The New York herald., 1879-01-06
THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE.
GRAND MEETING AT COOPER INSTITUTE yEsrER-
DAY-UNITING THE FORCES FOR THE COMING

GRAND MEETING AT COOPER INSTITUTE YEsTER-
DAY-UNITING THE FORCES FOR THE COMING
ONSET ON RUM-JUDGE PITMAN, FRANCIS
MURPHY, DIR. FULTON AND OTHER SPEAKERS.
"Pm tired of standing with one foot on the consti-
ton ana another on whskey barrel to the
democratic party said Judge Pitman yesterday at
the great temperance meeting in Cooper Institute.
The house rang with the long continued applause
that greeted this declaration and there dimi-
mutton when he added that he made this declaration
for the benefit of any of his democratic friends who
might be present The Judge was not the first or
only speaker; but the crowded audience which filled
every seat and left many persons standing
around the walls of the large hall shared
their appreciation about equally between Mr.
Murphy and Judge Pitnan. Indeed the enthusiasm
was too great for the managers to carry out their
purpose in the flaming advertisements which they
had sent out. That purpose to effect an organ
izaton and to raise the nucleus of fund for carry
ing on the temperance campaign in this city. Mr.. j.
b. Gibbs the president threw out the suggestion in
his opening remarks and bade the audience think
about it, They did think and few acted by giving
their names and subscriptions to Mr.. Gibbs. Mr..
Powell, the treasurer or Mr.. Murphy, "the champion
reformer of the nineteenth century, his old
called him. But though the meeting was announced
to close at FIVE P. NJ. it nearly twenty minutes
later when it adjourned to reassemble in the Thirty
fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, where,
Mr.. Murphy announced, meetings will be held daily
at noon and in the evening for at least month.
The organization, which is designed to embrace
the Clarendon Hall Temperance Union, Father
Mathew societies and all others who will unite with
them on broad basis of compelling liquor dealers to
obey the law and redeeming men ruined by the
deadly vice of ntemperance will be effected to-day in
the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church. and the
financial scheme will then be perfected. If the plan
proposed shall adopted it will require the
citation for the present of separate action by the local
societies, that all efforts may be directed from
common starting point. This centre, if the money is
forthcoming. will be in Cooper Institute, where a
room rooms can be hired on the epor above the
street and the great hall be had on Sabbaths for
meetings like that of yesterday.
MURPHY DONE WITH RUM.
When Mr.. Murphy got up to speak he received
with applause He did not see, he said why all tenn
perance workers could not unite on broad Catholic
basis He did not believe in club suason. 1t was
club that saved Paul. 1t kindness and love
that made him the great apostle to the Gentes that
he house divided against itself cannot stand,
and while one man one organization may prefer
local option another prohibition, and third regu
lation by law all could unite in Gospel temperance
campaign to the dfunkard and to shut up as
many grogshops they His position on
this question is that so long the State the muni
cipaliy grants license to sell the liquor dealer has
good right to sell rum merchant has to
sell dry goods. But he denies that the State
has this right to blight homes. to make paupers,
to fill prisons and almshouses and graves with
drunkards and increase the taxes of the sober
dustrious people to do this thing. This said
with earnestness that called forth rounds of APP
plause Continuing his remarks Mr.. Murphy said
that he had more sympathy with the liquor dealer
who sells for his bread and butter than with the
rich who gives it away to demoralize society.
Rut he added. when stOp buying the liQuOr dealer
will stop selling. and not before. Applause.)
II have got through selling liquor - said Mr..
voice-"Thank God"
'And through drinking liquor, also."
Voice--"Halelujah!"
"And 1 will say to you that all my trouble has
to me through Intoxicating drinks And if
rise out OF the ashes OF wasted life, which has
madejme prematurely old, you can and every other
man can"
Mr.. wenzell. one of Murphy's converts at Pitts
burg, Pa. told how bitterly opposed he was to tenn
perance people and their work. He had at
tended such meeting until Murphy went to Pitts
burg. He was invited to go to one of his meetings,
lecturing only for the money that it brought
him. But now he could thank God that Mr.. Murphy
went to that smoky city,
"UGLY JIM AND OTHER CONVERTS.
Mr.. Murphy started the hymn 'Oh to grace how
great a debtor" i'll which the choir and audience
joined. He then introduced the man to whom under
God he owes all he is, and who it was tapped him
on the shoulder and asked him to sign the pledge
and enter upon a sober and Christian life-Captain
Cyrus Sturdivant. The old gentleman made a few
remarks concerning the small effort which he had
put forth to save Mr.. Murphy, and he believed in
sympathy-to men. "Nedde'' Forte. Eccles
Robinson, William Mason Evans Miller and
other recent converts having been called upon spoke
briefly also indorsng the position that only the
grace of Christ can save and keep the drunkard.
Professor Keenan, rected piece entitled ugly
jim" which touched the sympathios of the audi
ence that many wept. The story was well told
and the moral emphasized. After this it
that Judge Pitman rang out the sentence which
hts lnfeh md is al1aIf
ments "Hit 'em again" That's it; give it to
EN-" He believed, with Judge Noah Davis that this
work cannot iail long Christ has tabernacle
the earth. And. furthermore. he believed that the
present Legislature of this State will consider the
propriety OF building or buying an institution in
this city where inebrates be cared for until they
reformed and saved. He did not believe that
prohibitory law could be enforced in this munich
patty, but he glad to know that Judge Klbreth
had held to bail two of the Excise Commissioners for
violating their oath in granting license to Of
VIGOROUSLY bad character the plea that three beds
III cellar constitutes hotel.
DR.. J. ID. Fulton. of Brooklyn, made the closing
address, 1t full of earnestness and vigor. When
God makes up his mind to take this city, he said
the devil must give way. And feel that God has
made up his mind. They talk about building Jail
in Brooklyn. the Doctor added let them empty their
rum shops and they'll have rooms to let in their
jas. (Appause.) The Doctor told of visit he had
made to town in Maine. in whose Jail there had not
been prisoner for year. and before the door of
which the grass grew green. The jaer tired of
such lonely lite, was going to move away. The
year 1879, he believed. had wonderful possibilities
DelOre lHc temperance pcoplc WANT money
to carry their work, but behind every
whiskey bottle in New York there thou
sands if not millions. II ever the liquor traffic is to
be thrown down it must be by the mighty power of
God. And if Christians and temperance men
to do anything in this work they must put their hands
down where they can take hold of the hand Of God.
. The invitation having been given there rush
to the platform to sign the pledge. Little boys and
their fathers gathered around the table Men with.
out collars oycrcoats. men with blue shirts and
red men with ruby faces, and pale. old men aud
young eagerly seized the cards and allowed them
selves bc bound, by the sacred symbol of the blue
ribbon. more to touch. taste handle the in
toxicating cup. This work continued in the Tab
ernaclo Methodist Episcopal Church in the evening.
AMERICAN TEMPERANCE UNION.
Exactly twenty three people, exclusive of the choir
of nine pcrsons assembled in Clarendon Hall in