Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-10
Masa reanperance 1feetl,.a.

The services of the annual mass Temperance
meeting of the conference was opened by sing
ing she S22d hymn, at o'clock P. M. Mr.
King offered prayer of thanksgiving for the
progress In the canse of temperance, and asked
that the terrible curse be swept from the land.
Rev VIM. Copp read from the 2Sth chapter
of Isaiah.
Singing by the congregation.
W. w. Sat- erlee made the opening address
by stating that they should give the parties to
each side of The belief of the temperance
introduced Rev. !. III. Davis, of st. Paul.
who made an apology by saying
he had but recently been called upon to make
an address, and had made no preparation. He
said of all questions be held this one nearest
his heart. be did rot like the spirit mani
fest By some of handling the question with
Kid gloves He declared eternal war against
1t. He acknowledged himself radical He
thought extreme cases must necessarily be
combated by radical measures. He said if
the Christian people of the country would
rise IN their miaht for the temperance cause
they would be greatly In the majority, and
the cause would succeed.
BE said there is scarcely home or hamlet
in the land where the gigantic gaunt evil, iu-
temperance, does no. cast its shadow. He aek-
nowieoged this q rather emphatic and radi-
cal statement, bat true. The churches
were IN very large proportion silent and fig
urstively asleep on the question. But with
the help of God he would never cease to preach
temperance fr7m has pulpit In some churches,
be said, he knew that moderate tipping was
allowed and looked upou with silence, even by
the pastors. All the official functions wanted
Il the expressed sentiment of the people, in
order to secure the prosecution of the laws al
ready enac1ed, favoriDg the precepts of tenn
pSrance. That the officers in many cases we're
willing tn nfOFpe tho Ia if the IN,
back them" In st. Paul on Sundays It was
70 uncommon thing to the young bows
even by church goers, sitting in saloons with
open doors drinking and singing and creating
dlsturbsnce-And no particular measures
taken to stop
Ee believed that to-day, if we could onlv
arouse our foro 6, by preaching and circulation
of sDund tenn perao ce literature and documents
they had already the balance of power. He
would say to the boys, never bury the Ratchet
until the demon wasdriven from existence -
Theoretical work was good enough for q gener-
al treatment, but when it came hand to hand
heart to heart, shoulder to shoulder, it was
only a question of individual effort after all.
He believed in unqualified prohibition. Only
one verdict that can be gwen in regard to it ia:
Prohibition does prohibit Though not abso
Lutte" He could show instances in certain
towns in Vermont, Massachn-
sets, Connecticut. and other
States where the sale of intoxicauts was abso-
lately prohibited, where the jails had not sim
gle occupant in a whole year. He spoke en-
phstieally upon the mnch mOoted question OF
vote as You pray" He thoroughly trested the
answer often made when asked to vote for pro-
hibltion that they would only throw THEN votes
away Ii was he cloud no larger than a
mans hand" The stion as soon IS il wss
properly asisated would grow until the balance
OF power was secured. so it was in old anti
slavery times. Rnt agia,ion-constant agita-
uGn-sueceeded SO it will in the case of pro.
hihition- Mr. Davis is very earnest and en-.