New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-27
A TEMPERANCE REUNION.
WELCOME TO A BRITISH TEMPERANCE
ADVOCATE.

ADVOCATE.
RECEPTION OF JAMES H. RAPER AT THE RESIDENCE
OF WILLIAM y. DODGE-REMARKs OF DIR. HOP
KISs OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE, DIR. MCOsII, Mr..
RAPER AND OTuEIs-rSTEMPERANCE IN THE
COLLEGE-PRoGREss OF THE PRoHIBIroRf MOVE
MENT IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
On Thursday evening last tho parlOrs OF
William f. Dodge's house, No. 225 madisonaye'' were
filled by large gathering Of cergymen and prominent
citizens at tho invitation OF Mr Dodge 10 discuss the
temperance question well as to hear 1t discussed oy
James H. Raper. who has recently arrived from England
About o'clock Dir. Dodge stepped 10 inc
center Of the room, welcomed hls guests ana
then spoke OF the work and growth OF
the Society He said Society had now attained po-
sitIon where entitled to the confidence OF the
friends OF the country Of religion. and OF morality He
believed that the time not far OF when the anor-
Ties OF the country would be So impressed WIN te ~
ger attending the sale OF intoxicating drinks that they
would no longer license the same. lie than sad 'ht 'c
National Temperance Society publication house ~
well As temperance society In order that the com
pany might see hs fact for themselves, Mr. Dodge had
brought FROM the rooms OF the Society single '"'-
ume of each book issued by them
Mr. Dodge then introduced President Hopkins OF VIII
Iiams College, who spoke substantially as follows;
desired to open this conversation oy some TO .,
marks on the relation Of the social drinking customs 10
The educational interests OF the nation rms SUPPOSE
/ am asked TO do from ny long connection WIN elnra
tion n 80 this Autumn since nst went 10
Williams College instructor, and with the exception
OF years, have been there ever since 80 years ~
PRECEDENT For several the oldest President
in Office ~ the country may be SUPPOSED. iherIore'
to know something about education bat about the drlnk
ing customs Of society know very little ana 10 eal
dounc subject OF this sort wei would seem necessary
20 know both parts OF it. Bnt hnye no statistics
ance | have known, but how FAR they have
originated In social drinEns Guss oxnept il, Vii
Jamestown, and in the college, on the SUBJECT OF tte
ance. 1t was, think, early as 1857 OF lSo1. lhoe
fvQ tipls I'm
matter course and three or four st0rs mat icacd
three or tour hogshcads each annually No seemed to
suppose the rdic wrong. But Que sabbath Dr. Hewitt,
then of Bridgeport preached TWO TREMENDOUS sctinJS
the subject; and now note the effect OF trdnSl con
science when Is enlightened. The next DAY Dolh hotels
and every stOre in town stopped lng nave never
known such effect produced by any discourse or any
two scoses before since The effect Of those as
courses felt IN the town to TINS Day puD,c Sontl
ment was created that has never dled OUT for
a long time the traffic wholly suppressed,
and has been resumed in the stores since.
Dr. Griffin, then President of the c0iese, gra Ia;
six inches in hight and well pr0poru0ned iona
good dinner, ana accustomed To pave VIM WIN II,
gave up his VINE at once society was Lo.o ~ CIV
College, and What could he done by m0ial sndsloi WaS
done Alter that, attention was dfawn 70 te e.i "i
drinking IN the College Us II hal NOT Deeh oeo,o an
since that time IL has not ceased 10 he "a'cheu anu
guarded against Al one time the trustees paseo liM
recurring every student entering the college To pcse
himself not 10 use intoxicating drink during Term ,ic
and College ground THIS law vas 10 torce i2r nun,
Der OF years, but IL was found tat Tue eolsocos "a
Students many of them at least we're very elastic ia re-
the attempt 10 isolate thc CODcSe Dy PicunS IL uot
different social law from that Of the g. hera community
was abandoned 80.
one main thing in training the set the drift and gen
cra spirit the family ana of the social elements around
them Let young man rightly trained go 10 literary
institution ana lie Nll DC ah;St sut W W H.
mOtcr disorder nor % to fall into incorporate laDita
In all my experience have never known an instance
when was sure The training had been right, III which
young has thus fallen III MI young men gong INTO
our literary Institutions To he thus trained inc IN
situations could not fa of beng what they should De.
