suggest. As
life becomes valuable, people will become temperate, because they
will take care of themselves. Temperance is born of the countless
influences of civilization. Character cannot be forced upon anybody;
it is a growth, the seeds of which are within. Men cannot be forced
into real temperance any more than they can be frightened into real
morality. You may frighten a man to that degree that he will not
do a certain thing, but you cannot scare him badly enough to prevent
his wanting to do that thing. Reformation begins on the inside,
and the man refrains because he perceives that he ought to refrain,
not because his neighbors say that he ought to refrain. No one
would think of praising convicts in jail for being regular at their
meals, or for not staying out nights; and it seems to me that when
the Prohibitionists--when the people who are really in favor of
temperance--look the ground all over they will see that it is far
better to support the Republican party than to throw their votes
away; and the Republicans will see that it is simply a proposition
to go back to the original methods of collecting revenue for the
Government--that it is simply abandoning the measures made necessary
by war, and that it is giving to the people the largest liberty
consistent with the needs of the Government, and that it is only
leaving these questions where in time of peace they properly belong
--to the States themselves.

_Question_. Do you think that the Knights of Labor will cut any
material figure in this election?

_Answer_. The Knights of Labor will probably occupy substantially
the same position as other laborers and other mechanics. If they
clearly see that the policy advocated by the Republican party is
to their interest, that it will give them better wages than the
policy advocated by the Democrats, then they will undoubtedly
support our ticket. There is more or less irritation between
employers and employed. All men engaged in manufacturing and
neither good nor generous. Many of them get work for as little as
possible, and sell its product for all they can get. It is impossible
to adopt a policy that will not by such people be abused. Many of
them would like to see the working man toil for twelve hours or
fourteen or sixteen in each day. Many of them wonder why they need
sleep or food, and are perfectly astonished when they ask for pay.
In some instances, undoubtedly, the working men will vote against