Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-18

VI tuo kIOuuu.
As for the club it was evident by their
playing in the early part of the game on
that they were new and need
practice together. This they have been
unable to get. But Captain Myers will at
once put them to work. That is all they
need, as the team has as good material as
any amateur nine in the state.
The managers are trying to arrange
game for next Saturday with the Harvey
Fishers, of Danville. They can feel proud
of their opening game and the success at
tending it.
GOV. ST. JOHN AT THE COURTHOUSE.
"A Very Largo Audience and a Vigorous Ad-
dross-The Temperance Question
in Politics.
A yery large audience assembled in the
Lancaster court house yesterday afternoon
TO listen to the prohibition war horse of
the West, Ex-Governor st. John, of Kan
sas. Not only did the temperance people
turn ont in force, but large numbers OF
people who neither practice nor preach
prohibition were present to see and hear
the man who had made Kansas temper
ance state, and been himself defeated a
year or two afterwards in consequence.
The meeting was held under the auspl-
ces of the Women's Christian Temperance
union, an organization that is working
very quietly and unObtrusively in our
midst, but which is, nevertheless, making
itself felt in behalf of the cause it has es-
poused. The meeting was called to order
by Rev. "A Peters, of the First Reformed
church, who had been chosen as chair man.
A large number of other clergymen were
present. Rev. J. B. Shumaker, D. D., of
St. Pauls Reformed church, opened the
meeting with prayer, and the choir of the
First M, E church followed with fine
rendition of d temperance hymn. MIR.
Peters introduced Gov. St. John with
some predatory remarks, during which he
stated tho objects of the organization
under which the meeting was being held.
Tho Address.
Gov. st. John was received with loud
applause. Hs is q man Of medium size,
apparently over forty years of age, has
rather dark hair and wears q mOustache,
but no other beard. He is a vigorous,
forcible, deliberate speaker, with sonOr
GUS voice that could be heard all over a
hall three times tho size Of tho court
house. He presented all the standard
arguments OF the prOhibitiOnists in well
chosen phraseOlOgy, occupying the plat
form for fully an hour and half and
and being very attertively listened
| to Wo will not attempt to
give even an outline of his ad
dress, as it would occupy more space
than we have ut our disposal. A few OF
his points were, that tho liquor traffic is
acknowledged everywhere to be !: bad and
| dangerous one, olse why is it surround
ed by 50 many safeguards for the prOtee,
tion of the public. No one may lawfully
engage in it without = license from tho
courts and the party licensed must prove
by twelve good aud true men that no is a
man of good moral character. NJ
such exactions are doomed necessary
when man wishes to engage il
tho grocery or dry goods trade
or any other branch of merchandise o.
to open church or Sunday. school. NJ
ono for i moment fears that the public ii
likely to be injured by any OF these pur
suits. The implication therefore is tha
the liquor business is dangerous and mus
be hedsed in with safeguards. But if it II
dangerous and wrong in itself no Sanction
of law can make it right nor neutralize th'
evils that flow from it. Its total abolition
is the only safe course.
The Governor showed that the annua
expenses of the public schools of Penn
syivania amount to S., OOO, 900. while tn
liquor traffic costs the state $lO5, ,COO,OOO
No father or mother ever felt alarm d
seeing their child enter the public schools
but how many bitter tears have been shet
by thom when they have seen their SON
enter the taverns and saloons?
Referring to the opposition OF the poll
ticians to woman suffrage, and their argu
ment that if women were allowed to vot
confusion and bad laws would follow, tn
governor reminded them that all the evil
the people now suffer arc tho result
male suffrage, aud they could not be aggr:
vated but might be lessened by femal
suffrage. He answered the argument q
the advocates of the liquor traffic tina
prohibition would result in glut IN th
grain market, and that farmers and other
would thereby suffer immense losses, D
showing that the grain from dlstllleries
fed to cattle after the alcohol has bee
extracted and that it would take just
much grain to feed them with the alcoho
left in it.
As to the argument that prohibition
does not prohibit the governor says tina
the experience of Kansas proves the con
trary. Every distillery has been banishe'
from the state, the number of place
| WucE0 liquor Chu uo hssu uoo oooiA Ao
by ono half and the liquor drinker has I
be made acquainted with signs, password
and winks before he can gain aG
mittance to the dens in whlcl
the traffic is now carried on
The prohibition law Instead OF depopu
lating Kansas, as tho liquor men sara
would, has had the effect of adding nun
drcds OF thousands of sober, lndustriou
men to it's population and only dronkard
and LIQUOR dealers have left the state ant
moved over the borders to afhict poo
Missouri. The governor referred 10 n'
recent defeat in Kansas, saying that 1t wa
effected by union of all the bad element
i'm the state aud that though hs was dc
feated prohibition was not, and would ye
triumph over its enemies and bless tn
state.
At the close Of Governor st. Johns al
dress the choir rendered another selectiO
and the audience was dismissed with
benedictiOD.
Gen DItmars' Funeral.
The funeral of the lato General Ditmar
took place this afternoon from his lat
residence on East Orange street. IN
services wero conducted by Revs. u,
Mitchell and Shumaker, and the pa1i
; bearers were Judge Patterson, w; w
Brown, esq, Charles E. Wentz and henr
Shubert.