New-York tribune., 1884-03-24
HIGH LICENSE.
WHAT THE ROOSEVELT BILL WILL DO
srrrcHEs AT Yesterdays TEMPERANCE MSEl-
Yrrc wrNnpuT PHILLIPS.

errEcHEs AT YESTERDAYS TBMPEkANVh NM
INGs-wENDELL PHILLIPS.
"a discussion of the Roosevelt Hlsh LICENSE no
byl y was announced in large letters On . Pt;on
gramme of the Manhattan & iempef Wonderful meet
}ngp exclaimed President G1oos, ekclteufs ~ nIat
vifrated between the choir on tne Ie;v t ~ ON tho
60, end tbe solid phalanx OF ministers on .,Io
form am anToL liz about your Roosevelt bill" he e1-
clsmed gazing defiantly at the audience Ga.enSent
know that eT we rf Olns Ell II ySn % We're going
ohsorb fhe whole Republican party. Inc party
sbat's the weakest will seek our balance Oh power
but don't yield it until So Sof ses a an that's meant
when the Governor signs the hoose'ei' Ai"'iin''n
bill" ur,;.1 of1rd,ana
He said .,. u,u,1,
givc nv hearty goodwill to the Roosevelt High NJ M
sense bin 1t will be great movement TO purge ous @ the
crgnton of this city 1t will secure the sancy Vi 'o
ssbbath When man pays such sum for license % @ nc
viii take not to forfeit II II vii break cS R SUS aim 70
defy free legislation The men who are 50 low as sS
edge themselves body and SOUL 10 sucn hi 1itS
- are the very who are now handnng TINS lltny
that we are so of in the city departments
DR. T. S. Lambert was of different opinion He
said: Id
ucsnSe S What's $500 Tne Fifth Avenue Hotel could
knock Il out in day II they had good KepHYMIcI1 nc MI
Convention stepped into liquorshOp last week 9ud m
snnansel-No no. it WAS only because wanted 10 hh"
an expressman there. stopped to tax Win tne aid pS Se
@What do You think the Roosevelt billi sald l. bs
don't think of II al all" said he "but shouldn't thmS the
nconle would like 10 nav for IT," But IT'S the saloon,
{cenars who will have to paw" said l. mot at all,
sa,d he the Legislature raises the ncehse We sS
raise the price of dTams As near as can ,i %
make $500 year more than do now, IL the Dill shoulu
pass"
The Rev. G. c. Goss said;
The Roosevelt men and the Prohibition men ought 10
have combined their forces and had prohibition and hgh
license both But I'll have prohibition in spite Gf them
Next November III put vote into the oallot-OOA Win
Prohihtou" written IL, and advise every one OF
you to do the same Mr.. Gibbs" GOod!I
Robert Kenyon, an East Side street evangelist,
said:
We have the Lord God Almighty to fight our battles
and we don't care about Roosevelt or any other man.
Father Mcclellan the aged temperance agltator,
was the last speaker He said:
can say very little about the Roosevelt BILL hut am
for IL IL is the first line of intrenchmcns, ana we nave
TO take that before go any further II we can
accomplish this then let us rally our forces aho al Ie
'tThere's been fifty dollars worth of entertain
mcnt in tins meeting said Mr. Gibbs as he came
forward to close the exercises; Ushers, pass the
plates and don't let us have any cOppers!"
The Rev. JdStin ID. Fulton delivered an address
on Wendell Phillips at the meeting of the American
Temperance Uuion in Chickering Hall yesterday
afternoon. He said III part:
The jeremiah Of the nineteenth century has closed his
accounts and gone hence He the grandcst orator
America ever saw. He was Outand-Out prOmhitl0nst
to the He fought against the evils OF tRe gay WI"
al his strength and had the satisfaction Of seeing the
greatest Of all evils, human slavery driven from the
limited States. Wendell Phillips opposed the HquOr
traffic to the end of his life.