Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-12
PUSHING THE WORK.
The Temperance Convention at Hart
 ford-CoIoneI Rain's Talk.

The Temuerauce Convention at Hart
 Eord-CoIoneI Ratn's Talk.
 The temperance mass meeting held in Hartford Wednesday was very enthusiastic and one of the most notable held in several years in the interest of the cause. The ad
 dresses were all noteworthy and able. In addition to those already outlined is the fol lowing sketch of Colonel Bain's He spoke of his previous visit to Connecticut. He said the question at issue is worthy the attention of the great statesmen. He had been de- scribed as agitator. An agitator was man who raised the steam of public opinion, which the statesmen turn on when the pres sure becomes great enough. A southern statesman had said that the liquor interest was the greatest of the country. If the coun- try gets in debt, drink outl If State or county gets in debt, drink out! But the country must be paid and it's debts raised by those who have something to pay with. The saloon is public educator, but of the worst sort. For every dollar paid the school teach CTS there have been $7. 7.50 paid to the saloons For every dollar paid for the support of the gospel $7.50 went to the saloons. We SOW what we reap. If the seed be distilleries or the one hundred and fifty thousand saloons of this country the crop will be drunken men France with all it's glorious qualities needs the one thing she has not, the glorious Chris tian home. We have to-day 150,000 bat teries throwing destruction into our homes and every day the walls of fifty homes crum- ble under the attack. You may have high tax or low tax, but high or low it is sin tax. There isn't rose on the bonnet of liquor dealers wifes hat that did not cost rose from some other womans cheeks. There are two parties in this country, the advocates of .F'personal liberty" and those of home Prayers are heard, but ballots are counted We should be satisfied if license should be granted, if the application be signed by the women of the neighborhood. Who is on the Lords side, not when victory comes, but who is on his side nows (Applause.) The speak CT detailed how his fathers home had been wrecked by intemperance and said, ''I owe this soul destroying spirit something and I hope to pay it" It is said of an en- peror that he found Rome city of brick and left it one of marble, but it is a nobler thing to say of that Ohio woman that she found the White House dedicated to the. use of liquor and left it dedicated to temperance. The South fought against great moral principle with God Almighty behind it, land we couldn't win" You don't hear any thing about high license down South. When the South jumps she will jump clear from free liquor to prohibition. The speaker filled nearly an hour with a string of anecdotes that brimmed with peculiar humor that defes reproduction, but was most heartily applauded. When he started for California he saw the converging lines of rail way that ten miles away were far too narrow for train, but the train passed. Far ahead was q mountain on the track, but when the train reached the point there was no obstruc
 ticn and he settled himself in his seat feeling that his through ticket would bring him to the end safely. He had through ticket in this temperance business, and spite of con verging tracks and mountains, it would bring him through in triumph. (Applause)
 In the distance were vessels. There was ship, and she was coming with the waves, and her crew were throwing off her deck load. She was the John A. Logan, and be- yond her was a great ocean steamer, both hastening all they could. Still further out were two slow, heavy tugs swinging in, though they did not want to. They were Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks. They didn't want to come, but they must.