Pass Leave Mt.Airy Arrive Greensboro, Leave Greensbor , ' Arrive Saoiferd. 5 15 a m 10.15 a m 9 25 " 5.40 p m 10 05 a m 7 45 a m 1 35 d m 2 0 v m - T- ave S nford. 1.55 " 2 30 Arrive Fav tteville. 4t0 ". ' 5 50 Leave Fayetteville, 4 15 , " 6 25 a m Arrive Maxton, 6 15 9 50 Titavp. iJuxton. .6 25 " 10 lp Arrive Bennettsville, 7 3q " 12 15 p m No S--Breakfast at Germanton, No- 2 Dinner at Sanford. - Factory Branch. Freight and ;Past Train. North. Leave Milboro, ; 7 30 a m Arrive Greensboro, 9 00 " -Train-South. Leave Greensboro, .3 30p m Leave Factory Jnnction, 4 30 ; ; Passenger and Mail Train runs daily ex cept Sundays. :... , . ; . ' : Freight and Passenger Train runs between Bennettsville and Fayetteville on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridaj s, and between Fayetteville and Greensboro on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. . Freght and Passenger tram runs be tween Greensboro and Fayetteville on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Trains on Factory Bianch run daily except Sunday. J.W.Fnt,Gen'l Sup't. A REPUBLICAN SIDE -SHOW. . . ! JAquor Men to Hold a Convention In Far or of Temperance and Morality. The Wine and Spirit Trader' Society of New York held a meeting recently, at which most of the representative whole Bale liquor, dealers were present, to make arrangements for the. convention of the National Protective Association of Whole sale Wine and Spirit : Dealers, which will be held at Chickering hall in New York Sept. 11,5 12 and 13. Charles McK. Leoser, in an interview, said: "The object of the convention is to bring all the wholesale liquor dealers of the country together, to lay before the convention the objects of the association and the way in which the ' liquor business should be conducted. 5 They will adopt & platform of . principles which, in " their opinion, will be best adapted to secure the best methods for controlling the trade. Their opinion is "that if their views are adopted they will do more to advance the cause of true temperance among the people than the views of the Prohibition ists. They will propose a general form of license law for all the states that will con trol the traffic in the best way in which it can be done, and they think that their ex perience will be of more value in achiev ing this end thanthe views : of clergymen and people who . have had no experience in the matter. ... . -. "The object of the whole convention is to give the people of the United States a wry clear idea of the intentions and mo- ifrvas of the wine and spirit trade. : They believe themselves to be the very best ex ponents of ; true temperance. They feel and know that it is impossible to prevent the consumption of spirituous beverages by law. j They mean : to propose certain schemes of legislation which they think will go" as far as anything can go toward achieving th end that is desired by every body that is moderation in all things. A BLAMELESS LIFE. A Non-partisan - Opinion of Onr Chief, 4 . Clinton B. fisli. " Whatever comes of it politically, the personal story of the life of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk is a good one to have disseminated among all the people. As Miss Willard says of him, "If one boy born in obscurity and poverty has hewn success out of these oimcult conditions, why may not anotner do the same? If in the storm of tempta tion one . untaught youth has carried in his steadf ast hand the lily of a blameless life, so may others who are tempted as he has been. On that lonesome backwoods farm in Michigan, when he was -a little fellow, without one fortunate feature ; in bis : outlook, he deter mined ; to cret up and get on. Soie call this ambition, but its right name is aspiration. How heroic and full of pathos is the picture of young Clinton B. Fisk walking a score or miles to get another boy to tell him all he Knew about Latin.' The general who went through our civil war without uttering an oath; a Christian who can bo a brother to Pro testant and Catholic alike; the Sunday school man who is welcomed at Grand Armv Dosts: the beloved friend of the colored race; the steadfast defender of the Indians; the favorite layman of the Methodist church these are a few among his titles. Chicago Advance (Ind.) j Politics in the Pulpit ' We quote the following chunk of wis dom from a Presbyterian journal, The Interior, and we respectfully submit it tc those who are anxious on tne point re ferred to: :: s :' "The time is near at hand, if it is not already upon us, when thousands of men who never attend church, and never mam f est at other times any zeal for religion, will be exercised in their minds lest minis ters of the gospel should injure theii reputation and the cause they represent by preaching politics. What the wore politics means these zealous friends t)l religion and the ministry are generallj unable to state very clearly when called upon for a definition. ? The nearest they can come to it is that it is something op posed