The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-13
John -. Cough.


John y. Cough.
HIS POSITION is REGARD TO THE TEMPER
ANCE CRUSADE As DEFINED ny HIMSELF.
The announcement that the great tenn.
perance orator, John 3. Cough, was about
to lecture in this city on Temperance, at
this time, when the war on alcohol is Just
beginning to assume shape in this city,
created considerable interest. Mr.. Coughs
name has been identified with temperance
almost as far back as tn, memory Of man
reacheth, and it is expected that he will
have some advice to offer to the female
crusaders, concerning their future opera
tons in this district. A Leader walked in
to the Monongahela House about half-past
ten this morning, for the purpose Of hav.
ing q little conversation with the distin-
gushed gentleman upon the subject of the
crusade. lie found Mr.. Cough seated in
the lower rotunda Of the hotel, quietly
reading the morning newspapers.
As soon as the writer made known hi,
business Mr.. Cough invited him into one Of
the patlOrs up stairs, where they could talk
together undisturbed. He expressed HIM
self as very much ION the fence" as re-
EtIuS TIC iItStul tlN1dtts liz uNu CIV tn
the subject considerable attention, had
rea what the newspapers had to say on the
subject, but as the matter stood at present
he was decidedly doubtful about it. lie
was unwilling to take any active part in the
affair. lie was not certain that the women
had taken the right way to go about the
work. lie would not like to see his wife
or his nieces going about among the saloons
praying and singing hymns. lie thought
the movement would
HELP THE wOMAN-suFTEAGE CAUsG
very much, And he had always had sort
of dislike to the woman suffrage business.
81 look at it in this way" he said IF
the women are allowed to vote, say in y VI
York city, Immediately all the prostitutes,
the ignorant Dutch. Irish and negro women
will flock to the polls, and very few refined,
educated ladies' will care about mixing
themselves up to the crowd and hearing
the language that would greet their cars at
the polls"
Returning to the subject of temperance,
he spoke of his not belonging to the ranks
of the prohibtionsts, strictly out speaking.
81 HAVE Been READ OFT
of the ranks. When | went to England
and told the English people that the Maine
law was not properly enforced in America,
instantly General Neal Dow and his party
attacked me, and | was read out Of the
ranks. All sorts of stories were circulated
about me. llandbills were printed and cir-
culated in places was to visit, and l had
a time of it combating these stories. / in
| sttu;cd prosecution in the C..urt of Guar
ter Sessions, and spent 10000 English
| money. IL cost me a GOOD deal
He spoke Of there being license laws and
prohibition laws in different States, but
they were no: enforced. When the Leg
slature made laws caring on th, subject.
it was the duty of the temperance men to
see that they were cnfOrced-to institute
prosecutions every time the Laws were Vi
olated. What was the use of the Legisla-
ture passing laws on this subject if those
laws were not enforced? lie gave quite a
history of the beginning of the temperance
moyementin 1910, when the Washingtonian
movement was started in Baltimore by six
reformed drunkards, who made it their du.
~ to go out and reform six others, and SO
the work spread through the country. Hun
dreds of thousands signed the pledge all
over the country. Only few of these
really reformed, the greater part of them
returning to their old habits. OF the or
iginal six, three of them took to drinking
again, and two of them died confirmed
drunkards. But great many souls were
saved by means of the revival, and so
great deal of good was accomplished. Tenn
perance societies were formed all over the
country. State conventions we're held, and
the work went bravely on, until the days
of prohibition came, when the temp rance
men thought their work was done, and laiC
| 1oxun thair ,rhn Ia,
worked all the more vigorously, and watch
ed for violations of the law, and then in
stituted prosecutions.
Temperance men went through the cOun.
try lecturing.
MAKING FALSE REPRESENTATION
of the state of things. One man stated in {
lecture that it was an impossibiity to pur
chase liquor in Portland, and gave instance,
of people searching for it unsucces sfully
All of which, Mr. Cough said, must be false
for when he lectured at Portland he iounC
an open bar at his hotel, and attached t.
his bill of fare was a long printed list o.
wines and liquors that could be had for the
asking. That was the way the temperance
men enforced the law in Maine. Coming
down to the present movement, he said tha
if combination of all the respectable ant
influential ladies of the county could be
formed it would have great influence Oh
public opinion, and great many Of the
grog shops ould be forced to close. The
work the women are engaged in is q g0oC
one, but that they have taken the righ
means to kill the traffic he is not certain
II the women expect him to strongly in
dorse the movement on Tuesday night they
will be disappointed.
DO LEWIS.
Mr.. Cough said he had never met Die
Lewis but once, and he considered him a
"sensationalst" out and out, and he thought
it was his love of Reconsideration that actuat-
ed him in starting the present movement
The idea of band of ladies going through
the streets singing hymns and praying was
repugnant to him. lie did not like ii But
he acknowledged that it might seem differ.
ent to him if he should once see them ai the
business 1t was the duty OF policemen tC
clear away crowd of men obstru ting the
pavement, and he thought the women came
under the same restrictions.
There was a law in Pennsylvania legaliz-
ing the sale of liquor, he knew. But, he
said, supposing law was to he passed max
ing it criminal for him TO read his Bible, he
would then consider it his duty to violate
the law, at the same time rend ring himself
liable to pay the penalty. These women
must be ready to pay the penalty If they vio-
late the laws, even if they are dong it IN a
righteous cause. lie intends expandin :
upon the subject at considerable length to-
morrow night.
He left town at noon to-day to lecture AT
Johnstown, returning tomorrow. Wednes-
day night he lectures at Canonsburg, and,
returning here, he delivers his last lecture
| nm Thursday niOhf This waak IL tho In 81