Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-10-03
Lecture and Cane Presentation.

The committee in charge of the lecture
of Rev. p. j. McManus of Green Ridge,
president of the Scranton Total Abstin-
ence Union, changed the place of hold
ing the same from st. AIMS church to
Yannes' opera house, the latter being
more convenient and suitable for the
purpose. At half-past three o'clock Sun
day afternoon the reverend gentleman,
accompanied by Father Farrell, Messrs.
d. j. Mccarthy, P. M. Boyle and P. H.
Hanlon, was escorted from st. AIMS
church to the opera house by the St
Patrick's cornet band and st. AIMS
Pioneer Corps. d. j. Mccarthy called
the meeting to order and introduced Rev.
j. J. Farrell as chairman. This being
the first time that the reverend gentle
man took any part in public meetings,
he was greeted with rounds of applause.
He made short speech, explaining the
object of the lecture, and then introduced
Rev. P. j. McManus.
Upon arising to address the audience
an event not down on the programme
took place, consisting of the presentation
of an address and an elegant gold-headed
cane. The gift was complete surprise
to the reverend gentleman, and upon
examination proved to be very pretty
piece of workmanship, containing the
inscription, Presented to Rev. P. j.
McManus by the Young Mems T. A. B.
Society, of Freeland, Pa. The address
and presentation was made by Hugh
Malloy, who spoke as follows:
Reverend Father-It affords me intense plea
sure to represent committee of the Young
Mems t. A. b. Society of this parish, and on
their behalf to present you with this cane as a
slight token of their appreciation of the admir-
able and praiseworthy manner in which you
have expounded their cause; likewise the noble
manner in which you have discharged the
onerous and responsible duties appertaining to
your Office in the Scranton Union. Your high
character, integrity and zeal have not only won
the esteem and confidence of your friends and
of those brought into immediate contract with
you, but they have spread far and wide, until
you have attained position in the union that
is not only credit to yourself, but to the
whole Scranton diocese. That you may long
continne in the service for which you are so
admirably fitted is the desire of the society l
represent. With this token allow me, on the
part of the Young Mems II. A. b. Society of
Freeland, wish you health, happiness and pros
perity.
Father McManus responded in his
usual happy style. He thanked the
members of the Young Mems Society
for their kind remembrance of him, and
said that here, within a short distance
of the place of his birth (Jeanesville),
he had been honored more highly than
in any part of the country he had visited
He encouraged them to persevere in the
cause they were engaged in, and said
that victory would crown their efforts.
He then proceeded with his address,
taking for his subject, Temperance !:
What 1t Has Done, and What 1t Will
Do.
For more than an hour the orator held
the attention of large and attentive
audience. The address was practical
and instructive, and at the close he made
an earnest and powerful plea to those
present to connect themselves with the
total abstinence movement. The lecture
was well received and no doubt will
be productive of still further increasing
the membership of the temperance So
cieties of this place.