to their own opinions. The real truth about this matter seems to be that in these; especially social, - , civil and religious j matters so overlap and inter penetrate each other that it often seem: impossible to discuss the latter as the pn'. . pit probably should do if it does its who duty, without trenching more or less upo: one or both of the former. To an intellt gent reader of the New Testament it does not appear- altogether certain that thx Savior himself did not sometimes shocl his enemies by mere than touching social " and political questions, and when we turr back to the Old . Testament there can lx no doubt as to what the old prophets did Keeping all these things in view, may w not conclude to leave the whole matter tt the conscientious convictions of duty en tertained by every minister pf the gospel?' ' The Evangelist.. ' " , r i ' A Dramshop Petition. To the Honorable Court: Weyour peti tioners humbly pray that you grant tc Tom Jones, a man of good moral charac ter in the town of Queerpiety, county ol Rumickyl license for XJ ishness; desperation; demonism; despair; death acu damnation. - - - u ; RumselliEg; ribaldry; riot; rags; rage; rebel f lions; remorse and ruin. Alcohol; animosities; anger; abuse; abomina tion; assassinations; arson and anarchy. " Madness; malice; maleYolence; meanness; mis chief; mendacity; mockery; mourning; - mortgages; misery; murder. Sin ; selfishness: suffering; sighs; sorrows; sad- ness; Sabbath breaking; sacrilege; seduc tion: shame: SATAN. - Hard habits- hunger; . humiliation; harm: hor , ror; 3 hardships: ' ; heinou'sness; helpless, homeless, nopeiess Humanity; tULLiiM Obscenity; outrage; oppression; outlawry; or gies; offenses; odium; obtrusion; obdur acy; obnoxiousness. -. Tknvertv- ruiin! npirtnrv: nprfldv: uassion: recu- A lalions; prejudices: public peril; pillage; prostitution; JuisuJN i , ' St. Louis Times. "I a. Few Hints. . . - Now Is the time for the most effective PWViH4f irmr wm-V fln.t.r.h rtfionlfl ; before A i u.it". w w r . the old party politicians yoke them up to tneir ola chariots. i ; . . "P.vrv W " C. T. U.: supporter should know that the' Republican . candidate for nrAslflo-nt.J Gp.n. Harrison, when asked bv a member of the union in his own state to sign the petition asking the legislature to give them a scientinc temperance law ioi public schools, refused to do so. - - Democrats will have to decide this year which they love best, Grover Cleveland or their boys. Those who love uieveiana best will remain in the Democratic party and vote ! that ticket.? : Those who love their boys-best will join the Prohibition party and vote that ticket. New Era. . The real Issue of the campaign now opening is not' protective tariff, nor is il tariff reform. It is a struggle which must decide for or against the continued exist ence of the gigantic brewing and distill ing interests,- with all the multiform in dustries depending upon them. South West (saloon organ).- OUR .CANDIDATES. - 'General Clinton B. Fisk was born in Livingston County, New York, Decem ber 8, 1828. His parents were poor; his father a blacksmith.'; They removed to'. " Michigan when he. was two years old, and-he grew to young manhood in Clinton, Lenawee County. His hunger for education was great, but opportunities to gratify it were few. Largely he taught himself, by the hage fire-place of a farmer with whom he some time lived. Later he attended Albion Seminary, and prepared for college, but disease of the eyes followed, and forbade furtBer.study. Then he took up mercantile life at Coldwater, Mich., and there married-LMiss Jeannette Crippenu. In 1858 he Removed to St. Louis, and was Western Financial Manager of the Etna Insurance Company when the war broke out. He was one of the first to enlist as a private soldier, in April, 1861. In 1862 he raised the " Merchant's Regiment"' Thirty -Third Missouri "Volunteers-i-and became its Colonel. Shortly afterward he recruited a full brigade, and was made Brigadier General. ; During the spring and .early summer of '63 his command was with the Army of the Mississippi, besieging Yicksburg, and had part in the famous Yazoo Expedition. He saved the Missouri Capital from capture, when Price in-" vaded the state in 1864; and for this and other services, Gov.' Fletcher commis sioned him Major-General of the Militia, and he was brevetted Major-General of U. S. Volunteers. In May, 1865, his resignation from the Army was refused, and he was ordered to duty as Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, with headquarters at Nashville, Term.' His territory embraced the entire states of Kentucky and Tennessee, with parts of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Arkansas. His duties were of the most difficult and responsible character. 