Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-07
TEMpLAR RALLY-A TEMPERANCE MEET
ING LAST NIGHT.

A public temperance meeting was held in
the Sixth.street NJ. E. Church last evening,
under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of the
Independent Order of Good Templars, which
is now in session in this city. There was
large and superior audience in attendance.
The meeting was called to order by G.. w. S,
George b. Katzenstein. An invocation fol-
lowed by Grand Chaplain w. 81. Tubb of
Martinez. A hymn was then sung from leaf
let distributed among the auditors, on which
some fourteen temperance songs were printed.
The Grand Worthy Chief Templar, Judge
Robert Thompson of San Francisco, was then
introduced. He was glad the meeting was
held in church. 1t was appropriate. The
Church leads in the great moral reforms III the
world Generally he found ministers to be
total abstainers when they are not they ex-
cuse themselves, and whenever one does it
may be set down that his practice is not what
his preaching indicates as to temperance
The temperance work is going on, the Church
has one end of the yoke and the temperance
people the other, and if one is at any time
a little ahead of the other in the
pull it is all right. The temperance
cause is extending as few suppose. Templars
lodges are being set up in Europe-in Ger
many and France. The time will come when
The HOIlu Will lOOh DdCk Ou ILLS age VI uTllk-
ing as we look back on the dark days of
slavery. There is much to encourage the
temperance workers. just now all the tenn
perance people are making a strong pull
together, and are getting into posi-
ton where they can speak to politi-
cal parties with a hope of being heard and
feared. The time is coming-not far dis
tant-when the political parties will be forced
to yield law by which the voice of the peo-
pie may be heard and obeyed, as to whether
liquors shall be sold at every corner or not
quartet composed of Messrs. Crandall, Put
nam, Mcneil and Bruner then sang "The
Farewell" In response to a hearty encore,
they sangsthe glee, "1rust Her Not."j
Mrs. Emily Pitts Stevens was next intro
duced as one of the missionaries Of the cause
She said she had been talking temperance all
the year, and she was proud of the Order OF
Good Templars, proud of its work, proud Of
that splendid monument to the Order and the
cause, the Templars' Home for Orphans,
whose doors are never closed to the little
waits cast upon the cold charities of the world.
That s. Home" was a present to California
of which the State may well be proud. She
related some of her experiences during the
year in the temperance mission work,
reciting some very interesting facts, in
which she alleged that the people are
not aware of the fact that the Good Templars
are $1,000 strong here, and that they are be-
coming a power to be felt She concluded
her address with a feeling appeal to young
girls to exercise their influence for the
temperance cause, and intensified it with an
affecting incident. The address was received
with warm applause.
Levi Leland, Grand Lecturer of the Order,
was the next speaker. He had travelled three
years in the State, and could report marked
advance in every county in the Temperance
field, which is so notable that in some coun-
ties the liquor interest is taking fright, and
the business is declining. He referred to the
great influence the Templars' Orphans Home
is exercising. and gave instances of the feeling
with which it is regarded by the people. He
expected to see the day when he could say,
" the liquor license system will make hand
some corpse and it is about to die" The
Lecturers wit kept the audience in merry
humor. An ode was then sung.
Rev. L. ID. Bushnell of San Jose was the
next speaker. He had been doing missionary
work for the Order, and Endorsed what had
been said regarding the encouraging outlook,
and in illustration recited some of his expert
ences in this State while out on his mission,
which were very interesting. He concluded
perance laborers to stand up still for the Or
ganized work in the cause of total abstinence.
A glee was then sung.
DIR. Merritt of San Francisco was next in
troduced. He believed in standing up for
temperance, but it must be to some purpose,
and the ballot will be found to be the final
and effective weapon to accomplish the pur-
pose. Talk as they please, temperance peo-
pie can't keep the cause out of politics and
the system of law making, which is the method
of crystallizing and making effective public
opinion. The people are responsible they
make the license laws and invite men to avail
of them. The law does prohibit liquor selling
in certain section around the State Uni
versity, and if it is lawful for those acres, it
is sanction of the theory OF legal prohibit
ton in a larger territory, and commits the
State to the legality and necessity of protect
ing the youth from liquor-selling, and SO the
law cannot be Justly denied for the Normal
school, all High Schools all Grammar Schools,
all Universities, and so on till the 8. chart %
covers the territory of the State. On these
points he dwelt at length, pointing out how
in time this result is possible of attainment.
After the singing of another ode the meeting
was dismissed with a benediction by Rev. DIR.
BENTLEY