New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-11
MR.. CHESS INDIGNATION
THREATENED BY ANONYMOUS WRITERS.
HIS RELIEF IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MEETINGS


HIS BELIEF IN M'GLoRY-TEMPERANCE MEETINGS.
AND SPEECHES YESTERDAY.
Three thousand people assembled III cooper
Union Hall yesterday afternoon at the meeting OF
the Manhattan Temperance Association. AFTER inc
usual musical programme, including several waltzeS
and gaops on the violin, President Gibbs announced
that he would let the audience know the Huth VI
's I've Kent NV month Shut lust long enough. I've had
hot shot and shell poured at me from every side since
threatening me with all sorts Of abuse Four hundred
without names is the largest number OF the Ra h
reporters can find anything to laugh at they write II up
and leave ont everything else. They flood my resta-
TO get a club to receive the next one But
for all that our grand has received an impetus
newer cease When went to McGlory in the TOmbs
everybody recognized me- eonid hear them All
Aesocaton Billy took me to his heart cart s9yf ge e
Your kind words have cut me to tine mep apa
NY friends don't know whether that man Is irauu oI
not eTt at 1ns as ANYTHING to say against what
rye done let him raise his hand and speak, or elso g'
out this place. I'm mad now, and want you rcPoi'
Agents Of the Society the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Tas and 10 watch me- so that should make
no false statements What do you thnk OF tnatI 10 Ie
think was going to perure myselfl No! They wanted
little notorety and to get their names In the newspa
pers and they got it. If they would attend 10 the oHs
ness instead Of getting paid for doing nothing the public
would be glad OF IL.
The two speakers of the afternoon were Horace
Waters and DR.. Dio Lewis who debated the ques-
ton of prohibition. Mr. Waters said:
tits the third party in politics that overcomes every
votes in 1870 which in 1860 elected Abraham Lincoln
So it il with us We stop the liquor trallc by Da
lot The Republican party is waverng. the DemOcrsuc
party Is the liquor party, but the prohibition party nous
the balance power In 1888 we shall nearly sweep tne
land, and in 1892 will nave Pr0nlDtoh fTeSiueu'
and Prohibition Governors in all the States
DR.. Dio Lewis spoke against prohibition. lie
said:
Your TEMPERANCE work IS TO go down to the drunkard
In his darkness weapons reason, persuasion,
and brothery love force The Washngtonan move
ment, a purely moral work, produced revolution;
constable the temperance movement began to go back
ward License OF liquor the shameless nfamy OF our
civilizations but prohibition, too. Is an error Inc use OF
force on any beside criminals is the mistake OF our
civilization The Government should treat II IKE any
other evil, and NEEDLE with 1t when 1t becomes a
crime ., r.,
j. g. Finch of Nebraska, at the meeting of the
American Temperance Union held in ChiGkerng
Hall Yesterday afternoon replied TO Dr. DO Lewis
recent lectures against prohibition. Among other
things he said:
When the Government of this country was established
more than century ago, the church, the grocery store
the drygoods store and the grogshOp were all admitted
on an equal footing The church has been tried ana not
been found wanting. Its work has been elevatlng ana
ennoblng The grocery store and dygOods store nave
their right 10 stay. But the grogshop mas
been found wanting It's influence has been pefncOus
from the beginning. Instead or spreading cOhtehtueht
and prosperity. il breeds discomfort ana rum.