1 He had to reconstruct the whole social and ; industrial systems of the Central South. He did it with such justice and kind ness that Southern men representing over $100,000,000 of capital, petitioned President Johnson to detain hi at hi3 difficult post. Twelve years ago he estab lished headquarters in New York City, with his home on the Jersey coast. ' " . As a boy he bore a Birney flagjas a man he marched with the Republican party, after its formation, till 1884. In 1886; the New Jersey Prohibitionists ran . him for Governor, and he received 20,000. votes. He protested against being made the Presidential candidate, and begged his Prohibition friends to let him fight in the ranks, but they would not. General Fisk early identified himself with the M. E. Church, and is its most conspicuous layman. -.) " v- i ' HEADQUARTERS Prohibition JailionaLl Committee, i - ; ' ' ' " -' ' l 97 WASHINGTON STREET, CHICAGO. ILL. PROHIBITION The Prohibition party, in National Convention assembled, acknowl edging Almighty God as the source of all power in government, do hereby declare: - t - ; - l.: That the manufacture, importation, exportation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages should be made public crimes, and prohibited as such. J 2. That such prohibition must be secured through amendments to our National ' and j State Constitutions, enforced ". by adequate- laws adequately supported by administrative authority j and to this end the organization of the Prohibition party is imperatively demanded in State and Nation. : . I '::- . ' . - . ,. ; 3. : That any form of license, taxation, or regulation of the liquor traffic is contrary to good government; that any party which supports regulation, license or taxation enters into alliance with such traffic and J becomes the actual foe of the State's welfare, and that we arraign. the ' Republican and ; Democratic parties for their persistent attitude in favor , of the license iniquity, whereby they oppose the demand of the" people for prohibition, and, through open complicity. with the liquor crime, defeat, the enforcement of law. . . ' - 4. For the immediate abolition of the internal revenue system, whereby oar national government is deriving support from our greatest national vice. ! - " ; - - .- ! - ; l 1 -' - ' - s 5. That an adequate public revenue being necessary, it may properly be raised by import duties; but import duties should be so reduced that no surplus shall be accumulated jn the Treasury, and that the burdens of taxation shall be removed from foods, clothing, and other comforts and necessaries of life, and imposed on such articles of import as will- give protection both" to the manufacturing employer, and producing laborer against the competition of the world. - ' . - ' ' - 6. ; That the right of suflVage rests on no mere circumstance of race, color, sex, or nationality, and that where, from any cause, it has been w ithheld from citizens who are of suitable age, and mentally and morally qualified for the exercise of an intelligent ballot, it should be restored by the people through the legislatures of the several States, on such--educational basis as they may deem wise. 7. h That civil service appointments for all ciTil offices, chiefly clerical in their duties, should be based upon moral, intellectual, and physical -qualifications, and not upon party service or party necessity. ; ' ' 8. For the; abolition of polygamy and the establishment of uniform ; laws governing marriage and divorce. - 9. For prohibiting all combinations of capital to control and to increase the cost of products for popular consumption. : 10. For the 7 preservation and defense of the Sabbath as , a civil institution, without oppressing any who religiously observe the same, on any other than the first day of the week. ; . ; - 11. : That arbitration is the Christian, wise and economical method of settling national differences, and the same method should, by judicious legislation, be applied to the settlement of disputes between large bodies : of emplpyes and their employers; that the abolition of the saloon would : remove the burdens moral, physical, pecuniary, and social,' which now . oppress labor and rob it of its earnings, and would prove to be a wise and . successful way of promoting labor reform, and we Invite labor and capital to unite with us for the accomplishment thereof; that monopoly in land is a wrong to the people, and the public lands should be reserved to actual settlers; and that men and women should receive equal wages for equal , works . ' , - " 12 That onr immigration laws should be so enforced as to prevent ; the Introduction into our country of all convicts, inmates of other dependent institutions, and others physically Incapacitated for self support, and that no person should have the ballot in any State who is not a citizen of the United States. 