Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 20, 1890, Page 2

Iatn of Pollk county, the expense of the criminal courts wis leds than $0,000. He eated forther statisties showing that the jails of Kansas and Yowa more in mites, secordingto pomlation, than in Nebras ife showed an array of statistics from the connty officials showing that crime has not docreased in Towa and Kansas under prohibition, but had actually increased, and was far in Gxcess of Nebraska in ratio to the P pulat.ion Ho mot’ Governor Larramee's picture of prosperity at Des Moines by telling of a visit made to lowa's capital city a week ago. He avo the humber of fifteot vacant store build ngs ou the principal stroots which were for rent at afigure greatly reduced ower that de- manded before the prohibitory law wentinto effect. He guoted fetters from business men of Des Moines relative to the depreciation of property, and presented similar statistics Trom K unsns. He clsed by promising ‘0 show in his evening argument how prohibition does aot probibit. General Brad ford's Specch. General Bradford wasthen ntroduced, He a8 not.in a good humor. Ho had sulked in acorner or walked to and froin front the entrance during the progress of the other specchies, o was nursing his wrath, and when introdiced announcel with more warmth than grace that he had made it arule of his life mever to speak where he was not welome, Ho felt very sor overthe scorching ho had reccived at Mr. Rosewater's and Welster's hands last night, and he ex- plained that he had come under protest and in response tothe Grand Island committee's invitation, He said he vanted to 1efute the slanders that had been uttered about Kansas. Hehad the facts, he said, volumes of them, o show that-the state had grown wonderfully greater under prohibition, andhe wanted to present. them. by (the audience) waited for them, but e disappointed, Instead of facts, Mr. Bradford launched forth into a political speech, which occupied his entire tine. He proved tohis own satisfaction that the only chanco for the republican party in 1802 was 10 adopt prolnbition as a national issue, and 0, o the campaign on hat issue alone. 11 old the listory of republican growth and his own political siccess as a prohibition repub- Tican, his majorities and how badly the other fellow wis left until ime was eailed. Then he said he was sorry he did not have twelve hours to talk, so he could geta chance to offer the statistics he had with him, Hom, John L. Webster's Sperch, Hon, J. L. Webster met a cordinl reception when he opened his reply to Bradford by statiig: “T did ot liere to make a volitical specel, and was not invited here for that puepse. T came here to talk of the dan- gers of this nefavions policy of prohibition which some gentlemen from abroad ave scek- ing to foree on the people of this state. These twoexstite oficials have told you of the great growth and success of the two and e prosperous condition of the repub- Lican parly under prohibition. Yot the re- publicans of Towa repudiated prohibition and clected @ demoerat o succeed Governor Lar- rabee. ‘The republicans of Kansas repudiated St. Joln ind electedn democratie governor, The prohibition political heresies of both have been refuted, and both have been politi- cally swamped under the glorious policy of prohibition. We, in Nebraska, havenot got proliibition, and weneverhad s democratic Boyernox.” [Applause, | Mr: Webster then apologized for drugging politics into the debate, and said he wonld not have done so had not Mr. Bradford com- pelled it by his political speech, Mr, Web- ster then went further into tholine of argu- ment cormenced at last evening's dobate, to show that crimo of all kinds, and drunkenness in particular, is more prevalent in the prohi- bition statcs 'than in states where & high li- cense law is enforced. He closed by ropeat- ingg his assertion that prohibition, as it exists in_ lowa, Kansis and_Main drunkird maker and generator of crime thau high license saloons. He said he had waited for au answer to this suatement, and had waited in vain. If any of the prohibition advocates had with them any of the statistics they hid been harping about ho was anxious o hear them. EVENING SESSION. como Ex-Governor Larrabec's Specch. ‘T'he final mecting of the debaters on the prohibition issue drew an immense audience and aronsed & great deal of enthusiasm. When the programme was announced *Colouel’ Rankin made aroar, He wanted to speak. "The gate receipts were large, and he wanted ashareinit. He protested, he gesticulated, but to no avail, and he took his dishes aud went horne, refusing to play any longer, -Governor Larrabee of Towa opened the evening diseussion. He could not roconcile tho statements of high license advocates, he said, when they claimed in one sen- tenco that pwhibition was ruining the stateand in thenext that the prohibitory law was gt eufowed. He referred again to Jowi's prosperity, and claimed that much of this wis due to the successful suppresaion of the liquor trafic. He denied Mr Rose- water's figures quoted at Beatrice, on tho ex- penses of criminal prosecutions in the state, and pxplined that the increaso in the ex- perises was duemore to a chango in the judi- cial system vather than to unincreasein crime, Hosaid he used to travel the same road on tie pronibition question that Mr. JRosowaterwas now traveling, and was sure that he could convineo himof his fallacy if he hud time. He explained the low rents in ‘Des Molnes by saying that rents had beentoo bigh iu Des Moines for years, based ona boom, and had only recently been’ reduced to veusonablo raw. ~ The speaker reforred to Stomiy Jordan” of Ottumwa, the proprictor of the saloon called “The Roadto Hell,” as 10 whether or not prolibition could be ea- forced fn‘Towa or not. Jordan fought the W and carried a case to the supremecourt of the UnitedStatos at an ex peaso of §20,000, and was finatly forced to close his placo. Thobrewers of lowagcould tell, he said, ‘whether or not prohibition was enforced. References werd made to the proprictors of ‘the Viitious breweries in Towa who had closed up and had gono into other business and had been highly successful. *“There area few Dbroweries il the state, but there are not many of thom,* he said, ““aud they can be dosed it the officcrs of the law do theirduty, High nse reduces the number of saloons, 1 con- fess, but_the troubleis it legalizes them. It anakes the business respectable. I would rather havo a doggery than a gilded place. 