The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-03-26
A TYPICAL MEETING.

reform club was organized with 1850
members.
A TYPICAL MEETING.
The meeting held last evening was the
largest and most enthusiastic gathering
that has yet been held. When the train
from Montclair arrived at seven o'clock,
fully three hundred persons, members of
the reform club of that place, landed and
were escorted to the hall by two brass
bands and the Bloomfield club. AS they
filed into the building those who had al
ready assembled greeted them with a
"Chautauqua salute" waving of hand
kerchiefs. Twenty minutes before open
ing of the meeting over 500 persons had
crowded into the hall and hundreds were
turned away, not being able to gain adj
mission.
After the preliminary exercises Mr..
Mabee began his half-hours talk by adj
dressing the moderate drinker. 81 was
for years moderate drinker,' he SAID,
land finally became like you surely will,
a confirmed drunkard, but before my dear,
good mother laid her head to rest she had
the pleasure of knowing was reclaimed,
and since that time / have been q sober
man. You moderate drinkers are the
ones who perpetuate the army which is
yearly filling the drunkard's grave.
Mr.. Rougel, President of the Montclair
Reform Club, spoke n few words about
the work in that place. lie was followed
by Mr.. Crump, Of Crump's Label Factory,
of Montclair, who stated that he had been
a moderate drinker for twenty-five years.
1t was with pride that he now looked
upon his home and saw the vast amount
of temperance work that had been recent
ly accomplished. Where ayear ago they
had thirty saloons, they now had four.
Two had been emptied into the street dur
ing the past week, and the proprietors
were enrolled in their club. lie earnestly
requested the Clubs to provide their men,
bers with places where they could spend
an evening in leading, smoking and such
other amusements as they might approve
of, but in all cases where an evil was re-
moved to replace it with something good.
WAY TO PROHIBITION.
Mr.. English then spoke. 'If such an
army of sober men as see before me to-
night would band themselves together in
each town in the country" he said, ''pro
power. If men who now sit around
saloons and public places squirting thirty
cent molasses juice over the floor would
unite together in the suppression of the
liquor traffic they would soon abolish it
entirely. You men who are now allow
ing the good church women to clothe
your children for Sunday School should
arise to the dignity of manhood and do it
yourselves, instead of clothing the child
rem of the saloon-keepers. Where did
the drunkard come from ? Where is there
a mother who ever nursed drunkard?
Go to work at this evil at the root and
bury the devil so deep that IL he ever gets
out lie will have to go down the other
way"
Mr.. Edward Madison, of Montclair, a
brother of the late VIM. J. Madison, who
committed suicide two weeks ago, made
a few thrilling remarks. in which he said
that II wish to God that this spirit had
been manifest in Bloomfield few weeks
ago. None of you can tell what sorrow it
would have saved
t'The red ribbon means that the saloons
must 40, I" said Mr.. White. "Where two
men have done so much good what can
several hundreds do II we go to work in
earnest? A hotel property that was worth
$50, 900 year ago in Montclair can now
be purchased for 800, 000.''
President Russell welcomed the Mont
clair Club, and spoke strongly against
sweet cider, which, by the way, has been
banished from the stock of several grocery
stores in town.
Mr.. Mabee then made a few closing re-
marks in favor Of signing the pledge, sta
ting that it made no reference to liquor
for medical or mechanical purposes. His
hearers were surprised to hear him say
that he had that afternoon been called
upon by a friend of his from Ulster Co.,
N. Y, who came with a man to negotiate
for hotel property in town, but learning
Mabee and English were at work they
cons idered it a bad outlook, and would
return home. The number of signers Of
the pledge was increased to over 800 at
the close of the meeting. A meeting will
be held this afternoon. Mt which