St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-05
ADDITIONAL ST. PAUL NEWS.
THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.
Entertainment by the Crusaders:
Society and Speeches Made.

EnteTI3B mnnent Dy the CfUSaG efs7
Society and Speeches Made.
A goodly number of the Crusaders.
enough to fill the room, assembled at Cru
saders' hall last evening for the purpose of
holding a grand temperance meeting. 1t
was one of the brightest and most sprightly
gatherings of the kind ever held in the city,
and consisted of vocal and instrumental
music and good speaking. Miss Murray
put the audience into excellent humOr by
very pleasing solo on the piano and was
followed by vocal solo by Mr.. Allen.
Rev. Father Golden of Boston was intro
duced to the audience as a strong man in
the cause of temperance, and his manner as
well as that which he uttered showed that
his soul was in the work. He expressed
great pleasure at being present en- such an
occasion and to have an opportunity to
speak, and though he announced his inten
ton to be brief. he declared that he should
be sincere in all he said. He declared that
since the creation of the world there had
been an amending strife between vice and
virtue, and it was now a struggle to see
which should get the bestsof it. He spoke
of the right of society to make laws,
and expressed the opinion that so
long as civil rulers were faithful
to their duties there was some protection.
If not. the people could remove them, and
he favored using all the political influence
possible in the cause of right. The vice of
drink was so great and so general that it
nvades the halls of legislation and controls
the laws. Never before has the vice of
drink been so dangerous; and it is so wide
spread that it is liable to endanger our ex-
stence as a nation. As an evidence of this
bo thc, DiJ fi,,Iia 0f
of correction. The speaker expressed the
opinion that it would not do to rely alone
upon legislation and civil law to remove
this great evil, but that the nation must
call in the aid of religion. He eulogzed
the total abstinence societies and said many
words of encouragement to all the members
of them. They were engaged in great
work and he looked for grand results from
their efforts.
After vocal duet by the Misses Henley
and a recitation of King Brian Boriohmes
address to his army on the morning of the
battle of Clontarf in 1850, by P. J. For
tune, Father Stanley was introduced to the
audience and made few remarks, in
which he mixed up little humor with
deal of good sound sense. He was greatly
pleased to see SO large and attentive an au-
dience gathered together to aid in the great
temperance cause He stated that in his ex-
perience as priest he had seen enough to
show him that this vice of drink is one of
the worst in the whole list of evils the
church and society has to contend against.
He had seen families broken up by it, hus-
bands sent to Jail and wives to their rela-
tives, and the children to some place of
refuge. He had seen a husband chase his
wife with butcher-knife, young men be-
come wrecks, respectable and cultivated
women reduced to the lowest degree of deg
radiation. and young ladies who had been
well raised, by slipping wine at parties, lit
tie by little, come to be drunkards and at
last sent to the House of the Good Shep-
herd. He said he could give the names of
half hundred young men and young
women who would be ruined in six months
unless converted and brought into the
church before that time. He declared the
drinking vice was a terrible curse and one
that was wide spread. The Crusaders
society had a great woIk to perform. 1t
was small in numbers when compared to
the number of people in this large city. 1t
was blessed by the whole church and was
doing great deal of good. In closing he
called up about forty little Crusaders from
16 to Is years of age and administered to
them the obligation. Thus closed very
interesting meeting.