1 am not afraid of ‘my boy+ visiting a doggery. {’t' weo had gilded suloons Ishould be afraid. is the legalizing of the business that I op- Governor Larabee made o calm, logical ex- mlfiunu( his views. He cited quotations m the reports of the Forty-first district Judges of Towa, tending to show thatrohibi- tion had rosulted in the decrease of druniken- ness and the evimes consequentthereon. His speech was better received than thatof any of tho prohibitionists who have spoken at these meetings. Hon. Edward Rosewater's Speech, M. Rosewater followed Governor Lara- boe, and repeated his expression of the after- noon in thanking the governor for bis cour- toous and gentlemauly address, something unusual in prohibation speskers, Mr, RRoso- .water stated that theve was reason for the favowble reports made on the prohibition question by the district judges of Iowa. Mostof thom were republicans and were pledged to support prohibition, and could not well give any but a favorable report. Mr. Rosewater then directed his attention to General Bradford, He showed up the falsity of many assertions that were made by the Kansas lawyer. Bradford stated that tho reform schools of Kansas were empty, whilo Nebraska’s were crowded. Mr. Rosewater in reply reac an advertisement in- serted in all of the Kuansis papers by the superintendent of charities and_ corrections, in which sheriffs and county ofticials were inforued that there was no room in the ro- form schools for boys, aud that offending ounflwu would have to bo kept in the jalls. i{r. osewater reviewed Bradford's wild statements, and dissected them to the evi- dent satisfaction of the immenso audience. Answering Governor Larrabee's statement, that the prolubition law was as well enforee n lowa as any other law, Mr. Rosewater mbi ‘would reel very sorry for the state of i all her laws were as badly enforced 8 tho probibitory law, He prescuted ligurs have | s ! midnight and started out to see how probibi- is a greater | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: S showing the large nimber of licemsed liquor sellers in lowasnd Kansas He reforrod to his experiencein prohibition Towa lastwesk. Heoareived in Des Moines at Flo visited s hotel and f barroom witiout any dificultyand proeu | whisky without any question, " 'He went fur- thet, and fonnd a number of grog shops run- ning open all nignt He ated an immense sen by producing nhalfpintof whisky whick he had purchased in_ 4 Des Moines barroom after 1 o'doek in the morning, He muade o further investigation later, and found thit theliquor teafic was carrield on almost oenlp. Ho found in one of the | places, next dor to the Register office, ac | commodations for drinking snd gambling, andhe produced a bottle of beer which he had purchasedin an_alloged teastove, He found thit one drag firm had sold 7,200 bot- tles of beor 1n Augist. flhe records of the city that the total of arrests in the balf year endingJuly 1800, was over four thoisand,of which over four hund were i one month, more than for six mouths in Lincoln, in whisky Nebraska. 5 M. Rosewater alio told of s txip to Kan- sas, where, in Learenworth, he porchased | beer in a sioon directly opposite thecity | hall, in front of the mayor's ofice. Mr. Rosewater also toll of his in Topeka, where he found numerous plices where liquors were freely sold. con- trasted this_condition of ‘aflairs with the workings of the liquor trafic under the ticonso vegulations of Nebraslka. Heferring ncain to Bradford, Mr, Rose- water presened an afidavit of a Topeka plumberwho foundand drank beerin Brad- ford's cellar while he was attomey generl of Kansas o “was prose. cuting attorney oproved by Governor St. John for b alloged collusion with tho whisky csts, Mr. Brad il was also found to lave written o letter in _swhich ho told the gov- ernor that fhe law in Kansas could not been- forced. Mr. Rosewater said he admired hon- t prohivitionists, but he detested men who re by pocritical in professions and ave any- thing forpolitical preferment.” on prohibite marshal showed Des Moines for axperinco in Biad ford Refases to Speak. Genoral Bralford was billel to follow Mr. ssewater. He probably got an jnkling o what was in store for himn and when Me Rosewater finished his address Mr. Bradford could not be foind. He lad gone away with Raukin and they were holdifig o mutual ad- miration society in their woms at the hotel, engiged and paid for by the committo they had insulted by ticir: schoolloy pevishness, Tn Bradford's absence Governor Larmbee calted upan to take-Brad ford’s time. Tho governor continued is line of areuments on the school phase of the prohibition issue. He Lained that the license systom was wrong, and taxes for sthool purposes should cme from property holders. The salonlkecper should 1ot be set up.as o taxgavherer, He does ot collect from the property owners. He gets it from the liborer, the poor man, 1t is asysten of tix shirking, 1tenables hevy rty owners to get out of paying their s properly due from property overnor Larraber, ref water's Des Moines experience, humorously advised Mr. Rosewater to be . litle more careful about ging into such temptations. His report wasonly in conficmation of the governor's former charges, that whisky men resorted to ali manuer of means to evide the law, Heassured Mr. Rosowater thit there was no danger of being sligged in Des Moines, and created o laugh in the Omaha contingent by turning to Mr. Rosewater and asking him if he had ever been sligged in Omaha, Hon.John L. Webster's Speech. The debate of the eveuing and of theo casion was closed by Hon, John L. Webste “Grovernor Lamabee,” soid Mr, Webster, ¢ entitled to the kind consideration of this audience for his mauly and honest discussion of the question, He nowhere wok the time, however, to tell the poopte to answer my charge that prohibition as a political doetrine is agreater dmunicard maker than the high licensed saloon,” Hoexpliined the manuer in which he had agreod tomeet theprohibition speakers in debate, and showed that Rankin and Brad- ford were kicking without cause or reason. Mr. Webster stated that heand Mr. Rosewater wero present without compeusation and under the suspices of no organization. "They weropresen, to defend tho high license law of Nebraska under which the state had grown and was growing groater. He roviewed tho penitentiary and criminal records of pro- hibition stites, and showed conclusively that the offénses resulting from abuse of the liquor trafiic were on the increase, md were greater in proportionto the population, than in high license Nobruska. Ho presented an array of statistics showing the ratio of drunkenness tothe population in the Iowa cities to be farin excss of that in Omaha and other cities of Nebraska, and enlivened the showing with illustrations and foreible hints thatkept the enthusiasm of theaudien at ahigh pitch. He was accorded an_en- thusiastic ovation atbis masterly close of the great discussion, THURSD - ngto Mr. Rose- ¥'S DEBATE, A. 0. Rankin's Opening Address in Favor of Prohibitio Mr. A. C. Rankin opened the highlicense- prohibition debate atthe Grand Istand sugar palace Thursday evening. His argument in support of prohibitionis given in full, from stenographic notes. He spoke as follows : Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I greet you here tonight in defense and in sup- port of the prohibitory amendmentto your constitution. This palace is suggestive of the new enterprise inthe west, und I trust that the day will soon come that these broad acres that we have stretched out before us here will produce and there be manufactured enough sugar 0 sweeten all of us peoploin the castern states. | shall not detain you withany preliminarics. My timo is limited and the subject is one that is very havd to do anything likejustice toit in the space of forty-five minutcs. & [ am here, then, in support of the adoption of the prohibifory amendment t your constitution and “to oppose the pres- licenso system or any license stem, Thold to the position that the pro- hibition of the manufacturere aud sale of in- toxicating liquars to be used as o beverago s right in principlo and justified