Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-04

cd to tho abstinenoo among the workmen in
the colder region OF Canada, particularly Al
luding to the sobriety among lumberman.
It had been imagined in tho old country that
the cold. The speaker adverted to trip in
tho far SOUTH and to tho efforts being made in
the cause of temperance, calling special atten-
ton to the organization of Father Mathew So
cieties in the Southern States.
The speaker then alluded to temperance
lecture delivered in Liverpool upon his return
home, under the auspices of the Father Mathew
society, which had been productive of great
refults. He had found the people ready to
make the heroic sacrifice. Since his return
home he had given the pledge to over 200, 900
people. Scarcely q week passed but the pledge
was taken by 500 people.
Thetorrible vice of drink was spoken of with
great fervor, and the moral, social and re-
ligious shipwreoks. resulting from drink,
were depicted with great eloquence. The
brutal appetites incident to the ''dotard and
slave OF drink" were then depicted and several
vivid metaphors were drawn of tho victims to
drink as they were to be seen in tho great pris-
on at Liverpool.
The reverend speaker drew graphic picture
of the female department of the prison, giving
az an example that one inmate had been incar.
cerated l45 times. srS4.
One inmate, the mother of seven children,
two or three of whom had served penal SEN
fences, had been known to sell her hair for a
pint of ale. Many had resorted to drink under
the false Impression that it ightened the
hearts burden. In the CITY where the speaker
resided there had been over $4,000 commit
ments IN single year. In London there had
been $4,000 commitInents-45 per cent of
which arose from the use of Intoxicating
liquors The prevalence of the vice was nota-
BILE among the Irish population of LIVERPOOL
and with these facts in view it was not strange
that his eminence, Cardinal Manning, had Ia
bored to lift his people from the degradation
into which they had fallen. The reverend
speaker called attention to the periods Of want,
famine and plague comparing the number who
persisted in this manner in Ireland
as nothing to the victims of drink.
Sixty thousand people went down annually in
England from drink. The cities of Europe and
the continent were cited as examples, and the
speaker said that no living man could compute
the number of children who had been lost to
the Catholic church by the cursed vice of drink.
The eminent writer, Mr.. Greenwood, had
said that in London there wandered 100000
boys and girls in training for lives of vice and
penal servitude. In Liverpool the per centsge
OF homeless ones was equallyfarge.
Upon frst taking up the Temperance cause in
Liverpool the speaker had received contribu-
tions of 3 penny q week for the purpose of re-
claiming orphan boys. In four years they had
gwen over four thousand suppers to homeless
boys. 1-s ~
The work was growing rapidly, and school
of industry had been started which already
contained one hundred and seventy bright, in
telligent boys engaged in learning trades.
power had been going to waste; they were
taught their duty to their neighbors and to
their God. They were taught the spirit of
self reliance, and these boys were now shedding
lustre upon the native talent inherited bv the
Catholic race. Hitherto they had not come to
this country as they had received good open
ings at home. But now the situation was diff
ferent. A cloud of depression hung over Great
Britain. The speaker adverted briefly to the
hard times in Europe ana compared them with
the era of prosperity that was dawning upon
America. - @r@sa-s a,+:s
In speaking of patriotism the speaker said
| that he hoped for manifestation of that high
patriotism that would advance the great cause
of temperance. American people were not
hemmed in by the narrow laws of bigotry that
ignorance had begotten in the old country.
The English did not know the Catholics; they
did not come in contact with them. Their
knowledge of Catholics was learned from the
pages of false and perverted history. A Cath.
trusted. A Catholic girl in the bosom of q
family respected girlhood, and no word o,
de ed would be spoken to sully the Godlike
innocence of childhood. fine compliment
was here paid to the spirit that acuated Amari.
| cans and their institutions and
Bishop Ireland's labors in behalf of temperance
were alluded to in strong and fervent language
The speaker said that he did not want money
all he asked was the corporation of all Cath
olics to labor in behalf of the Irish and chill
dren of the Catholic church, for the convention
of drunkards, and the liberation of Catholics
from the terrible evil Of intemperance. ais