Woodstock, Connecticut, USA
1888 - Specifications Called For. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, the Prohibition nominee for President is accredited with the following three sentences in his Fourth of July address at Woodstock, Conn.:

"He (the saloon keeper) sits supreme in the National Congress and makes laws in the country's capital.

He governs courts of justice and makes ministers of the law and legislatures his lackeys.

He silences the preacher in his pulpit and muzzles the editor at his desk."

This is a serious indictment. We call for specifications. This campaign is to be carried out by cold facts, not by fiery rhetoric. We have great respect for General Fisk, but we are afraid he has set a bad example to the political orators in these three sentences. The country may not have made all the laws it should against the saloon, but it would be difficult to indicate any which have been passed in the last five years in its favor...

St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
August 18, 1888

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