upon morl, aland business grounds and is - sustained by the bighest autbority in this great re- public, Second : 1 affirm that a license, high or low, is wrong in principle, doos not regulate nor protect society and isa sin against God and adisgrace t this state and to our na- tion. When a great queston of this kind comes before the peoplo we ave met with op- position, some of it honest and some of it dis- honest.” One of tho first things that gested itself to us as disputativeis the ment that it is tho abuse of intoxicating liquors, and notthe use. This argument has served more posons and longer time as mn excuse for the moderte use of intoxicating drink, Then perhaps unother; [ read in the public press that the distillers of Peoria, 1L, in their con vention adopted this as one of their planks, that it was the abuscand not the use. 1am hero tonight toaccept that as literally true; it is the abuse and not the use. Tho evil of this traftio is almitted; it is admitted by the distinguished gentléman that is to take the ito of this question. [ have their admission before me, 1 have before me theaddress of Mr. Rosewaterand M. Web- ricoand for convemience I huve radmissionof this business down and will wead it Mr. Rosowater in his adlress at Beatrice says: “Tho distessing pictures of the suf- fering and misery by reason of liquorwe all admit; we know that men have made beasts of themselves : we kuow that men have gone down to their graves and we know that hundreds of thousands of people_are impoy- erishod, The question is not, shall we by one mlnwmmawzmo drunkard factories, but are weableto keep the drunkard factories closed. 1 am 1ot here representiug the drunkard makers, I am not here ropresenting the saloon or defending the whisky shop.’” T wish tocall your altention t0° this fact: { Thathe here distinguished the salon asa drunkard fuctory and thoso who manage It us drunkand makers, and if1should feel in- | clined to use that tevm in _speaking of this | business, I hope no saloon keeperor any one cogagodin the business will feel offended when my friend can use such terms a5 that. Mr. Webster says, ‘I am not here to advo- cate the saloon iuterests, but of regulating a nd | sortof evil thit camot he wipsd out of ex- istence. " Tdon*tsuppose thit either one of thern ave her to deny their position upor this ques- tion. 1tis theabus of Intosicating liguors, we pt that as hiterily true; if noone had rused intosicating liquors, and the abise of them, we would have had the pro- posad movernent, there would have been no necessity for it We aciopt this asliterally trie: this cune from our friends, and we both agre upon it. Tho question naturally arises in our mind, whoshould correct this abuse! Those en- gaged in the business, or those outsidel T aftirn thit this almitted abise should be sted by the parties engaged in the busi that they should have correted this ¢admit; and the question arises, why hai't they done it! Why halut they done I would like to havé either of the dis- qished entlomen tell us why! They hadtimenough, They comrineed the nlating of this trafile over four huadred wvo given them overa hund- gpublic to, by a systen of forms of Law, proect soc oty from the evil of this bisines, but failir is ‘written overevery effort. And_today we stind confroited with the enomityof the evil of thisiraftc andwe are askl toallow it to o on_and only deal with the abuse growing out of this busi- ness. 1 sy it1s theie place tocorrect it, but they have failel. Why't Bocause they can't. It can't be done. You rmight as_well undor- tako to regulite the devil asto altem pt to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors pub- licly and prevent the public from the evil groving out of such sale, If the railvnd _company here should put down a lirge iumber of iew rails between heweand Omaha and they should prove to be faulty, and when the train ranover them one broke and the trainwas theown off, and upon i igration it was found that thatorder of wlt, what would the company Take every rail from the raiload bed and put down iew ones in order to protect the public from the danger of that rile Lsay the Liquor men aduit that evil, hain't they prolected us md our homes becuse they en’t, ind they gave i*up miore thantwenty-five years ag. They have not only failel. but they have almost, with but few exceptions, secrotly md openiy violated evay effirt of the people to protect them- selyis aginst this ovil. And inthe fice of this they sk usto clse ourcyesand stop ow mouths to permit this busiiess to goon, providel they pay us the paltey sum of $00 or $1,000. “The <econd thouaht suggested to me is that youcan’t makemenstop by lww-—you can't legislate morals into a man;the way tore- form a man is to at then with tho gospel; oucan'treforn a wan by taking a plteenan and goingat him with a clab, und that prohi- bition is wrongin principle becanso it tries to legistate monls fito & man, ad itcan’tdo that, This is another of their objections to protibition, and it isa prineiple I kiow that gool men prewch. Yes Brother Mur- phy preaches this doctrive. God bless the oldman; he is doing a good work to rescue men whobecome viims o the rurm dvin King habit. and [ sayamen to that,but whenever Brother Murply steps over theline fron the “alice towardnoneand charity forall” ama brotherlylove ind throws insinuating sln- dersoverthe men who arein favor of legal prolibition he is outof his element, and 1 do H(lt‘«“‘\' amen tothat, Agin: Law maks coditins. We are not going for the drunkani to reforn them witha policernan’s club: we ate goiug after the business ; we are going for the breweries and the siloons, not the individual man. Luw males couditions. This trath is one that. has always been applied to civiliztion, In the last presidentiil campaiguwe discussed the tariff, oneparty siding aginsthigh tari ff to malke busiiess good in the comtryand the other said we nust have 4 low tarifl to make business good iu thowllnlr{x Neither oneof these parties proposed to plow a field of corn by law, nor make a tn_of iron by law, nor makea pair of shoes by law, but “they pro- posed to chan go the conditions by law.” Con- ditions Hnt, results afterwards. This cam- paign for the ameundmentis acampign for the establishment of the new condition of things and wot particularly and directly to leggislate upon: the drunkar. Conditims always precede rsults, This is " divino moticé of the application: “Tho pure in beart shall see God, and not every man that says Lon, Lord, Lonl shall euter into the kingdomn of heaven, but he that doeth the will of the fathor which isin heaven it shall be dueto receive the reward. It is truein mochanles, itis tre inagricul- ture; there arecertain “conditins required. ac ness; ved years in this license or varius Why t The farmer must plow thefieldand plant the seedand cultivate the corn before he gets the crop. How we look afer the conditions around our homo so that our childrenare not thrown iito contaninating influences, to knov thatthe cnditions around conduce’ toa sweetness of lifo and thatour children may grow up moble men and women, Law makes and changes conditions. We see this truth verified in the original package bill. When the supremo court decided agast usut once theconditions werechan ged by law in the pohibiion statesand the orig- inal package saloons