New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-12

themselves IN "a IN
Dealers Association, with winch we pave We know
this city and country. is one OF terrhc DIV oo or
II well AS We LOOK around G uo Sestnr drak aad
well assured by the police that there are ra
Enow vrTv we'll that to contend against such body as
this aud not only those. but tneten }beiT customers
and combine with them, Is 10 fight agans, soent ouu
yet we can see every year nubsnS terauTe Of hch
characer we have secured the pens of some OF the pest
nm IN his counry and the reprint Of some of the
their works broadcast over tho pand, anu
believe that every year We arc s saEe
gained during the last year more than any other Fear
ne our 81 & is Something Which is marvtous
that these mothers loo6ng after their sons these wives
looking after their husbands these sisters looking after
their brothers, have received baptism from on high
and have gone forth banded together to do everything
in their power to stop the progress OF this terrific evil
tAppausc In the Legislatures OF vaIlens states LOT
several years they hsye been atatug this question OF
entire prohibition. In Ono they have law
which has 10 some extent been embodied III
responsible for the damage resulting from it, and any
judgment obtained against him, IS good agalhst INC
binding which il Is sold and the owner who rents H.
The resolutions adopted at the business meeting were
then read and well received The Rev. Dr. T. L. Cu!Ier
Of Brooklyn spoko substantially as follows;
DIR. CUYLER's ADDRESS
We don't expec. such meetings In New-fork as we
have in Brooklyn. have about made up my mihd 'haI
when the millennium comes the last city to feelt VIII
York is palace and great deal OF the rest is tenement
house. and the religion of the Gospel has never found
ITS power ia either. We have not much OF ether ID
anSe hs %o1 go 6eTe This is the best year
tanly, that have had. II We take the last three or
four months Looking back 1885, see our National
gathering at Saratoga, the irst nationalzed ten,
perance movement. It was the only logical
ness beng the great curse, the logical basis must
be, Let all intoNcants alone. can you make make
Danish intOxcants from the home the social board the
table rhe cornwall ga'Ger9s' n' cr tbe rreat
movement for the reformation of inebrates by peadg
1e ON me 81 Sons of Tn6OTanee ana the Good
Tempars We have never taken the back track onthaf,
clutch OF habit. Sat we have saved thousands.
Observation-Disclosures marched in, 9nt the
Maine, prOnOIRcng the tipplnghOnse publc NUS,
winch oat OF me pnuepe that the puo goon
people We claim the right OF the people IN every COM
munity suppress by legislation the great nursery OF
crime pauperism, deSecratIOu, immortality, anu d9-
sruction all that sapping the Likelihood OF the nation
its brain-powCI. and its wOrkngpOwer. We have never
taken the back track from that and never will IL IS
because the liquor trade has not only drained pocAeis
pes total abstinence. the reformation OF man through
personal persuasion and the right 70 suppress tipping
fouSes Ne feel that during the last four months all
these three principles have had larger trial and re-
Here we see our honored President william f. Dodge,
God bless him; a name FURNISHED by public discussion
through land; and when Last year we IIh was
thrown against hm it would not stick LGrcatappause
We have gained pTodigons aTakenklng o. inc quo
excepting our metropolitan press and ! have
papers have found TIER columns senSfG@ly open open
been shut than in the past FIVE perhars Ten year
ace. And yet must not talk too cCmpacenty about
the matter in regard to efforts, for after all am
inclined to think that the great movement came from
woman's most legitimate and effective way by that
power Goa gave Ier e e T o n Woman came
out from her rising from her knees and went ont
plead with men, not TO offer ntOxcans 10 husbands,
TO brothers, and sops That aroused the nation ana
tho shot hret 10y Quaker Gunncrs III ONO was
welcome 70 oar ranks all who hate drink ami the
Of The We @h an 70 sana %b1 b as S
not be any dlscord, pickering or alienation III the ranks
Of this great cause. We claim that no man can work
efficiently with us that ia not willing 10 put liquor out OF
his own house and hand We have before us an ideal
and striving towards It, The man who was carried
on the SS i SSt OF Ss WAS
Gi . the ns,d0 0S wcud R not be- %6a, tonight h
but for me 1 I a Pr 4 FeS. bore e
prize OF their high calling The temperance cause
ment we compromise, the cause is gone, and we are
gone with it, Paul was 92 lieast IN his day in the
had compromised at all, where would he the Gospel Of
Jesus CGristl Let Us strive toward our ideal There
no time 70 retreat.
The next address, which was given by the Rev. Dr.
Henry N, scqdder Of Brooklyn, was in the nam as
follows -
The prevalence OF intemperance can be mace very
valuable by few facts The bill that intemperance
presents every year the American people and which
Maid down in hard cash. is more than 81 900 600
Two such rcceipted bills would abolish national debt
and leave us surplus From careful statistics II is cal
culafel that half million OF men arc engaged IN lhe
liquor traffic IN the United states ln"' H. 'e snuls
ther demonstrated by the number OF 10000 drunkards
800 rms H. yofui arithmetic Now If il is 20
prevalent and II is evil how ev IL mast ! iuenphf
ance creates in man not common appetite, u is PCIe
like raging storm, madness tat burns the bralh IL
diseases the body, IL consumes the NSr IL uesNs the
tissues II brecds crime, ms our prisons peniten-
bery aud nurses the conception OF murder IL i me
~ The seduGcr and The Weakuess OF the teduced. IL
The borders Of virtue. sTong drink Is stronger than
the devil himself what shall we Go to itl Applause
shall we saw that the thing is tremendous that
cannot do anything r. III III lntemldIanSe threatens
our country as the ocean threatened Holland, let US
act az the Hoanders did There are two things we can
do. The FIRST is 10 taze the evil IN If beginnings We
should make it our ann sp,claHy 10 eau
cate our young men and young women to
the traffic by legal efforts Look at the saloons IN ms
city. They promote drunkenness IN every way: lLey
deDs OF iniquly They are me fountains OF dehle
ment disease, ana dannaon. Lev Us WHO arc ctLess'
who have the night 10 make our own laws, unite TO dc
mand that there shall be no more Licensing OF tipping
mo more license, but suppression" IApplausel But
the question Is dHhtus Il IIOulut4oh
RObrt Pitman OF Massachusetts, says, Every license
rests upon the logical basis of auecedent general proh
hton derives its only pecunlary value theTefrOm
III Will appear from that the people competent
to enact proihtory law. II 1t Is complained that 1t Is
unjust 70 the seller. 1t is unjust 10 the who
buys the duty OF good citizens 10 tate, and ag
tate until they get prOhihOry law In the city Of New
York, aud in all the states of the Union.
The Rev. ]. Il. Dunn OF Boston, who made the con-
Guiding address SAID that before the tenn
perance forces much unit. 1t has come about he
said by the mighty uprising Of the women an uprising
that las never had parallel in the history OF