The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-05-26
TEL TEMPERANCE ALLIANCE.
Fiftearth Annual Convention--Ifeports OF
Officers

strong drink. Inside stage occupied the
entire altar space, and against the wall
hung in big black letters the motto, The
Saloon Must Co." Mr.. Edwin Higgins
presided during the morning session, with
G. S. MUsher as secretary. The Silver
l. Ike Quartette rendered i'll amusing style
a number OF humorous prohibiri"n songs,
among which were: 'ls Got to Co DE
Walls of Jericho who Killed That
Whisky Snake?" and ''De Brewers Big
Horses Can't Run Over me-" Nearly
every speaker, including the president,
opposed high license as a remedy for
incompetence. The exercises were opened
by devotional service, led by Mrs sum-
meriield Baldwin aud the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Ste
phen Martin offered prayer, and the rail
road evangelist, Miss Jennie Smith, made
an address, in which Sue SAID the chief
trouble OF the temperance movement
today is the compromise between the
godly and the unyodly.
Alter prayer b, Rev. MIR. James NIcoll,
of Laurel, Mr.. Higgins announced the
credential committee, Messrs. Robert T..
Smith, Baltimore, Chairman; R,v. Mr..
West, Baltimore county; Rev. Z. ..
Isaacs, Wash ,gton , ltv; john :. Jones,
Sr. Mary's; Amos V. Baily, Hartford, and
Z Twin Haines, Cecil, They announced
l63 credentials from churches, 40 from
Sunday. schools. III from temperance or
CARNATIONS, 40 ministers. making total
of $50, with additional certificates max
ing about 600 delegates.
The opening address was by DIR. VIM.
r. Wilmer, who SAID an alliance conVen-
tion WAS never held under more suspicious
circumstances, for though the body had
not only an empty treasury and Was not
in debt, the people were never before SO
fully aroused to prohibition, the chief
question of the day.
apart from the question Of right,
even the politician is wise who from mere
motives OF policy desires to get upon the
strong side, Tor We, the people, have de-
termined to be no longer suppl ~ is to
our servants He then reviewed tho cote
in the Maryland Legislature by which d
constitutional amendment came near be-
ing submits ed to the people, aud said the
Legislature was not detied by tbs majority
of the people, but by minority made up
of whisky, money and the devil
R,v. B. C. Warren, of Deals Island,
made the response, during which he said
every temperate man was true philau-
thronist
President Higgins read the report of
the committee upon the introduction and
use of text books in the public schools to
teach the effects of narcotics and stimu.
Iapts IT, was followed by lengthy re-
nort of the proh;bitIon movement
throughout the State aud country.
The school officers of every county III
MARYLAND save one. were reported to have
carried out the law regarding the text
books in good faith, and the result was
said TO be marked even among parents.
Secretary Mosher read his report,
showing tine last campaign to have been
the hardest in the history of the alliance.
Tn il he wrote 9. 400 letters, 17,51S eircu-
lars. or 80. 900 pages of literature. The
collections were $422 %, his income $542,
the cost to the alliance being S54.97.
DR.. Wilmer read the treasurer's report.
showing total receipts to date 81 1856 81:
disbursements, 81, 1914. Is; cash on hand,
50 40; liabilities S64l.19, covered by
pledges from several counties
Rev. George HI. Hick, Of New York,
made plea for the dissemination of tenn
perance literature, and VIM. Woodward
gave an account of the first temperance
society in Maryland, formed sixty years
ago, of which he is the only surviving
member.
The Afternoon session was opened by
prayer offered by Rev. Henry Baker, of
Ellicott City. The president announced
the following committees: On resolutions.
Rev. w. G. Herbert, A Warfield Monroe,
Rev. Henry Baker, of Howard county,
Rev. q. w. Morsell, OF Washington
county, Mrs +. A. Black. On nomination
of officers, DR.. Chas. Billingslea, Carroll
county, John McLanahan, Cecil, Walter
Fl. Thompson, Talbot, Rev. Levi ellis,
and K ebert Mclaughlin. On treasurer's
report, K. L. Smith, L. Edw. Monroe.
Aune Arundel, Samuel Gather, Howard.
The committee on resolutions did not
return with report during the afternoon
and the time was taken up with speeches.
F. NJ Bradley, of Washington, represent
ing the Sons of Temperance, spoke. He
was followed by Henry o. Devries, pres
ident of the Maryland State Grange His
subject was Local Prohibition in Mary
land and Its Relation to Labor" He
combatted the idea that a cessation of
distilling would cause surplus of cereals
that would 90 to waste or cease to be
produ ced by labor, and cited authorities
To prove that such a condition of affairs
was not the outcome in Maine aud other
States.
Mrs. 7. A, Milligan, of Cecil, said she
came representing the woman of that
county of the White Ribbon League. the
woman of the State of the w. G.. T. l.
and one man. her husband, who could
NOT attend. She said she advocates nine
eigbts. Educate. stimulate. demonstrate
agitate. circulate. consolidate. elevate.
regulate and suppicate. Men NAV have
heen horn the lords of creation. but
woman. exercising these 'sates." was
more nowerful for temperauce and social
nuritv than ANYTHING else in the world
No man had ever sunk to the lowest
debths of deprayity unless lured by some
woman,s smiles
Rsv Samuel Fl Cummings. of Florida
bnt formelv of Baltimore spoke of pro'
bibition in Florida and said they never
used the words .slocal optiop' there. 1t
was all prohibition aud in twenty two
COMMITTEES in which the question had been
referrsd to the neopJs nineteen had gone
"drv" there was strong hopes of getting
the wbols forty sly oeunties Of rbe State
The second davis session of the alliance
was taken mn nv se)ectinu officers FIR the
ensninp wear in an address by the Rev
Julius E. Grammer upon The FaIIacies
of Hipb License" adjoining platform
and in hearing renorts from the COMMITTEES
On "Wednesday evening a mass meetinu
was held at which DIR. r G.. N,ackall nj
tbis connty presided The resolutions
declare that if is the dutv of ali advo-
partisan, non sectarian movement against