prosperedat _once, but when thepresident had written his nameto the Wilson bill away over in Washington city, the conditions were changed in the s tate of Towa and Kawsas md_the original pacicuge men got out in doublo quick, Lay changes conditions, and we sk fora. prohibitory law; weusk for the law to take away the saloon, to tuke away the brewery, and 1 a resultmalce the condition that sur- round our hormes, that suroundsocity, th surroind ourcommunities, that will conduce to sobriety, by which boyscan grow up to be mea withoit * becoming ~ drunlkards, and - the men who are drunkards can have a chance to live asober life, Is there anything cranky or fanat- ical about this proposition! Tt is a grand thing to reform men. to be the in- strument of leading men into the path of so- briety, butit isan infinitely more glorious thingto destroy the agency that produces drunkards md favo the. nidon and. gonen. tion o come from ever being drunkard and that is what we pirpese. The prohib tion of tneliquor traflic to be used as i bovor- age is sustiined by the higlest logal tribanal in this nation. This question has beensettlied in the supreme court of the United States and ithas settled the question of rightor the persimal liberty of the « respecting the manu fuctureand sale of intos- icating liquors. Letme quote you afew extrects from_the supreme court of the United States, Mo talk aboutus legislating what we shall eat md_whero to go tochurch ma all that kind of thing. The supreme court of the Tnited States, Thaveits opinion before e, the supremo court tells us that ot overy art ostensibly for the protection of public health and public morals and public safety is to be aceepled by them as alegitinate exercise of the police powers of the state, but they tell us that an act ostensibly forthat purpose thay had noreal or substantial reasm to thosw things, that was a jalpable fraud on the rights of the citizen, it wasthe duty of the courtio sodeclire Youcan ot pohibit what you please, The supreme court, the highest tribunal, the only cout removed away from the party influences,—the wen upm that “beaich put there for 1lifo 0 Wecan go to that court removed from - fluences and furthest from all in this line, we can go o then with questions of consti tu: tional right to have them scitle i, wud they settieit. The state had theright'to probi bit the sale of liquoras a beverage and noconsti- lutionl right of the citizen was intrferel with, Why aid they settle it that way! Two reasons are assigned by that court: Tho first is, - We can not shut out of viow the fuct’ within the Inowledge of all that public lealth, public morals and public safely may be endangered by the general useof intoxici- ting liquors.” Second, and I want my friend on theotherside to pay aitemtion {0 this, “Norau we ignore the factshown by stati tics, accessible to every oue, that the di order, pauperismand crime previlent in tho country arein a large measure directly trace. able 10 thisevil." Youmay pile up your complicated statistics 10 show that these crines are notattribtable 1o thisevil, but you can't ply that trick on the supreme court. The sul:l me court here distincily declaves that public movals, dis- order, pauperism ana crime prevalent i the country avelargely traceable to this evil, 1f, therefore, a state deems the prohibi. tion of the manuficture andsale of intoxica. ting liquows within her limits for other than mechanical, medicinal or scientifio purposes, 10 be necessiry to the peace and security of soclety, the courts can ot withomtusuep ing legislative fuactions override it aud tho will of the people, As to the declaration that the state has no right to prohibita man mann facturing it for his own proiit and wse, they deelwre that nosueh right inheres i citizenship,—a slep the whisky wen never dreamed the su- preme court would take, Talk abwut the con- situtional right of uen 1 eugage in the manufuctire and salf 4 intoxieting g uor! And that is what thies peronal rigits loagics ar for, T Mdke them fron whit they do and not fronjmiyat they say, Thy ave organlzed for by | prpetstionof the salon. The suprernp cqurt has deciled that the tight o proiibithis fssacra _to us ad thatio right of the ifzen s interferd with Now, gentlemen, letis hear no mon abut persoal liberty, Agin, the evil of i 550 great anl 8o - Jures socitty Ehit thi swprome curt. ecidd they didi't owe thm mything for ther losses and they couldt, Esgilly cllectone dol- Inr from the people yhig we' elsed up_this business and drove then ot by law, They saidwe oily abite aiufsuce. Itsoemns fo mo that yeith such aithority behind usthere is vitiitle rom for tak aboit peronal liberty bejn anterfend with in the adiption of promitition. Audif ve deen the prohibitionists crnkes ind finati thenthe sipreme court of the United Stats is emnks and fanatic, too, Should the prohibitory adopied? | aniver, ¥ reads to opposeit upn tho grund that it will injure the “businss of tho staly that it “will destroy or ruin the busl ness dulerests of this state ad ther is an oranizition organized ‘n this stateupon that princple. Now, my hearen, 1 have gone over the argunents that are pr- sented by the two distiuished speakes hewotonight from Onahato take thelicense sideof thisquestion. T sy T have goie over theitspeehes arefully atBeatrice. My dis- tingiished friend M Webster promised us on Siturdiy thit hewoull show that probi- bition alvays injurd the businessof the states, T havegone over his seechline by lineand Thave figund out to my julgment the most. dear pintel andforcie agument thathe presenied, ad Iwishto callbis a.- tention tothis here tonight inthe opening addrss inorderthat he miy hwve anoppo- tunity anddue time to make vely towhatl am ging to sy, [ have hisspeed here before me anndlwant to wll your attentin to what he said. You nmenber that he talked about the prolibition states ona busi- ness lineof angumat ad he tookup the stateof Miine, he tok up thestateof Ver- mont anl e took up fie stite of Now Hampshir, Hetook up thosethree stats and then went bick t theensus of 150 zand 1880 ovder £oprove how disastrous probi- bition wasin those sutes, I will fiudit ing minute | Iwaitto rad Lis owi wonls vorycvefull atintion sto my mindis the clearest, md ifhe hus moxe forvble argument than be pre sentol in lis three spoeches, 1wanthim to pointit out to me. Hereis o mor liable 1o catch the umsuspating public Thin a other utterance he made on the business phase of this questim; “Here is mother fact aboutyour prolibitin stale of Maine, In 18570 thee wore 5550 manuficturing in- dustries in that' staw, s rportad by the census of the natioml govi ment for thut yur: in 180 samestato of Maitie then were but 4,431 manufactiring industres, therefore, i ten yearsof prohibition it Maie you_destroyel and wipedout 1008 rnanu facturing in distries [ want to say toyou there was ot e of thema brevery o disillery Innew Harmyshire you destrojed 101, and in Vermont your dest royed #5 manu Paciring industries, ‘T tel yonthatih the stabs sur rounding Vevmont, Miine md New Hatnp Bhire, where you had ligh licenseand hid ot haveprohibition, thatihe nanufictaring in dustries ofeveryoneof thm increased in- stead of dereasel. 