Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-19

The temperance meeting at the Mcthodist
church last night brought out ano her full
house, greatly to the encouragement of the
ladies who have this matter in charge. They
begin to feel that certain success awaits them
and are stimulated to renewed efforts BY
the evidences Of popular appreciation. Rev.
J, II. Lozier, of LIE Mars, was the speaker
and he gave an entertaining and effective
discourse.
Fl began by an a%llusion to the memora
bic words Of Seward during the anti-slavery
struggle in congress, 1--WE are in the midst
of an irrepressible ceLfict| What was
true Of the crusade against slavery is more
intensely true of this crusade against drunk.
enness. More intensely because it comes
nearer our v hearts. Not an eye looks
upon me to. night that has not shed it's own
flood of scaldipg tears on account of this
terrible evil. Not . home or heart but has
or has had it's skeleton" somewhere
among our kindred. We have all felt it's
fang, ana We all have a right to strike at
at this serpcnt's head. We make no wal
upon any man as . man, o upon any mans
business In . personal sense, but We make
war upon Gown appetites, We who have
formed them; and we who have not be.
come enslaved, come to put our arms around
our less fortunate neighbors and help to
raise them up. We come also to help to
shield the youth who are growing up amid
these influences also.
Many a parent here tonight has special
reason for alarm In the appalling fact that
the present generation of drunkards is a
generation Of drunkards many of them
scarcely out Of their "teens." They are our
brightest and our most promising who are
our moit imperilled. Men of cold hearts and
narrow views are not 90 apt to fall as are
the warm hearted and impulsive, the social
and generous spirits in our community.
The man who makes your successful"
drunkard, SO to speak, would make a success
anywhere else. Help that man to his feet,
hold him up till he gets his moral poise,
and, God helping him, he'll be a Shining
light in some worthy calling in the near
future.
The chaplain made q special and forcible
point Of the business aspect of the liquor
question as it affects our city and country
abroad. He said, you have a magnificent
country here upon the threshold of the
golden mountains whether all eyes are
turning, but while you stand with beckon-
ing hand telling the emigrant to come this
way he sees behind you in your capital
thirty or forty saloons, which mean three
or four hundred families being impoverished
for the maintenance of the liquor traffic, and
he sensibly concludes this is no place for
me to take my boys, so he turnsaside. You
may attract men who love whisky and beer,
or who are at least Indifferent to the ravages
of intemperance, but the more of such you
have the worse for you. Better attract men
of virtue and intelligence to reinforce those
already there who are seeking to promote
good order and real prosperity. Moreover
your thirty saloons get the money
that ought to 60 to your business
me who are really engaged in building
up the country. The man sells his produce
and spends his money in the saloon, but that
money should have gone to the merchant,
grocer, shoemaker, harness-maker, hard
ware dealer and such like, for clothing for
his family, material for his dwelling, or
supplies for his loved ones. Thus you bust
ness men the saloon cheats you of your
rights. And this is going from bad to worse
until pretty soon the drinking man himself
becomes a pauper and then he and hi, are
thrown upon you for support. As business
men you ought all of you to strike out in q
new direction, and starve out those who are
absorbing the money that belongs to you
and leaving you to carry the indebtedness
Of men who but for liquor would have paid
you up long before this time.
"Stand out boldly and if anybody spots
you for daring to be q sober mar and q
friend of sobriety let other sober men rally
to the man thus spotted and leave those
who do the spotting to find their support
among their v kind, and that thing will
soon cure itself. Stand together and stand
by one another and you will succeed for
God will bring it to pass"
Mr.. Lozier is not one of the sort who be-
lieves that because a man drinks liquor, or
sells it, he is an object to be Stunned by
those who abstain from such indulgencies.
is liberal in his views, though thor
in earnest and is the kind Of man
lead in a movement for the reformation
Of his fellows from 4 condition which he be-
to be a moral and physical injury.
His lecture was a powerful argument in
favor the cause he advocates.
Mr.. Lozier will deliver another lecture
this evening at the Congregational church
and the pledge and the red ribbon will be
circulated for signers and wearers. We can
that everybody will be entertained
and we'll treated by him and, 10 behalf Of
he Women's Temperance Union, We invite
oonera1 attendance. |