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Show "OHIE HiOPI.E OT3T. THE WHISKY KINO- MUST DC 'DETHRONED. Mr. Howard nf Nev. lord la In lir of Taking lamiiut, Aril..,, fw.aThat ThU all.. . Mirllt llglillil fur ltl III Heath. One of the inoit remarkable addresses ad-dresses on the liiinor question whkh ha been delivered In recent jears. waa that r Mr C. N llowatd, o Hochester, N who was una of th principal speakers at the great meeting meet-ing at Cooper I'nloii, New York, the other ilar. He ld. In tulMUnic. "If Ood e ver gave people a country that worth fighting fur. worth living tor, worth dying for li has given It to the people of tho United States. It holds the key to lhr tutliio destiny of tha race. In the on. that Parle la Kranc-. Ameriia Is tit ho the world. King of commerce, king of scleuie, king of clvlllxatlrn I have faith In my country. I hare faith In the people. peo-ple. Hut 1 .tarn! here lo ray, that If America li In be king of an) thing, we must down the whisky kilns, lie always owns the political pirly that Is In power. If we are to nil our divinely-appointed mlMlon an the clvllltcr of mankind, It we arn to carry the blessing of liberty nnd self-govern-ment around the world we have got to ralie the standard of public life nt home We have got to reform our civil acrvlco from the bottom up and C. N HOWARD .from the top down To fathom the depths of political Incapacity and debauchery de-bauchery In the treat cities of this country, would require a aoundlns line that 'would rrach from llohoken to Helena, llont. Public scandal la the order of the day. Pick up your New York papers; what say those big types at the head of tho column on the front page? Tubllc Scandal!' It used to be said that a man was rlc.i In this town If he owned his own home. To-Iay To-Iay a man In New York who owns only his own home, must sell It to some rich man who can afford to pay the tai'es on It, and must move his family into n rear tenement or garret, where lack of sunlight, foul air and filth are making a pig-sty out of the American home. In New York and Chicago the great corporations escape Uiatlon. Tha poor people must pay all. l'ubllc scandal and political corruption cor-ruption are making It too expensive for the common people to live, and the coffin trust Is making It a luxury to die. The water works scandal In Philadelphia has smitten that city with the plague of typhoid, that has slain more people In ten weeks than died of the result of wounds In the war with Spain.. The city hall In Chicago Chi-cago was last winter the scene of a mob that threatened to lynch the aldermen al-dermen who had been bought up like rattle by the street railroad lines of that city. Hut this I believe was n sham affair and the actor In It deserved de-served hanging as much as the aldermen. alder-men. So deep are the Junjjles of politics poli-tics In great cltlea Honest country people, yon do not suspect; jou cannot can-not believe what la going on. At BL Ixiuls, -where I orgnnlsed a prohibition prohibi-tion union of 'Christian men last February, Feb-ruary, nn excise commissioner locating locat-ing saloons within the proscribed limits lim-its of places of worship and public schools, and accepting the petition of boys who owned bicycles ns taxpayers taxpay-ers against the remonstrances of their parents, who owned lh bouie. A police po-lice commissioner, who Instructed bummers to Ignore the state law, requiring re-quiring a license to sell rum. so long as they patronised his brewery. Sa-loona Sa-loona operating the nlckel-ln-the-slot living picture machines', that would outrage the moral seuae of perdition The devil has fused the saloon and the brothel Into one rnlossal machine to attack the great centers of modern civilisation, and unless we can fuse the patriotic, law-abiding, Uod-serv-Ing cltlsens of the country and meet organised Iniquity with organised tlgbteousness, the situation is without hope. Nominate honest farmers for state and county onicea, Let none of them city scalawugs hear away the party name, be It Democrat or Ite-publican. Ite-publican. Today, the ruin power owns this Imperial city In the sense that if hen owns an egg before It gets Into the nest. "The situation In Ihla city. It depth of diprnvlty, Its open dlsiegard for law, and the Indltferenie of Ita fill-tens, fill-tens, are positively alarming It doe not concern New York only, It concern con-cern the whole nation Not only do bad men administer Its affairs, but It would seem that the more Incompetent Incompet-ent and unscrupulous n roan I, the larger support he commands Now Is the time for the people to pamo preparatory prep-aratory to radical action. Hotter hang trust magnates to lamp posts, belter let loosa the roaring lion of outraged lonor than to let corruption continue Do you say It Is Impracticable and roposslble lo clean out the whole Iniquitous In-iquitous system? Nothing Is Impoa ilbte that Is right, nothing that Is light Is Impracticable Ob, yon My, gg,' L4m "-" I Ho not know New Tofk, that a ht like that would result In wholesale butchery, that nwasiltullon would lurk In every dark hallway and alley WH (he meanest coward who walks tho tarlh ran die a natural death, It rake a man to face death for a nobis iiue. I believe New York would te btter off If some nf you gentlemen were In heaven tonight It might be pretty hard on heiiven. hut It )nu died In the fight. It would wake the rest of the country up to the fart that the question now failng It la whether we shall suppress thin Inlqult) or he suppressed sup-pressed by It. The potato crop may survive the dry-rot Ihla republic rannot live on and endure the wet-rot." |