1wl give you a state o two. [n Missadusels in the sine tenyear its nstitutions inerczed 1,H: inthe state of Wisconsin (you see that adpins Maine), 661 in thestatcof New - Yorl, 6,550 in Mary: amendment be But some are tho land, 475 2 in IlTinois (that 1 another cstem state), 1,93; in Min pisota, [,223,and in the littlo as they say, staty of Nebrnska, ander high license, you ineresed your man ufactur ing industrics to the number of 733, [A) plause.| *Allow me to say, i conclusin, that in overy prohibition stat you have named by your prohibition doctrine I wntend it to_ be that you destroy your manufacturing indus. tries, and by which I néan to_say that you drain upoi your finmcial prosperity. = In everystatoin theunion where you_bhavo hai high' licenso the manfacuring indistries haveincresed innu wlor, frnishing enploy. mentto more men, paying out more momey for your product, puting more mouy i dreulitionand tierefre paving the way 10 universal posperity, which staws fice 1 face with tio depreciition which might bo dom efinandal industies where prohibition exists, Now, itis forme tostate the facts ad for thisinteligent audince w draw con- clusions.”? 1 submitto youthat this is mom calalatel to caich an unsuspeding puble upn the business phase of this question thin any otherever presented in all that discussion, and Mr. Rosewater there, Lwish to call your atvention very carefully to this argumont, In the fint place, Twish o all your atwntion 1o thefact that he sayswhere “he had high license anddid not have probibition the busi- ness fucres wd i Nebrasko, 1itte Ne bras, ith high license, your in- dustries inweased 763, I want 1 call your attention to the interjectin of high license into this argument. 1want to all yor at tention to the fact that he mado thiscom parison from 1870to 180, st there wasn't e of thesestates thathad high licemse i them until atter 1%, not a single me of thom, [Aplaue.] Not oven Nebusic. Nebraska didn’t get her high license lay until 851, ad thore isno man kuows it bet- ter_than Johu D. Webster. [Applause,) Yot he injectedit intothat speech to play upon the erdulity of the people of this stite. 1 wanthim 1 write that dosw, Now, my [riends, thee figires in regird to the reductin of manuficturing e Litwall, true. Thevare arrec., L have gone oy the original census reprts and thev aw cor- rect yverbatim. But, my frieads, I have an. oher papr over here thit 1 pre pred, and I want to say to you right’ here tonight, now the tssumpiion is’ that it was only Maite, New Hamp- shireand Vermant that lost manufacturing etablishmats. Thee tiree prohibition states, Whit aro thefacts! I luve the offi. cial copy of the ensusthat] made from the tooks yesterday in _Lincob. There wer cightecn statos of thisunionthatlost i the mmnbe of their manfactring estiblish. ments from 1870 to 15%. Pennsylvani, my own nitivestate, stands at the head of the list, alicense state, I thestateof Pemsyl- vaniashe lst 5,93 manu fadturing establish. ments from 1830 to 1830, If prohibition Imocked outover one thousand in thestate of Maine, Twant Mr. Webster to tell uswkat knocked outnearly six thousind inthe license state of Pemsylvanim. [ A ppluuse, When he gets dme vith tie stile of Penn. sylvania 1 will take himbackto the east, Ho sild all the stats surrounding Maine and Vermont, {hose threo stales, increased in minufictunug. [ mut enphatically deny this. The state ofComnecticit 108640 man ficturing establishments £rm 150 to 1550, Take the state of Ohio, the grand old budkeyo state of Obb, What did she do_from 150 to 1802 She lost 2,074 mamu faduringestablish. nents under her licensesystem from 150 to 1850, Then T will bringgaata litlle further west; g down into theold stite—ib, yes, tak the state of Indiana 3 shé hst 6l manifacturing industries fom 1570° 01830, I will givohim a wore dose yel, ayl a good deal narer home. Go right. dowar into the state of Mis. sourd, right down ialo the licese stite of Missouri “and she' lest | 3,20 manu fatur- ing industries uider tho license sys. tom. T would ¢ Mr Webster 1o il us if prohivftion knuked out over e thousand in Muine, what kmncked over 8000 inthe westef stateandthe lense state of Missouri if b dare. | A pplausel, Thern he cu take thit whisky Kentucly and tell us of th= great reduiction down thore, and then g0 throwgn Delevarcand tol us about it ther, andthengo 0 West Virginia and tell us about it thew, aul go the whole rund of filteen license’ states, aud aftor ho has explainel the conctitlons of ‘thse fteen liense states thon we wil commene to thinle sometling woirt. his argument sbout robibition lu the three prohibition states. [ tellyou hero tmight proiibition hat mo more todo with the reauctionof fictorles in Maine, New Haupshin and Vernont from 1910 101880 than the distinguished at ey from Omahahad with the writing of the ten commiandments, not a bit more, (Laughter and anplause], 1 say hem tonight that notwithstanding that. the factories were reduced in the state of Maue, she lad yore nen employed in manu ficturing fm 380 than sho kbl in 1870, notwithsianding the rediction of the nunber of factories. [Applause]. And New Hump- shire had more (G eiglt thousand mor 1n 180 thin shohadi i 187, 1 tell you here that whon aman of his (ntelligenc and abil- ity will come befor tho people aul preent sich anargunent in defenseof £ho cause, in dofense of the lstitution, he iy afrid to champlon itupom its merits; and when he presents such an_urgunent he ought ether tomakoit god orapoligise O the stal of Nebraska for presenting such o arurment to fiwewunnd wisleud then om this great ques- lon. ANFURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 | Wewilltalk about the bisines phise of this question s littl further o, | don't wishio spmd all moy time tonight o the businss phase of thisquestion. Weare told that ‘Iwhilbl\h'n o't proh i bit, This is tho Hunlet of their play. Their Hambt is to pove that prohibition don't prohubit, ad tha prve itdestroys bisiness in thee difereutstats. How do you recon: cile that Bul agaln we are told that prohibitin don*tprohibit. Here is antherof thir s sumptions, Annssunption—it ssurmes that prohuibition has had afaic and Lmpartiil tril, suy thisis anwssunption and they can't proveit. Do you man t tell me hat w il sogrent, 8O far-reaching, sodecpseatet 1 that of intoximting liquors, that itean be triecton a little ity or @ ounty, or o state even of thisunio, with all the surronding stateslicensed stites, and thenthe gnerl povenment still pemitting it go i then In oridnal packiges —do youn mean totell me that isa Falt and impetial teil of pohibdi tion, md you ureto bo ready and aroasket to provouce judgment andondenn iton the ground of that trial. An el s gret and broad and decp as this is camot b triel fiirlyand lonestly upon sich prermises s that. Why, sirwe lave jist gt outof thelegl ttIeabout the questin of ex porings liguors in thestates, ey tld usthe origioalpack age dwision hadbroke the hick e of pro hibition, and the Wilson Dill has bro ke tho back bone of license and the liquor trafiie. [Appluse.