National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-02-15
ATTACK ON KING ALCOHOL.


teresting anniversaries have been held, annual
requests sent forth to ministers for temperance
discourses on or near Washlugton's birthday
and to the ladies OF the country against including
intoxicating drinks in their Christmas and New
Years Inequalities.
which WeIghty words have been uttered BY two
Vice Presidents Of the United States and others,
some Of which made ad BY the PRESS are
Hon. W. B. Lawrence, OF Ohio, was then intro
dueed, and said among the great national evils Is
the moderate use Of intoxicating liquors. II is an
evil in every aspect, and We are practical peo-
PIE and look upon 1t from practical standpoint.
In the United States We manufacture s,00o,0 900
to every ave Of our popHlation-sold out at t2Oo,-
oOo0 We manufacture 10000, 900 gallons OF
whisky. which Is nearly all consumed by Us at
of the oficial returns OF the internal revenue
bureau. We import foreign nqnors TO the amount
Of ESad wRISa ss' L ES 81 81:
making an aggregate Of sooO, 100000 consumption
Of ardent spiTits-a sum greater than that re-
the states~a sum large enough to build
all the churches and schoOl-houses in the United
States and to educate all the children in the
country, and in four years to pay the national
debt. a sum sufficient to carry the word of God
to every creature. We complain of the burden Of
but we are silent upon the Indirect social taxa
tion. After referring to DIR. Chickering'S morn
ing DISCOURSE he spoke Of our ails penltentiarles
Of the labor and life Of the country and all this is
but 1.-THE of the evils Speaking Of the remedy
he recommended the Ohio liquor law as the best
upon the subject and should be the law in every
State, and also recommended moral suasion and
total abstinence. He opposed the election Of
Incorporate men to office.
Hon. Robert B. BIanch, Of South Carolina, was
not present to NIL his engagement and Rev. DIR.
Able, Of Tennessee, spoke in his stead, giving
some interesting "reminiscences OF his own expe-
rienee in the temperance movement in the Sunny
South. 1t was carried on secretly for year in
the city of hatcher, Miss, by some young men,
anA flv mfr a nF1hl and
ful organization. The first temperance speech
north, west and south of the Ohio river was there
he said he believed that the political future Of
the country and the health and morals OF the peo-
pie was in the hands Of temperance men. The
cause Of temperance is the great cause Of the ma
tion.
In the course of the evening DR.. OhIckering
introduced the following resolutions, copied from
the proceedings Of the society in Olden times:
February rs, 1884, Benjamin F. Butler, Attor-
ney General OF the United States, submitted the
following resolution, which he sustained by sp-
pr0priate remarks delivered with his usual
Resolved, That temperance associations formed
on the plan Of entire abstinence from the drink
ing and furnishing Of ardent spirits in view Of the
evils they are designed to suppress and prevent,
the means by which they propose to effect this
end, the good already accomplished, and the
benefcent results which may be expected from
their future trtumphs deserve to be ranked
among the most useful and glorious institutions
of the age, and are eminently entitled to tho
active support Of every patriot and phllanthrO-
pist.
February, 1884, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Sem
atOr from New Jersey, offered the next resolu-
tiOn, which he sustained by appropriate and elo-
Quent remarks:
Resolved, That the influence of woman is essen
tial to the triumph of every great and good
cause; and should that influence which God has
graciously given her be universally and perse-
yeringly exerted in favor of the temperance re-
formation its triumph would be certain and COM
plete, and its blessings, while richly enjoyed by
herself and those whom she loves, would be eX-
tended to all people and perpetuated TO all ages
The resolution was emphatically and unani-
mously adopted.
February, 1872, on motion of Hon. Thomas Mar
shall of Kentucky,
ResoIUcd, That the custom at public entertain
ments or fashionable dining parties among gen.
tlemen and ladies of pledging each other and
drinking healths in wine is a serious obstacle to
the Advancement Of the temperance cause among
those classes where 1t prevails and has no fOunds-
ton in the natural principles Of good TASTE true
hospitality or refined manners.
The Doctor then humorousIy demanded the
previous question" upon which Senator Wright
"called the previous question upon their passage"
After taking the ayes ana ignoring nays as Is the
custom In the Senate, he declared them unani-
mOusly adopted.
The meeting closed by singing the Doxology,
and benedictiOn by Rev. DR.. Able.