The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-16
THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

GALA DAY AT COOPER 1Nsr1rurE-REcEp-
TIoN AND ADDRESS OF TIE VETERAN CRU
sADER "MoTHER STEWART"
That was pleasant sight at the meeting Of tho
American Temperance Union yesterday afternoon In
Cooper Institute when President Gibbs presented the
venerable and we'll known temperance crusader,
Mother Stewart, Of Ohio The whole largo audience
rose en- mase the choir and multitude singing, with
powerful effect, "Hold tho Fort" The worthy old
lady looks much stronger in bodily health and strength
than she did years ago. when the women's tenn
pcrance movement IN Ohio and the West, led BY her
SELF overwhelming tho liquor deniers, closing the
doors OF beer shops and Knocking in the heads OF bar
rolls OF vile compounds IN tue shape Of rum aud whis-
key Alter the introduction the old lady quietly took
and aed the proper time for her to take her
place the progr anime oil tho proceedings. The choir
sang with reference TO her presence, sour Guardian
Angel Near"
President Gibbs said he was gratlned to see SO many
present welcome Mother Stewart In the course OF
his remarks he stated that he had received from lady
list live namos OF keepers and bartenders
who had signed the pledge (Applause.) He urged
that, now tho temperance people had entered the
enemy's intrenchmen,s, the work should be pressed
onward, and no hoped that genuine temperance
revival would DO inaugurated IN Cooper Institute
under tho auspices OF that leader of tho noble
band, Mother Stewart (Applause.l
Mr.. Z. u. Leigh, OF Brooklyn, called upon temper
ancc people to vote for the right mentor mon who
instead 81 gong to Albany 10 vote down the liquor
business, went there to vote II up.
Mrs. Pollock sang ''Sweet BY aud BY" ana In re-
spouse to cal Tor repetition gave storm Inc rorm
tho UNION, Mrs. Conklu.
Ex-presdenl Logan said he proposed to organize
certificate membership oil tho union, each member
paying 81 per year. But this not 10 be understood
interfering with any who wished simply 10 sign
the pledge ot total abstinence.
CHAMPION CRUSADER THE STAND.
After being Introduced in some highly euogistic
Stewart took the stand and after pleasant reference
to her reception, SAID "A great and mighty EVIL Is
sweeping thousands and thousands 70 drunkards
own land 10000 arc annually brought 10 premature
graves; Great Britain TO- 900 morc-l40. 600 mortal
souls gone anu my God has said there Is no place In
the gdom OF heaven Tor the drunkard This great
aud mighty evil Is sappng the foundation OF our ins
to send the Gospel abroad
Shc asked If thoy had ever thought when they went
General Jackson brcastworks at New orleansco.ton
enabled MIN TO obtain great victory. The liquor
men nave oreastworks OF eoa rom behind wa,cn tney
city she had been told aud that, too by the rNsidcnt
of republican association IN one OF the two cities
mat election ever carried IN either city by
either party except by the power OF liquor.
VISITS TIE TOMBs.
She had with difficulty, found place OF wOr-
ship open IN this city on SUNDAY. The ministers were
oil on vacations But sho went to the rombs this
morning she that the enemy Of mems souls
had not gone on vacation. she described some
sad scenes she had witnessed on her
visit all caused by Iiquor--one where lad only four
Teen years Old und the only support Of mother was
brought IN for drunkenness He had becn enticed
away by bad companions and made drunk. She was
GLAD 10 say that the humane justice acquitted him.
