The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-02

outrage our friends or destroy our dear ones; that
they will cease forever the ruination Of fathers
and the degradation Of our sons.
ALAS AM NOT A LEGISLATOR.
"Our appeal is SAID to be through legi station, but
what prominence In the Legislature have any
other OF my sexf Nay, our guardian is Heaven
and our instrument Is prayer. We shall hold
meetings Of prayer in every churcb-nay, In every
house-On each day and at every hour. We trust
in the virtue OF our e1ort, and its purity before
just and equitable God. 1t is prayer alone
that has wrought the purest and most
delicate elements OF our civilization. ana
IL is prayer and religion together that can pro-
mote our national progress until it becomes the
perfect example and model OF the world. This is
the aim Of the women OF to-day. We come forward
at this hour for the humane purpose OF saving our
children and OF rescuing from destruction those
whom we dearly love. we nave no less significant
some who call this movement sensational. II 80,
am sensatlOnalist. There are others who do not
60 quite so far, but say that the onset is enthus
astic. II 80, am All enthusiast l am heart and
mind in the enterprise, and / stand pledged both
Mrs. Frenchs address was BRIEF concise, just
and reasonable. Alter she had concluded the au-
dienca sung the hymn BEGINNING thus
AL hair the power Of jesus name.
R1 Int a SaEsh PR ro suysf d ts
And crown Him Lord Of all.
The great temperance leader, Father Heritage,
was then IN trOduced and addressed the audience,
v. IT.
eloquent remarks. Then the chairman OF the
meeting. Mr.; W. B. Drew. Of Washington, stepned
forward and made really remarkaoe address
startling and reliable statistics.
THE GINMILLs AND THE CHURCHES.
LET us, " he said ''OOk at the religious progress
OF the great Quaker City. throughout its length
and breadth there are only 500 churches devoted
tendance upon each OF 200 souls, the total is rem
dered of 100 600 worshippers Now, look at the
ginmlls. There are 5000 OF them. There Is one
no
Der of persons who gulp down intoxicating bever-
ages each week amounts 10 900, O0O At these grog.
shops $4,000 is spent daily, $3.50 900 week and
$4,000, 600 year; while by twelve O'Clock to night
there will nave been more men IN your saloons
tnan there VIII have been in your churches
ATTACHMENT OF THE RUAsELLERs.
"Who are your rumsellers and what signifies the
snne ~ 1Se omse w na ey ye nnon no.
other by money legitlmately earned. There is not
carpet within which sink the dainty feet Of those
who tread them, not diamond nashing upon the
bosom of their daughters, purchased by means
which they you'd dare 70 explain. There is not a
State which is not rendered less than that amount
to MIN because o. the existence Of GIN mills These
statements are facts; no one can deny them"
GREAT ENTH USIAsA
rdpE9d t6e a nss4Vas during se his al
rous demonstrations. The other speeches simply
reiterated the statements made above, and were
Alter the announcement Of two other meetings.
during the coming week and the pronouncement
of benedlction, the crowd at late hour in the al
tern0oD, dispersed, and will assemble In the same
place again this evening.
ANOTHER BIG DEMoNsTRA ALTON.
While this immense mass meeting was held in
Woods Museum, another Of the same kind was
going on IN distant quarter of the town, at the
northeastern sl corner Of Ninth and Spring Garden
streets. This meeting was prOpOrtonately as
large as the other one, and the same interest was
manifested throughout Mr.. snyder. who occu-
pied the chair, made a brief but spirited address,
in which he said that where the crusade move
ment had been tried it had been attended with
success, and that 1t was strange action made ny
the rumsellers to seek the law OF prohibition rom
prayer.
RosTRUM CHIvALRY.
II would Just nke,o he said, ITO see the police
lay their hands upon any woman engaged in pray
ing. The police dare not interfere with work
like this. All the locomotives OF the United States
combined do not possess the power OF one wOm-
an. GIVE them their way and almshouses will be
This speaker was followed by another, who said
that If the women went right on with energy they
would scare all the gin gnzzlers 10 Town.
women in their crusade; that the police would be
ashamed to interfere, and that the crusaders were
sure Of success. Colonel Alfred II. Love said the
sight Of so many persons assembled for such q
cause was glorious, and that in the liquor trafic
the sunday law. He said that the undevelOpe1
possibilities OF the womens movement wonld
surely disclose themselves as wonders.
WOMEN ARE SUPERIOR TO LAW.
Once let the field be open to them, taverns
and grog shops must perforce succumb" He said
that gin mast ever be overthrow by prayer
Mrs. Ellis said the women would go on with
their crusade until the little temperance star in
the West reached the meridian. she said in a city
OF brotnerly love women would be safe from insult,
and the authorities could not arrest those who
were simply serving their God When woman
will she WILL and when she won't she won't. She
said that Ii in the crusade the women were making
the blood Of one of them should be spilled, 1t would
be far more disastrous to the enemy than the fra
ternal blood shed by Cain, and would deluge the
whole country. We have not only God and the
angels with u.s. she concluded, but also the CO.
operation Of many noble men.
Before the meeting concluded the hall was
cramned to su1OcatiOn IN every part, and hun
dreds joined In the singing.
The crusade will pc pursued during the coming
week. No little excitement fills the city.
STRENGTH OF THE LOCAL MOVEMENT.
The crusade has now been virtually inaugu-
rated. While some may doubt its future sue
cumstance Of its successful commencement. Last
week. had such popular OutpOuring as that which
occurred to-day been predicted, its prOgnOsticator
would by the public have been regarded as q
lunatic; but now the crusade is Internationally
present in the Quaker City-and through the re-
suits of the day the waylarfng man, even though
iool. can plainly and distinctly read. Last week
several saloons were approached hymns being
sung and pray ers being read before the doors.
More saloons must suffer the unremitting and in
made point when she said that the police dared
not arrest those who prayed, but they were at lib
erty to arragn, and she hoped they would do so,
the wicked ana rlOt0uS crowd which followed them.
She made another point when she said that their
efforts would disturb the public peace not half SO
much, nor block up the sidewalk to half the ex-
tent, as the crowd assembled to secure Mayor
StOkey's election, at which time she asserted the
sidewalks were so blOckaded by men that the
women were forced to walk IN the mud. There
the part OF the women, though your correspond
ent does not venture to predict what success will