| Well, were tild thit prohibition is wrong rincile, and whe M. Dickw ted that avgument on the frame nsidethe fire linits, wd whon he preeentel that about the fast hone, fat driving, ete, they auswered this with the most beanti ful trimmd-up argunent thatit wasrezu litionand wast't prohibitin at all. *“We rgulated it “We regulted i ldon't are whether you lation ox prohi bition; we won't be any ways paricular woutterms They saya roe by any other 1mme would smell justis sweet, nd Sowoull Rosewiter by any other niane smoll Just as sveettoo. [Laughter) T have ouly gotfive ninutes vo!, but [have Just gt started. [ wish to uy thit theprin: dple sonewnd the sme. So far s the uilding of the frame houseswithin the fir linitsis comernel, it prohilits it; it forbids 4 man to build that house, bit he siy's it dont forbid the huiilding of iouses Theprohibitoryamerdment (s propose total pohibition of t keliquor trafie. It per. nits the mauulctur and sab of it for medicihal, mechuicalid sden tile purposes and only forbils s mnuficture and sile for leverses becaue the the use of it for bevenygres injurs swiety, The malogy is complete; the only difference i the lnes outdle e a _ litth wideriin the casoof the city Linit, itis not vory fir distantto the far bounlary bt i the'case of prohibiting the sile of ligur for leveriges wo have toput itoutside the bor- dors of the state. It isa litle futher to g bit the prindples thesaime My time isuboit expired, hut Twishto dis. s fiest their arcunent” that prohibition dn*t prohibit. This is fomdedon the as. sumption tht licmse mealales and 1 propose efore this debite is thrugh to ter the misk off the rotten, dimning Licmse system of the stateof Nebraska anl show yoi it is hrokenand trampled mder fool, and | will prove it outof Tue Ovainy Bei und other sonrcesof that kind, md itneverhas been kept inthisstate forr the lastnineyears, e may hve owr defeats i carnyingthese ampaigns forwanl; nogood moviment ever sicceeds atonce. Wo had ourBuil Run; ¥, we had ourCold Haror, it the ds e when we hal our Getiysburg, the cme when we had our gloriins _Appommittox, Soit_will bewithprohibition Wemayhave o Bull Run and we mayhave ourCold Harbor, but the day iscoming when woe will have oir Gettyshivge rightin - Nebraska on Lovember 4, and [ belive it is coning when we willhaveour doriois Appomittox, when the power of runi shall be cushel andthis nition shallbe a bavemd free pople. God hastenthe diy. MR, ROSEWATERS ARGUPIENT, An Array of Facts in Sapportof High licemne. The second argumentof theseris wias de livered by Hon. Edwarnl Rosewater, edior of “Tue Bee, infavorof high licnse, and i full ‘was as follows : Mr. Chaiman and Fellow Citzens: A gve Iroblen confronts the peojle of Ne- rska. The propsition has been submitted tothe votersof this stal to inbody inw the fundamentallaw of owr conmonwealth an anendnent o proiibitthe minuficture and sile of liquon undmalt bevenges, excepting they miy bo usel for medicinal and me. chanical purpses. I hold that it wouldbe a great blunderanda disastros alamity to the pegple of this state to doaything of that killd. maitain that itis an extuordiary popositior: to putinto the contitution ofany state the prohibition ofthe minufacture and sile of iy commolity—whisky, g povder, dynamite oranything else. | maiitain that itls anoxtrordiney popositon b put into the fundamental lwv of a state the pro- Thibiti any actthatan b deinec 1s a crime, md Lisk you here toight to sinply caisider thisquestion : Has tiere ever heen apropuition submittedto thepeope of any stite toinsert intoits cons tittionan amend- ment ora clwse forbidding forgery, forbid- ding thetheltof property, forbidiing mur deror forbidling iny other of theacts that aw defined werimes in the statute: And why should any particlaricts tht an de- flued asceriminal be placed into the constitu- tim¢ Our wnstitition like thatof allthe other stales is simpy o out- N of pwen ddegaed to the repesentatives md oficen tht arey onour gvermen, and all_the other righ ts that wedo not delgateto then ar resoved forthe people, s thereany wod rason why any proposition either 10 licuse o to pro- hibit sbould go into the constitutin! That is the question. Mr. Edwird Tuttle, an eninentwriter fron Now York, has avery brief article h Beford's Magzine for the month of August. from which I will rad : “Anatral rght isan Wherat poperly of personality a8 weight, is of amtter; it is not even eratedby legislation, itis imevaable, thereby naturil vights can weither be dele- ated nor divided. Hence the perion is the sole judge and arbiter of his own life and coiduct, A natunl right annol be hro- @iled even by its posiessorneverlesstt is sellliniting 43 toits ewxreiss by the fact that theright of me isequally the rigght of all. Coustitutional vights arenatural rights, thus seltlinited. The written instrunent delines theselimitationsbut des 1ot crate thon. Constitutionl rights being founded upon natralightsare the cmservtorsand natthe destwyers of pesonalliberios. Con- stitutio niot. inyade the domain of individul sovereignty . It eocerns only the baindary lines betyeen soverigns, 1t con- cems not individuality it mutualiy.” Now, we hive been toll here toifght that thesupreme ourtof the Unied States, it highestiribunal in the land, has declred prohibilion tobe aproper subject of legsla- tim. Of what legishtion, 0f pilice regulation. And ny friend here will wmit “thit tie aly refermce mude by the supreme court in all itsdecisons mly wfer tho poyers excrdsed bythe state in i police mgulation, wnd there isthe end of the dmainof prohibitory legistatin. Now, then, we an told that thie judges of thesuprone coirt—ind I have due respect for tham—have siid thit =@ lirge per- centagre of thecrine, panperisn and wrech- ediess of this contry spriigs from the ligior trffte. Grant it, But [ watun to asirt tht notone of llose jJudges on the sapreme bench thal has given this matter onthalfthe tme ad stuly that flave, und hasnever looked into the stalistical fewtires tomcertin the diferace in crine inthe prohibitory stites and inthe states that hav regulatin and limitd probibiton elle oplion where high license prevail, Tlse Judges lave never troubled ihermslves to investigite the facls thit stire s in the fac, and thoy have never bee ableto aser- tain'the cxact truthss to what perentageof crime, of insanity, of paperin is die toin- tenpereice of the jnmeiso anountof erme nlie mense imount of suffering aul thein- mase anountof wrtcheness and poverty is due tointemperace anl what s duo to other causes. Bathow will y ou crac intempennece! Thtis the questio. Now, T mpeast it woula o folly for this state to en” body in its coistitition” a provision thal it eould motvermove froan it for four years : and 1 will say furthermore tht out of "t forty twostats of his uiion oly fur stites hive proibitory_provisios intheir consitutins, Thostateof Towa his sinply a statitory liw probibitie the manufuwhire and sale of iguor. Now, I tike il thatthe peoplof Masachisetts, the popls of that grad od emmowealh that pve us Bunker [l111, that yive u Faxinglon, (hat gave us (he Beoes of thorevolition, the stite in which persoal liberty andconslitut ional rigits anl laware hld wore sicrel than in any stals in the union, I think that stite ought tohuvearrived al theprower congu- | the spirit of the gospe | ufactur slon @ to what isthe right thing b put Into aconsiitutin aul whitis inproper and im stio of Masichusctts had that poposition beforsit lst yar, inthe springof 189, after thoy hud triod prohibi- tin and hadgivenit o fair and Impattial trial. Nowlet u“seowhatminmt men Tn Mo swhusdts tve wid sid with rgand to that: Prof. Chirles Elliott Norton, on of the ablest men in tho state |l’.