The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-09-30 00:00:00

UNITED TEMPERANCE MIBBION.

The most important gathering. of the Iliselon now
Wog held, took place on Tuesdey, and throughout the
gs were characterised by • unanimity and •
on the part of the r.pre.entativ.x ~1 the
wowsl dietinot teenpersece lee, that were very
V.:21.g to with.... One of the purposes of the
tion was to signalise the 40th anniversary
as • teetotaller of the well.known temperance worker,
Mr. C. Greening. It la now about forty vets ago
that Mr. Greening took the step that has been almost
the moving principle of his life, and although his
expenses. as • temperance man has been • long and
• varied one, and even stormy at Intervale, yet he
pommels all the old vigour and intensity of feeling in
the great muse which he basso mtioh heart. It
had been arranged that all the Bands of Hopi in the
town should amemble at the Salisbury field (kindly
lent for tit• occasino by Mr. Robert Hunt). This
they did to the number of about 500, 'soh Band of
Hope being marshalled underita distinctive banner. The
following bodies were represented :—Holy Trinity,
Bt. Peters' and All Saint's, Fordingtoo, Primitive
Methodist. Baptist, Congregational, and Temperance
Hall. Besides the Isms banner,, some of which were
very pretty, the children carried innumerable
liansersta and flags, and others flowers mounted on
Aloha, which added greatly to the effectiveowe f the
display. At the field there was a general review of
the faeces, and various evolutions were gone through
under the direction of Mr. Clarke, who evidently
has not forgotten Ids military training. The proms-
den kiwis( been formed, with the Piddistrenthide
Besse Band at the bead, and pioneered by
Mr. Greening, Mr. Clarke, and other leading
temperance workers of the town, they marched
through the peinalpal streets, and tbesos to
the Corn Exchange, where huge preparations bad
been made for tea, which Mr. Grafting ha I m kindly
gives. Many willing hands assisted In satisfying the
wente of the young people, but it wa. • hard tisk at
first to keep poop with their demands for "cake,
"Ma." he. Bet everything is said to bays an end,
asd sher a erbUs the shrill toles were not so frequent,
and at bet they were satisfied. They were sail very
bohemians, and could swore be restrained to listen to •
few kindly words from the Bev. H. Everett. Before
'by .aCir=g obi): avl.rfewe.ph child:Lags Pre""
mement
of lb. occasion.
Al eight o'clack • public meeting we. hold in the
Corn treelmage, presided over by the 1t... If.
Everett. Th-re were on the platform Bev. T. W.
Knipe, Rev. C. F. Powys, lkir. Mathou, Mr. Clarke,
Mr. Child, and the popular speaker, Mrs. Darren,.
• hymn having been sung, sad prayer offered by
the Rev. T. W. Krim the CHAIRMAN delivered •
thorough-going temperance address. He first of all
ifilr_atelated Mr. Gress* on Me gnomes of the
_i of children they bad seen that day. It nu
al."Zrarrarht to give honour to those to whom it was
due, and Mr. Greening lief been kind enough to give
• tea to SOO Widest, awl their first duty •••• to
oongretulate him upon his success. In the name of
the Bands of Hope be returned to Mr. Greening
their very sincere Bunke. They could oaly hope these
ItS eldldren would Vow up sad continue to be
absteinees foe the rest of their lives (Applause)
This was, perhaps. too much to hops, but no doubt
• great maay of them would do .o. At any rata, they
enjoyed • blessing which many older persons
had in their younger day.' they, at any rate, c old
ant easplata that the horrors, the misery. and the
svelehedness arising from the drink had not been
pointed old to them. Now, he did not know who ,
were to be the speakers, but he ventured to hope and I
trod nothing violsot or abusive of anybody or any '
den of people would be said that evening. Etheetr-
WOO was never right or wise, and their cause was so
terribly, so frightfully strong, that no exaggeration
was seeded. They bad simply to "tate the terrible
facts as they were to couvisce people of the horrors
aad misery of Intemperance. Now, he presumed one I
greet object of meeting. of this sort—end be wished
there wire mote of them—was to try and form a I
healthy public opining, and he hoped their meeting
would bare that effect. He was really astounded.
and was (relined to feel exceedingly Indignant, at th
sad the Indifference which was shown, 'sped!
apathy
y the blither and middle dames, upon this 1
=sod terrible gcbastioa throughout the length and
th of the land. The higher and middle classes
sestaisly did want to be thoroughly stirred up sod
Ina public opinion certainly did want to be
rims& Ati3oplasse.) Boa In thought, first and
foremost wanted to bring before the people and
create • roughly public opinion upon the
pirmat licensing aystem. As they knew perfectly
well, the premed system of licensing was entirely In
the hands of the militant's, and in the Ms:Um of
them magistrate., however good and excellent they
Wife, the peooo bad no choice whatever. In a town
like this for instance, the working clams bad no robe
In the election of magistrates, and yet is
the Mode of these magistrates existed'lithely the
CeribeArateladee redwing the number of license.
be in the pixie. He wanted to see
IbM entirely sad altogether altered. It. wonted that
the people should have • voles In the matter. What,
he *DIM Moe to sib, we. se inillehmen's theory of
Govenumat 1 Was It sot this —of the pl.. through
"I=B7l°. mid flitirOis j Of t.E.
bat they htve • voles Is it, through
thee. and through their voles that It eb=ld be seed
upon, arid for them—for their good and fur their
riu"ifuLdeZelag.i illirevds•diahurLaC:Paigehl:f iregrioew" waoarlihingeridge"anizhaeuts
wen feetseLy tired of regeweldm It—Mr. Just
In gauging the grand jary, said from what

