St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-11
BLUE RIBBONS.
Two Hundred and Twenty-Five More
Signers Last Night.
Market Hall Filled-Addresses by Mr.. MUIR
phy and Son.

son on the subject of temperance. The
gospel services were opened by Mr. Murphy
by reading selections from the ifty-eighth
chapter of Isaiah, the lesson drawn by him
from which was that we should forget our
selves and put away all selishness in our
endeavor to help our fellow men. At the
conclusion of the reading he knelt
in prayer, in which invocation
he expressly asked the blessing
of God upon Bishop Ireland and the Father
Mathew Total Abstinence society, of this
city, for their faithful work for temperance
in the state and city. At the conclusion of
his prayer, after kindly welcoming the great
gathering, he paid glowing tribute TO this
beautiful city, lifted up upon the hill sides
beside the headwaters Of the Mississippi, and
which was the rival of Chicago as the COM
mercial metropolis of the great west. All its
magnificent structures were founded on the
solid bed rock, and its citizens should learn
the lesson from them to build up their char
acters upon a firm and immOvable basis
There was enough in this city
of pure and exhilarating air, and
rush of business and enterprise
to get drunk on, without the use of intoxi-
eating liquors, and it was the great duty of
all to keep head and heart busy, to maintain
the honor and commercial integrity and
supremacy of this great throbbing center of
trade and commerce. He had met with
nothing but kindness here from the people
and the press, and he had not come here to
throw words (more hurtful than stones at
any poor soul who had made mistake and
had wandered from the right path He be-
lieved in kind words good manners and
gentleness toward these rs well as others,
which were Of themselves title Of nobility,
and were within the reach of all. He did
not believe in the teaching of the rod, though
his mother had worn out his clothes
some that way, and though
he supposed he deserved it, he wished she
had always forgiven, as she often did, than
ever whipped.
He had been accused by good temperance
people of being in league with the saloon
keepers, because he said that there were
noble men among that class, who would DO
any body as good turn as any other class
Of people. He had been in the business
true. Why, that very day as he was passing
a saloon in this city, he saw a big handsome
man who owned it standing in the door, and
he couldn't help saying. Glow are you"
Well, what do you suppose he said?
Why, he said, 'Are you that
Mr.. Murphy" answered, yes"
''well,'' said he, 81 hope you viii do good
here and get good many to sign the pledge
who ought to. 1 wish you all possible sue
cess" Was that not better than to have him
say: "There goes that awful Murphy; how
I'd like to get hold of him and shake the day
lights out of him!'
In conclusion Mr.. Murphy made an earn
est appeal to our citizens 10 come up and aid
the Women's Christian Temperance union
pecuniarily in this work, stating that it alone
with feeble treasury was trying to carry
forward this work not for prominence but
for the good of the people and did not
see its way clear beyond Friday evening.
He was in hopes the city council would give
them the use of this fine hall free, and he
was going to see the council, who may have
boys add friends who may be saved to them
selves and the city by this work, and ask
them himself. He had not the least doubt
but they would do it.
On being introduced by his father Thomas
E. Murphy was warmly applauded by the
audience. His theme at first was that of
personal influence, and there was no man or
woman but exercised this either for good or
for evil in the community in which they re-
sided. This eXerted influence was likened
to spring on a mountain side which a single
OK could drink dry, out of which grew the
great river that ever increasing in size and
usefulness finally merged in the Atlantic
In this connection he told the anecdote of
the Irishman, who after hearing a speech of
Fred Douglas was so pleased with that he
thought every one must be equally so. On
being told that the speech was of no account
because it was delivered by a mulatto, or
half negro, he replied that ''if half nagur
could do that, whole nagur could beat the
prophet jeremiah
The assertion that if man put on blue
ribbon that it was equal to an admission that
he had led dissipated life, was about as thin
as it would be TO assert that if n man pre-
ferred to be born in stable that of necessity
he was a horse. The man or woman who
putS VIZ tuC bluC iluDOu LltIGlk tuIOhS his Or
her influence for the right, and it saws to
every one they meet without having to ask
any questions "my face is set against
drink" The story was told in this connec-
ton of the mayor OF Kent, England, the first
to put on the blue ribbon there, an example
caught up and followed by a great concoursc
of citizens, which was just such an act as
was wanted here from some respected cid-
zen who would thus grandly
and fearlessly lead the way.
The example of Mrs. Hayes, who banished
wine for four years from the White house.
made it the fash--' - link healths in Wash
ington parties tn lemon do e',7 '-f..,-"- ..
and failed b" the VINE merchants Of tina
city, thoroughly il ustfaleD ,no ,.m- OF per
sonal influence ii single woman.
a man W spends s. a week for whisky
costs his ATTY s4.25 and pats only - cents
into tn: labor market, thus paralyzing in
dus y, increasing taxation and necessta-
uus expenditure in jsils, etc. 1t costs -, 600
each on the average TO maintain the $40
saloons in St. Paul, or 81, $50, 900, and the
running of these saloons gives employment
to 1,O40 men. This money invested in the
manufacture of iron, cotton goods. or i'm
moving the produce of the land to market.
would give direct and indirect employ
ments to 10000 persons. Therefore, this
business was detrimental to the cause OF
business and humanity and the will of the
people should be raised against
it aud make itself felt
The influence of the moderate drinker.
who though himself, on account of cold
phlegmatic temperament could guage his
cups, upon the persons, sociable. hot blooded
man and mankind in general, was said to be
far worse than that o. the drunkard. He
who spent money in saloons that was needed
at home was worse than an iufdel. The