It was a great question whether several members of that high court
could be got sober in time to vote.
Only recently a Senator from New England rises up with tongue so
thick, and with utterance so nonsensical, that he is led into the
anteroom. He was a good "Republican."
One of the Middle States has a representative who very rarely appears
in his seat, for the reason that he is so great an inebriate that he
can neither walk nor ride. He is a good Democrat.
As God looks down on our State and national legislatures, he holds us
responsible. We cast the votes. We lift up the legislators.
Will the time never come when this nation shall rise up higher than
partisanship, and cast its suffrage for sober men?
The fact is that the two millions of dollars which the liquor dealers
raised for the purpose of swaying State and national legislation has
done its work, and the nation is debauched. Higher than legislatures
or the Congress of the United States is the Whiskey Ring!
The Sabbath has been sacrificed to the rum traffic.
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