New-York tribune., 1878-04-29
PLEADING FOR TEMPERANCE.
FOUR SUNDAY AFTERNOON MEETINGS.

INCIDENTS IN THE LIVES OF TEMPERANCE AD-
yOCATEs.
The American Blue Ribbon" Temperance
Union met at Irving Hall. yesterday afternoon, to op
pose the Holahan Excise Bill. The hall was well nised
with an audience which applauded heartily strong
expression OF temperance sentiment. Ingersol Lock
wood, in introducing some resolutions. said:
" A few weeks ago a man was carried TO MS grave
whose name for evil well known to the world as
Washington's Is for good He corrupted society and
government Yet 1t illogical to hold him respon-
sbe all the evil he wrought as 1t Is to say poison
responsible for the soil that brings II forh
We look deeper than this for the secret OF the
decentralization. You cannot have bribery and corrup
ton without men willing sell themselves All the evil
that followed In Tweeds train was due mainly TO the IN
fuence of rum Through all committee rooms rum and
wine flowed like water. And now it is proposed to re-
peal bill which makes another reign OF such DE.
morazaton impossible Is peoples 3 par 10 sp 'hn
TO make earnest protest against this enortF
Mr. Lockwood then proposed the following resolu-
tiOns:
Whereas As labor OF scientific that large
Proportion o crime anS ms as the sers ny
prevent the idle from being burden 60 the
prOvdent and as the present statute Will P0Pery en- ~
iorced Inow such restraint about the liquor aa0 as TO
R,sslred That we solemn protest against the
soeed Iolahan b or any statute which shall remove 'e ne
cast our agaD legislator at Albany who votes 70
An address then delivered by Mrs Potter who
closed with appeal for temperance ana pIesenteo u
picture Of millennium without rum. John Noble, the
president said lie attended the Temperance ConyentOn
last Thur sday night he heard nothing worthy to en-
gage the attention 5000 people There was only the
story OF one mans rescue from the deep OF
drink he tell the story OF some OF those VINO Bad
been saved by The Union the audience would not Know
what to lot think nm The RnSP1 es Ths Is e
zen's question" he said don't know much about
American politics. Few do know anything about IT,
ILaughter The cardinal rule may be set down IN TINS
Seek first the prohibition OF the liquor traihc ana al
the man the drink by all possible means, and Keep
the drink from the man by all lawful means" The
npprance work In the West Riding of Yorkshire, which
seemed to be heartily appreciated by the audience.
A REFORMED pRUNKARDS EXPERIENCE.
Thomas Masn, reformed drunkard' conducted
temperance meeting No. 451 Seventh-ave yesterday
afternoon There was large attendance, many of Mr..
Maslin's former associates being present In
the course OF an earnest address lie told
some OF his experience as drunkard. His fond
ness for drink, he said, had been caused by the
use of bitters which he first took tonic. lie became
hard rinkcr ana through his associates in barrooms
was led to the gaming faO ouIS NE Tent bsd lp 'a eo no
wet in the BackwelPs Island Pehientlaly,
pns o gs o,cn lo Visited by his aged mother Who moved
him to resolutions TO lead better life by her prayers
and tears. The first day OF his liberty, however
lie became n slave to drink, and frequented the
TO crime again, and he became an inmate of the New
Jersey State Prison at Trenton. Having been par
dOIrl from that lHsttuUOH, INC hScptls VI AhO
oRR S Gs'Gned Sn of bis the 5esfiS Trsut6S ayor" M
EaSits' when he became a convert TO Christianity
j. H. Gibbs SAID that the use OF tobacco was Twin eV
fatal as whiskey be Thought although Deer
10 produce twelve men, among the IN ,usanls or Ger
mans the city who use beer regularly, VINO nave at
tainod the age or seventy years.
OTHER TEMPERANCE MEETINGS.
" Ntasop Evans a reformed man, spoke on the parable
Of the ProdgI yesterday afternoon to an audience
that flied about hrceOurths Of the large hall at Cooper
Union The story be said "seemed written expressly
10 meet his case" for he had had experience both
in the swine troth and at the throne Of grace He
lost his hrthrght for glass OF ale; lost good place.
and became Outclst from home. Ihls was soon tO-
lowed by the death Of hs mother from bro bro
ken heat. and then he felt like an "lshmaele -"
OF the desert" his hand against every man,
10 the order at Long BtaCh ioI general saugIeI oI
sptzdOx he said ne wOud Ike 10 see general slaughter
al an the ,te houses that were biting worse tan dog
every SIDE. lie hdd rlght 10 speah, iOr US elIl
hopes had been wrecked IN The social glass, ana
ms path through lie strewn with those dear To hlin
who died through alcohol lie begged young men to be
warned IN time He was now saved man from INC
powor Of alcohol and the last fifteen months o total a
-tnrncc the brightest of his NE al me dreams 81
his Roy hood were than realized Mr. Evans closed
with appeals all to come forward ana sign the pledge
and for some tine signatures came In brissly
At the temperance meeting in the John Street
Methou,sI ,nu,Cu, , Thc poy " II Denny said that
John street Church, the cradle OF Meth0di'm III
20,
aucc cause ~ had the Methodist denomination from tho
days Wesley. " Anlcck directed his remarks prn,
riray 10 the children, and spoke OF the great Yalde OF
little thugs. He sud that the most impOrt-
ant meeting In its results TO the temperance
cause that he ever attended meeting
~ eleven children. lie urged parents and teach
era not 10 despse overlook the efforts OF the
uu,nb.st child, ~ God only knew what that chds fu
trc might be. Mr. Afleck gnve numerous "reminiscences
OF his llbOrm England Ireland Canada and America An
address was also delivered by Miss GREENWOOD OF Brook
yn on her recent laOOrs NoTEngland III the Murphy
movement.