The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-05-04
The State Temperance Alliance
LUNACY is SALOON-ACY.
AN EASTERN SHORE MINISTER SAYS
THEY ARE THE SAME.

The 10th annual convention of the Mary
land State Temperance Alliance began OF
Wednesday morning at $50 o'clock in the
Old First Methodist Episcopal Church in
Baltimore. Devotional services were con-
Quoted by Mrs. Summerfield b ,ldwin, pres
iuent of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. Mr.. Edward Higgins, president of
the alliance. called the meeting to order and
the venerable Rev. w. T. d. GLENN led in
prayer. He made special plea for the
guidance of the secular press, which he af-
tirmed did no. give the facts of the case.
The Rev. DIR. Julius f. Grammer, rector
of st. Peters p. E. Church, delivered the
address of welcome. He presented statistics
to show the advance of temperance princi-
pies. The greatest event in the history of
Baltimore for a century, he said, was the
temperance banquet given by Bernard Car
ter at the Inauguration of the Steelton
works, at Sparrow's Point.
"The same principles that led to the abo-
lition of slavery" DR.. Grammer continued
twill lead to the prohibition of the liquor
traffic. We have reason on our side, Is
high license friendly to the temperance
cause? No. 1t is to the restrictive and pro-
hihitory features of the law in Philadelphia
that the improved order of things in that
city is due. The high tax tends simply To
make the la w unpopular. A great deal may
be done under low license if the police au-
thorties are friendly to the cause of temper
ance"
'ln God is our trust. The States of
Maine, Iowa and Kansas show that it is
possible TO have people free from the faint
of rum. Cesar had his Brutus, Charles l
his Cromwell, George III his Washington
and King Alcohol shall have his deadly foe
in the National Temperance Alliance"
THE REV. NJ. j. ECKLES'S RESPONSE.
The Rev. Melvin j. Eckles of Salisbury,
Md, spoke in response to DR. Grammar.
"There are many people in Mary land" be
began, "wh no do not bow the knee to BAG
chus,' and after few congratulatory re-
Marks he read an address based on the
text !: Am my brothers keeper" holding
that it is the duty of intelligent communi-
ties to give more attention than they have
hitherto given to the two great social prob
lens of the age, dissatisfaction of working
men and the liquor traffic.
Mr.. Eckles recited some startling statis-
tics, saying among oth' things that luuacy
is generally only saloon-acy. A remark that
was received with applause by the gentle
men present was:
"Ministers preach against the rum traffic
once in while when their congregations
will stand it,
indifference, he continued, sis the bane
of the temperance cause. In Wicomico
| county the people are not actively hostile to
| Prohibition but they have no opinions what
| ever and refuse to form any upon the ques-
tion.''
The committee on credentials reported
Schools and Ill temperance societies are
! represented in the convention.
THE PRESIDENTS REPORT.
President Higgins then called DR. William
| Il. Wilmer to the chair and read his annual
| report, in which he enumerated the counties
| and districts of Maryland i'll which prohibi-
| tory laws are enforced. By the accession OF
Hampden and Woodherry Baltimore be-
comes the only very large city in America
i'll even a part of which the liquor traffic is
| tabooed.
President Higgins recommended the APP
| pointment of "A lecturer by the alliance for
work throughout the State.
The Rev. w. q. Herbert, secretary of the
| Alliance, then read his report, in which he
stated that, owing to the Interruptions OF
the Presidential campaign, the results OF
temperance work in Maryland during the
past year have not been all that could be
desired. Indications, however, are of an Ell
couraging character.
The president appointed committees on
resolutions and nominations and commit
tee of seven, suggested by the Rev. w. T. d.
| GLENN, TO investigate evasiOns OF the loca
license laws in the counties.
The treasurer. Dr. William Il. Wilmer
presented his report. During the past year
the Alliance has received Sll42, II, expended
Sll19,44, and incurred liabilities of 5000.
The Rev. q. IL. Hick, of the Nationa
Temperance Society, spoke to the meeting
upon the importance of distributing tenn
perance literature. Tracts and periodicals
he said must be sowed kuee-deep through
out the State and the country, and that il
what the National Temperance Society il
trying to do.
INTERESTING FEATURES.
A band of little children from the kinder
garten of the w. G. T. u, sang a cold waite
song, after which Robert I. Smith, the vet
eran of prohibition in Baltimore, a gentle
man who bears striking personal resemb