13. Recognizing and declaring that prohibition of the liquor traffic has becomeTthe dominant issue in national politics, we invite to full party fellowship all those who, on this one dominant issue, are with us agreed, In the full belief that this party can and will remove sectional differences, : nromote national unity and insure the best welfare of our entire land, j, ' . - j- - ' . v. PLATFORM. - HAIL TO THE CHIEF. GEN. CLINTON B. FtSK ACCEPTS THE LEADERSHIP OF OUR PARTY. A Document Worthy of the Soldier-Statesman Keforia the State-TUe First Cou cern of Good Government Proliibition fey the ProhibitioH Party Labor's Ally. Hon. John P. St. John, Chairman: Mr, Dear 7 Sir With a grateful sense of - the honor : conferred - upon "me by the Prohibition party, at its late national con vention, and with equal appreciation of the responsibilities involved therein, I acoept the nomination which I did not seek,; and which I earnestly desired should passme by, and with God's help will bear our standard of Prohibition as best I can through this presidential campaign. And thus formally responding to the formal notification, received at your ha?tids7 it is fit and proper that I add some further WOrdS.' : .'J'.-.-" :V - : Within a few years the temperano re form has altogether changed fronts In the great conflict which . has -been, and is yet ; waging, temperance forces no longer face human appetite and habit alone; they oppose legislation, law, the purpose of political parties,, the policy of state and nation. What - law ' creates, law alon can -5 kill. The creature ; of law, tha saloon, the - liquor traffic, can die only at law's hand, or the hand of law's executor. Conceived in avaricious iniquity, born of sinful legislative wedlock, the licensed saloon, the legalized liquor traffic, bastard child of a civilization professing purity and virtue, must be strangled by the civ ilization which bepcot ; it, or that civiliza tion must go for tr branded with the scarlet letter of it hame. . : : - It is not enough that we reform the in dividual; we must reform the state. The policy of great commonwealths, of - a whole people, must be remade, and put in harmony with sound economic princi ples, the true co-operation of industrial effort, the essential conditions of national prosperity and genuine brotherhood of man. r-.;:; , So broad a demand as this can be met in but one way. ; ' It has' been well said: "A political reform can become a fact in government only through a political party that administers government.", A reform so vast as this we advocate, involving such radical changes in state and national policy, is utterly dependent for its agita tion and consummation upon some party agent or force. To ' give it success, , to make it indeed and indisputably a fact, that party force or agent must be in full accord with, the reform, and must have in itself the power of successful achieve ment apart from those elements and in-? fluences alien to- the reform. No party which is r made nnhlip. minist.Ta.rn Hit the':enemie3 of temperance? or which owes the election of its candidates to saloon influences, can ever establish pro hition as a binding fact in government anywhere. The national Democratic party in its platform utters no word in condemnation of - the ereatest foe - to the rennhH. the liquor traffic. That party having" steadfastly, in its utterances at na tional conventions, maintained its alle giance to the American 6aloon, it was no disappointment to any one that at St. Louis, in 1858. it reaffirmed its old nori- tion on this, the greatest question now being debated among men. r v " . - It was with PTPtfl.t, rlnTf-.nfA fhot. T o- Q T WW W. W cepted these conclusions and cejne to ad mit the imrerativ npmd of a. nAw tvo-i-w while yet the party of my old choice, the national xvepuDiioan party, maintained its organization. I had followed with pride and patriotic love that party's flag, while above it floated the RtftrTV - harmi- fnr which so many brave patriots felL I had seen tnat party establisn as a fact in eov? ernment one political reform dear to me from boyhood, a boon to millions in bond- Jfcge and a glory to us. all. A - long; long time i waited, against conviction and the loffie of noliticai -ftVP.Tlt.- honlnor f.Vin. Tntr pld party would take up-this-old reform and make it also the fact so many mil lions craved and for "which they pleaded before men and God.- It cost me the sacr rifice of cherished associations, when four of party Prohibitionists, under the flag of rroniDition, Dieacnea snowy wmte by the tears of smitten women and nhlMmTi through generations of sorrow and want. i uave seen uo tiour qi regret- -Civery day since then has shown yet more clearly the losic of mv course, and thn inovi.ft'htA truth of my conclusions. In Michigan, in lezas, in lennessee-and Oregon, so called non-nartisan efforts to establish Prnblbi- tion have failed, through partisan neces sity, born of liquor elements in old party composit ion. In - Iowa, Rhode Island and Maine, the laws have been shamelesslv defied for like reason. The entire trend of things, these last four years,; has proved hopeless the broader range of pro hibition effect throufirh non-partisan means, and equally f utile, as a final con summation, the narrower methods of local option and high license; while