National Republican., 1884-02-25

Anglican churches, including whole diocesesi
representatives of temperance movement
more general in that great and influential
body than has ever taken place in any one
branch Of the American churches, that all
their evangelizing work in our cities and
rural districts will be in vain while the
liquor traffic and its fruits of indulgence re.
main as now, and when Mr.. Gladstone puts
on record his opinion Of the drinking habits
OF Great Britain rs its chief national peril, ii
is not rashness to prophecy that the temper.
ance question is indeed coming to the front
in the civilized world as great political, as
well as economic aid moral issue, may tho
God Of nations, our fathers God, help us TO
meet it.
Hon. Mr.. Price, Of Wisconsin, was next in.
tToduced. lie said that twenty -five-years ago
IL would have been impossible for him to
come TO congress as n representative of the
Badger State" holding the strengthens that
he does on the temperance question. At that
time nearly every member of the state judi
cary and legislature were drinking men. At
that time also, political conventions in Wis
consin were simply drunken orgies To-day
those officers are temperance men, and nc
liquor can he found at either democratic or
republican conventions. The evil influences
and destructive forces of intempcrance must
be met and counteracted.
II am disposed" said the speaker "to do
as they did at the Donnybrook fair, wherever
you see head hit it," You cannot reach
the whisky men by moral suasion. They will
not come where churches are. They even
hate the men that build churches. The
strong arm of the law alone can reach them.
This is the greatest subject that can possibly
occupy the attention of American statesmen.
We have the right TO say to the liquor dealer,
your practices are bad and you must desist.
We dare not resist the appeals of starving
children. drunkards and moderate drinkers.
The word prohibition" should be inscribed
on the stars and stripes, and they should be
raised and never lowered until success
crowns our efforts.
Hon. Joseph d. Taylor addressed the
meeting next. lie sad the churches
have never been so terribly in earnest In the
matter of Temperance as they arc now. In
Washington they are especially SO. They are
wide awake and alive TO the situation. The
churches in Ohio were moved last year as
they were never moved before. When the
time arrives that all the churches in
this country are moved as the
churches at the national capital are, no
evil can withstand them, and tho accursed
traffic will be swept into the ocean. When
the temperance question was submitted to the
voters of Ohio, no less than 10000 mon-not
women and children-voted for nothing less
than prohibition. The fight should be kept
up in this city until there shall not be q
vestige of this traffic under the shadow of the
dome. It is burning shame and a stigma
on the capital city of this great country that
there should be 1000 barrooms here.
Keep up the fight. and it will
not be long before this traffic will
20 down or the nation will go down. Every
year the people of this country are paying
money enough for the support of the victims
of this unholy traffic TO keep up standing
army that would reach from ocean to ocean.
This nation cannot permit q class Of men TO
stay in it who overturn the happiness OF one
fourth of its people. 81 hope to see the
time" concluded the speaker, when the
whisky barrels will be pitched into the sea
and mountains piled on them to keep them
out of sight"
Rev. DIR. Bartlett being called upon came
forward and expressed full sympathy with
the temperance movement and his willingness
TO cooperate in it.
Just before the close of the meeting a ven
cradle and white haired old gentleman, named
George w. Clark, arose and sang in tremu-
lous voice, full of earnestness q temperance
rallying song of the olden time.
DR.. Chickering announced that the society
would hold another meeting at the Garfield
Memorial church next Sunday evening.