Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-10-25
EDITION.
temperance Reform.

Temperance Reform.
The orchestra chairs and the circle Of !.
the Opera House was crowded yesterday
afternoon to hear Rev. Thomas z. Terry |
deliver an address on.Temperance. Presi- !
dent Hodson Of the Red Ribbon sssocia-
ton presided and excellent music wae
was furnished by o selected choir from
st. Paul's M. E. Church. The President
In opening the meeting requested every
member Of the Red Ribbon association to
attend meeting TO night In their rooms
on business OF the greatest importance
He also announced that Colonel George
w. Bail OF Kentucky would deliver t~o
lectures in this city-Fridsy night next
at Institute Hall on "The Golden Gate or
the Age and Land in Which We live;"
Saturday night at the Hanover Presby-
terrain Church on Boys and Girls Nice
and Naughty. or the Pendulum of Life"
Colonel Balm was also announced to de-
liver free address at the Opera House
next Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Terry being introduced delivered
eloquent and Interesting address. He
aid the liquor men dislike investiga
INTO their business, and criticism of the
isam But this was an age Of critici ,m;
everybody and every business was criti-
cised and the liquor traffic viii have to
submit to 1t whether 1t wants 1t or not.
The liquor trade he said had been weigh
ed in the balances and found wanting.
He then quoted from Dorchester's History
of Ireland to show that Ireland spends
every year eleven and half million dol
lars more for liquor than she spends for
rents, for which she rebels year after
year.
England, ireland, Scotland and Wales
spend yearly for liquor twice the value
OF bread stuffs used. IL baker could
make ], 600 loaves Of bread an hour, 1t
would take him over 400 years 70 bake
those n materials into bread. A feet Of
vesst Ii of 100 tons each, close togethe r,
extending from Cape Cod 70 Hatteras,
could not carry the grain used In max
ing liquor in this country in a year.
Mr.. Terry said 1t was time we ashed
our hands clean Of j. The liquor traf
&c, he thought, was doomed, and he be-
lieved he would see the day when there
would not be . saloon from Brandy
wine 70 Baltimore Hun5ret, and
there would be no licer sed saloon In all
this broad land. The war against In
temperance was undertaken by men
and women who went into the war to
fight az ainst it until its close
During the rebellion the First Della
ware Regiment went Out 200 strong,
and came back with less than sixty
men. This was not dress parade or 70
show what fine specimens OF manhood
were in Delaware. Theee men knew
what the conflict meant, and 30 do thoee
engaged in the temperance crusade.
Mr.. Terry mbatted the IDEA tina,
local option ie a failure. IL enc locality
in Mary land, he said, he saw twelve
drunken men on the streets in ore even
ing, but since local option was adopted
he has been in tho same vicinity
Tome months without teei z one
The oppcEen Of the Temperance
movement say this is a N raj question
and should NOT be taken into politics
which IL equivalent 10 saying tina
man have no right to take Their chris.
tiantty into politics. Mr.. Terry heard
politician on Saturday night, at New
Caste, in pleading for civil liberty, So,
that we had NO right to interfere viii
any question that involved the less o
properly. But the liquor dealer claim
the right Of the State to protect him
They protest against s1mptuEry law
while the license law OF DslaH are |
itself sumptuAry law. MIR. Teri
then gave the following illustration {
sumptuary law:
A mechanic gets his wages and pu,
IL into the saloon keepers till befor
reaching home. His wife rises ear /
every day to prepare him breakfast; 81
carries his dinner to him; she has hi
supper for him; she washes and iron
for him and his five or six children, An
sits up late 81 nights mending his c!otf
ing. Yet the liquor law decides wbs
she and the children snail wear. Is NJ
this sumptuary law?
bir. Terry said enc of the most in
pcrtant moves was the attitude of th
church en- This subject. He did not b
lieve there was q church in Nilmingtc
to-day that ad NJ in isters fsrtnented wiz
IN the commuL ion serv;oes, and q
Catholic Church has condemned liqu,
as q beverage. Tue old habit OF sid
board drink Il had departed, the Pre-.
dents wife had bsnished wine from u
table and the leading daily newspspe
OF the country ars devotlpg columns
the cause. To show the growth OF Il
cause Mr.. Terry said:
"In 1872 James Black, the temp,
ance candidate for President, poll
8 900 vo.sf; in 1884 ST. John polled 10.
900 in thirty five Stairs; last year twel
States alone polled l5l, 900 E"
Mr.. Terry 10 Rted the follow ing int
dent: "Some yesTg ego when Gener
Grant was running for the President
the second time, an Advent minist
down South prophesied that the wor
would come to an end on the Dist Of
tooer That year. He took q passage
the book Of Daniel, and reasoning it o
1t stopped on the 21st OF October.
passage in Isaiah run out on the san
date, and one in Psalms did the sam
Au old man in the congregation was
wrought upon by the revelation that
frequently calculated, Thank Godi'
At tao close Of the service the 10 in
ter went to the old man and asked h
what II WIS that so stirred him. I
old man asked him II he was sure
world would come to an end OctoI
2lst. The minister said hs was. "W
then, thank God, that beats ,1rant q,
how; anything TO beat Grant" !
Terry said he WAS for anything Il
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