The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-04-02
TIE TEMpKRANCE'rCRUsADE.
Me citing M washinstoa Hall Last
NIGHT.

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Me citing NJ Washinstoa Hall LaSt
Night.
The audience at Washington Hall
last night wac considerably larger than
on the previous evening. the announce
ment that the Rev. W. N Grimes
would address the meeting no doubt
serving 10 attract many. At asy rate,
whatever motive drew the people out.
80 many of them came that but few. il
any, more could possibly have obtained
seats.
The meeting was opened by singing
followed by prayer BY Rev. j. B.
Hughes.
Mrs. Hsgsns came forward and in
troduced Rev. W. NJ: Grimes, who
spoke for thirty-five or forty minutes.
He said that be esteemed it privilege
to address the large audience, which
had been brought together rot by the
expectation of hearing the speaker. but
by cause wider, deeper and more glo-
rious in it's Characteristic cause of the
Women's League. He did not consider
it necessary to ask if intempersnce
was wrong; for ages it has been consid.
cred an evil o! the greatest magnitude.
What, then. is the best way to close sa-
looms? 10 his opinion it Is just such q
movement as the enc now in operation,
one in which Christianity through
Christian women was working. He
proceeded 10 give some statistics bear
ing on the question. In the United
States, he said, there are 100000
licensed establishments from which
flows continually a death'dealiDg cur
rent. Now, allowing 40 per cent TO be
habitual frequenters OF each saloon, an
estimate under rather than above the
actual number, it amounts to ), 100000
persons; an army many times greater
than Napoleon Bonaparte's. Alexander
the Greats, or any other OF ancient or
modern times. 10 tie face OF all
this shall the women ard the
church keep quiet, while the govern
ment licenses 100000 gates to He'll ? 1t
is sometimes said the church costs
too much. The church costa $2,000,-
900 per year, large amount, but then
it coats s90O00,000 TO support Judges
lawyers and courts; a lax principally
paid by widows, and Tor what purpose !?
To keep these Internal shops Of evil
running. Tie amount expended for
liquor each year is 81 AIS. 100000 ex-
pended in "a way worse than If the
notes had been pitched into bonfire
aud burned. The amount expended by
all the Evangelical branches for for.
eigu missions each year is 100000.
Many say ,hi: iS ex!rayagant, but the
whole amount expended for
missions would not pay the
drams for three days. 1ntempsrance
annually makes 100000 paupers
the cost Of whose maintenance is $lO,-
100000 yearly. One-half OF the crimes,
two-thirds Of the poor, and one-halt
the suicides are directly or indirectly
attributable to intemperance. Intem.
persnce annually brings $4,000 drunk.
ards to the grave and makes / 100000
orphans
Mr.. Grimes gave the origin OF the
present movement: Three ladies in
Ohio, driven to desperation by the
action. OF their drunken husbands, de-
termined 10 see the saloon keeper aad
beseach him TO sell no more TO their
husbands. When they reached the
saloon, the door was closed in their
faces, and they kueeled on the sill and
prayed to God to touch the hearts OF
the saloonists, and aid them to give up
the business. The fame Of the trans-
action spread and gradually fred the
hearts Of the women until the woman g
movement wa! inaugursted
But, If we were 10 give
synopsis OF the entire speech,
we would be far from doing justice to
the eloquent speaker, who from the
time he co,nme..ced until he closed,
held the sudieace in close attention.
The audience at the conclusion Of
Mr.. Grimes remarks sang hymn,
after which Rev. Mr.. Maloy, OF Ohio,
was introduced by Mrs. Hsgsns.
Without Wishing to detract one whit
from the merits OF the many other e1-
celleut speakers who have addressed
these temperance meetings, and espe-
cially tbe one who preceded him last
night, yet we are compelled to admit
that in the finer elements OF oratory,
Mr.. Maloy surpasses all whom We have
recently heard. His very appearance
when he stepped forward was such as
to attract and hold the attention
OF the audience, but after be had
spoke Tor a few minutes a synpsthet.
ic thrill touched every heart. HIS
language was we'll chosen and his re-
marks sensible and to the point, but as
the reporters pencil cannot catch and