hesitate? You get money, you toil not, neither do you spin, and yet few workmen can wear such clothes as you do. What are you giving for what you get? Come up here, sir; bring a finished specimen of your work; hold it up here for the crowd to see, and show us its fine points!" What would he bring? What does the dram shop manufacture? What has it always manufactured? It has always manufactured drunkards, first, last and all the time. A dram-shop keeper is as distinctly a drunkard

maker as a man that makes shoes is a shoemaker. That is all he ever did make, that is all he ever will make. Show me a first-class sample of dram-shop work. Could you induce a liquor dealer to come up here and hold it up? What does he say? You say to him, "You make drunkards." His very first

excuse is, "I will not have any old drunkards hanging around me." If it is a good thing to make a drunkard, a drunkard must be a good thing after he is made. Suppose, ladies and gentlemen, the minister should come here and give you as a reason why his church should be endorsed, that he did not have any old Christians hanging around his prayer-meetings. Would not that be a good advertisement for the Christian religion?

I saw by the papers that at the Des Plaines campmeeting they called together on the platform all the old men and women who had been in the Christian service fifty years, and there was a crowd gathered around the platform to hear their testimony; the

papers stated that the feeling pervading the audience was wonderful. Why do not the drunkard-makers come up here and call up a number of their veteransa number of men they have worked on for ten, fifteen or twenty years, with red noses, bleared eyes, ragged clothes, toes creeping out of their shoes? Bring them up here and then stand up and exhibit them, opening the Bible—let the liquor seller now act as interlocutor-open the Bible and read: "No drunkard shall enter the kingdom of heaven," and then call on them to testify. By their evidence we are willing to stand or fall. Why will not the drunkardmakers do it? Is their business so mean, so low, so devilish, that when they have broken down a man who has stood by them through thick and thin, when he has given his money, character-everything, they kick him out and say: "We do not want any old drunkards around us!" The business is afraid to meet its record. Such is the evidence of the case.

Go down the street; a new wagon is standing by the curb; you stop to admire it and at last say: "I wonder who made it." "I did, sir," answers the wagonmaker. You look at the man. He is dressed in poor clothes, but see how proud he is as he contemplates his finished work. Last year while visiting a county fair, together with a friend, I was standing by one of the stock pens, looking at a calf. "Wonder who raised the calf," said my friend. "I did," answered a farmer standing near by. As the farmer spoke, he straightened up as much as to say, "I am proud

of my work." As you pass along the streets of our cities, you frequently see other work nearly finished sitting on the curb or wallowing in the gutter. Stop and ask, "Whose job is this?" Will the drunkard-maker run out of his factory and say: "I did that work?" Why will not the drunkard-makers defend their work? Can you separate a workman from his chips? If the liquor business is respectable, its products must be respectable. The liquor business has its own work and acts to meet and defend; this much, no more.

The temperance men must then continue to press the charges against the traffic, and labor to perfect their plan of work against such a dastardly foe. We are striving to save drunkards and to prevent drunkenness.

The temperance people believe in reaching down into the depths of debauchery and getting hold of the poor fellows; I say reaching with tears and prayers, and lifting and holding them up, but after we have helped them out we believe in blocking the way so other men will not fall in. Save the drunkard and prevent drunkenness.

Such, ladies and gentlemen, are the positions maintained, and the methods of maintaining them, believed in by the opposing hosts. Firm in the belief in the righteousness of their cause, the temperance hosts will move for a verdict of guilty, and demand that sentence be passed on this old hoaryheaded criminal; and then, when the people have

settled the question, and settled it right, we can say in reality as we now say in theory, "Vox populi, vox Dei."

II.

WHY THE INDICTMENT IS PRESSED.

AN ADDRESS DELIVERED IN THE OPERA HOUSE AT WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, OCT. 12, 1882.

Ladies and Gentlemen:- Early in September, while visiting in the City of Madison, I received an invitation from temperance friends in various sections of the state to come here and talk on the subject of the prohibition of the alcoholic liquor traffic. I was willing to accept this invitation for two reasons:

1st: I was in your state four years ago, and when I returned to my western home I carried with me the memory of many pleasant places, which I had a sincere desire to revisit that I might meet old friends.

2nd: I wished to know if the people of this state were keeping pace with other states in the great work of outlawing the drunkard-makers of this country. Although the newspapers almost always tell the truth, yet sometimes you can not depend upon their telling the whole truth about this prohibition movement, and I thought if I wanted to know the whole truth the best way would be for me to come here and see you, and talk with you.