The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-13
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION.

The Recent Meeting in New York of the
National Temperance Society-Interest-
ing Annual Report.
The National Temperance Society
celebrated its twentieth anniversary at
the Broadway Tabernacle, on Tuesday
evening, General Clinton B. Fiske pre-
siding. A large assembly filled the
Tabernacle, and the meeting was one
of the most enthusiastic and inspiring
that the society has held for years.
Mr.. j. N. Stearns, Secretary, read
the annual report, of which the follow
ing is an abstract:
Much effective work has been done
to promote the more thorough enforce
ment of restrictive and prohbitory
laws Three additional State LegiS-
latures Oregon, Rhode Island and
Tennessee) have voted to submit Pro-
hibitory Constitutional amendments to.
the people More fully than ever be-
fore the suppression of the liquor
traffic has come to be recognized as one
of the foremost issues in local, State
and National politics.
Nearly every Legislature in the Ma
ton which has been in session during
the year has agitated the liquor ques--
ton. Bills of every variety have been
presented-for constitutional prohibit
ton, local option, local prohibition,
scientific temperance, high license, pro-
hibition, anti-treatino, as well as for,
amendments to existing laws-almost
without number. The liquor interest
has been strongly represented at every
capital to secure license for their bust
ness with few restrictions, and to OPP
pose all legislation which interferes with
their traffic. SO far as heard from no.
adverse legislation has been consum-
mated. The United States Senate again
passed the bill to provide for a Nation
al Commission of Inquiry concerning
the alcoholic liquor traffic The House
of Representatives passed a bill in
creasing the liquor-license fees in the
District of Columbia. The distllers and
whisky spectators secured from the
late Secretary of the Treasury a ruling
in their special interest, the practical
effect of which was to extend the bond
ed whisky period for seven months-an
extension which the previous Sec
rotary of the Treasury and Con-
gress had declined to authorize.
To evade the payment of the
already overdue revenue tax, whisky
has to some extent bean withdrawn and
shipped to foreign ports, and returned
and placed on the market as imported
whisky. The present Secretary of the
Treasury has thwarted this speculative
scheme by directing that the customs
officials shall turn over to the Internal
Revenue officers all such re-imported
whisky for the collection of the in
ternal-revenue tax. Thus in various
ways the liquor question, in its national
aspect, assumes steadily increasing
prominence and importance.
During the year the receipts from
memberships and donations have been
6,095.81; legacies, 81, 2S457; invested
funds, $1,516.67, making total of
$S, 5000. The total missionary work
of the society has been over S12, 900.
During the past year there have been
published 1872 new publications, six of
which have been bound volumes for
| Sabbath-school libraries, 16 pamphlets
and 10 tracts, lesson leaves and mis-.
cellaneous publications.
William ID. Porter, ESQ. treasurer, re-
ported the entire receipts of the year to
be 500, 2l8.14; total expenses, $50, 2S9.-
Il. Cash on hand May /, 1885, $50. Ga.
Effective addresses were delivered by
Rev. Drs. L. /. Cuyler, of Brooklyn,
and Daniel Dorchester, of Massachu-
sets, and Rev. c. II. Mead, of Hornells-
vile, N. Y, special missionary of the
society among the freedmen of the
South. Among the resolutions adopted
was the following:
| ReSOrcd, That we earnestly urge all Tenn
| perance organizations throughout our own
| country and in other lands to unite in the
month of September next in celebrations to
! fifty commemorate the completion of the first
century of the Temperance reform, us inau.
gurated by the pioneer labors and the historic
essay by DR. Benjamin Rush. of Philadelphia:
AN Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits
upon the Human Body and Mind" first pub
lshed in 1855.
The following We're elected officers for
the ensuing year: President, TIL. Cuyler,
d. d., New York; Corresponding and
Recording Secretary, j. N. Stearns;
Treasurer, William d. Porter. y.
| Observer.