The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-08-12
NATIONAL TEMPERANCE CAMP
MEETING.
Fourth Day-International I'D ay-A Large
Crowd Present-A Deep Interest Mani

| was the most pleasant of the week. The warm
wind of Thursday was tempered by the cool sea
breeze from the neighboring ocean, making
the day all that the most enthusiastic friend of
| the cause could DESIRE There were present up-
on the platform representatives from all parts
of the United States, Canada and Great Brit
ain-all the English speaking nations of the
earth. They came there to advance the cause
OF temperance, to reform mankind and to add
another link in the chain which binds the peo-
pie of all lands by chords of sympathy, mutual
benefit and love.
About one thousand persons gathered on the
grounds at 10 a. In. President Murphy called
the meeting to order and introduced Prof Eos
ter OF New brunswick, who presided during
the forenoon. Rev. Mr.. Cobb of Bddeford,
read passage from the scriptures and offered
prayer.
Prof. Foster then delivered the opening ad-
dress. No student of oratory will deny that
this nineteenth century of ours is the test day
of the Alglo-Saxon race. The result of some
of the great questions at issue will decide
whether or not the Anglo Saxon race shall
stand in the proud position it has ever held
among the nations of the world. A state is
known by its Deeds The State of Maine will
live forever on the pages of history purely from
her great work in the holy cause of Temperance
We are too selfish. All our present progress
is due to ages of the past; to them we owe our
wonderful prosperity and our marvellous
| achievements. Weloved the flags which fioated
over our boylsh heads, but they are only SYM
bols. Temperance is flag having wider
significance, broader meaning 1t is cause
which rises far above all other considerations,
Intemperance is a universal curse. Let us
join hands and pledge ourselves against this
enemy of mankind
Prof. Foster is man of small statue with a
sharp, bright Countenance. His manner Of
| speaking is earnest and energetic His adj
dress was listened to with marked attention.
Mr.. Little of Portland, replied in behalf of the
United States He made an excellent address
in his usual happy vein.
E. G. Freeze, ESQ.,, of New Brunswick, Sec
| rotary of the Canadian Temperance League,
was then introduced. He made very effective
| speech. AS Canadians we revere, he said, this
| great country. We are proud TO stand side by
| side with those who have done so much for
temperance. We are proud to call you broth
ers. We ara glad you threw the tea overheard.
You only shew your English blood when you
did it. He spoke about the great progress
temperance was making in Canada. In Can
ada we mean to fight this battle of temper
ance and prohibition to the bitter end. Our
temperance organizations are political, for we
mean to control legislation. Ontario is cursed
by the liquor traffic 1t holds England in its
Shiny grasp. Mr.. Freeze is terse and forci-
BILE speaker.
Mrs. Partington of Portland, closed the
meeting with fue address,,
At three o'clock in the afternoon an audience
of about five thousand persons assembled The
meeting was the most attentive and enthusi-
astic thus far held.
Mr.. Francis Murphy presided. Rev. Mr..
Hastings of Boston offered an eloquent prayer.
Rev. Thomas Gales of Montreal was the
first speaker. He thanked those present for
the cordial welcome extended to the visitors
from Canada. This movement never stood
upon better foundation than at the present
time. The man who has no interest in this,
the greatest reform movement of the world, is
recreant to his duty as a citizen. On all sides
there are evidences of progress in this
movement. The cause goes brayely on. In
England and Canada the ministry are taking a
great interest in this question. He declared
with an eloquent peroration.
Mr.. Gales is vehement speaker His re-
marks were frequently interrupted by applause.
"Toiling Ol' was then sung in an admirable
manner by Mrs. Clark of New York.
Miss Frances E. Willard of Chicago then
delivered the following address of welcome:
MISS WIZARDS ADDRESS.
Ii there is one special delight aud inspifat ion
beyond others in this blessed work of ours it is
to meet the temperance workers from other
lands. To-day we have the presence and the
knowledge of a Gale in Montreal. We welcome
to the platform one who has CALAMITY Fostered
our cause away down in New Brunswick; an
other a "host in herself,' who has been doing
Keonaan's service over in the country of Prince
Edward, while smiling gently on us is Mar.
garet Parker. President of the British Women's
Temperance Union, and behind her, though we
do not see them, are crowded the bonnets OF
Bonnie Dundee.
Why are we here? Alb, we are here fol
many reasons. Because after humanity had
struggled up, painfully and slowly, out of des.
potism, which is the slavery of the body; out
of ignorance, which is the slavery of the mind
out of superstition, which is the slavery of the
conscience, it found itself bound with new
and still more CALLING chain. The customary
social use of intoxicating drinks, and the
legalized traffic in them, formed the occasion,
| the method of slavery. altogether modern in
its most perniclous aspects, and more revolving
and perversive in its results than any other form
| of slavery known to civilization's annals 1t
| is declared to be more revolving because its
| chains bind not only the body and the soul
| because it works the ruin of its captives not
only for this life, but for that which is to come.
Uncle Tom under the lash of the brutal
| slave driver was yet calm and exalted in the
liberty wherewth Christ maketh free, but the
| drink demon binds mans brain so that he
| cannot even think his own thoughts, or speak
his own words, and lays such spell upon the
conscience that his cruelty is greatest to those
that love him best Moreover, unlike any
other form of bondage, this Drink Slavery has
| all chimes, all seasons, all classes for its own
enchanting the lofty intellect of a Burns, a
Sheridan, Webster, as readily and as securely
as the witless skull of a Fastaff or a Caliban
| We are here because in the shadow of West
minister Palace, of st. Giles church, of Trinity
College, of the Fortress at Quebec and the Cap
| itol at Washington, there are shops for the sale
| of drink which makes men slaves, with the Sun
the Thistle, the Shamrock and the Star Spang
| led Banner hung over them as emblems, shop:
| sheltered beneath the 9gis of our national ensign
and whose duly certified licenses are emblazon
| ed with the august seals that bear the lion and
the unicorn and the eagle of wide spread wing
We are here because into the treasure of youl
native land and mine flows a steady stream OF
personal gold, whose virus is striking with
deadly gaugreue the body polite. Who are
! glad that we are here? All, what a cloud oil
Witnesses we summon by that thought! These
noble pines recede and L seem to see them wav
Ing their "God bless you" to US from afar. The
throngs on throngs of men enslaved of oul
noble and generous speaking English race, the
sailors on thousand ships, men of brave ant
tender hearts who have sailed on every sea and
| who have been unbefriended on every shore
L know right we'll by what scores of them have
said to me they would be glad to know that we
are here. The sixty thousand drunkards in
this land, the ten thousand in Canada and tht
one hundred and forty thousand in Great Brit
ain who are appointed unto death this year.
l seem to catch their agonizing cry, go war;
| our brothers ere it be too Late In the crowded
tenement, the sGualid alley, the costly mansion
of our own cities, or far out upon the western
praires, in her emigrant cabin or among the
cities and forests OF Canada. or beside the
heath and hedges of Great Britain, the drunk
ards wife this day pours her piteous lamenta
ton into sthe ear of God, or in her stony grle
ceases to pray. If, by some blessed cairyoy
ance they might look in upon this scene to-day
would they not be unutterably glad and grateful
| that we hera Vet thOuOh THAR euas m q