suppose, the other hand, that the majority OF the
Young men 20 from families, reputable indeed, Dut
worldly fashionable selfish selI-hdilgcht accstolcu
the Use OF wine anu other to;ms OF nervous sdmut
pt ne of
tiity, and the exclusion Of II ana oI urHhhs customs
generally with fanacism ana nMiOWn.sS anu IL - ~
ds-rdceful disorder among the young meh' au,
that numbers will form habits of drinking that
Will carry item down To drunkaris graves Instructors
may preach and exhort aud set up what barrier try
ue, the Young men are fortified against any thing they
can do by iai picty itsef 10 say nothing OF indpen
appetite and lie begun work OF the decelFeI' HOu
never meant that families should sink down INTO dste-
able up system OF outside institutions th2t should
make their cnldTcn what they ought 70 be- Parents are
willing pay money, but the gilt Of GVd IN thc results OF
parental fahfulncss cannot be purchased IL Is pre-
TRY win pear upon its educational Interests They vii
insure greater less extent the iso OF Intoxicating
drinks IN our Literary institutions. NhateNei may Dc
said Of such use ese%hgIe ana ~ 9'er IN m
dress Two years ana more ago. Deoic IUo Ni'oIi icn
perance Convention at Saratoga, which J. gave, rs
row do this, at the request OF the President OF
the National Temperance Society stated and Illustrated
the following points IN regard 10 the young gcnelaiy
That neither alcoholic drinks nor narcotics OF duy kn1
needed at that period OF me- ehei io Tue yui7 u
the s. or Tor enjoyment Init during thls poflOa
rom their effect upon the ply sicli system III lis lorna
live period Dangerous, first flom the deceptive ca!ac-
ter of these stmuants. especially Tor me HAplehced;
and second because IL Is the period OF the ready tOrm
lion vi habits and OF habits that are also ARTIFICIAL aPpe-
ttes. It Is to the power OF habit That the fearful
dominion OF these substances over men Is generally
obtained IL is not wholly. even chiefly that Il L. irons
that in connection with craving arufcalY produs ct,
that really OF the nature Of disease, and whcn often
becomes disease - to require medical treatment ana
need ar,ifcia sulan,s are in the moss danger nun
tnen. Nervous persons gifted persons those Of poecai
others become the victims of Artificial stimulation.
much Tor the young generally In regard to those
toned peculiar: The life i, sdnay, ana not III the
open air; hence less power 70 resist Or couneiaC The
influence narcotics and artificial stndanis. In his
pi"pei @ 80 h',iy ~ ~ d.vy fr,r, Them hlnni and
nervous energy. Hence the need of avoiding everything
will impair tine digestive functions or lower the
OF muscular power. narcotics ana atimaus are
,nOvu 10 do Lie in educational institutions is
social IN such that there Is Sptcla danger tlOugh
The social mature That drinking habits will be formed
the effect o these substances is wholly autagonistc 10
that control OF the voluntary over the nNountay pow
rs o the mind which is one great object OF education
to.iye. II these propositions can be maintained, and
the Whole influence upon the educational interests OF the
customs of society is evil In closing desire to say
ua agree with DR.. Edmunds OF London IN saying that
doctrine always held. In the address at Saratoga,
already referred TO- went 50 Tar as TO say that II stmu
latOn by alcohol. or tobacco, or OPIUM or arsenic,
would enable to reach the highest state
moral spiritual, then we are not only az
liberty those substances but bound to do It, THIS
say But 90 further and say that whatever Is physiO
logically wrong is morally wrong. We have no right to
do ourselves harm. No man has right To make his
body instrument of pleasure i'll such way as to lower
its tone derange its functions, or In any way unit 1t
for those higher which 1t may DE put in the
vice it5 rational spirit Let men Use their bodies
best to serve interests Of their higher powers and
am content.
james II. Raper of the Executive Committee OF the
Untod Kingdom Alliance then introduced. and spoke
substantially rs below
Mr. President and Ladies' and Gentlemen /
by no means quite comfortable here DIR. Hopkins ia.
| am not by any entitled to your attention to
the extent he is and has already received 1t Is the
simple TRUTH however, that you have heard from tho