, 1872-10-25

Meetings in the North and South
Divisions.
Temperance Addresses by Lead
ing Clergymeu.
a Determination Expressed to Have
the Sunday Law Enforced.
NORTH DIVISION.

htde, favorable to the rigid enforcement of the
law against the sale Of liquor on Sunday, was
held in the 1ecture-room Of Unity Church last
evening. About 300 ladies and gentlemen were
present.
Rev. Robert Co1yer called the meeting to or
der, and suggested that q Chairman would be
necessary. E. B. McCagg, Esq, WAS nominated
and elected. On taking the chair he invited
REV. MIR. PARKuURsT
to speak, and that gentleman complied. He said
it Was unnecessary to say much about the curse
Of intemperance, for he Judged that all present
knew of it already. AL regarded rum as acurse,
and the question vas, What shall be done
What can we do2 By the provisions Of the law
passed last winter, society is armed with club
with which to beat the rum-seller into
good behavior, and by which he can be
compelled to pay, SO far as money can do it, for
the damage resulting from the sale Of liquor,
It was recognized principle that no man must
injure the community for his own gain. This
was the demand of Justice, and the only thing
which claimed exemption from the rule Was
Intoxicating liquor. This Was the origin OF the
movement now going on in the city, and for the
purpose of protecting the community against
Che rapacity Of wl1iskey-sellers an organization
had been formed to assist poor women to re-
cover damages sustained by reaEon Of liquor
sold to thbr husbands. Out Of this movement
has grown the agitation of the question OF
nixed fact that the Drunkenness Of tho week
had it's beginning on Sunday. For 3 time it
seemed proper not to interfere with the Sun
day law, but they finally waited S1todaz,a on On
I'll s0 e n'yGs yw to non ask the the asors Eop
was published the speaker YVES ashamed that
such cowardly words could come from the chief
magistrate Of the city. But the Mayor slept
and dreamed over the matter, and his senses
came back to him, and he issued directions to
the police authorities to enforce the law, and it
was done last Sunday. On that day the speaker
walked through the principal streets Of the
North Division, and they wore the aspect Of q
quiet New England village. Next Sunday there
and it would require the earnest. vigorous sup
port Of the people to enforce the law. The
Aldermen of the North Side we're average rep
reBentatives OF the people who elected them, and
the trouble WAS that the clergymen did not go to
the caucuses and elections, and then they sco1d-
ed because tile grog-shop candidates we're victo-
rious It WAS shame and an outrage to
compel respectable citizens to go to q beer
saloon in order to register or vote. He had
been q Republican for years, and was Grant
man now, but be- would not vote for the disro-
putable demagogues nominated on TINT ticket in
the North Division. He would not permit the
Republican party to ael him out to the lager
beer clique, and il, tho local elections he should
to0Ve% AAAeAN*A
men. {App1ause.I If the Republicans put up
good men, who w,ore not pledged to the liquor
Interest, be would vote for them, but if they
persisted in putting forward lager beer candi-
dates, the people Of the various wards should
put new ticket in nomination. (Applause.] It
was Of no consequence to argue as between the
different kinds Of liquor. He was bitterly op-
posed to the whole traffic.
REV ROBERT coLLgEn
said he should not go into the question OF the
formation Of new party, but he should say 8
word about the maintenance Of the law. Him
self, and his German and Irish neighbors, came
here to better their condition, and had succeed
ed His experience with the Yankees, East and
West, had been better and better, and the more
he knew them tho better he liked them. His
first vote was cast for Fremont, and he had voted
with the Republican party ever since, though he
must own that there were many very bad men
maintaining Law that had been enacted, no
matter whether he liked it or not, and il there
came q conflict between the law-abding and the
law-hreaking citizens, he would shoulder d 1nus-
Eet, even il his own beloved son we're opposed to
him, and go and fight it out on that line: lap
plause.] He liked the Germans exceedingly
liked their fine points Of industry and fruBaity,
and be regarded them as temperance people,
even though they drank great deal OF beer He
hoped that they would in the future, as IN the
past, identify themselves with the native-born
Americans, and help to enforce the laws. 1t was
q serious thing to say that the law
could b1 oVerTlden. de T19neQ every WAl5He1
shop was down in hell chained up in the bot tom
loss pit for q thousand yedrs, and q new t;haln
ready for them at the expiration OF that time.
[Applause.l This he wiBhed, though ne sup
posed he did not hate q beer saloon go blt terly
as some people would like to have him; never
theless, he agreed with Mr. Parkhurst in dtsclar-
ing it to be an outrage that the citizen was
obliged to 20 to saloon to q caucus or an cleo
ton. II the Mayor, as good, honorable, and
capable man as any in the city, found thtst he
was backed by the moral and religious element
OF tho community, he would certainly enforce
the law. Mr. Collyer was on the side Of law,
and the maintenance of the law, and he H'ould
Join Mr. Parkhurst in raising company toifght
for it.
Mr.. MACAuLEY
introduced himself as q temperance Irisbman,
and made q speech in which he declared for the
enforcement of the Sunday law. He stated that
under the banner Of temperance there marched
more Irish Catholics than all the other milton
alities and creeds in Chicago combined.
REv. MR. PARKHURsT
| moved the appointment Of q Committae OF one
from each ward in the North Division, to co nsid-
er the question embraced in the call for this
! meeting, and report at future meeting, ,es to
| getting up ticket to be supported at the com
| Committee Was appointed as follows Sixteenth
| Ward, H. o. McDaid; Eighteenth Word, Robert
| Willmarth Nineteenth Ward, H. T. Thompson
| Twentieth Ward, J. H. Don1in.
| Tho meeting adjourned.
| SOUTH DIVISION.
! Another Of the series of temperance meetings
conducted under the auspices Of tie Committee