\lllimh'huwllsV cnneded with Yole wllegy, sap: ‘The aloptim ©of the ‘vn\pmud constitutinal anenduent prohibiting the manu fiturean d sile of itoxcating 1i apublic misfort e Wlieve wrong in primdple md mistake in plicy.’ Ttsadoption would b a havy blow tthe ause of tenperaie anl _god orler and it wouldtend b yweiken {i tho coramin- ity thatspiritof obedience tolaw on whic the public welfaredepends. | am, sir, tuly, 0. B Noton, Canbridge March 16, 150,71 Presifent Blliott of Harvad cologe, cor- tiinly ot w nim odlonsays: “Ishatlvote squinstthe onstiition! apendnont con- corning prohibitio; fist, beeauso T thinic that the constitution ought ot todeal with sucht mutters; nnd, soconily, heaust for pro- motin gtemperan et | prfer the conbination oflocaloptionund higrh license to probibi- tion. > Ex . Coverno Gandner, the man thit sigmed tho first prohibitory lav inMassahuseits, siys: “Theresultof the forner puhibitory Loy, which by theway [ signd wlhile dief migistate, wis sounsatisfactory In its re- silts tht it was repeated by decisive majori tiny in the siccenling legisliture and loes ot enenurage the re-enctment o sinfar wovisins i the rganic constitutin of the conmonveaith, Waterwill wt run higier than thesoviro; laws cannot b sucess filly enforeal inles the decisvo mjorly of tie popularopinin sustinsthena,ind aliw upon th stuito hools constntly violated, mich more a consfitutionl povisin costantly vilated is anenaw to ppulir ophion ud the weakeningof it Tolay every municil- ityin thestale eadiof its” towis md citis posesses thepwer, andmanyof thm exo cieit. tvotototal prohibition within thoir own boundar In such cass, as the law hus public opinion behind it, it is genely willexented, Inother numidpaltiss whoe pulic oinion does not susgin suh a re- strictionthe sle of intoiceants is prmited under viles thit, helge apund sueh sale by uls which wisdom of th govern- ingpower imposes, and under high licenso it prduce large exdse taxes. Experionco of the pastseent to tach (iat loal option md high licmse funisha pruticable sytorn re- gardingthis vexed question asadnirablons fuill anl imperfed humnity can dovis' Howy 1. Gardner, Boston, bws, Mireh ). The Roev. Fredercle Palomoe: ' S0 disip- pove th constitutinal amendient prohibit- ingthe manuficture andsale of intoxi ligiors, and for the folloving Th costitition of the state the pace for legslating sich a nuiter. A costitition siould confin prin- cijles of government, wt rules, ains and canses of aclion sl pronibitin cold only b en fore the by of public opilion linglehind it when that opinionis infevorofl puhibiton. The prosent excl- lent lowl option lw renders prohibition posible. Thit is underthe dreunstancs enticely praciicably, the conlition of tiis toyn phinly shows, for her eachyearmn ovewhdming vot' prohibits the sile of ligor wd the pohibiton 15 excllenty eficacions. An attempted reform o foreed upon theunwilling surety prodices areactin aginst the reforn. Tho old 1buses are - ad when westorel are fir mire oyer- whilmingly established than befor. The present local option law by bringne fhe quistion be fore every town educates the pib- Licoptnio which isto enboree it. The - stititionl amendment would wt necessitte agi tation id cosequant elicatin, sent high liense bill of Phildelphia hasthe fiist year ofits opratin rediced the nunberof salons from 5,789 to 1,40 or 77 percent. Thure hasbeen no ractin so far aslknoy; mw increase in the nunber of salons, sinco a wnstittional amndmont coild 10t hope to wprouch this Frederid Palmer, rectr, Christ churh, Andover, Mass., March 1, 18 Here isa Tatier spcifio statementby Rov. SanfordNightingale: **The worst rin nols aremen'smouths. So long as these loles are open to receiveit run willifind its wiy_ into than. (an these hols bo clsed to run by comtitutional probibitio! No, it can be dome ouly by convine- ingand pirsuiding their owners to_do soof their own accord and freo will That was thomethod of Fathe Matthew, themethod by whichhe won thegrandest sicces whih thetempranc caus has yet. gainod. Now, e hiave bee toll hem tonight. and it s 'ben repeated from many rstroms, thatthe sale of liquor is n sinand_acrine, and that the useof Lliguor isa sin. Upon theo prpositions very many ministersof our Christian churcbies still agre, and hunredsof thousands of good Christians holl it astheircreed, butupon the other side fully as many ministers and humnieds of thoisandsof goa Christins hld thit thero is wthingin the bille orin thegospls tht autlorizeany sich eustriction, FPemit mo to qote forn tem. Thae is it thecity of New Yorknowa socty kinwnas theChunh Tenperaice swiety uderthe aspicsof the Episcopal church, “aud its secriary, Robu Grabam, nalces this statanentin oloof th church tuets whichtheyare drculiting in ty of New Yorkin the interestof tem. wd sibriety andl i d agast pohilition wd free i sell intoyicating lior is nota crine. useintoxiating liquors tenperately is niota sin, Thar exessive usedebases manhool and womnhod antis asin. It wy b grated tlat in thisiationand manyothas the practicallynnlinited saleof liquor b brought shout agrave natinal peril ad that unmstraiied pesonal use would wred ind viduls aud fanilies, Theaim of trie ten perince isby lyislative enctment torestrit andmininizo the oncand by volintary total absinencandthe pwer of god _prsonil exanple to resue and save the othe, We recomizeliguorselling as i dangerous trado; dangerous o the manwho sells, doubly dan: gerus tothe man who buys, We reognio theuses of gunpowder, bit knowingits ex- plosive pover wo domot prevent its m racure. hit reqlateits sworage in o ourpopulns clies. We liensoits ~ sale, by licensing wecontil and re mitols tobe tenderly handed lest in bastug rocks it weckshouss anl destroys lives recomizing itsuse wo do not prohiit i manifa sale, but surmoundit with safoqus rigently reglateils use IF the stab arginentbe usd why not licens regilate ad cantrol housesof illfamens yell us liuor! We ms wer, thero is 10 panilelisn betyeen the tw. Tmpurily in all itsmools andtensesis asin asdeep in - the nun as in the woman, demunced by the lawsor Gol andreprobitedby thelaws of .’ s is avery clearstatenentof the case Now, Lwill qute from an_ appeal to the cleryy, sigied by J. K Sike, Perrysvile, O, Rev, Iwan Didrich, Pittsburg, Pa. 5 Rev. C, K. Drumleller, Danville, Pa. : Rev. (eory Dillnan, Fostoria, 0.3 Rev. P, AL Peter, West Balimor, O.; Rev. Hugo R. Wendel, Hanisbury, £a. Fhis appal 0 thederg wasissueld duving the campign in Pansyl vaniy, fron which my faiend Rankin comes; | “A question of importace culms th attemtion of the clirch as a whole and of the minstryin paiculir, A daugerous foe indeepdisguise isat ou aoors, That temperanc is a greal evil none will deny, Thatit exensively vrevailsis pinfully evi dent. Kl all Christians shold smetion ery projer eflort £or the suppresion of this vicels a phin dity. But an wo, as minis ters of thegos pel, afford togive o infuence in supportof suh mesurs as subvet the very lounditions of the Christian faith! A we Jutifiddin withholdingoue acive opposi. tiom to leqak emctmonts which pracically nullify theleachings of the bibie, contryens rd condénn the con. ductof theSavirt — Existing cinumstances thesoquestions upon us e comider. Theold lestanent prophels andsaint ped and used wine as i good thing, and »d many time dedives it as such, T for wsed wine as 4 