St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-14
ARRAYED AGAINST SALOONS.
Judge Kelly's Address to the Cru
Sader'S Society.

At the meeting of the Crusaders
Temperance society yesterday after
noon the members listened to an adj
mirable address delivered by Judge w.
l.. Kelly. Having enlarged upon the
need of such a society and the good
work which could be produced by its
operations, Judge Kelly turned to the
Young members and addressed them in
these words: ''Y our name indicates
what you should be. In the olden days,
away pack in those ages that some men
call dark. perhaps because they did not
apply electricity to manufacture light,
but not so very dark as men would
have us believe, the Crusader raised
the cross of Christ upon His breast
and wrote upon His sword thatit should
never be drawn except for the right and
III the defense of the weak and the OPP
pressed, and in the name of God and
country went forth to do battle for his
kind. In this day you, young men,
are crusaders against all evil that threat
ems society more than ever the infidel
did. though the hordeS of the infidelS
swept, in those days, over Europe until
they reached even the walls of Vienna,
carrying terror and destruction
IN THEIR PATH.
You are battling with an enemy that is
far more inSidieuS and far more danger
ouS-the evil Of strong drink. An evil
that stops at no barrier, respects no
man, goes into the palace and the cot
tage, invadeS every rank and creed of
society, and counts its victims by the
hundreds of thousands. You have taken
pledge to abiure this evil for your
selves, and in that you have displayed
heroic virtue, for when a man comes to
me with advice always ask him: Are
you wiling to take it yourself?"
physician take your own medi-
cine" You have taken it; you
have forsworn the use of
Intoxicating drink, and you ask your
brethren. your companions, to join with
you. | read last evening in a paper the
statement that from buShel of corn
there can be manufactured four gallons
OF whisky. Out of that the farmer gets
40 cents, the railroad for transportation
81, the government $500, the manufact-
81 and the retailer 81, and the man WHO
drinks it gets all that is left-delirinm
tremens. Laughter. Now, isn't that
true? What is there to be gained by
this vice? 1 know what many men get
for it. My brief experience on the judi
claI SedJ OF tlllS county Has taught NE
that out of one hundred men who are
brought to answer for crime before the
bar of this district court, seventy-tiye of
them can trace their downfall
TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR,
l have seen sights in my time that has
torn my heart. have seen boys and
Young men brought before me whom |
knew, whose fathers knew, and it has
almost broken my heart to see there po-
sition, and nothing has led them there
but frequenting the saloon. say to
YOU. young men. do all that you can, in
an honorable way, to draw around you
the young men of your acquaintance.
Make your rooms pleasant for them;
make their evenings here just as pleas
ant as they can be made i'll any saloon
in this town, and they will come here.
If they don't come 1t is their own fault,
and you will not be TO blame.
Judge Kelly urged young men to
practice thrift, and in his concluding
remarks added: Most Of you have
running in yonr blood, as have. The
Celtic 6lood-the pure Irish blood-that
has come across from the fair green
isle. You know how that nation of ours
has been struggling for years and years
against her oppressors. Can you tell
me what has been the greatest factor