Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-10-18
FOR THE cAus 6.
Temperance Rally Last Night Under
h Auspices of Yaukton College.

nuu s5uueut5 CT 4AnBtOn college, DFs
Ward presided, a chorns of thisty
ssHdents, led by Professor and Mrs.
Young occupied the platform and fur
nished che music.
The exercises were opened by singing
Onward Christian Soldier" Prayer
was offered by Rev. ID. F. Bradley.
"Who is on the Lords Side" was sung.
DIR. Ward gave the frat address, tax
ing for his text: How can two walk
together except they be agreed" He
set the college on one side, as the repre-
sentative of all that is good in college,
school or church, and on the other side
the saloon as opposed to these great
moral forces. Which one is to succeed?
winch one are we to help? Each one
should ask himself, shall 1 put all my
force in favor of the college as the ex-
ponent of all that is good or shall I di-
vide my influence and give O little to
the saloon snd little for the college.
tbs school and the church? We cannot
pull both ways. We shall be either on
one side or on she other. Do we want
twenty or more saloons in our midst and
fourishing? or do we wish TO help the
college? Isn't the college doing more
for thet town than the saloons? The
licenses of the saloon put about $4,000
into the city treasury. but the students
bring to the town SIP 600 to $4,000
every ysas. Should we encourage the
saloon on q %pecuniary basis? The board
of trade could afford to give q good
bonus to a business institution that
would have q pay roll OF SIP 900 a year.
giving o for greater power than the
saloon could. We are justified in asking
yon to vote TO shut up these places,
whose only influence is to weaken and
destroy. A short time since the stten-
tlon OF a gentleman who had $35, 900 to
invest and q family Of children to edu-
cate YVES called TO Yankton. Bot when
he found there were 80 many saloons
he preferred to locate elsewhere. The
capital OF this man would have been
l u u "Ot hOfhuthSc " SAt AUWu tUSl
all the saloons. We should help to take
away the opposing teotor which makes
it unsafe for boys and gisls 80 cons here.
We should reduce the sources OF temp.
tat,on end make the place as pure Us it
can be. He spoke OF Gen. Harrison, VINO,
when he drank toaats with a glass of
water instead of wine, and being asked
why he did so said: II was one of a
class of seventeen, sixteen of whom
have gone down to %drunkerd's graves,
Ii l drink wine my Influence may hurt
somebody else. Those who uphold the
saloons are not in a majority. Society
is on the side OF purity. There are not
more than 100 voters in the town who
are benefited by the saloon, while there
are 800 or more who are not. Shall the
500 yield to the 100? Are the 100 better
than the 800? Down with the saloon.
Long live the college.
The choir then sang SWINE is o
Mooker," with fine effect.
Prof. Shaw asket why should not locsl
option prevail and the saloon be
banished? Because it is right. II
needs no argument to prove that the
saloon is the enemy CT the college, the
school and the church. Tue saloon is
q fruitful SO rec OF crime. There ia no |
good in it. IT Is only q source OF danger
and temptation. As citizens we should
have q local pride in this matter. Why
should Yankton, the oldest town, be the
last OF the large towns in the territory
to adopt local prohibition. The presence
of the college here is a reason why the
rights and safety of young people should
be advocated and protected.
Prot. Bartlett had given the subject
much study and was ready to give a
reason for being radical. III VI thor
oughly believe the saloon ID an evil,
isn't 1t q Disgrace to allow 1t? He then
gave the opinions of many eminent men
who could not be accused Of fRnstioism
on the subject. among which were the
following: Henry Ward Beecher said:
EVERY year l live increases my convic"
ton that the use of Intoxicating drinks
is Q greater destroying force to life and
virtue than all other physical forces
combined" The London Times: 1.-THE
use OF strong drink PRODUCES more idle
ness, crime, disease. want and misery
than all other causes put together" W..
E. Gladstone: sit has been said that
greater calamities are inflicted on man.
kind by intemperance than by the three
great historical scourges, wal. pestilence.
and famine. This is true for us, and il
is the measure of our discredit and dis
grace" Judge M. O'Shanghnessy of
Ireland: 'f have perhaps presided at
more criminal trials thar most men liv-
ing, and I can truly say that | have had
scarcely a case before me with refer.
ence to the class OF cfenses
known as against the person that are
| not the consequence Of d~rankenness.'
Justice Hawkins said be believed that
nine-tenths Of the crime of this country,
and certainly Of the county of Durham,
was engendered within public houses.
If England was sober it is estimated that
it would shut up n~ine-tenths OF the
! prisons. Nine.tenths OF the crime is at
tributed to drink. II this is the case
hasn't government something to say
abont n Mira. Williem Hoy.e estimates