Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-08-16

b d. Charles Allen being called upon. said
ne did not consider that the world was de-
generating. Affairs may be mis-managed in
se1y' but morality, justice, and temperance
. NOT decreasing in our land He believed
~ exercising all of a freeman's rights in pol
I'ics and to vote as he pleased, but when he
'oted with such men as have ALWAYS been the
enemies Of temperance in the State he should
mink himself in bad company.
contribution was taken up To defrav the
expenses ofithe campmeeting in the midst of
Shicn zen. James A. Hall, the speaker of
'he afternoon, arrived and was received with
applause. Gen. Hall delivered a speech full
VI earnestness and power. The following is
an extract: - All fair-minded and un-
preJudiced people approve of the temperance
organizations of the State, yet many are
T rUund VINO do not believe in prohibition.
Ihey say that it limits the civil liberty of a
man to say what he shall or shall not eat or
drink That is all very we'll, but if YOU are
80 depraved as to keep snakes in your par
! iofs' you cannot force them upon your neigh
oors- You cannot drink rum and not disturb
your nelghbors. 1t is no use to try to trace
out the origin Of evil; we should find out =
way to meet and defeat it. and this must be
done at some expense and self-sacrifice. The
seed OF the woman shall oruise the serpent's
mead, but the serpent shall also bruise the
heel of man.
The effect of the rum traffic in hampering
the prosperity of our country was clearly
Drought out. Numerous instances were
noted IN which rum had killed its victims
such as the story of the drunken stage driver
at the White Mountains
/ The license system of other States means
the licensing of death and destruction. If it
Is necessary to license murder, license some
thing that will kill instantly and not a miser-
able, slow working poison. Stop importa-
| tioh, stop manufacture and there will be no
drinking. The revenue from rum cannot be
compared with the value it DESTROYS If
these United States cannot stop the rum
traf1c, let us never hoist the flag without
placing upon it great, black blot, an emblem
~ our shame. Neral suasion is well enough,
but 1t would be sad day for Maine if the
prohibitory law was swept from her statute
book. The rum power has unlimited means
at Its command and it is not alone for the
church of God to combat it, but all should
array themselves against its assaults.
After the speech of Gen. Hall, remarks
were made by Mr.. A. X. P. Buffum of Gar
diner, Mr.. Berry of Topsham and Rev John
Allen. who, in his lively way, related his ex-
perience as a temperance man.
| SATURDAY EVENING.
In the evening, Rev. David Boyd Of New
| York, delivered a speech, which was listened
to by large audience in the tabernacle.
SUNDAY MORNING.
Sunday morning opened clear and cool,
bringing assurances that thousands of people
would flock to the grounds during the day.
The boarding establishment, which is under
| the management of Messrs. Fuller and Mer-
chant, worked all night long Saturday night
providing food for the crowds expected.
| 4 rlnn nn,,tto
on the ground yesterday were Joshua Nye,
A. J. Chase, C. Ii. Berry, A. X. p Bufium,
Job T. Sanford, and the speakers whose
names appear else where On the excursion
trains from Waterville and Bath there arrived
600, and upon the boats from Augusta, and
Boothbay and the islands, 800. krhese, to-
| yether with the campers on the ground, those
ferried across from Dresden, and those COM
ing in teams from the neighborng towns,
brought the number on the ground not far
from 1900. The streets at noon were
thronged with people, and the woods. too
were full of them. Hundreds were crowded
about the entrances of the boarding house,
seeking the first chances at the tables. 500
tickets were sold and the wants of all were
provided for
The tabernacle was filed at o'clock.
The exercises consisted of love feast, lead
by Rev. W. S. Jones, at which many inter-
esting experiences were related. About
1900 gathered upon the seats at the main
stand at 10 o'clock to listen to a temperance
sermon by Rev. ID. w. LeLacheur. The
speaker took as his text Ex. XXI; 29.-"But
if the OK were wont to push with his horn in
time past, and it hath been testified to his
owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that
he hath killed a man or woman. the OK
shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be
put to death.
The speakers subject was, SIS the Maine
law a falure?' In an amusing yet pointed
manner he compared intemperance with the
OK of his text and showed by recorded
statistics that there was not as much rum
drank in Maine to-day as before the passage
of the prohibitory law. The speaker con-
sidered the federal government as the owner
of the rum OK and responsible for its evils, and
declared that all the political parties were
ready to kill the OK, if the temperance men
wouid wait till after the September elections.
He did not believe in breaking away at
present from the political parties established,
but fair warning must be given to them that
they must heed the temperance cause or sup
port would be taken from them. The
audience paid the closest attention to the adj
dress, and were greatly attracted by the en-
phatic utterances and strong expressions.
; SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
Gospel temperance prayer meetings were
held at one o'clock at the tabernacle, under the
charge of Rev John Allen, and in the
Augusta chapel conducted by Mr.. c. NJ.
Bailey of Winthrop.
More than $500 people in the afternoon
listened to an eloquent address by Hon. I. X.
Simonton of Camden. The subject of his re-
marks were the evils of wine drinking, illus
trated by many examples from the Scripture
and from every day life. Mr.. A. }. Chase
closed the meeting by few interesting re-
marks.
In the evening an address was made by
DR.. Charles Allen of Fairfield.
A little fleet of three steamers and 30 sail
and row boats were anchored in the river off
the campground. A half-dozen row boats
: were plving throughout the day from the
: Dresden shore carrying passengers to and
fro.
MONDAY.
To-day the speakers will be Rev J. Ben
son Hamilton and Hon. Nelson Dingley, Jr.