boverage, mado and furnished it to others for a like pirposs, @l Wlso sanclifea (i as o sacamental elment, These facls are well kuown byml careful studmts of the soriptires. | Yet vine of tho samiekind s that so often and uphati: callysanctned by th propiets, the sints and’ the Sivior, Is now caradorizel by manyas *‘he beverageof hell the deink of dwils, “*liguid dunnation.” ete. The Woman's' Cheistian Ternprano unin of. ficaally delares it 1 sacrioge 0 wssuch wineat the Lord’'s Lble, and (hey, with manyothen, avow ther intentionof continu. ing their eforts untitsuch wine is ushed from the siramental atar. To tis end we e asked by these parles and those coqperaling with then to sup port o legal enatment which will mike it t is 1 violtion of constitutinal liw to man. orsell for usoas a berage any wine or othor Liqior cntaiing wcoho, Should they sueced in this, itwillle comparitively easy for thom Lotale tho next step anl pro | iors. s, in_niy opinon, auwendmnt s, I The Tmportante of purifying thebloodtan. mnot be overstimate, for wilout pure Dlod you canngt enjoy gool health. At this seawn nerly every o nds a ool mlieine to purlty, vialize,d enric v tho blool, andlloodsSarsyartliis worhy wour confidence, Itis peculiarin et it strengtlons andbuilisup thesysten, erules anappetite, anl tones the digeston, viile Ateradiciles dise: . Givolt a tilal. lood's Sarsaparillils soll by alldrugyists. Preparelby € L Food & Co, Lowell, Mass 100 Doses One Dollar hibitwinefor surammtal pirposs alo; at alrealy hasbeendone in - Kinsas, and was propued inMichigan md Ongon) not rud further, but [will leaveit sot. vevorend gentlerman other reverend gentimen who say it is a moand sin. simyly a dferace of opinion among ductorsof diviity, Religions peopl differ very wicddy and very often, In 1862 soon after the diswtrons battle seconl Bull lunadelogationof Chic istors callel upon A briiam Lincon quosted hinto isie ancmandipatin proela. mation Aul hewin g book that has just been publisied isthe wswor A brbam Lin wln gve thom. “Thesubjut prsented iu the memorial i ome upon which I have thought forweeks pa for xunths, T anappn opposite s pinionsand advice and that by ro ligious men, who are equally cotain thut they epresmt the Divine will. | am sure that dtherihe o or the other clas is is talcenin: that belif, and perps, it soue re- spects, both, T hope it will not. Deitreverent for 1eto say thatif itis probable that God woullreveil hiswill toothes, ona point %o conneted with my duty, it might *besup. psed he woud mveal it direetly t me; for, wless T am more dewived i omysel than T offen wm, it is myeirnet dedre toknowthe will of Prov iden'cein this matter, md iflcan karn what itis Twili doit. Théseare not, hoveaertho days of miracios, andl suposo it will be granted thatl amnot toex pect direet mve lition, T must stedy the plain physicalfacts of thecase, sscerin what is posibie and learn whatuppears to b wisandright, The subjectis dificultand good nen donot. agrec You kiow that the last sesson of congros hud adecidol majority of wti-slvery men, yet they coild notunitoon this policy. Anct ihe sane istrue of therwligins peole, Why, the whbel sildien arm praying with apood deal move crnestess, | foar, thian our owii troops, and expedting God toflavor theirside, for oneof ow solliers, who lud ben tken prisoner, told Sentor Wil a few days since that he metnothing sodisconraging as the evidentsincerity of those he wis mnongs in their prayors. So, then, % faras rdigion ges, the paple who " hold’ religious views sineerdy an di- vided, T amoneol thse wh hol the view that what isbestfor the state, wiit is best for ourpeoyle, stould be done,” T bilievethat. sobricly and temperane can be best pro- wotedby thohigu license and loul option laws it wehave andwhenl get throeh lere by tomorrow night ] shull denonstrate that nore crime, more puperisu, more insun- ity, more drinkemness, ire gneraled iu the prohilition states by the fallicy of prohibs .= tion thin inthe bigh licenso state e tollemmatuaie beyond tho shule doubt to thase who will read md Tor ono to settlo with the 520 mir an re will thinks, by thestatistics of tho: the crininal records records of their panitentiaries, by of theirinsae asylums ind. the tieir plice courts, Now, my friend from Pennsylvaia bosts that hieha's for five yess boen agitting for pohibition ind, liké Artemus Wan, hels in or this warand the nest one and ho is yill- ing tosicrifee allhis wife's rlations in that war. ase.| he i n forthiswar, md, whe sys, ifit isto be s Bull Run heie hé will reenlistin thenext. Fomakea living out of this agitatin and does ot care for the wnseqence, Bt thse of us who ure plntel here whobaverared onr chilir o Nebraskasoil, vho hope 1o 1ive hnd d 2 ofus Who st shoulder the ro- iilitie, mustevenise o rigts with aud wilh eaution. [ have notread, ind Twill mot stopto rad the opunionsof religions men in Missachu- setts who opposed prohibition pecuse (hey did notbelieve it would prommote truo tempe wce, Therewero oig hiy-eigit sizied onome Boston papr bfove this queston was subrnitted. The fact that thegrand old wm: mon walth rwjectel the constitutionl amend- ment by an overwhelming mijority answyers for itsel. . [ maintain that by adopting this consfitu- tonal anendnent you wil cripple you public schools, and we allwantto sc ouf children elicatel, anl well eduated, We all tike pnde i the mblicschols of Nebraka, il [ asert right here that. Nobr: pags balter silariesto tachenund has tter teachers thn ay_ofier stave I this uvin. [Ap- plause] Thisis lagely due othe et thit ry hewvy rvenucis derived fromihe lic rstorn which wes ito our scehol fid. The ity of Ormha, for instance has at- tracted o itthe best teachersin the conntry. Twas i Lavenyorth thre daysazo, imd tlking with the m wlio 15 erofFido u momberof tie selool bord. | leaned while in Lewenworth, by reson of the revoue lving deelied, e sdools are artald, silarieshac o beé nduced aul teadiers had w be disposed with, Scveeal of thse wenes wentto Omaha and hold positins inher piblicschodls. Inthe ity of Leaven- wort h-and while [am about itet wedigrss. dhose of you_wiho areold enghind live beon cown n Vivgmia and Tennesee, i & have, diring the war, have probbly sen town's andcities that ‘hud boen devis Tated and ruiied. The dty of Leaveworlh tolay Presents an appe: W doserted and as wioeked as any cityin the south that 1 wer siw during th war. Ten thonsand people have Lefi ther within fiv 5. Five years agowhn I was it Leavenworth busiiess wis flourishing, everyUhing was rospe rons nfly, and s ho hascd o population of o v-on6 thousand, Today she hasa popu- Tation, underthe consus, of tywonty-me thou- sind, aud bl upon Moe e all thronzh he business eenter vaaut, windows sus2<d in aul bulding dilipidaed. Bvergthing fs wieek and i, Nobody tint has not scu itan ralizethe lvasttion, If the town hid bea steic by the plagioor by peti lence itcoutdnot have been deserrted by mmoro Do) Right apposils to the postoflice Duilding—a fier fetaral building than wy in this stal, fhishel only two yeis agp-—studs & very largo anl voy substantial beick “bloke whid wis oripiel by th postolfiey antil it was vi- cted, md | metone of the pstal deris of 10 vecord s rcords of Absoluitely Pure. A oreim of lrtarhaking povise. M1y b oflnveins siongi-U. 6 Govrnsst b wort Awg 17, B e of thelr ju‘lt o : G