from the supreme. ; court . itself has come, with startling emphasis, a declaration so na tionalizing this l"fifrTTn that it oart nmrpr be made of local or state limitation again. Mo lines of territorial wish or will can hereafter bar the liquor traffic, and its fearful brood, while bv national policv that traffic is recognized as legitimate. and while under that, policy the national government derives revenue therefrom.' . t m. ' - . -i . , j. uu concern oi gooa govern ment;" said the recent national Repub lican convention at' Chicago, -'is the vir tue and sobriety - of the people, and the purity of the home." - Revenue, , then, is not government's (iliip.f rnnfinm. wliptliRi1 nominir fwim in ternal taxation or from a tariff on impor tations; and any source cf revenue which discounts "the; virtue and the sobriety of the people" and begets impurity in the home, should bethe first object assailed by every party professing to seek good government; while the revenue derived from such a Rnurm RlinnW l t,h fiwt ti be foresworn not alternatively, for sake oi a ;- protective tame, put positively, ior R&ke of Tirntftct.trm A parpr and mn-ro tHfol than the tariff can ever yield,-1 Had I iiot left the Republican party four years ago, I should be compelled to leave it now, when, after ; reading the words I have quoted, fronr a resolution supplemental to but mot included in its platform, and finding - in these words my own idea of frrernment's ''chief concern" set forth, search the long platform through in vain to find condemnation of the saloon, or hint of purpose to assail It, or any sign of moral consciousness that the saloon is a curse, and its income too; unholy for the nation to share. . If the "chief concern" has no place in a party's platform and a party has no policy as to that "chief concern," that party does not deserve the support of men who love good government and would" see It maintained. ' SvPhe Republican party knows today, and knew at Chicago in June, that tha publis surplus, which in 1884 it declared dan--erous and then' proposed to reduce comes about 90 per cent, of , it from a source more dangerous than the surplus the liquor traffic. ' v . ' v . . . When the greatest Republican states man declared in 1883 that"it is better-to tax whisky than farms and homesteads and shops," he knew; as he and his col leagues know now that to tax whisky is to tax farms and homesteads and shops, since it is always these which pay tha tax; that nine-tenths of the surplus represents want in the home, impurity in the horn life, crime On tha street, paralysis in tha shop .and an impaired demand for the pro ducts of the farm. These men must know these things, for these things are plain as the multiplication table. ' And they must realize that the swift way to reduce the surpluses to end the national policy of revenue from liquor; that the right way is to end it by declaring the manufacture, importation, transportation and . sals thereof publio crimes against food gov ernment, and by prohibiting and punish ing them as such. - c v The Prohibition party's "chief concern" is for the nnritv of fch h rvma and vf. tue and sobriety -of ths people. It as serted this, in plain and unmistakable terms, at : Indianapolis ; and it f urthar plainly said that "the burdens of taxation should be removed from food, clothing and other necessaries of life." It is today the only avowed and consistent party allr fiuon me come and ; labor IiavsK for it would make the blessings of home cheap, and remove altogether its curses; it would bring labor to sobriety, and insure am ployment; it would keep the .factories busy to clothe labor, the farms active to teed it, and would give to our whole In austnai system tne impetus of a prosper ity never yet known," and never possible till the saloons are put away. ' That party is not labor's truest friend wnicn would bar the importation of Pau pers from abroad or close -the .tariff door or competition to pauperize foreign in ttastry, and then by a liquor system per petuate the manufacture of paupers and criminals in our own midst, with whom honest labor must compete, and whom largely honest labor must support. ' " I Rhfl.l I bfn.r wlfh ; n-lod v-i4 mwo-n-n hands the only party standard jmi which to juCTi, x' ui vjuu., auu xxcune ana xi a tive Land;" the only standarof the only party which recognizes God as tile source of government, and woud! defend his holy J - J " , -tt.t . i, . u.ajr iruiu uesecration;-wnicn is tne gnar- fender of the nation through these, and which, vuxjjng tne aeaa , past or sec tional strife and bitterness, would build a living future on the sure basis of sober manhood, and pur womanhood, and Tin tainted youth, for all our united country. It was my privilege to aid in the good work of restoring peace and goodly fellow ship and in -assisting to establish indus trial relations under the new order of things at the south, after war had swept bare so large an area'of our national heri tage; and I