The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-03-10
MISCELLANY.
From the Daily Witness
CHURCHES AND TEMPERANCE
TRAMPS.
A CRYING EVIL.

" VIZ eS~s""' " Weo " sNe0co
SIR : For years some of us have been try
ing to induce the churches to open their doors
more freely for Temperance, Home Protection
and Prohibition, and for time we were sue
ceeding most grandly, but more recently from
every section of our country there comes the
report that it is more and more difficult to OBJ
tain churches for temperance meetings.
This ought not SO to be-
Looking, however, at the character of near
ly one-haf of the men, and few of the wo-
men who are going over the land as temper
ance advocates upheld as they are in many
cases, by the associations of men and women
the action of churches is not surprising
In this day, when women cover up their
beautiful brows with bangs and furbelows,
when muscle is in demand and brains are at a
discount, and when men who we're never
drunk, and therefore have not killed a woman
or Drained an infant, but who for many years
have been active workers for God and human
ity, are ignored by these agitators, while so
called reform men, who are drunk on Satur-
day, fill church pnlpit on Sunday and are
drunk again on Monday, are from week to
week foisted upon the people and upheld by
the temperance minons. is it any wonder that
our churches should call a halt ?
To prove that the picture is not owe rdrawn.
few instances out of more than twenty must
suffice
Only last week was in the Office of friend
when he received a letter for publication from
gentleman, commencing in the highest
terms woman who has been going over this
country for years as a temperance lecturer.
it is we'll known by many, is woman
lost to virtue and given over to shame.
We have now in this city of Brooklyn,
man clothed in shining broadcloth and i'm
maculate cravat, who goes about addressing
temperance meetings aud getting up temper
ance REVEALS Last Summer this man called
upon me and said, " have secured the First
- Church have called upon the papers
aud have the promise of their support. Now
If you will join me, we will work up Big
Boom and then gather in all the money we
amt
Within year reformed man with airy
tongue and eloquent speech came TO Brooklyn
the good people and by certain denomna
ton supplied with money to defray his ex-
penses while preparing for the ministry
Putting his money in his pocket and starting
towards Theological Seminary, he stopped
in town on the way and there with his airy
speech so favorably impressed the people of
another denomination that they raised a suf-
fcient sum of money to defray his expenses
in another Theological Seminary. With this
in his pocket he went home to his wife, of
whose undying love he always made mention
in bis lectures. After being at home q few
days his wife suddenly entered room and
there found her husband in fragrant delictu
with the hired girl.
TO day temperance paper comes to me
with very strong endorsement of Gospel
temperance lecturer, who, while working up a
Boom in one town through which pass
ed, preached Gospel temperance in the even
ings and went to horse races during the day.
There dwells in Indiana one of the most
eloquent temperance lecturers of the present
age. No man in America draws larger
house or sways them at will more readily
For years the temperance people have kept
that man on the platform, notwithstanding
they have known that over and over again
he has received u collection or a fee at the
close of bis lecture and spent it all in drunk
en- debanch before reaching the hotel or home
where he was stopping.
At convention held in Indiana this man
and | were advertised to speak on the same
platform ; but when the time came he was
down with delirium tremens, and was re-
quired to fill up the time allotted to both. In
temperance paper of recent date this man
is eulogized in the highest terms as Gospel
temperance lecturer.
Those who know me will not charge me
with an uufliendly spirit toward the drunk
ard or the man woman who is trying to re-
form. God knows and my friends know that
pity them, and that would do as much as
any other for the reformation of the fallen
1t is not against these that write, but
against the temperance associations and tenn
perance workers who are foisting these tramps
upon the public both in churches and halls
all over this country, and thereby bringing
our cause into disrepute
Again repeat it, have no censure to cast
upon the churches. They are doing their du.
ty, and may God give them courage to close
their doors against all such tramps
Truly yours,
Brooklyn, Feb. 8. ELI JOHNSON.