Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-02-22
Temperance Meeting
THE INSTITUTE GATHERING q.
GEO. q. LOBDELL'& PRAC.
TEOAL brEECH.
THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE

The Institute Hall was again Allied
yesterday at 4 O'Clock with an anxious
audience 10 hear what would be said on
the subject Of temperance. President
| AsHociation presided, and Johu W.
Todd and his corps Of able assistants
fHrnished excellent music.
The President introduced TO the audi.
ence George G. LobdelI, who spoke
from manuscript, the folio wing being
the principal extracts:
81 shall not attempt to prove that
moderate drinking leads TO drunken.
ness, or that three fourths OF the mur-
ders and large proportion of crime are
traceable TO the use OF liquor these are
self-evident truths themes that shall
leave to others. do, however, pro-
pose TO call your attention to some
plain, practical, but perhaps unpleag-
ant truths. An experience OF nearly
hfty years has convinced me that the
view / now propose to represent Is the
correct one. Am forced to the concln-
sion that Notwithstanding all the
efforts bat little progress has been made
In suppressing the tratfic of intoxicat-
ing liquors. believe there are In this
city, as well as In many others. pro
portionately greater number Of licensed
aud unlicensed places where liquor 10
sold proportionately greater number
OF families In Which 1t is used In food
preparation greater number OF women
who take 1t In some form or other
when nursing children, and administer
1t to children In infancy and child
hood q less number OF consistent.
Il nlp6 nad tam and
children than there were forty years
ago"
"Failure has resulted because the
nd vocates Of temperance have been
lighting the effect, not the cause. They
have made no effort to educate the
pfople so that there will be o smaller
mum Der, yourg men particularly, that
have the craving for stimulants, which,
in my opinion, is the cause OF intem
perance. Neither moral suasion nor
legal enactment will work an entire
cure. 1ntemperanoe will exist rs long
as the CAUSES which produce the cravinG
tor stimulsnts continue; there will be
IdIunkards as long as children are be-
, gotten Of parents whose systems are
Ipoisoned from the nee of alcohol, to-
bacco and other narcotics, and as lone
as children are given alcoholic medi-
cations. Here / would ask every father
more particularly every mother, why
are 30 many young men impelled as by
some Irresistible force, against the ad
monitions Of parents aud friends and
against their own judgments, to use
stlmulauts Of some kind, either
rum or tobacco?"
"Here lies the foundation OF the Who'll,
matter. and unless the cause be removed
the evil must and will continue.
may be produced by the use Of highly
seasoned food, spices, tea, coffee, etc
I OF which children are allowed to par
take to much greater extent than Ii
oldeA times. II children were rearet
on q simple diet, as In days gone by
there would be less need for medicines
less use Of carminatives, less drunkard
and less uses of tobacco and opium
Another great cause of the evil Is tina
children are born with little vitality
with little power to resist disease o
withstand temptation, begotJen o
fathers or born Of mothers the conse
lquences Of whose excuses or wicket
and unnatural practices are visited ol
their offsprings. Many parents VIII
damn the rumseller, propagate an
grow the seed that furnishes the gria
8 to his mill"
I Alcoholism Ia disease, notwith
z standing We are told 1t Ia only siI
! cured by the grace of God, and gotter
rid ofas other sins, by faith and prayer
7 think this Is O very erroneous ant
3 dangerous doctrine, one that has don
much harm, and is calculated to d.
much harm. II any one doubts tina
7 intemperance Is disease. would ad
! vlRe him to read a series OF lectures b.
I Benjamin w. Richards, before tn
q Society Of Arts, London, and repub
4 lished by The National Temperanc
Society and Publishing House, No.
Rsade street, New York. The evi
effect which tobacco produces, derang
ing the nervous system aud creating l
I desire for stimulants, and the effect
q produces in those that are endeavorinl
j 70 reform, are not properly appreciated
Y and 81 its use be- continued as now, tn
result will be a race of drunKards, or @
weak, enervated men and women"
Il II do not wish to unnecessarily dis
q courage or alarm nny one, but think
y best TO look at the matter as 1T really IL
!, and not be deceived and led TO believ
that the efforts being made will lead
success. think it Is safe to Judge tn
future by the past, God works by fixe
u and certain laws, and while / believ
/, that He will always give strength to a
k that humbly come to Him, yet He wi
II not by supernatural exercise of Hi
power save the drunkard from the ei
feet OF the poison of alcohol any NOR
= than He will save the person who ha
y y received Into his system the virus of
rabid dog. Gods laws are immutabl'
The tornado or cyclone which ma
occur but once In q particular place
governed and controlled by fixed Law
N az much a. the ebbing and flowing {
b the tides, or the effect Of the gentle de
b OF summer shower. One of these Law
is that when the poisons of alcohol {
of nicotine are introd uced into the syt
ss tenn in sufficient quantity, they intiam
9. and derauge the digestive organs, dit
order the nervous system, paralyze tf
brain, and produce effects whicn a,
IN seldom eradicated. God will not sui
I pend the operation OF this law, hOv
" ever fervently the violator may pray
him the results will follow as surel
70 as effect follows cause. That q violatio
o. of physical laws by parents is visite
upon children Is q well established fac
Q seen in the transmission of warrior
8. diseases"
10 81 shall not discuss the Fsuccess
= failure of local option or prohibition
~ but will remind you that the use
n iopium in some form or other is great
a1 on the increase, thus showing the era,
a ing for stimulants-if not rum, the
=, opium. II the luxurious habits Of OF
people, the use Of alcohol, tobacco ar
.lopium are not arrested, the result wi
~ be similar to that which befell Il
nj Greeks and Romans. II the care no
IRiyen to the rearing and developm 81