hold; no other service of my life of such account as that which brought order, and the return of property, and the rights of protected labor, to a large region prostrated by the arbitrament of arms. And nowj when more than twenty years have passed, and the last sword of rebel lion has been beaten into the plowshare of loyal peace, and a new south knowing no other than the Union - flag rejoices in the nation's "new birth of freedom." . I count it the truest clorv of natriotism t.o ld where' men of the south and men of the north alike may follow, black as well as white, with equal faith in the national re form to be achieved, with eaual fidelitv to the Union --; we would nrotect . from its only remaining foes. And . I rejoice that," standing on the platform so well framed at Indianapolis, which so admirably recognizes other great principles than this of ProMbitioh--dearing,- as we do de clare, that citizen"- "rests on no nere circumstance A color, sex or nation ality," and aiarming, as we always shall affirm, the full rights of citizenship for all. standing ever, as wf must, for the de fense of the weafeMfend'tiB oppressed; we can and do assert tiulb Prohibition is "the dominant issue in national' politics," and we can and do "invite to full party fel lowship all who on ths one dominant issue are with us agreed, believing 'that as we settle this broad question-for the right so shall we best consefce the welfare of our entire nation and ojFeveiy class wijthin It. so shall , we make! certain )the wise and speedv settlement of . every lesser ques tion involved and .arising, so shall we prove ourselves Christian patriots; and ordain the perpetuity of .this Christian re public. Faithfully6urs, ' - - - '-i ' - i. GiilMTON B. Fisi- FOR -AND, AGAINST. A Republican Journal Favors Submission, but Opposes Prohibition. The Minneapolis Journal (Rep.) says;' The senate committee on education has reported favorably the proposition to sub-; mit to the people of the various states a j constitutional amendment to prohibit the liquor traffic in the United : States. " Cer tainly. .Why not? There is no., doubt a strong feeling in favor of submission out side of the numBer who would vote for the amendment. What is to be- said against submission? .Why should the people not be 'allowed to vote on the ques-1 tioji? The amendment would not be j idopted, but to deny the oppefrtunity to decide that question is not to dispose of It, but only to intensify the clamor for inbmission. Let the report of the com mittee be adopted and the amendment submitted. ? . y - ' raople Pay tbe Bills. . -The resident in Chicago cannot have failed to notice that grocery, meat, mar ket, cigar , store, news" stand,- hardware store, all pass away at some street num ber, and finally the saloon comes to stay. To judge , by appearances, no business is to permanent or safe in a cnTnmfvmln.1 wn.v X is a dram shop. This dram shop usually employs tnree people. It is a loafing flace for at least three other non-workers, f that saloon were blotted out, six men would be driven from a parasitical life, and the tenement wuuld be devoted to the publio use rather than to the destruction of .public peace, capital and comfort. Whenever legitimate business gives way to a saloon, the householder who works every day, making scmething,of absolute use, may conclude that a fresh demand is to be assessed on his income, both in pub lic taxes and in private foray. Arid the saloon will stand as an additional tempta tion to that same householder, allurinar him t.o .n lwhrotrol nf fomilir and ter- sonal character. - The industrial situation and the open doors of immigration are to blame for - an increase . of involuntary idlers. I may be that the saloon off ers a haven to these unfortunates. It may be that the saloon is Jess to blame than tha age which so cordially indorses and sup ports ' the dram shop. But the house holder who work every day should not the fact that the public pays all the bills. The saloon building and the time of all its inmates are wastes. - The publio fond feeds all bands. Chicago Herald (Ind.) GOOD MEN AND TRUE. The Northwest Names Cheney and Hajh ' Harrison Elect Them. Michigan has many good men within her borders. There dwells old Father Russell, the founder of our party. 