Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-10-05
Francis Murphy Tssis VIII at he Did
Abe0oa.

Francis Murphy, the temperance advo-
cate, made flying visit to Philadelphia
on Monday. He was found a. the Con
tinental hotel. Mr.. Murphy has become
somewhat grayer during his two years
absence in Great Britain, hut he appears
as vigorous and AZ enthusiastic as ever.
81 have come home to go to work, !"
he said. 81 shall make my home in
Brooklyn and my first work will be
done in that city. A preliminary meet
ing will be held tomorrow night, aud
expect to inaugura'e a series of tenn
perance meetings Immediately after.
Since my return, two weeks ago,
have received more than hundred in
vitatiOns from cities and towns all over
the country asking me to visit them and
to conduct meetings. OF course my plans
are yet quite unsettled, but wherever
go / expect to find plenty Of work.
'Were your laborsin Great Britain AZ sue
cessful as they had been in this country?'
eyes, sir, we succeeded beyond ex.
pectation. After the close of the London
meetings we went to work in all the
large towns ami cities of England, Ire
land and Scotland. 1t is said five million
men signed the pledge through the in
tiuence of our two years work. Ward |
organizations were always formed and
the men who signed were regularly fol-
lowed up and visited. Ny son, Thomas
E. Murphy, is still at work in Ireland.
Thjrty.two hundred men joined the for
ces of the blue ribbon during his two
weeks work in Belfast. There is more
ntemperance in England than there is
in America. Secretary Childers told me
that if the people had drunk as much in
1852 as they did in 1876 proportionately
to the population, there would have
been in the British treasury one million
pounds sterling more revenue than there
now is. He said, however, that as the
revenue from the liquor trade decreased
lie found that the amount Of revenue in
creased proportionately from all other
trades. Mr.. Gladstone said that he re-
garded our Gospel temperance work as
the most hopful moveme mt in the cause
of temperance that Great Britain had
ever witnessed.
"Tbe work in England" Mr.. Murphy
continued, twas entirely catholic in its
character. was assisted by men of
nearly all religious creeds, and the Es-
tablished Church Joined hands with the
Dissenters upon the common basis of
Gospel temperance Cardinal Manning,
Canon Wilberforce, Mr.. Spurseon, Mr.. {
Parker and score Of others all lent s
their influence and aid to the movement,
and there was for time no distinction
between Romanists, Episcopalians, Bap- :
lists, Methodis:s, and Unitarians. T.
Miss Fora G. Manning, SMYRNA,
hU-I r,tb .I hr, % |
Iron Bitters for general debility and q
was mace much stronger.
Dull Times.
There seems to be general stagna r
tion of manufacturing business through I
out the country, and its effects can be
seen in this city in the number of un- \
employed men on the streets. Very few a
of the large industrial establishments
are employing their full complement Of q
men, and "laying off, has been the Or
der for several weeks past. There are \
quite numbe. of new buildings being
erected, which furnishes employment
to brick layers, masons and carpenters, !
and work is brisk in some of the ship
yards, but very dull in the car shops, L
which generally provide work for hun /
dreds of men.
This morning all the workmen in r
Roach's shipyard at Chester, with the
exception of the hands in the machine
shop, were put on short time, and it is !
said that within the past two weeks a
number have been laid off. 1t is hoped
that before winter sets in business will
brisk up, so thar rybody who wants
it will be able to obtain work.