The Portland daily press., 1888-02-27

as ministers in the city not to be bribed.
want to 90 further and say that the Mayor
carried in his pocket letter addressed to me
for fifteen days. That letter fully exOnerated
me from any completely with John w. Deer
ing. and he showed that letter to a great
many citizens on the street."
The gentleman addressing the audience
then told of his visit to The places where
liquor is sold and referred to the suspension
and reinstating of Officer Stevens, and con-
tinued as follows:
"The prohibitory law has done great deal
of good In the State and in the city, but last
night we counted sixty men and fifteen boys
and girls 90 into one place. A girl came out
with a tin pail in her hand, and lifting It 10
her lips. drank, and not IS feet away stQod
an officer. We state what we know, what
we want is to close the grog shops OF our
city. We believe it possible to close them,
we believe that the local sale may be restrict
ed very much more than it is Well, they
say that public opinion is not up to IL. we
will bring it up to it. Now, some people say
you must not say these things because they
hurt sour city. Now we nave cess
pool in our city and We want to cleanse II.
Then Portland viii be the sweetest place on
the face of the EARTH"
Mr.. LeLacheur then proceed to speak OF a
certain article which had been published In
Llt "a NEW Udpcig ny AhAs
Tallman, in which there was much said 70
the discredit Of our city The. clergymen
considered 1t duty to examine into the state
OF affairs, and so some Of us went aroud 70
visit the hotels and there were no restraints
whatever in getting into the bars. We com
planned of these hotel bars and they were
closed for short time, but are now running
There is no class Of men who hate the grog
shops so much as the men who drink, and
they are the. ones who want to see them
al Ntas.A L. - In
but the failure to enforce It,"
Rev. Frank 7. Bayley was the next
speaker.
MR.. BAYLEY's SPEECH.
The speaker in opening his remarks said:
II have had the trouble Of coming to the
hall twice, for unfortunately for me. / left
very important document at home, so L have
become almost exhausted, and have been
trying to get my wind while Mr.. LeLaeheur
has been giving you his. l am citizen and
none the less a cilizen because l am minis
ter Of Jesus Christ. And have never spOk-
en- in more moral or Christian spirit l
am responsible to the Omniscient God, who
will Judge me by his own standard. l pro-
pose to speak tonight on the moral issue, yet
| wish to Judge no man. L heartily give 10
every man the rights that claim Tor my.
individual action. 1t Is stated by the
papers that there is more than one issue In
this campaign, and / recognize the fact.
There are more issues than one, other issues
ought to be discussed. do not ignore their
existence or deny their importance, yet to
me there is not one so important as that
which involves the power TO the political
parties. Now, l want TO say something
about the situation in this city. am very
well aware that the state OF affairs has been
.l.r.. tod In. hn
country. The papers of the country do not
alway tell the truth, except the Portland
papers lapplausel. But want to emphasize
the words of my brother, that the statement
of the truth Is not to blame Tor the facts. 1
believe the truth ought TO be spoken. The
truth will in the end leaven the whole and
work FOR righteousness"
Mr.. Bayley then referred to the sermon
which he preached from the pulpit of his
church on the liquor question. "In that SER
mon l stated that the prevalent drinking
among our fishermen came to my notice dur
ing recent call upon city official. A gen.
tleman employing large number OF nsner-
men entered to inform the official mentioned
that his fishermen were obtaining liquor
by our Mayor who said that the gentle
man, Mr.. Henry Trefethen, called in
order to speak of another matter, and in
cidentally spoke of the rum matter. Yet
0Olu Ill uly uduQ u lcttCl AlOhl 4nls A4OAAJ
Trefethen substantiating what | said In my
sermon"
A letter written by Mr.. Trefethen stating
that his paramount object in calling on the
Mayor at that time was in regard to the
liquor traffic" was then read
The school matter was referred to, and the
speaker admitted that the correction made
by the Mayor ''that there are no children In
the Kindergarten 0 year Of age" was just.
/ shold have said years.
Mr.. Bayley here read a note from Miss +.
NJ. Scales teacher in the kindergarten, TO
the effect "that a child of five years frequent
ly comes to the kindergarten with every ap-
pearance Of being under the influence OF
liquor"
am told that when one of the teachers
told Mayor Chapman of this that he sug-
geeted it might have been paregorie. 1t
seems, fellow citizens, that the evil we must
contend with is red ink, cranberry Juice ana
paregoric.
The speaker then spoke Of the matter Of
which he had quoted in his sermon, that
every boy allows that he drinks.
'The Mayor, In his reply, named the
drinks whose names had been written on the
blackboard, but includes for intoxicating
liquors only one, lager beer. But the same
teacher subsequently told the speaker that
the list placed there included half dozen
others, wine, whiskey, ale, etc. among them,
and gave him atabulated record OF the queS-
tions she had asked of each boy and the
answers received, a summary OF which dis
closes the fact that eight Of them habitually
used intoxicating liquors, and six more when
sick. 1t was then further related that the
teacher had, afterward, explained that her
error in the assertion that every boy but one
allows that he drinks, came from her misun-
derstanding of the intoxicating attributes OF
certain of the drinks named Yet she states,
''It is quite evident that they drink some
thing which impairs their intellectual ability,
many Of them habitually."
Mr.. Bayley next touched upon the hotels
and the fact, as stated by the Mayor, that ne
had been present at one OF the hotels snort
time before and joined in vote OF thanks
failed to remember that he had done so, and
said, II consider the business Of liquor SELL
Ing disreputable anywhere.
Speaking of the school matter, he said;
"You observe that the school authorities
went to all the schools for their statistics IN
regard to drunkenness. There was not such
intent on my part to implcate all the schools.
The sermon spoke only of one school"
The speaker then said that he wished to
make mention Of the continued sale OF in-
toxicants in the city. "a boy was sent into
saloon and brought ont bottle full of
W aiskey, and, gentlemen, there 1t Is (hOlding
up bottle labelled Whiskey-Keating. In
the awfully wicked city Of Chicago a man
would have been sentenced to State prison
for selling liquor to such a boy. lCrles OF
license, lcense.l / will now certify to the
continued sale of liquor in the fotels. Bot
ties purporting to contain liquor which had
been purchased at the hotels within week
were presented The bottles were labelled
as follows: Brandy-Preble, Rum-United
States, Whiskey-EalmOuth.
This certihes to the sale in the hotels Oh