New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-03-18
PLEADING FOR TEMPERANCE.
ADDRESSES BY TWO PROMINENT CITIZENS.

WILLIAM Z. DODGE AND JUDGE DAVIS SHOW THR
EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE AND SUPPORT THE
PRESENT EXCISE LAW.
Ferrero's Assembly Rooms, I'm Tammany Hall,
were crowded yesterday afternoon at a temperance
meeting. Tho principal addresses were by the Hon.
William Z. Dodge and ChlefJustoe Noah Davis. Both
listened TO with marked attention. and both fire.
quently brought loud and longcontnued applause
After the usual preliminary exercises William E. Dodge
spoke. In part, as follows:
perhaps there never a period in the history OF
temperance reform when there so universal an
interest In the subject there is to-day And the in
terest is confined to this city, State country. 1t
has spread beyond the Atlantic. In England they are
beginning to realize that seven hundred millions
spent annually for drink and twice that
for taking Of the results Of nemperance In
crime, paupersm and enormous judicial expenses Men
asking Themselves taxpayers merely, not as tenn.
perance adv Dcateswhat shall be done 10 stay this enor
expenditure resulting directly from the sale OF
liquor.
4" III our country beginning to realize that
the yearly expense Of six hundred and ty millions for
Intoxicating drinks s leading ms TO poverty and ruin
More especially beginning to understand that the
taste for liquor is descending from fathers TO
children, entailing upon us Generation Of
out the length and breadth Of the land. Those
wo have love or "r our cry S Wo is
not light have been engaged In IL Tor more
than hall century. In early fe nave knOND II
was to bear the stigma OF being temperance man Now,
great has been the change that the man not sneered
at but bonored who refuses wine at table.
"You Enow have law on our statute books
that carried out would do for our city what we have
law be carried ont better than any one the Legsa-
ture may pass II get the Legislature to let It
The work will be able TO shut up many-if not a-of
the gr,G-shops ApPlause So next year the ge9p'
JUDGE DAvIs's SPEECH.
Chicf-Justice Noah Davis then introduced lie
suffering from cold and was very hoarse He said
among other things had strong curiosity 10 see
how temperance meeting would look in Tammany
Hall. Loud applause. did not know but
what meeting here might convert Tammany. Laugh
teri II it were possible TO enlist tho overwhelming
power Of Tammany for the temperance cause. great
work could he accomplished. While riding down Sixth
ave the other day. noticed that the name Hotel oc-
CURED two three times in every block. In some
cases. however. the Excise Commissioners had been
strangely negligent; they had compelled the traveller
walk from two TO fOug hundred ioet between drinks
Laugh,er.I ,,.,.
never took part In Temperance meeting before
end spoke on temperance until few nights ago
But for twenty years nave D"cn living Witness III
49, 900 ~, ~ 'o""tt-,be 1ovrnor commissioned me
Justice of the supreme Court and since then except
nv nosition I'm ihis civ and state If cold recall the
procession Of that has passed before my eyes and
paut the scenes when were largely the result 81
Indulgence I'm drink-so many persons cond -TBned,
ncary all Of whom IN this gfcat exisency Of Their
| live. confessed that they We're brought 10 II
10y incmperauce-I think you would feel tha
/ an justified standing here and speaking
for temperance. GAPplauseJ What shall we do!
II would saw viii east my influence Tor ten
perancc' there would be trouble about ;hs Hence,
for one. feel justified IN making my ist appearance
here on the boards Of Tannany Hall lapplausCl; here
10 do Iart for temperance, IN favor of law 0rdcr
peace. happiness and prosperity and against vice, crime
and all it, thousand terrible consequences.
"Now what are we met Win on the other side Why.
are told that de- riylng the charities OF ts
ciiy OF tie fund that supports them, ~ 'heY get the
MONEY paid for licenses. Ths Is the truth. IN measure
The temperance movement depryins certain charities
OF money, that "a blow De struck 20 tie root oi q
great evil. Inc managers OF these charitable nsti
that run. MIC their treasury. They see DOT
THAT II runs through passage Of mid
night darku So; they think not that the mighty
stream whose ccasecss tides flow toward the state
pri.u- i4 lunac Inns, has Ms source IN the same
fountains from which tricLlc, The little nycrt that
oWs into their treasury Far better thai these charities
never existed than that they should serve as an excuse
for such thiug-
And now let say, In conclusion that the work in
which i- "a noble one. Iucmperaucc !,
not increasing In this country, II L. simply budding
Itself Owdsiu villages, towns aud ciues The yeO-
menry Of the land have become almost unanimously
Temperance This explains the failure of the effort
10 overthrow the Excise Law AT Albany. The
great body Of the haidnaudcd MISUNDERSTANDING In their
allegiance trIupcrincc-iuinish the moral power that
CONTROLS the legislature 50 that probably We sha say
the law. lApplu,c This isn't the best law We could
get IL better than which the liquor men would
dcyt~r. The latter would open door through which u
hod- u liquor sellers would rush ia aud trdmpc on ali
law" Great applause.
An address wa- made by the Rev. william u. Ailcck.
and several Rotations were given. Invitations were
then extended 70 AL 10 come forward aud JON the blue
rIf,b b llxtut."