The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-18
SECOND NIGHT OF DR.. REYNOL DS.

\ CROWDED HA1L-HoME TALENT UTILIZED
! AND An EARNEST SPEECH EY DR.. Rki.
NOLDS.
The crowd that gathered in the Reform
| Club rooms last night was like that Of the
might prcyiOus--a very full house
Before our arrival Mr.. Joe l}raukcl and
Mr. Dick Welsh hao made short talks, and
both Of them being men who had some eX-
perimental knowledge of the bites Of the
curse against which they inveighed, and
being withal, men oi sound practical sense
their talk was pointed and effective.
When we entered the hall Mr.. T. j.
Roberts was on the stand making a very
animated appeal to the temperance men Of
Cairo to organize a vigorous RAID upon the
saloon and whisky interests % the city, 10
the end that Cairo might be made Il model
temperance town. There should be- no
tcmporizing. II the city authorities We're
very earnestly dcslrous Of the public good,
they would not reduce the price Of liquor
licenses to one hundred dollars, but rails. it
10 five hundred. The temperance organi-
2atioh was strong enough to control the
city legislation, and if temperance men had
their hearts properly enlisted, they would
elect 4 council that would wipe out of eX-
i,tencc every saloon in the city. Mr., Rob
crts was very pointed in his re-
marks, and the applause he re-
cciycd on retiring indicated that
he had maniicstly struck arcspon,iyc chord
in tue breasts OF his hearers.
After congregational singing, DR.. Rcy-
nolds stepped forward, and commenced by
saving that he needed no introduction, be-
cause he was at home He appreciated the
difficulties and embarassmcnts under which
his friends who had proceeded him had
labored, for although he had been speaking
| day after day and week after week, for
/ four years or more, he never trcmblcd more
/ in facing an audience than he did then and
there. lie did not speak for the love Of speak.
| Ing, but because, by the help Of God, he
expected to accomplish good by 50 doing,
The Doctor then INDUCED in an extended
reference TO his own experience. He had
been drinking man for twenty years, six
years Of which time he was Z gutter drunk.
ard. He commenced by weaving about
himself the devils hair that turks in the
cider and beer mug and
wine cup. These hairs multiplied and in
the end resolved themselves into II chain
that dragged him to the verge Of aamnu-
ton. While thus degraded, fricndcss and
Il paupcr in purse, he resolved to reform.
He threw over his shoulder II pick axe, on
one end of which was inscribed an find
the road if can and on the other end,
if can't find one, an dig myself road
to respectabiity," and God helping him he
HAD dug his road 10 responsibility, for the
man who respects himself is morally GER
tain TO command the respect Of others.
The Doctor then INDUCED in nm appeal
to moderate drinkers, There were moderate
drinkers in the house, no doubt who re.
gardcd him as fanatic for even intima,ing
that THEY were in danger. They secuted
the idea that they could not drink or let it
alone as they pleased; but he admonished
them then and there that the partition be.
tween moderate drinking and drunkenness
was 50 thin that IL was hard to tell when
the moderate drinkcr bulged through.
Show him man who has drank liquor ten
years, and he would show you man, in
return, who could have left his cups five
| times us easy Ave years before, IN ten times