he had MID and from his B:mimics he waa I el t o
believe that nine-tenths of the cams of this e
was engendered inside the doors of the publichoom ;
Lord Chief Justi.) Coleridge mud: " If you could only
destroy the crime which arise, from the drink. To,
might shut no nine-tenths of the prisons to-morrow
and L ad Wolwley said the uthor day that 90 per
out, of the otiose in the army au simply and a dilly
from drink. And in the face of that the magletratee.
against whom personally he was not going t say
a word—be believed they were men of high
and eke !lent principles, an I acted accordion
to their judgment couscieutiously—in the fan-
o! this testimony—and this was what boffin blot—it
appeared to him the great aim and ct of the
magistrates was to do all they could not to diminish,
I not to reduce the numb, r of publichuuses, bot to
Increase them- Now, actually in this town what had
they duo.! He houeved theoe were Ow Deady 7")
publochuuses, but they did not think that tini'e
enough, and they were stotuaAy granting a spirit
license to the S outh-We•t ou station to bare a drink
shop there as well. ("Shams.") N ow, he did may
this was u aessonahle. Here they ours men milis
from the Lora)... at Weymouth. Why, thenothouli
It be necessary for them to bate • refreahment room
at tn. station, in • small place like this? What did
the suthorati. say? What da i the railway c 'Lo-
ps.. toil them! '['hey said they bad trouble so ough
already to keep their p•orter• and g lards from con-
tinually &utilities, and yet here they were going t
open a refreshment-room, where thy could get spirits
an 1 beer, immaiiiitaly under these fellows' noses.
Homily, he di I think •iseybody in the town ought t
protein against it. (Applauei.) What they wantal
was what had bean promised them. ('he Government
promised them in the Queen'. Speech at the b00b...4
of the year they should hays an axten.ion of the Iran-
chias—and he hoped they would have that—
(applause),and they also peon:died the p apt* themes I v
the local authorities, should bare the power, ,•f ,ntr
log the licensing erotica. Mr. Gledat•ohe had •tate I
be was very much in favour of Sir Wilfrid Laws it's
motion of local option, nod the lion. Secretary, Si
William Harcourt, /aid the GoVerlein out were eutlte.y •
one with them, and that Mgr wish was this heel:Auto
system 'halal be placed in the hand, of the people—
the people who wise most affected by it—that the
ratepayers of itiff mint ivalitiesi should have the con.
trot of the liceustug system. Now, this we. all they
were asking for, and sagely it warn a right tail j ot
thing. Was it fair, was it jut, that supposing a new
niughbatrhood sprang ay, such se watt epricging up
now is tho lirldpoit-road— was it lair that a neigh-
bourhood of that 5054 wig much
easiwt, by Inisouriag clams, and not of those who
lived times wishing to bars pubUchouses in the nolo-
bourbood, would It be fah., or right, or just that, in
spite of their wishes, • publichouse should be Caned
upon them, and that their dwellings should be rinsed
round with publiolaoum as with • cord of fir.? Yet
that was ths laW, and it was no use for tam to pro-
test against it. Simply for the benefit of rich people,
a and rich companies of brewers, • publicbou-s
large
be forced upon a neighbourhood where the
people themselves were animosity opposed to it
That wea one of the things they asked should
be rentedied. Let the working cornea themselves
have a voice in the matter for pity'. sake and for
justice sake. (Applause.) He hoped every one there
would uas every wet of influence they could to demand
such a 'impatient of justice as this. (Applause.) The
rev. gestleman went on to attribute the increased
intemperance among women to the grocers' licenses,
and asked that the temptation thus offered them
might be removed. He believed Mr. Gladstone gave
the grocers' licensee from the very beat of motives,
thinking they woul I prevent ;staple from going and
sitting about in publichouses, but the system bad
proved to be a Moot lamentable failure, and one of the
saddest things ever adopted in this country. Thui
was one of the things they begged and petitioned
might be removed. In conclusion the rector urged the
impottance of personal example, and MEd those who
were not already abstainers to become so at once gni
to do everything they could, both in season and out of
season, to try and put down that which they knew as
well so be did wait the greatest curse to this country.
(Applause.)
Mrs. Dellatert next delivered a brief adoireas. She
pleaded with the mothers an I fathers, especiady the
former, to give all:the encouragement they could to the
young people ta stick to their ple•lges, and earnestly
begged them not to sen.l them to the publich...
for beer. She endeavoured to stir up the temperer.:
workers to renewed eft ,rt., assuring them of their
reward. Let the Sunday School teachers, however,
not only teach sobriety, but be s ober themselves,
and then their work await be doubly auccesslnl. She
expressed great pleasure at the fact that evety
minister in the t own was total abstainer, and r
eluded by urging the youtut nbetsi ,ers, not I t
keep their pledge, but to give their hearts Co the
Saviour. and then they would have not only • happy
home here, but a happy bouts throughout eternity.
The Rev, C. F. PuteTS addressed • few words brat
to the non-sbetainere, warning them against the sin
of drunkenness and the peril of holiday drinking.
Having endorsed what Mr.. Darrant had said against
bending children to the publichouses, US addresessl the
abstainers- lie coogratulatsd them on having signed
the pledge, for it was • noble thing to do, especially
if they signed It for the good of other.- But there
were two things he warned them against. vie pride
sot niggardliness, which, after they had sioned the
pledge. they were somewhat inclinsi t The rev.
gentleman then directed his remarks to the ennuis,.
urging then, to keep true to Mu it pledgee.
Mr. CLAIMS was the next ono otter, ho the c atm
clan earnest SpeeCh he thenket G,.1 the work woe
going on, although they hal to c ascend against great
difficulties sometimes, lie was very pl,asel to we
such • good number of workers to represent ths tem-
perance platform that night. He corn olted the
objection raised against their demonstration that day
that it was only children. Were they loot all ehillreu
one time or another? (Apple...) tie thanke IGo I
for the day's work, for he was oever so h•ppy in his
life. (Applause.) lie believed the out° omit of it
would be something grand, aol he was deli.ilded too
he.: they were gong to have • great mission in 13 ,r
-
chaster next month. He tbankei God they had at,
many childrou in their ranks, for they were their
brightest hopes, (Applause.)
hisnsok next delivered • f ,rcible ani
was followed by Mr. CHILD.
The Rev. T. W. Kele', who has delighted the total
abstinence section of the temperance catue by the
decided stand he ha. taken, and who ie now one of the
most Canino and earnest speakers on the question.
advanced some strong arguments against the moderate
dnuiv-re. Most of those who were now called
drunkards were formerly molerata drinkers, b son
companions with brave noble heart., men of promise
and men of hope, but they went down to
ruin through the medusas of drink. For
Ii was a tr.adoes., and he saki") them to

