The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-04-21

er's Hall, every Sunday, at 400 P. M.
The Band of Hope hold their regular
meeting every Monday afternoon, at $50,
in the w. c. T. U. Rooms. All children
are invited to join the Band.
The Young Peoples Temperance Union
meet every Friday evening, in the W. c.
7. U. Rooms, in ThatcheI's Hall. All
young people are invited.
At the regular meeting of tue w. q. Il
u, held 10 their hall, Thos. Naylor, Of
New Hope, made neat little speech on
the subject of "Womanis Influence. He
said hat they ought to exert all their in
| fuence to do away with that which works
such untold misery to Them and their
children. But when women are seen in
this field of labor, they are sometimes
called "Strong Minded" Would to God
that there were more such strong minded
women in the land and in the world.
That If they had the right to vote, their
influence would be felt in the publication
of the government, and the correcting of
some Of the evils that have within few
years so disgraced us as q nation. When
the mother on her dying bed, in her last
words to her only sou, with her last
breath, asked him to pledge himself in
her presence as a last request, never to
drink any intoxicating beverages; and
when in after times, he had occasion to
warn young man about to start in the
world, of the danger there was in not strict
ly adhering to the total abstinance princi-
pie, how that promise to his dying moth
or came up before him, at all times and
in unexpected occasions, so that he never
forgot and how this promise had been
to him safeguard, and had made him
what he was then, man honored by
the people and useful in Church and
State and all this, by the blessing of
God, he had ascribed to the influence
of one good, holy woman, Cody moth
er.
AT the close of Mr.. MAYORS address,
Dir. j. Hayhurst spoke, endorsing the
foregoing speech and enlarging on the
sane.
At the close of the meeting it was an
nounced that Samuel Swain, of Bristol,
Pa, would address the next meeting He
was heartily endorsed as an earnest and
sincere temperance advocate, who had
been laborng In the cause for some years
Rhode Island, on Thursday last, by
moro than three fifths majority, adopted
Constitution Prc!i;btory Amendment.
This result was hoped for but hardly ex-
pected by the most ardent workers in the
Temperance ranks. This outcome of the
great temperance excitement of the past
few weeks is especially noticeable from
the large preponderance of workingmen
in that state. Possibly we see here the
influence of the knights of Labor, for it
is now becoming known that as an Or
ganization-if not absolutely as indi-
yiduals-they have no sympathy with the
liquor interests.
Senator Blair, of New Hampshire said
recently; Neither high nor low license
will receive my sanction so far as the Dis
trict of Columbia is concerned, for you
might just as consistently authorize mnr-
der, grand larceny, burglary, rapine and
arson, all of which are tho natural accom-
paniments OF the rum shops
The Queen of Madagascar, seeing the
evil effects following the first inipoi tation
of rum into her island, very scnsbly re-
fused to allow any more Of the vile stuff
to be landed and now her people are not
suffering from poverty as are many in
lands possessing advantages far above
them.
We give below the opinions Of few
prominent business men, as to the effect
of saloons on real estate and insurance:
Three-fourths of all fraudulent losses
traced to the excessive use of strong
drink. Pres. Jersey City ms. Go.
All companies in Texas refuse saloons
and many will not write where saloon is
in block .-Sec'y East Iesas Fire ms.
Company.
Adds to the risk in every department of
business. --Agt. Mutual Assurance Socie
ty, Of Virginia.
A large percentage Of fires caused by
intemperance. Sec y Amer. ms. Co.
A saloon is blight on neighborhood
- Sec'y Merchants ms. Co., II. /.
The depreciation extends for block or
more.-F Davenport, Real Estate Broker,
Brooklyn, NJ y.
These extracts may perhaps furnish a
hint to some of our real estate owners and
business men.
Can you afford to let your place for II
saloon?
Can you afford to have a saloon next
door?
Can you afford to have saloon on the
same block with You?
The following is so full and tells SO
much truth and tells it so feelngly that
we feel constrained to publish It entire.
THE IMPENDING CRISIS
| From the Cincinnati Southwest (liquor paper)
! The man who has carefully studied the
signs of the times must be hopelessly
blind TO the situation il he fails TO per-
ceive in the near future the evidences OF
such political deluge as we have not had
in this country ia thirty years. There is
no absorbing issue before the country ex-
cept the possession Of the offices; there is
no radical difference between Republican
aud Democratic methods and platforms
except the ioaves aud fishes, but every