Show a l C WHISKY THE TROUBLE A Crank Who Says It Is the Cause oC Our Present Financial Distress MADISON Wis Sept 22 Joshua Levering candidate of the Prohibition party for president and Joshua H Berky of Monroe Wis cold water candidate can-didate for governor of Wisconsin last night addressed a mass meeting in the assembly chamber of the Wisconsin Wiscon-sin state capitoL Mr Levering in his address carefully avoided any reference refer-ence to the financial question but Candidate didate Berky said he believed in the gold standard declaiming that i was the only monetary policy which would bring material prosperity to the country coun-try Mr Levering said in part The economic distress is not due to over production but to under consumption consump-tion If the vast sums now consumed ton I te in the liquor traffic were turned into the channels of legitimate business the stringency would be greatly relieved As congress is now constituted no change in the financial policy of the government is possible no matter which of the great parties is successful success-ful The trouble with the United States is not the reduction of the tariff nor the gold standard but the absorption absorp-tion into an unproductive industry of so much wealth and so many men The great danger to the republic is neither foreign foe nor international dissension neither tariff nor circulating medium influences but the whisky traffic and its political |