The daily gazette., 1877-09-18

7hl RECEIPTS. tlIls %
Collections in Opera House, s562 81
" Institute Hall, 1855 81
" Tent. '.-i iSi 0o
| =" i'' on Picnic grounds, 1915
- . from New Castle and . Fle
Christiana, 81 %
nations, 'II7' 1,O1e q
| Total received, .t,y. INV $1.9S9 II
Il EXPENDITURES,
Paid in behalf OF Reformed men for their
subsistence, for their services as public
speakers, reporters clerks and watchfnen,
| for their expenses in. going 10 and nom
meetings and their picnic, sSO6 AZ
TO u. M. butcher, HIT 645 90
James Lang, 1anltor CITY Hall, q 90
Stationery, printing, postage stamps,
oil and street car iare SO 30
Rent of Opera House, 1850 90
Institute Hall, 170 90
=" I" Epworth tent to August 16, 93 26
Cost OF old tent, - 5D 90
Total expenditures, $19S9 IL
OF the SS0643in the above expenditures
Nelson j. Lee received S24l 90; there was
paid for feeling then eedy at Holly Tree
Inn about 5000 and for band of musi c
at the picnic on July Fourth, $40. r1
The above payment made G. NJ. Dutch
er includes all payments made from the
day he first appeared among us in City
Hail in the early part of April up to the
present time,a period of over five months;
during his first short vacation for rest
that he took he was held at our command
also during his second visit home he was
given to understand that we expected
his return and looked forward for his
continued services among us. He has
paid his own travelling expenses and
from the amount that he has received he
has been a daily contributor to the
needy.
The above amount of receipts and ex-
penditures have been furnished by Bro.
Edward Moore, the Treasurer, and it is
to be hoped they will prove satisfactory
to the public. GEO. w. WELLS.
DOES 1T PAY.
WILMINGTON, Del, Sept. u, 1877.
DEAR BRo. WELLS In the following
statement have not had time to do full
justice to the subject under consideration
but this far l do know, that since the
present temperance revival, commencing
say with the beginning OF Bro. butcher 8
labors in our midst, occupying a period
of five months and twelve days uRinter-
rupted temperance work, much oft done
under great disadvantage, from warm
weather, absence from the city of tem>
perancs workers. trivial contentious
among some of the workers and many
circumstances which would have had a
disheartening effect in other localities,
that the amount OF good done In PEI
cunlary sense, laying aside the matter
OF health OF body, peace OF mind, and
the happy men, women and children this
movement has made M our midst,4 has
| more than pdid for all the time, labor
and money aye doubly, and three fold
more than paid what has been expended
in the accomplishment of it.. no j
Now, l am speaking as a reformed
man, one who has been led by this
movement to give up his cups, and one
who knows something practically about
the amount spent in dram drinking
among social and moderate drinkers, and
| say, without fear Of successful contra
diction, that over 1000 drinking men and
youths who have taken the pledge since
the beginning of the movement, allow
ing for all who have violated their
pledge,-snd remember, none are 50 good
they cannot fall, through the tempta~
tions and allurements held out by the
votaries of the Rum Power, and the fatal
appetite that forges a chain around the
drinking man, and putting the number
at the low estimate OF 1000 who have
spent on an average e.. 90 per week land
the average is low," for | know many
VINO never spend less than or 10 dollars
week and some as high as $50 per
werk,-we have here saving Of $4,000
per week, 6,0C0 per month or over $780,
900 in the five months and over that
have elapsed since the temperance move
ment started in Wilmington.
Think of it, fellow citizens, $50. 900 taken
iromlhe rumsellers' till aud scattered among
our merchants, tour property holders our
fan ners and otner legitimate and honorable
professions. "DJes 1t pay? Calculate
ssasonable Increase il the good work goes
on, or calculAts it as it is and stands To-day,
and if it does not progress but holds 1t,
own, why sir. that SS0, 200 alone saved
from being squandered in rum would olothe
and feed every needy man, woman and
child in this city tor a year and remember
it Is only the saving of five months OF money
squlndered In dissipation. Now, as to he
manu- iaeturers. W. nave seen how this has
bent fitted the merchants and tradesmen,
property holders and mechanics, let us l.ok
how 1t has benefited YOU. y 7sfH 3
Has 1t bent fitted you in securing to you
the services OF the skilled artisan, on whom
you must rely for the success OF your me-
chanical operations? Take firm for exs
umble like the Harlan & Hollingsworth
NO., Wuoft thitiru mCNhbhiSS eAS ShAP'oJSb
IN great bumhers, where every momrnt
lost is mopey sunk, lost, irretrievably gone
10 the employers a..,.. ..u
How many men, with unstrung nerves
and throbbing brow from the effects OF
drink loose minutes, aye, hours, where they
must necessarily appear to work, but are
incapable ef performing it. ~ y . 30
Does practical temperance bAuefit and
pay them and their employers, who lose no
time from the effects OF this damning curse?
Assuredly il does.
Your men are at, their places, sober,
steady. reliable, with, clear heads and
al eady nerves, to work In your best interest.
Your manufactured arr c.es are better
made, and more reliable to the purchaser,
and OF course your reputation Is constantly
being raised higher in the scale OF competi-
uon In your line at business.
Wilmington has always been noted FIR
the excellence of her manufactured articles,
not being surpassed IN any loo 'iity, Lst-us
Keep up our reputation, Let us hghl this
monster curse with all the power of God
has gwen us, and with our money US well,
until there is not a Erog shop lett In our
fair city, and then'we viii have the answer
to onr question:. and it will be, 1t has Paid
and Paid aCeU.