Smyrna times., 1885-07-08
Temnerance in the Grove.
THE FOURTH ON CAMDEN CAMP
GROUND.

Grove. The large gathering OF peOPlo
in attendance upon the occasion was
chiefly made up from those neighbOr-
hoods in close proximity to the grove,
though communities fifteen and twenty
miles away were well represented es-
pecially is this true Of Duck Creek and
KentOn hundreds, the former sending
a hundred or more and the latter
nearly as many. The day, aside from
the addresses was spent in regular pic
mic style, lunch baskets, as it were,
almost groaning under their loads OF
tempting and delicate viands. The
meeting was called to order shortly |
after ten o'clock by Wilson w. Brown,
of Wyoming, who called to the stand |
to be the the presiding officer of the |
meeting DR.. L. w. Cooper, of Cam |
den. Thos. B. COursey, of Frederica ;
DR.. w. T. Collins, of Smyrna; Hon. }.
A. Nicholson, Dover; w. r. Phillips,
Milford Mrs. Annie II. Martindale, of
Dover, representing the w. {. Il. u;
and Miss Mary Crouch, also of Dover,
representing the Good Templars, were
announced as vice-presidents. The
Rev. J. F. Stonecipher, of the Presby-
terian Church, of Dover, made a strong
Cooper in taking the chair made Il
short speech, laying especial stress
in his remarks upon individual effort.
By reason of some defect in the ar
rangements, the Rev. Jahu Dewitt
Miller, of Brooklyn, who was an
nounced to speak in the morning, did
not arrive till noon, the morning hour
was accordingly filled in by i'm
promptu addresses by Revs. J. b.
Quigg, Of this place, and T. +. Terry,
of New Castle. The speech of each
of these gentlemen was Il dcCided
| credit alike to themselves and t. the
occasion, cvincing in them both a
| heaytin ess in the cause and a store Of
information and thought ready at any
moment to be hurled against the liquor
| traffic.
LISTENING TO NEAL DOW.
The afternoon meeting was begun
! promptly at , o'clock, the Rev. j. Il.
| Merritt opening the meeting with
prayer. Long before this hour the
seats in front Of the speakers stand
began to fill up and the number of
carriages in the grove in the morning
was wonderfully multiplied and when,
| therefore, that pioneer of temperance
workers, that veteran prohibitiOnist,
| Hon. Neal Dow, Of the State of Maine,
was introduced, he had before him
wnat he termed "a large, Il very large
gathering for this place" Mr.. Dow is
a grand and strong speaker. Ia his
address Of an hour and a-half he dealt
in the main with the liquor question as
affecting our institutions both National
and State, making the broad assertion
that there was not Il sovereign State
in this great Union that was not absO-
lutely dominated and controlled by th'
rum sellers" In this connection he
referred to the fact that little more
than than two years ago when The
people of Little Delaware wanted th,
opportunity to vote on the question q
local option and asked the legislator,
to grant them this prayer, the Liquo
League inform u. :. Senator Bay
ard that they, the rumsellers, don
want local option in Delaware. Sena
tor Bayard accordingly writes lette
to Il State Senator and the petition
f signed by fifteen thousand OF the citi
zens Of this little commonwealth i
thrown into the wastebasket. lie sal,
, | that Mr.. Bayard uttered what was at
2 | solutely false when he said that PrOhi
bitiOn was a failure. On the contrary
| said Mr.. Dow, wherever it has bee
| tried it has proven Il grand success,
| He then went quite into detail of it
= | successful working in his own State
= resulting in the complete depletion {
A the liquor traffic except in the larg
cities and towns, and wonderfully criI
/, pling it even in them. He said that tn
r vast industry of his State, the lumbe
4 interests, that should have hrOugl
@ countless millions to the States wealt
: was absolutely wasted, because I'll
= ships going out loaded with lumbt
= came back ladened with Jamaica rul
v that was quickly converted into Ne
n England rum, running and impOVerisl
e ing the people. lie was very sever
= on both the Republican and Democrat
II parties, saying that they were both
the hands of the rum sellers, abs
l. lutely so; that there was now no lea,
;. ing issue dividing them. Protectiu
l. to American industries could N
r be considered an issue, for the
I there were some Democrats who we
e prOtectiOnists as there were also son
d Republicans who were free trader
N THAT lie and fraud, - said he, the
a cent silver dollar, both parties were
al favor of, why? simply because Il
is rum sellers were not against it,"
IN believes the politicians can only
lt brought to terms by the temperan
m men using the ballot. He characte
lied the rum sellers rs Il class of no
ns | producers and said that the mOnt
e. they obtained was blood money. J
es delivered John Wesley's invectiy
a. whom lie said lived hundred ~
er fifty years before his time, against the
t. and also quoted from speech Of tn
n retOrmer Lord Chesterfield made in Il
10 House of Lords in which he us
Sc strong words against the liquor bu
re ness. The distinguished Senator l.
d. NJ. Morrill,, of Maine, in speech
if the u. 5. Senate spoke of the llqu
,e traffic as the "crime of crimes n
tn some years after in having this
On mark pointed out to him in the CO
IL gressiOnal Record said: stand
its that assertion; it is the crime
rs. crimes" Mr.. Dow argued strong
mo- for Il third party-the Prohibiu
zee party-believing that the rene
I'M against the evil lay in this cour
re- His address was replete with iorclu
ol. anecdOte and illustration driving hOl
bv more eilectually point and serving
ad clinch an argument. lie was listen
lir to throughout with undated interC
I'm among his listeners being Chancctl
,at salisbury, Chief Justice COmeg
of Senator salisbury, Lawyer WOlc,
ri and other members Of the Dover b
en- leaving IA most favorable impression
he all who heard him.
he MR. MILLER's ADDRESS.
in The Rev. Mr. Miller immediat,
lor followed Mr.. Dow in Il speech of nea
it'll equal length. He dwelt for some ii
en- upon the evils of intemperance Il
ar then took ground directly opposite
ich that of Mr.. Dow as to the best way
ted destroy the traffic and thus cradle
led the evil lie believes in educating
iite children against it by placing in
yhe public schools text books treating
II the right and wrong uses of alcOl
ing Prohibiting the sale of strong drink
red stopping the making drunkards
lis believes in prohibition, ing 10
in option, in the Iegalized limi
led ton of the traffic by lice
nd either high or low, in anything I
lis- will keep the subject before the peol
hill keep it agitated. He is opposed t,
of third or Prohibition party The Ii
lry is not yet come for such Il move,
ley people must first be educated to
IAN necessity of it; that they were not
ready to leave their old marty liz