Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-13

vnh Gags and banners. Empty bottles and
Jugs we're everywhere suspended from win
dovs, and empty beer barrels were carried
on poles, inscribed I'VE ear see through
you nowf' Tbirty-ive thousand signatures
were obtsined In that ci,y alone. and in ell
of england. II had been estimated. FIVE mis-
lions signed the pledge. This vast multi
tude, It must be borne in mind, was
not the result Of the Murphy. movement.
Hundreds of good and great men were en-
gagged in the work; men Ike Wilberforce,
and Canon Spurgeon, Bishop of London,
one of the grandest men now alive.
he alluded to the general feeling OF ILL
will which obtained in the United States
against England, and said that
opinion should be set aside.
There was in the mother coun-
try q great, hearty love for America, her In
slitutions and her great men, instsncins
this feeling by alluding to the prayers OF
Bishop Spurgecn for President Garfield,
while til latter lay suffering at Elberon.
Referring 10 the ieelipgot hostility in Ire
land against tie British, he took occasion
10 denounce in an eloquent way the dgna-
miter, who. he said, deserved the execration
and denunciation Of every good lrishman.
GApplause He appealed to the Irish ciu,
zens to keep their bands clean. be their sui
feriDgs what they may. but, nevertheless, to
lose no opportunity to protest earnestly aud
emphatically againstthe injustice which had
been done her. Applause Let them stand
up for their rights, but not with dynamite.
Applause
This much, he said, was not temperance;
he had thrown it in, gratuitously, as a pre-
Jude to the real work which was to come
1t was about the time of year, he said, when
spring bonnets we're to be seen in the shop
windows. The poor mans wife would come
down the sidewalk, indifferentlJ clad, witha
bonnet on which had not been ~preseutable
for 10. the. Q many seas us. She looked
askance at the beautiful articles Of dress so
artistically displayed before her, but she
passes on and puts them out OF her mind, be-
cause the husband, although he IS indus
trious, and makes good wages, does not aP-
ply them, as he ought, to the support and
care of his family. So the poor woman
goes on her way with a sigh, and may be, at
the same time, the husband is standing in
front of q bar and is calling up all the
"boys" in the room to have a glass
of beer or whisky. The saloon keepers
wife and children would 60 sailing by in
their fine clothes on their way to church or
10 places Of amusement, while the work
mans wife stood well back Eom the windows
and looked at these people with tears IN
her eyes and signs in her heart. Why does
not the workman, who is credited with COM
mon sense in all other things, put a stop to
his foolish practice of buying fine clothes
TOR the saloon keepers wife and family, at
rhe expense of his earnings, Of his good
name and of his health, and buy a few for
bis OWN flesh and blood? That was a ques
ZION over which every man should ponder
seriously, and bordering upon it, 1t was i'm
possible not to see the supreme foollshness
4 The ways Of the whisky drinker.
After a graphic portrayal of the terrible
struggle it sometimes cost a man to throw
off the habit of t%ippling, the picture drawn
being from his experience in Pittsburg;
The speaker brought his remarks, at 9
o'clock, to a close.
At the conclusion of his address a large
number of signers to the pledge we're re-
ceived, among them being some OF the
most prominent citizens in the town, one
gentleman's appearance, in particular, being
The signal for three hearty cheers from the
audience.
There will be a prayer meeting at the
church this afternoon, from three to four
o'clock, and this evening a grand rally at
the Capitol rink, at which three thousand
PEOPLE are expected to be present.
There were, by actual count, twelve hun
dred people in the audience last nigh.