St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09
The Friends of High License Will
Buckle on New ArmOr for
the Fray.
Bishop Ireland Announces That the
Measure Must be Made to
Succeed.
Those Who Voted Against It Declared to be
Servile Tools of the Rum
Seller.
Every Friend of High Licenses Adjured to
Work for Its Success Next
~ Time.

introduced Bishop Seaver to the society as
the apostle of total abstinence of the Catholic
church on the Pacific coast.
Bishop Seaver, after complimentary ref
erence to the position of Bishop Ireland as
the pioneer in the cause in the East. made
some interesting remarks on the
necessity of such organizations as the
Father Mathew society to forward the cause
of temperance by the encouragement and
help which came from intercourse, and of
the strength given to such society by its
alliance with the Lord and the church.
He then gave very interesting account
from personal observation of the necessity to
the white man and Indian alike of totally
abstaining, interspersing the same with an
ecdotes of reform worked in both by temper
ance, and their sad downfall from position
in the church and citizenship from its indul-
gence. The weakness of the Indian for
liquor was greater than of the white man,
and the former would often drink himself to
death in his tracks. The Indian women,
however, could resist this appetite
better than the male of either race. When
he first went to the West shore of Vancouver
island, the natives through some mysterious
providence were averse to liquor, and would
not purchase it in exchange for skins and
fish from the captains of ships touching
there. But an American soldier had taught
the Indians of Alaska how to make the most
abominable rum from molasses using long,
hollow sea weed called kelp in twisted form
for the worm Of still. In the one case the
total abstinence Indians become converted
to the Christian faith with less color on the
part of the missionaries than those who were
addicted to liquor. In closing the bishop
paid high complimentto the Father Mat
hew society of st. Paul, urged its members
to earnest work in the cause in the future,
and to carry their great standard of moral
reform forward to victory sure to come for
right and virtue all over this land.
James Dillon, ESQ.,, on behalf of the society
extended its thanks to Bishop Seaver for his
interesting remarks, which should be needed
carefully by every one present. and paid a
high compliment to Bishop Ireland as the
head and front of the work in Minnesota
and the country.
BISHOP IRELAND,
on addressing the meeting, said that it was
with great pleasure that he welcomed this
large audience, and it showed that new era
was dawning to-day for tenn perance in Mime
sofa. He asked that all should strengthen
themselves against the temptations of drink
hereafter, and as man was not born into the
world for the qualification of his own selfish
ness that each ssould try and lead others Into
the same pathway Of virtue and abstinence.
He was sorry that the efforts for high license
in this state had not been crowned with sue
cess, but because of this he by no means
acknowledged defeat. If our legisla-
tors had been threatened, pur-
chased and whipped into obedience
by the rum power, principle remained in our
hands as weapon to carry forward the battle
for the right-principle which was never
silent and which never was defeated.
We had accomplished a greater victory
than though high license had passed, for the
character of the methods of its defeat had
been so fragrant, notorious and cowardly
that it had awakened an opposition to the
liquor traffic in this state that would bring it
TO the dust. Before public opinion was not
organized against it, but after this exhibition
of its hideousness and determination TO
override the people of the state rough-shod,
public opinion had become strongly pro-
nounced against 1t. Really, the victory is
with us that we have brought this robber of
our means, of our families, of our virtues out
into the open light of our legislative
halls to control the making of just laws cal
culated 10 conserve the moral and religious
well-being OF our citizens. By this action
the rum traffic of Minnesota has shown US
its hand, and that it means to rule us with a
rod of iron whether we will or no, and has
revealed TO us the dangers we are to cope with
in the battle to come, SO that we can prepare
to meet them Now we will
BUCKLE on NEW ARMoR,
and let each total abstinence man show him
self a hero in example, influence and act
against this tyranny over free citizenship.
He, the speaker, had manifested some zeal
on this question in the past but nothing to
what with Gods help he would do in the fu-
ture. He could see the enemy now all along
the line, arrayed in ferocious columns, to
make rum omnipresent in this state
and hurl its citizens into an
abyss of vice and depreciation.
From this hour every power at our disposal
must be used to overthrow this foe. 1t has
shown it will seek to place laws on our stat
ute books to keep itself in power, and we
will try the use of the same weapons to de-
feat it. Temperance as a moral question in
our politics, irrespective of party affiliation,
has just as good right there and just as
good a show as the rum power to control our
state.
Why, these legislators who voted against
high liceuce plead that they chad TO vote as
their constituents told them TOP and that if
they didn't vote against it ''their constitu-
ents would rebuke them.''
THEIR PLEA
was here in St. Paul to the disgrace Of all its
people that ''the voters of the city didn't
want it. The entire delegation of senators
and representatives of Ramsey county made
this excuse for voting against tie bill.
What did they care for the voters and the
Christians and the temperance men who did
want this billl Simply nOthiDg-they were
of no consequence TO them whatever. Why,
three of this delegation told him that per-
sonally they we're opposed to rum, and made
this excuse for voting in its interest. Woe
be TO the man who says the people of St
Paul want low license and whisky, for it is
falsehood. Those legislators from other
parts of the state who had declared their peo-
pie wanted low license, and gave this as their
reason for voting for II, would have q reckon
ing, for he, the speaker, would publicly tell
these people what these legislators said Of
them
a few Irish Catholics who had been lifted
up to position in this city and had gone over
soul aud body to this enemy Of man could
understand that this principle Of abstinence
from and restriction of the liquor traffic was
zboufto assert Itself here henceforth in pro-
test against their action. In the language Of
The old Pagan, Though the heavens fall let
justice Be done" in punishment Of this moral
covsrdiee- Let Us assert ourselves NOW.
and though We may have TO wait little
longer, our victory viii be better and greater
when IL comes.
At the close Of the bishops speech new
signatures we're asked for and in re-
sponse eighteen men came forward and took
the pledge from Bishop seaver and ve.e en-
rolled as members Of the society.