Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-04

THE CRYING EVILS OF STRONG DRINK.
A large audience gathered at DIR.
john Halls church last week to liste u
to several addresses on the subject Oh
temperance. The Rev. DIR. Cuyler
was i'm the chair. He made the first
speech, dealing with the evils arising
from the habit of drinking. The
social drinking and the habit of treat
ing custom he said, were at the bot
tom of the trouble. and caused the
greater part of the mischief. The next
speaker was the Rev. Mr.. Hubbard, OF
Auburn, n. V, who was followed by
the Rev. Duncan G. Miner of Manhat-
tan, Kan, who has good deal to say
about the prohibitory law in his State.
In 1867 he was a missionary in the
King Street Mission here, and was
active in temperance work. On one
occasion, he said, when temperance
meeting had been announced and
Horace Greeley was on the programme
as speaker, the night turned out to
ban extremely stormy one. But the
great editor arrived promptly in spite
OF the storm, and made an earnest ap-
p al in favor of the temperance cause.
Prohibition, he said, was in its eighth
y9ar in Kansas, and might be descrlb-
ed as wonderful success from every
20 mt of view, except that of the liquor
dealer and saloon-keepf. The news
papers had printed many reports
which would lead people who had no
other source of information to doubt
this, but he had with him certificate
signed by the leading ministers of the
State, the Governor, two eX- Governers.
the Speaker of the House. the Chief
Justice and business men of all branch
es,which placed the fact beyond contra
diction. 1t was true that strong drink
might still be had in the State, but
those from whom it is had are not, as
they formerly were, and as they are
still where the saloons are open, at The
head of political gangs, and welding
an influence as baneful as their drinks.
Those who want liquor must seek
for it in dark places, and from obscure
outcasts, who are aware that their cal
ling is sneaking and contemplate
one. There are no saloons standing
open ut the street corners to entice the
young, and one OF the good effects al
ready is that there is q marked de-
crease in the number OF young crirni-
mails. In the days of the liquor traffic
the average age of criminals in the
state was under twenty; now it is
ABOVE thirty, and in a city of so 900 in
habitan's, where the law is carefully
enforced. there is not a single criminal
case on the docket. Prohibition is the
ripe fruit of moral suasion, of high
license, and all the other half-measures.
and the kansans have been able to
avail themselves of it because their
people have sprung from the most adj
vaneed civilization of the East an,
were not hampered in the new region
as reformers are in older communities
Mr.. MilHer, in closing, declared his
confidence in the efficacy of rohibition
and said it was the only means of put
ting an end to the drink curse.
The closing address was made by
the Rev. DR.. Worrall, of tn Thirteenth
Street Presbyterian Church, who said
THAT the magnitude of the temperance
question might be realized to some ex-
tent from the fact that in this country
at present more money is spent for
liquor than for meat. for sch ooIing, or
for churches. In Chicago, where he
was formerly pastor, he had seen
the statistics which showed 8 200 young
men and LOO girls brought to rum in
Q single year through the use of strong