Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-05
BAIN'S LECTURE.
a FINE TEmrERASur ptsyusYo
Arguing rhaI the Liquor rrsmc U.npo, ito
Regulated, nut must lie Entirely
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Prohibited
temperance meeting, under the au-
spices OF tho Womcn's Christian Temper
anoe union, was held in tho court house
Yesterday afternoon. About four hundred
ladies and gontlomon were present. Rey.
T. H. Houpt, Of Grace Lutheran church,
presided, and several othor city clergymcu
were present. Tho music was furnished
by tho choir OF the Duke street NJ. +.
church, with coruot accompaniment by
MIR. h,llhetlCr. Aftor hymn had been
sung by the choir aud prayer
offered by Rov. lloupt, Mr.. G.. w.
Bain, tho noted temperance lecturer,
was introduced for tho first timo
to Lancaster audience. IIo is fiuo
looking man of middle age, with pleasant
face, intellectual head aud solid physique.
Both in appearance and manner of speak
ing he somewhat resembles tho famous
inlidel Robert lngersoll. lie is vehement
in delivery and frequently uses the ingcr-
soil chUckle when ho knows hc has made
a good point. lie said he was not only
from Kentucky, u state that manufactured
moro whisky than any other, but was u
native of Bourbon county, tho garden spot
OF tho whisky interest, but he thanked
God he had hoou saved by tho teach.
ings Ot good mother, the Sunday
school and tho church from falling u
victim to the evil influences by which he
was surrounded. Uo made an earnest
plea for pure American homes and moral
education. Tho thrco great public Cdu.
Gators are tho public schools the church
and the saloons. II the schools and tho
churches make men better aud promote
virtue and intelligence, they should be
lint Il
conduce 10 crime and misery they should
be put down. And SO OF tho saloons-if
they tend to make homes happy, make
men moro virtuOus and intelligent,
they shouid be encouraged ii they
have au opposite tendency they
should DO put down. The speaker
then drew vivid picture OF the
evils resulting from drunkenness aud tho
enormous cost to the people. While We
pay only hundred millions Of dollars
annually for the schools and hundred
millions for the churches, the enormous
sum of seven hundred aud fifty millions
is paid for keeping up the saloons. Hc
held that the republic must put down this
great evil or it would put down tho re-
public. Tho liquor traffic cannot DO reg
| u,atcd, it must be prohibited. You may
license the best man in the world aud make
pay IApNSAlNlS bl hb4 ~ iNl us l|NAlaSN''
| but that will not cure the vice but will
| still make druukards and dCsolate homes.
| The nation that does not give up its vices
will perish by its vices. He iastanccd
| Greece and ROmo and other fallen nations
rs examples by which we should take warn.
| ing, There are now two armies CDnteudinR
| for the mastery on this QuestiOn-the one
IS the liquor sellers Personal Liberty
league the other the Christian Women,
| Temperance union. One or tho other Ot
these must 60 down aud it remain for the
| people, By their votes, to say which i
shall DC. The speaker interapcrsed hIi
argument with many apt anecdotes that
| provoked much merriment. Before con
GLIDING he called on al present to contrib
! ute literally TO q collection that would h
lifted for the benefit Of the cause. Whilg
the choir was singing hymn, the colioc
ton was taken up and appeared to DO {
! liberal one.
Rev. Houpt announced that on the 18th
OF May Miss Narc.ssa +. White will lee
ture in the court house. The audience wa
dism ssed with beuedction by Rev. &c
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