The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
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: thcal High Mass was commenced. Bishc
Mcmahon, arrayed in pontifcal robes, al
peared on the altar followed by many
the leading priests in the diocese and di
Ingu:shed professor of st. Charles Coleg
Baltimore, Nd, Father Charles Judge
/ BISHOP McMAHoS's REMARKS
have come five hundred miles to gree
you to-day on the occasion of the Fifteent
Annual Convention of the Catholic To
tai Abstinence Union of America 70
come from all parts of the United States
priests, professional men, merchants, me-
of all avocations oflife. You have come +
advance great and holy cause, not onl,
Tor the appreciation Of men, but of God.
Is not my duly to suggest what plans Vol
may form. what measures you may adopt, t.
promote your holy cause-but it is my tasI
TO bid you welcome to the largest city il
Connecticut. and 10 rejoice in the strenuou!
exertions you are making in your labor o.
love. Confident indeed am I that yeu,
deliberations will be characterized with wis.
dom and the spirit Of eharity-the spirit oil
| the Church. Confident am l also that these
deliberations will be fruitful of the best re.
suits. Fathers and gentlemen, I bid you
welcome, and may God bless your convention.
At the afternoon session on the 5th, Mr.
W. H. Brine, of Somerville, Mass, offered
the following resolution, which was adopted
GENERAL GRANT.
Whereas. We have learned with profound
sorrow Of the death of US. Grant, and desire
to give expression of our sorrow for the Ma
TONS loss of one whose heroic patriotism
stands as model for all time; whose self-re-
lance and submission to the Divine will In his
hour of deep distress and fearful agony have
endeared him to the heart of this Nation;
Resolved, That his true and loyal devotion
to the Union, his valor and skill as leader
in battle, his conscientious management OF
true and noble character, will ever serve
as beacon light to future generations.
Resolved, That in this hour of Nation 8
grief for devoted son, our hearts 60 forth
in sympathy profound for the wife and chill.
dren of the illustrious dead, whose deeds have
embalmed his memory in the hearts of the
American people.
The PRESIDENTS REPORT.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION:
1t is gratifying to be able to say to this
Convention that % new societies have been
added, as q gain, to our Union roll during
the past year. The amount of per capita
tax received has not only been in excess Of
the receipts of other years, but has been
sent in more promptly. To be able to
make this statement in the face of the geEer-
al depression prevailing throughout the coun-
try, when many of our people have been
without constant employment or in financial
straits, is to give unmistakable evidence of
the advancement and success of our cause.
The eloquent encouragement given at our
Chicago meeting by the distinguished West
ern preates, who honored US by their pres
ence and fortified US by their cooperation,
has had a msrked influence upon the coun-
try. Two venerable Archbishops, repre-
senting hundreds of thousands of Catholics in
their respective provinces, emphasized the
fact in Central Music Hall. Chicago, that no
Catholic movement of the day is more nee
essary than ours, and none can accomplish
more for the moral welfare of our people.
The eloquent tributes given to our cause by
five distinguished prelates of the American
church OF our Fourteenth Annual Convention,
in Chicago, will long be cherished in CRATE.
full remembrance y all temperance men, and
be quoted as motive for our labors ami
stimulus to our zeal.
Although we have much to be grateful for,
yet our membership is lamentafly small
much smaller than the Catholics Of this coun-
try should permit it to be in view of the
good our Union can effect, and not so strong
as the necessities of the case require. For
when we reflect that within the last 25 years
our teachers have increased rs to 80 per
cent. and pupils attending school more than
so per cent, yet crime has increased 60 per
cent--about keeping pace with the traffic in
liquor-we must bear in mind that only
very powerful and very persistent effort can
bring about much improvement. The dis
graceful statistics 10 our national shame that
tells US the American people spend nine
hundred millions of dollars for intoxicating
liquors, and but about eight hundred millions
for bread and meat, are revelation of the
enormity of the drink evil, as they are
warning to temperance workers Of the gigan-
tic task that lies before them of restraining
by their persuasion, influence and example
the people of our land from indulglug an
appetite that inevitably invites domestic and
social discord as we'll as national dishonor.
In the city of New York SO per cent. of the
persons confined in the House of Industry
were sent there for liquor crimes. This as
founding fact is more readily accounted for
when we remember more alarming fact
still, that out Of the number of about 5000
liquor sellers in that metropolis 6, 438 had
q served their time in some prison or JAIL
the law requires that no one shall
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can certify that he ia Of good moral character.
No figures or statistics can tell the whole
truth of the cost of the liquor traffic or the
misery it entails, "but only such portion of
TRUTHS forced on official recognition" All
dfunkards are not placed under arrest
for their disorderly conduct; not half the
misery their debsuchery produces ever re-
ceives public attention.
THE SALOON.
The liquor saloon is no longer established
to supply public demand, but it is set up
to create a demand for the vile stuff it deals
in. The rumsellers not only establish their
places where there is no call for them, but
they 60 10 work Systematically to make
customers. The rumseler does not wait for
his victims he goes out in search Of them,
by making use of every alluring enticement
to bring regular customers to his bar. The
making Of drunkards and the building up of
habits Of intemperance he calls his legiti
mate and respectable business. The antor-
tunate occasional drunksrd is more odious
in the eyes of the general public than the
constant and systematic tippler. But the
steady stream of business flows to the rum
sellers den by means of the constant and re-
peaied over-indulgence of the Incorporate
man hence he is the " customer" who must
be fattered, deluded and csjoled while the
noisy drunkard, although perhaps not so in
furious to himself or society, must be placed
under arrest, be rudely banished from the
place of revelry. lest he may bring stain
to the respectability" to the house.
Hence, it is difficult to obtain anything like
sn adequate knowledge Of the extent and
enormity of the drink evil, for statistics are
gathered largely from the cases of habitual
drupkards, while but comparatively little
attention is given to the far larger and more
dangerous class of the habitually incorporate.
The monstrous evil being thus so deep root
ed, Widespread and alarming, what weighty
task is ours when we aim to diminish its
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