Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-21
TEMPERANCE.
Eloquent Lecture by BiAhop Ireland in
ChicagO-A Strong Arrangement of the
Liquor Traffic for Its Growing Agrees
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Chicago Times, Jan. Is.
Bishop Ireland, of st. Paul, lectured in
Central Music hall last night, under the
auspices of the Catholic Total Abstinence
union, on Temperance" Nearly every
seat in the hall was occupied, and the
audience included a large number OF
prominent citizens. On the platform were
seated Archbishop Feehan. Dean Terry
and nearly all the Catholic clergymen OF
the city; Judges Moore and Moran, Com
missioner Mattocks, Alderman Wicker
sham, City Collector Onahan, United
States Commissioner Phil Hoyne, Col. W.
P. Rend, and others. In
the audience were President Elmendorf
and other members of the Citizens
league; Capt. Buckley, of the police de-
partment; Aid. Pat Sanders, Commissioner
of Public Works Cregler, Hon. Thomas
Hoyne, Justice Scully, and three or four
Protestant clergymen. The lecture lasted
about two hours and a half, and was very
exhaustive in every branch of the subject.
The audience was in full sympathy with
the sentiments of the lecture, and the APP
plause was frequent and hearty.
Archbishop Feehan introduced Bishop
Ireland, who prefaced his lecture with a
graceful compliment to Chicago, and the
qualification he felt at the interest which
the audience present showed was felt
in the subject of temperance in the
metropolis of the West. The cause of tenn
perance, Bishop Ireland proceeded, de-
serves our homage because it appeals to
the noblest, the most generous, the most
heavenly instincts of the soul-compassion
for our fellow-men, devotion to our coun-
try, and the sacred love of religion. The
reason why it has not already triumphed,
ne said, must be because men have not
HEARD IT'S PIERCING ACCENTS.
The evils of intemeprance were then viz
idly portrayed and summed up in the char
acterization: spirit of wine, if no other
name, call thee Demon" A discussion of
the nature of alcohol followed, the bishop
taking occasion to say that he did
not consider the use of it
wrong per Sc. Yet few principles
deserve more careful watching for safe
application to practical morals than this.
The territory within which its use is per-
missible is most narrow, and it is fatal
error to believe that the plague does not
range along intermediate steps. Link by
link the drunkard FORCES the adamantine
chain, countless as the nerves of his own
bodily organization, which lash him to the
chariot of the most insatiate and cruel of
masters Alcohol. The nature of alcohol
in stimulating an appetite for itself is also
to be remembered. Drinking is like sail
ing down the Niagara. AS it grows on
the system, the poison invades the mind
itself, which is the power to repress
the baser appetites. Suspend, or destroy
the reason, and this power of repression
is broken down. Once in possession of
man, alcohol is like the demon of the Cos
pei, sending message to hell for seven
more demons that the victim may be bound
the more securely. Alcoholic poison, the
bishop continued, floods the land, and the
means for its distribution are more numer-
GUS than in any other branch of trade.
THE LAWS ARE CONTROLLED
in the interest of the whisky trade until
alcohol is vertically king. Statistics were
then quoted showing the enormous con-
of Intoxicating liquors in the
United States. So great is the consump-
ton, the lecturer said, that saloons are
posted at every CORNER of every block in the
city and Village, where the Vsaioo 5epdv