4 To that state also , went our leaders ' for -Samuel Dickie whan, we sought a za to fill the pe made vacant by the- death . of John B. Finch. It was not a paucity of material which caused the Prohi bitionists to select A, B. Chenev. of i Rnaii ma candidate for gov-; .. ernor. They chose I J him as one of the . best among many. a. b. CHE3TKY. -A brainy man, a successful lawyer, a -true Christian and an experienced legis tor, he Is fully the equal of any man the nld nfi.rf.in fan nam amimcl ). TT. was a member of the Michigan legislature in 1877-7&, as a Republican. - Driven out of that narf v 1V tn Hwanlminr rt -f Vo -rar-r a. W 1 1 If f i rr. he now stands with the Prohibition party and would ably serve the state, if . elected governor. , " - - r-jjy. In Minnesota a favorite son has been nominated for governor in the person of Hugh , Harrison, of Minneapolis. While ne is tne grand son of a good frandfather, he oes not rely upon this distinction for election. Young in years, . he has had a long -business career, and . the firm of Harrison, Far- rington & Co. is known, and favor ably known, all over the north west. Hols a man of the people, one who believes that prohibition, ;HTJGH HARRISON. needed for the benefit of the people, and believing- so, gives all his powers to the party which promises it. His nomination was hailed with delight not only by Pro hibitionists, but by thousands of inde pendent citizens who desire a clear, econ omic and popular administration, and his V ... 1 l 1 . . 4 A '- jf A -r.Jr f sibility. . : t WATTERSON RAVES. Against the Man Who Favors Prohibition, Especially If a Democrat. " Henry Watterson, editor of The Louis ville Courier-Journal, during his speech to the Democratic state convention last year, used the following strong language to convince - those in attendance that he and the party;of which he is a boss are the Open allies of the saloon, and temper ance Democrats should govern themselves accordingly. Here is his exact language: "There is Fox's universal renovator and social, moral1 and political cure all, the teetotal Prohibition porous plaster, which will stick to you like a brother, and which is expected to convert every drinking sa loon into a temple of worship and people the world with a new race of red nosed angels. I am against , each and all such quack remedies and against the man who is in favor of any one of them, and more particularly against him if. he claims to be a Democrat. ' They are the : vaporings of mock sentimeni and the bastards of ' '- paternal licentiousness." Speaker John G.. Carlisle emphasized what Mr. Wattersp-a-sajd- on the subject And yet we told there, tsjiopa for' relief frdmdi-unkenness from these old Sartiea !fat are the willing tools of the , quel? dealers. AN INCENTIVE TO WORK. Demorest Promises a Banner for an In creased Prohibition Vote. Ever alert to give stimulus to party workers, W. Jennings Demorest, of Hew York city, has offered to present a hand some silk banner to every county in New York state that shall double its Prohibi tion vote of last f alL Given this incent ive, many counties have thus earlv taken vigorous measures to secure a prizeT and the reports of today indicate 7 that this', generous friend of the cause will have several outfits to provide. It will be no little honor to a county to have secured such a reward for faithful and hard work well done in this great year of 1888. ' Remarkable for many things' in connection with this movement, Mr. Demorest is most noted for the -successful inauguration of unique methods ' that intensify and enhance the efforts of large bodies of workers. It is better for any cause to set ten me n to work than it is for any one person , to do ten men's work, and he is the most helpful leader who can secure this end. '. Applying; the Principle. ' "I had no doubt," said J. S. Clarkson, the chairman of the bribery committee of the ' Republican party in 1B84, "I had no doubt it would be. right to defeat the Democratic party by the use of this false and treacherous means (bribing St. John) if it could be dona." Such a principle from such a source was too valuable to be loft, and so Gen. Alger, of Michigan, has resurrected . it, according to Senator Sherman.- .-;.,-,. . The chilly senator from Ohio held a ehattel mortgage on the votes of one or two hundred colored delegates to the Re publican convention from the south, and counted on not less than 800 votes upon the first ballot. He was much disap pointed when his Vote refused, to rise' above 249. ". Whence the" difficulty?. Senator Sher man's followers say that a number of col ored Sherman delegates were purchased with the ducats of the six ply millionaire from Michigan. Some of them came to Chicago with 'empty pockets, and yet a few days after their arrival they were paying for their drinks with 120 bills. Says Senator Sherman: "I think the manner in which those southern votes were obtained for Alger was patent to all who attended the convention." Then he cruelly adds: "I have no doubt that Alger got some votes in the south that were not bought." - " - .What of it if Gen. Alger did bribe Sen ator Sherman's delegates away from him? Did not Gen. Alger believe Michigan to be a doubtful state, and did he not believe that the success -of the Republican party depended upon t,S nomination? Why, then, should he not silence the charges of Senator Sherman- with the immortal words of Clarksoavv"! tad no doubt it would be right to &Aeat the Democrat!", party by the use of this false and treach erous means if it .could be done?" Lin coln Beacon. - ; .'
The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.)
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