Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-07
MORAL SUASIONISTS
Get a Rare Old Raking at a Meeting
in the Centenary Church.
KID-GLOVRD MEN AS MILLINERS
When They Try to Prevent Burglary with
Bibles Instead of Guns
THE PERSONAL LIBERTY IDEA MYTH

Az the Prohibition amendment meeting
held in the Centenary Church on Kirk
patrick street last night the Rev. r. A.
Hill ID. of the Seventh Presbyterian
Church compared the prohibition move
ment to the snti-slavery question and spoke
as follows:
"Fifty years ago when Wendell Phillips
and his few friends assembled in small
room in Boston and promulgated the idea
of abolishing slavery nobody ever thought
that it would come to anything. They
certainly did not anticipate the success
which did accrue from their efforts. With
temperance it was just the same. A friend of
mine not long ago showed me an old news
paper with an article which stated that a con-
gregation about to build a church paid the
contractor who was to erect the edifee Sl00, 100
bushels Of wheat and 100 gallons of whisky.
What would we think of any church congrega-
tion that did such thing to-day? But that is
not all. I remember the hme well when the
whisky decanter was just as much an article
of the minister's table as bread and butter to-
day.
KID-GLovED MILLINER MEN.
There are even a good many ministers to-
tions in a strong manner about the curse Of in
temperance and the pernicious liquor traffic,
and, if they do, they handle the subject in such
kid-gloved, millinery kind of manner, that
nobody takes any notice of it, anyhow.
Such kid-gloved millinery ministers
are yet plenty. They are all the time talking IN
soft, vague manner; they speak OF tne oeVl1 1 AZ
the respe stable gentleman referred to In the
Bible. They forget or else overlook. the RAGS
that fiend like rum, a demon like intemper-
ance, a vice like drunkenness has to be grappled
with and fought against like any other CRIME
They believe il moral suasion.
Now think myself that the exercising OF
moral suasion is all right if it is applied at the
right moment Supposing man came TO you
in the dead Of night, though. intending to set
your house on fire, would you go out TO MN
with your Bible your hand and show him
from Scripture that he is transgressing Gods
commandments? 1 guess not. You would
hunt policeman and have the man arrested
and put in jail, and then you might give him
little moral suasion, and think with better Ell
feet.
THE ANALOGY CARRIED OUT.
at is Just the same with liquor. Let us get
the law to prohibit the manufacture and sale
of liquor entirely, put it out of the reach of
man altogether, and then, after temperance
and total abstinence have thrown their mantle
of benefit and morality around him. you can
talk to him about the good you have conferred
upon him. And that is what we must do and
will do. We are on the side OF
God, and we are fighting in His behalf and for
His cause There is no such word as fail in a
case like that We cannot be defeated. even
if the prohibition amendment were not to be
victorious on the 18th of June, that would not
defeat it, The age of moral progress does not
brook any defeat, and. If we do not succeed
this time prohibition will nevertheless reign
long before the millennium"
After DR.. Hills address the Rev. Mr.. Emer
son asked the meeting what action should be
taken in regard to the proposed impeachment
Of Judge White by Hon. George Shiras III. and
as the sentiment appeared to be unanimous in
sustaining His Honor's action, and the report
of its committee of three resolutions will be
found in another column, in connection with
other similar matter.