always 'peas gently of the poor miserable
drunkards, for their retain warn gone from them. He
CO tel the itistancie of • poor fellow who told hum his
cravings lot drink were so great that if • glasi of
brandy were on the table, and Inc was told he would
be shot if be touched it, he would dare death for it.
That man at his own request, went into • born. for
diuuka.d.:, and on hie release he employed a MOO to
attend him oorsetantly and preeerve him I ow the
drink, but he eluded him and got drunk. While be
was paying • man to attend him, he hired a poor little
plough boy to fetch him brandy I With regard to
what Mr. l'owys had said as to pride, the beet cure
for that was to sit at the feet ..f Christ. Let them
abstain for His sake, for Him who laid down His life
for poor sinners. England had been curved by this
great plazue. Fight, then, for their a iuntry's intone:,
for this great cause. Do it for Gad's glory, and lie
would bless them in every way.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman was propoiled by
kfAvisuir, mid sea indeil oy lir, pimp. .

Va. 0111•1111•1: Let me urge this up us you. Lton t
bag for it, but claim it se your right, Oat you shell
not against your will be surrounded by these cursed
troblichoures. Ask for it— lemand it. ( ‘pplaote.)
It 1. 1. the hands of the workiag meat, and they are
effectod by it. Demand the Licensiog Baer& and
Load Option, end thus have a voice In the matter.
Lot us hare half, and much more than halt of thees
hours. which we ars toll on the most reliable author.
ity cause oinedenthe of the mieery, p .vetty, eud
crime of the clentry, shut up. (Loa,' applause.)
The proceedings termlueted with the hymn. "Stan I
up for Jesus." The Pi Idletrenthile baud wrs
stationed in the orchestra ((ortut ate!, for the ears of
the audience wituout their urum), aO.l played a,
Interval..

On Wednesday • gond meeting wee held at Staff ira,
when the Rev. Carlon Smith presided; on Thursday
at the Holy Trinity Infant &b ; and on Friday
there was • lamely attended withering at the TOM-
ppesnee Hall. The latter wee preceded by • tea. At
the meetii.g inee g apeechrs were given, Mr..
Du,rient il•li•ering an ...rower ad Ire.. on the trio-
perance quistinn. A " cosset... Anne" was lid 1 n
Saturday, and the misei,m, which has been thronwholt
a highly successful one, cone'ilded on Sunday with
special alevines at the Tempe Hall.