Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-06-15
An Interesting Incident.


This incident, and the speech which it
called forth, is worth preserving, Us show
ing the wide interest the Temperance cause
has awakened:
A CATHOLIC PRIEST DONATES oNE-FlFTH
OF HIS sALARY-HIs REMARKS.
Here the work OF taking subscriptions
WAS interrupted hy an announcement from
Samuel DIckie. He snid
MIR Rresident, l am persuaded that we
shall all agree that this subscription am
abunt 10 announce is the most significant
and, in many respects, the largest and most
valnable pledge that will be made IN this
Convention. / want To mention presently
the name of the gentleman making the
pledge and want then, il this Convention
will permit, that he come forward TO the
front 10 these reporters may see his face
and lie may be heard and want TO have
silence, II possible. There is in the city
OF ST.. Paul a man pledged and consecratei
to Cody life--a man whose annual cal
AIRY is but 5000: a man who has been dis
tributing copies Of the various Prohibition
papers; man who is a clergyman in the
Roman Catholic church man who, nj
Sabbath day meetings, distributes Prohi-
bition literature written by the pens oI
Protestant ministers; a man who has deep
conirition before Gnd and in solemn ap-
preciaIion al the obligations re,ting upon
him. has declared from the depths of hi-
heart that he can live on ten cents n day
and would rather live on five than see this
cause languish; man who has consecrat-
ed his llle iU the cause of Chri-tianity-
have the pleasure to announce Rev. Father
Martin Mahoney Of st. Paul, Mimi, ol
the llonse of the Guoh Shepherds wln
contributes out Of that slender salary tn,
magnificent proportion oi $780,"
The Convention went wild upon this an
nouncement, and nothing would content il
but iur Father Mahoney to come To th,
front. lie appeared after n while ans
sad
Dear friends; Il thank you for the en-
ihnsIasm with which you have rec. ived ill,
mention oi my name, and Of the Insigniii-
cant effort have made 10 help you in tIi
cause. That contribution which l max,
is but small thing, If you could under
.t'nd my feelings, comp,red to the violenc,
| ! have had Ia do myself m coming on I,
the Convention. Not but that | an
nbIeast with the most earnest man here fo
Prohibition and for the success of the Pro-
hibllion party, but that by nature an
not man made for public life l an, ,
man iii rather 10 be a hermit, and onl,
the urgency Of the cause calls me oui TO d,
somcthing that may look to people Of ord
mary minds so nnsnited TO my character
and that is certainly uncongenial to my
moral and physical makeup.
L come here somewhat M great aain
ol The Catholic church went with a brothe
hro Ugh the town OF AssissI. Said ST. Fran
els to one Of the breleern, I'VE have to Z,
out aud preach to-day;' and they wen
along through the streets, holding them
selves very modest and silent all the time
and after some hours peranbnlaiing th'
city they came back, aud the brother ask
ed Father Francis: what about tho ser,
mon you Ind 10 preach ?" lie said
Brother dear we have preached it;'-th
exhibition Of their modest, humble de-
meanor through the streets of the city
their patient, meek acceptance Of the jeer
and insults with which they we're mel, be
ing the sermon the mild saint wanted Il
preach. And 40 i say l calculated that
should be able 10 make an address by IN
very exhibition of myself at the Conyen
ton, because | wanted, by coming to III
Convention and, as II has been your will
by exhibiting myself here, to give the work
era from the whole country to be able I
say TO their Catholic negkbors that ther
ia nothing that the most loyal Catholic
need object to in Prohibition aud in coop
GRAFTON with the Prohibition party. Zap
plSuse'l