The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-13
The Evening Meeting.


evening session, and Rev. Mr.. Riheldatier
was Secretary Of this as well as Of the pre-.
csding sessions. The arst speaker was
Rev. N. ]. Sloppy, Of MoDonEahela City,
Pa, a plain, practical and iorcible talker,
whose remarks on 1.-THE Relation OF the
Prohibitory Amendment to the Interests
OF the Working Men" were logical and
showed the speakers ability to throw
light upon the solution OF difficult proh-
lem. He spoke for sbout an hour, his
voice being audible above the patter OF
the rain on the roof, and was frequently
interrupted by applause
He said he did not include the man
who stands back Of the bar as a working.
man. He wanted to warn those who
lived by the sweat Of their brows sgsinst
their most insidious and deadly foe. al
quor is the wreck Of the workingman's
hopes and ambitions, and the greatest
barrier in the way OF his advancement,
God put ambition into mans breast that
he might rise.
The speaker drew picture Of the diff
ference between the children Of the work
man and those Of the millionaire. He
appealed to drinking men to throw OF their
thralldom TO drink, TO combine against
their worst enemy and asseTt their man
hood. He narrated story from his obser.
YRtion Of the efeCtn OF drink, which was
affecting and 80 effectively told as to bring
tears 10 many eyes in the audience. He
closed with an eloquent prayer that God
might help the workingmen Of West Viz.
giniR to triumph over this foe.
Rev. DR.. Norcoss, Of Pittsburgh, was in
troduced after music by the choir. He is
q tall, scholarly looking mAu, and 8 fine
orator, though last night he labored under
difficulty, having RseVers cold which made
him hoarge.
AN ABLE ePEEcH.
DR.. NoIcross said he was here by invi-
tation to deliver q non-partissn, nom
seCtarian and perhaps nonsenaicRl address.
He would probably hit the Democrats and
Republicanssnd perhaps tho papers would
come out in the morning and hit him.
He did not object to this; he thought
what this city and this fair State wanted
was good stirring up. He never heard
a good sermon but hia exhorter's license
was renewed. It was renewed tonight
when he heard the speaker who pre-
ceded him make come references TO the
laboring classeg. The speaker was inter.
ested In the labor question. One great
labor questionable question OF slsvery in
the Southland been settled, much to the
advantage Of labor all over this country.
Since slavery was abolished labor has
gone up steadily till now in Massachusetts,
it stands in the relation to its position be.
fore the war as 2l0 is to 70. The interest
Of the laboring classes is supreme inter.
est to all. The waste Of 5000, 900, 900 yearly
in intoxicating liquors affected this inter-
est seriously. What we want Is to put
down the liquor traffic and put up the
GAUGE OF labor. II we could do this thor
oughly and ct once the OH OF next No
vember would probably usher in the
millennium, at least for the workingclasses.
The speaker said he used to be pro.
nounoed prohibitionist Of the partisan
stripe. He had no sympathy for any man
who sold liquor for his family or for any
body who had sympathy for them, and all
his talks were pitched on that plane and
were bitter, vindiCtive, partigRn-and there
were always enough fools in the audience
to applaud him. But one night he saw
in the audience two beautiful girls who
were pointed out to him as daughters Of q
leading saloon keeper. That night he was
converted and he had never been bitter
since.
Once he got mad with everybody who
did not belong to the prohibition party.
Now he would not have them all in one
party II he could. Political parties are
good thing and il ia good thing to have
two great parties in the country to watch
each other and when our public servants
20 wrong turn the rlacals out"
he told Q story OF two old men who
were telling how good thing 1t would
be II all people were Of one mind. NOV,
l don't know" aaid one, "If everybody
had been ofmy way OF thinking, all would
have wanted my old woman"
"Yes," rejoinsd the other, land II they
were all Of my way Of thinking, nobody
would have wanted her"
The speaker was here to plead for the
old political parties; that no war be made
on them. All temperance people ought
10 unite in work for the Constitutional
without severing their party
relations. He was not opposed 10 prohi-
bitlonlsta uniting in political party II
they wanted to; he never thought 1t was
wise, but then people never did give him
credit for much sense politically. This
State ought to give 80 900 majority for the
Cheers He told Of an
in Ohioin non.pRrtisan prohi-
bition. They did not nominate any ticket,
and the party which had never been able
to cast more than 10000 votes for any
-. JiJoto nn,k ON mn Il, ,,,ahtbtk;o,, {t
self on Equare Issue. That proved what
he had always belleved-that the thing
itself was better than any fellow who
stood for II.
DR.. Norcross dWelt for come time on the
enormity OF the evil Of intsmperance, his
remarks on this head being eloquent and
forCible. he referred to the different ar
guments against prohibition, He said he
was defender Of the personal liberty OF
man; II man wanted to eat poisoned
meat he had Q right to do 1t, but he had
no right to sell poisoned meat TO his neigh
Dor. That was the meaning Of this move
ment. It was that the saloon should be
pushed back on the brewery, the brewery
back on the distillery and the distillery,
brewery, saloon, all pushed down into
AOhI WhUAo tIoy baAOukVAs loPPtAu9S'l
he said in Pittsburgh the temperance
people VENT to work and reduced the mum.
Der Of saloons from 1900 to !, 400, and
thought the restrictive license law was
great thing; but there was shorter cut
across the lot than that. He gave an
account Of the easy methods Of
evading the license law in Pittsburgh.
The better way to accomplish the desired
end was TO make the Commonwealth
guarantee entire deliverance from the evil.
Speaking Of the saloon in politics, he
said the liquor interest had Just sense
enough MOTTO organizs political machine |
81 their own. When Ohio saloon keepers
resolved to nominate candidates and sup
port them, the leading men in the liquor
interest In the country fastened from the
sast to urge them not to do It. They said:
II you do that you will be lust as big
ools as the Prohibihonlsts."
Dr.. Norcross closed eloqusutly and re-
eived round Of applause.
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