Letter Of Acceptance

Uhntou B. Fisk, prohibition candldate for president, in his letter of acceptant, iated Seabright, N. J., July 25, and giren out for publication on the 7th inst., ay, nftcr formally accepting the nomination: Within a few years the tomperance reform has altogether changed front. In the great conflict which has been and is yet waging, the temperance forcea no longer face the human appetitc and habit alone ; they oppose legislation, law, the purpose of political parties, the policy of state and na, tion. What law creates, law alone can kul. The creature oí law, the saloon, the legalized liquor trafile, can die only at the law'i hand, or the hand of the luw1 executor. Conceived in aVaricious Iniquity, bom oí sin ful legislativo wedlock, the Heen sed saloon, the legalized liquor trafile, bastard child of a civilization possessing purity and virtue, must be strangled by the civilition which begot it, or that civilization auiit go forever branded with the scarlet letter of iU own shame. No party which is made public admlnlitrator by the enemies of temperance, or which owes the olection of its candidato to saloon influenee, can ever establtsh prohibition as a binding faot in government any where. The national democratie party, in lu platform, ut-ters no word in comdeninatioB of the groatest foe to the republio - tht liquor trame. That party having steadfaatly, in its utterances at national conTontion maintained its allegiance to the American saloon, it was no disappointtnent to anyoue that at St. Louis, in IfsSS, it reaffirraed IU old position on this, the greatest quMtion now beinir debated among men. "The flrst concern of good government," said the recent national republican conreu tion at Chicago, "Is the virtue and sobriety of the people, and the purity of the home." Kevenue, then, is not governmeat's ohlaf concern, whether coming froin interna! taxation or f rom a tariff on imporiaUona ; and any source of revenue which discount "the virtue and sobriety of the people," and begets impurity in the home, shouid be the flrst object assailed by every party proiessing to seek good government. VThllethe revenue derived from suoh a Bouroe. shouid bo the first to be foresworn- not alternatively, for the sake oí a protectiv tariff , but po&itively, for the sake of a protection dearer andamore vital tnan the Uuriff can ever yield. I Bearch the long platform threujrk ia vain to find a condemnation of the saloon, or hint of a purpose to assail it, or any slgri of moral consciousness that the saloon is curse, and it& tncome too unUoly for tbe ntion to share. IÍ the "ohiet concern" has not a place in the party's platform, and a party has no policy as to that "ohief concern," that party does not deserro the support of men who love good government and like to seo it maintained. The prohibition party's "chief concern" is ior the puritj of the home, and the virtue and aobiety of the people. It asserted this ia plalu and unmistakable terms at Indlanapohs ; and it further plainly said that "the burdens of taxation sheuld be removed from clothing and other necessariea oí lifé." It is to-dar the only avowed and consistent party which the home and. labor bare, for it -rould make the blessings of home cheap and remore altogether its curses. Itwould bring labor to sobriety nud insure employment; U would keep factories bus.v to cloth jtabor, the farms active to f eed it, and would give to our whole industrial system the üapetus and prosperily never yet knowm, and never possible till the saloons are put awajr. Broolu' Lettr. Dr. John A. Uroolts in his letter, after acknowledging the honor conferred upon him, and dunouncing monopolie and tmats, says: We must avoid an e ver-increaslng surplus, in the treasury, and all unnecessary taxattoa must be lif ted from the shou lde rs o the people. The surplus is. a perpetual menaoe, not only to business, not only to the country, but to moráis as vvell. The questioa of the propricty of removing the Uix from Whisky must depend altogether upon tha purpose in tended to be accompUahed bjr such reinoval. The trafile itself, oonseious that It Is It last defeuse, entrenches itself behind totoral and state taxation. Strike down iu deiense and an outragod public would not long Buffer lts continuance. Two. poliUceJ partios demand in their platforms tbe brogation of the federal luw. But pon vrheA ground do tbey base their actions ! The prohibition party would strik off the tax that it may the sooner destroy ti trafüc It would not have the goveramea to be a co-partner in proilts wrung front the vlees of the citizens. The purpose oí the republican party in the repeal oí th tax is to reduce the revenues, that the? may not have "to surrender any part oí our protective system," A proper protection oi America labor and the infant industries of our coaatry may and does commend itself to the ma]ority of our poople, but of infinitely more importance is the protection of our homes. To this end our platform jnstly subordinates all other questkms. Dr. Brooks concílleles by some remark regarding the sanctity of the home, reier to the evil influence of saloons, indorset woniau suffrage and the work of womeo for prohibition, and again thanks the convention for the honor of the nomination. Guardinsr Our Fisheries. The f act that the North Atlantic sonadron has been ordered to the Qulf 01 - St. Lawrence pi ves additional color to the impression that the President lntends to adopt a belligerent attitude toward Canada. The Ossipee, Yantic and (alona are under orders to go to the Nova Scotia fishing grounds, and the Ossipee will loave at once. Their purpose is to go amonir tae American fisbing vessels and give assurances that Canadian seizures will hereafter be met by force instead of negotiation. Eulogx.hiff Sheridan. When the news of Gen. Sheridan's deotli had been transmitted to congres regular business was suspended and the time bef ortf adjournment devoted to the delivery of addresses, recounting remlniscences of hl brave Ufe, and paylng Just tribute to the memory of the dead hero. Brandv and Apollinaris in Washington is called "The Quick and the Dead." It Is havlng quite a run. , Flowers aro much to the fore this season, and have quito taken tho place of foathers for millincry purposos. Black and gray are still worn for walklng costumes, but are seldom plain, being gencrally combined with color. It is impossible to please some people. Chicago is ridiculed becauso it is not eultured and Boston because it is. "Americans, I presume I" said the Ixmdo hotel proprietor, as the party ongaged rooms. "Bostonians," corrocted Mrs. Charles Kivers Massey. Japaneso cottons, showing all sorts of Impossible blue fleures upon thelr white grounds, are made up into servioeable and quaint-looking parasols for country use. Very wide ribbons now appear In the loopings of lace and illusion gowns, and rich graceful knots and fringed ends ar far and away bettor style than any sort of bow. This is the time of the yoar when th econoinical man builds a sidewalk in hir back yard or makes his ovvn screen doors, therebv saving $8.25 and ruining a $35 guit of clothes. A Toledo woinan caught 19,000 house file on sticky paper in twelve days, and yot on the thirtenth thero were as many about as before. War on the ll.v i a loss of material and energy. " 'Twenty Ycars a Whaler'," said tho old Arkansas s'choolmaster, roading with a contemptuous smile the title of a now Dook. "Twenty years! I kin beat that record by more'n iifteen years b' gosh !" "I see," said the confldenco man, tht many claim the removal of the tarlfl oa wool wil! lnjuro the shcep growers. If fleceos are going to be srarco in the future shall havo to adopt some other busineo." A sea serjent seen by peoplu at Conjr ! land the other da.v was "an enoruious creture whlch resemblod a string of ber. barrels." it is no enormous thing for Cosof iBlanders to drink half a hundred glasses of beer in a day. Lady Georgina Legge made up a woman's eleven for a f?aino of cricket with the glrls of the Birmlngham high school, uud tl match was played on the Kuil of Dbtumouth's grouuds before a luru und company. One player made thirty uiu runs.