(Appause Among the arrests for drunkenness
brought up In the rombs this morning tncre were
forty-eght males ana twenty females. She learned
from friend that in tue Essex Market Police Court
thcro were over nifty cases OF drunkenness, mostly
In Jefferson Market Court there were sixty
two cases, ninety per cent OF which were tor drunk
epness "ihese IN only throe of your city courts"
she said. "Does anybody cure? Is there not some
Douy's darling in this wrctched throngY"
she subsequently, described other touching scenes
sho had Witnessed In the rombs that morning. and
asked, "Sisers, would you anu | make laws that
allow those things IL We mad the powerY Would
woman sign laws consgning husbands aud sons and
all her relatives 10 the cell OF the criminal ana 10 tho
grave oil the urunkardY''
Sho said that drunkenness among women In Great
Britain ieariully ON the increase. Women have
the Same appel'tes men, she said and II liquor
bi ought to their homes they lkoly TO become
drunkards US the men She had at FIRST thought that
the evil confined TO the lower classes But OF
the aristocracy had told her that there
acng his class than In the lower orders
She described visits she made various places where
criminals were brought IN, only to see drunkards
mostly women--oid women, young women, little
grls all wretchcdness and squaor-al brought IN and
punished for doing just what tho law allowed them to
do. Some scenes which she described were almost
lncrcdibe-o ono where woman threatened to dash
her baby's brains unless liquor given her.
She also portrayed scenes IN certain hal-a good
Samaritan placewhere 200 poor, starving wretches
received their breakfast the only food they were 10
have Tor the day On OCCASION sue had ask tho
mass ii they would not like 10 sign the pledge.
forest OF hands were uprased, but II was Sunday
they were not allowed to sign It, She asked II they
would not Ike to 80 10 hcavcn Another forest Of
hands were upraised among them tho tiny, emacated
arms OF many little children
CRUsADiyG SCENES.
Mother stewart portrayed many touching scenes
that occurred during the crusade in Uhio and after
drawing particularly graphic picture the
OF sud she wondered WHY tho men of tho
land dd hot rse aud taking the gus in their hands,
put down the enemy just Us they had put down the
enemy IN the south She spoke OF her own case,
Va n hnr SU mad hiu had
lei, their boys to her care, aud where now evil men
were tempting them to evil ways. She prayed that
with ner work rnat was all she asked "Men Of
your country" she concluded. "stand by the colors
vi your country, sustain good and righteous laws
vote for good men to make good laws and God Will give
sweet by and BY"
Alter adoption OF resolutions indorsing the de-
cs,on of Corporation Counsel Whitney and piece OF
music by Professor Weeks the meeting adjourned.
DISCOURSE BY REV. DIR. CHAPLIN ON DRAMsHoPs
AND TIPPING $780, 600, 900 SPENT ANNu-
ALLY FOR LIQUOR IN THIS CITY.
More like a lecture or temperance address than
sermon was the DISCOURSE OF the pastor Rov. Dr. II.
b. Chaplin, of the Canal Street Presbyterian Church.
yesterday The sermon In behalf Of the Society
Tor the Suppression Of Crime, and the preacher
lccted for his text John Ill., 10:--"And now also the
axe laid unto tho root of the tree therefore. every
tree which briDgeth good fruit Is hewn down
and cast into the 1re" The minister spoke OF the
hospitals asyums for tho insane, deaf aud dumb, In.
Arm and others, that exist every community good
fruit, and the direct outcome OF tho Gospel; yet they
do not reach as far necessary. The Gospel
teaches US 10 strike at the root OF tho tree. or
root out all tho moral evil within US Among
tho evils that curse this community he pronounced
intemperance tie most gigantic intoxicating liquors
are Sold sad he, on hearty every corner and on the
holy Sabbath we behold pplers entering through the
door marked "hmy entrance" to partakc OF that
which is curse to mankind II Is useless to found
asyIuins and reornatores while tho evil OF intcmper
ance exists SO long as the dramshops are open new
crops oil drunkards Will riso up year and tread
| the road 10 hell We must do what this Society for
the Suppression OF Crime proposes to do-lay thu
at the root OF tho tree aud the cause OF pauper
ism and crime. Tho society means work, but from
statistics already collected II certainly has her
culean task before II There are In this city 1874
places whore liquor Is sold, of which 2,11T are
licensed rs hotels and 697 unlicensed In this
tho Eghth) there arc 2e8 places, Of which 226