St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-04
cided to arrange the event for some future
date Dues to the amount of S25 were col
lected, when the meeting adjourned
WEST ST. PAUL TEMPERANCE.
Eloquent Addresses by Father Shan
ley, Father Gallagher and
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The hall of st. Michaels church was filed to
its fullest capacity last evening" to listen to the
interesting programme of entertainment pre-
pared by st. Michael's League of the Cross This
consisted of vocal selections of high merit, and
several exceedingly interesting addresses on the
subject of temperance, abstinence and high
license.
The exercises opened with an overture by II.
NJ Lachen, the songs, Sailing and 1.-THE Harp
of Taras Halls by j. C, Hanley, 81 Fear no
Foe'' and kathleen Mavourneen,' by E. W
White, Paddy Duffy's Cart by L. I. Casserby,
the ''Irish Emigrant' and ''Distant Shore by
j. J. Heyes, and the duet ''Larbord Watch,'' by
Messrs. White and Heyes
Appropriately sandwiched between these
musical enjoyments were the addresses, all of
which we're received by the audience with marks
of warm appreciation. The first was made by
Mr. Nolan which was listened to with great inter-
est. The second in order was that made by C.
=. Stanley and veteran Father Mathew, now of
st. Michaels church, who proposed to elect men
who would keep their word, even if they sold
whisky, to the legislature, to vote for high
license in this state to thus stem the tide of
wholesale drunkenness.
The pastor of St. Michael's church, who stands
firmly and unfinchingly at the head
of this growing movement in
the Sixth ward, then introduced Rev. Father
Stanley, OF the Cathedral to the gathering, who,
after some reminiscent remarks of early time
Temperance movements in st. Michaels parish,
in which che was leader, reviewed at
length the growth of the temperance
movement in the Catholic church of
this city and the Northwest, from
the time it was entered upon by handful of
ssfoolish bishops and preists,' and was viewed
by the majority as heretica to Catholicism, until
after the lapse of fifteen years the movement
had been so blessed of God as to place its up
do IN af noiO nv itS anarniac in
church an insignificant few.
The Catholic doctrine of abstinence was that
of common sense, and hostility to gorging the
stomach TO ruin the soul and body. he detailed
at length the physical wrecking of the bodily
powers of man by the use of damnable intoxi-
cants and dwelt forcibly upon the economical
benefits of temperance to the abstainer, his
family, the church and the country. He knew
of corner lots in West St. Paul owned by men
who had listened to his advice and quit drink
and with the ten cents Withheld from the Catholic
rnmseller had built happy and comfortable homes
upon them. The keepers of these doggeries in
West and st. Paul proper, were disgrace the
Catholic church, people and name, and the crime,
scandal and poverty created by them made him
blush as a priest when he read Catholic names in
the papers concerned in nearly every unpleasant
happening in the city. He was an uncompro-
missing total absticence man of long standing,
and he should remain so to the very end.
Rev. Father Gallagher announced that Monday
evening, March II, the next meeting of the league
would be held at that place, it being the anniver-
sary of Ireland's patron saint, at which many
others, Rev. Father O'Reilly, of Saltwater will
speak, and closed with some very determined
words in regard to what the league proposed to
do in regard to unlicensed parties who were sell
ing whisky out of kerosene barrels in the Sixth
ward the proof of which had been lately fur
nished