St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-29
GOSPEL TEMPERANCE.
Speakers from Minneapolis Address
a Meeting of the ST. Paul Club.

Speakers from Minneapolis Address
Meeting of the st. Paul Club.
A special temperance service was held in
Plymouth church last evening, under the
auspices of the Murphy club, prominent
members of the Minneapolis club being pres
sent, by invitation, to speak Of the work in
Minneapolis, with something of its methods
and results. An audience of several hun
bred was present, and the exercises, con-
Quoted by Rev. Dr.. Dana, were opened with
Scripture-reading, prayer and singing.
A. c. HARRIS
of Minneapolis. secretary of the club of
that city, was the FIRST speaker. He re-
club in Minneapolis and the good results
the constitution of their club, he said, that
there should be no Sectarian or politi-
cal elements in it, and this
had been found of advantage.
After holding services in the churches for a
time, it had seemed that the class of people
the club was after was not being reached,
and it had gone to the Theatre Comique,
where the poor, the low, degraded and
cough had come in large numbers, and to-
tai of about :, 200 had signed the pledge.
Many of these were merely transients, and
the speaker could not say whether or not
they had kept it. Some, he knew, had
fallen, but a large per cent had lived up to
IT, The club was, by the principles of its
incorporation, to use all means to save the
drunkardS 1t made the club humanity
tired sometimes to see man sign on
"Wednesday night and get drunk on Thurs
day morning, but they felt that if even a
few hours were gained in the evening it
was worth doing. Personal effort was the
secret OF the success OF the Minneapolis
club, and this must be the basis of the sue
cess of any temperance organization.
Mr. w. q. Byron of Minneapolis fol-
lowed briefly. indorSing the remarks of the
previous speaker. after which
MIR. Z. G. SANGER,
who has been for some time residing in ST.
Paul, but who leaves to-day, he said, for
Atlanta, was introduced. After saying
that he had always been interested in the
cause OF temperance, he said in some Sec
lions where politics had been made por-
ton of the temperance question, harm had
been done the cause, for men had in some
places tried to ride into office ON it. This
had led people to look upon the whole
question with suspicious eyes. This, he
believed, had not been the case largely in
st. Paul. Here there are 600 saloons
OH the one side, and the church and
all temperance workers ON the other.
But the great body of men and women are
Indifferent They have votes enough to
decide the question, and the speaker said
his whole object was to arouse this middle
class to array themselves either On one side
DIT the other. No one has right to be in
different, for no one knows how great his
own temptation may be- Some of these in
different ones were among the audience,
but he believed there was not one who would
deliberately side with the saloons. He be-
leved that in ST. Paul there were men
enough in favor of temperance who, if they
were to band together, could so terrify the
city fathers that they would not dare to is
sue licenses as freely as they have.
He had been wondering how long this tenn
Ierance question would have to be pre-