St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-18
Immense Meeting Of Catholics
for the Restriction Of the
Liquor Traffic.
One of the Leading Addresses
Delivered by Archbishop
Ireland.
Rev. Nugent, the English Tenn
perance Orator, Also
Speaks.
Resolutions Declaring High
License a Means Of Stem
ming the Deluge.

BALTIMORE, Nov. IA natural
sequence of the position taken by the
congress was mass meeting tonight
under the auspices of the Catholic
church in favor OF high license at Har-
ris' Academy of Music. 1t was attended
by persons of all shades of religious
opinion. On the stage sat his eminenee,
Cardinal Gibbons, Monsignor McCol-
gan, Archbishop Elder, Bishop Virtue,
Bishop Keene, Rev. James Nugent,
Rev. James Cleary and some hundred
prominent persons interested in the
movement. Every seat in the great
theater was occupied and crowds were
turned away. NT. 2. Harris rendered
the use of the Academy free as favor
to his friend, Archbishop Ireland.
Cardinal Gibbons presided. As he came
forward to speak he received a warm
greeting. Cardinal Gibbons said: Il
appear before you tonight not only as
churchman, but chiefly a.citizen anxious
for the moral welfare of my matt We city.
Whatever contributes to the moral
growth of Baltimore, whatever con-
tributes to the happiness of the people,
has my most
HEARTY Co-oPERATIoN;
and firmly believe tonight that the
noble cause which will be advocated
here. If successful, will contribute. un-
der Gods blessing, to the moral well
fare of our beloved city; to the welfare
OF the people; 10 the domestic happi-
ness and tranquility of the poorer
classes and of the lab0rer. Applause.l
The blow that we strike tonight is a
blow struck for the cause of the labor
ing man, and it must and shall be sue
eessful. [Applause.] l shall not Oc-
cupy your attention, in these preci Gus
moments. any longer. | have now,
ladies and gentlemen, the honor to pre-
sent to you a distinguished clergyman
of England-the apostle OF England, |
might call him-Rev. Father Nugent."
Rev. James Nugen-, the English tenn
peranee orator. spoke substantially. as
follows: Lord Cardinal, My Lords,
Ladies and Gentlemen-Any one that
looks around this vast building must be
struck by the Importance of this meet
ing, its numbers, its responsibility.
and the very circumstances that have
brought you together. You have come
here to strike determined blow against
that enemy of the whole world. This
great movement in America owes its
character and its aggressive onward
movement to one whose character is
restless and determined. his eminence,
James. Cardinal Gibbons. Though the
ocean may separate us, we Catholic
priests are one in sentiment and in mo-
tive as regards the social and moral i'm
prOvement of our people. and L trust
that you will find that, no matter what
may be the religious differences which
may separate us, i'm this work of temper
ance there is but one faith. For TWEEN
ty-three years my work has been within
the walls of one of the largest prisons IN
England, and during that time over
$4,000 men and women have come I'M
der my care. Eight out of every ten of
these came there
THROUGH INTEMPERANCE.
cat home in the old country this evil
is looked upon a. a national vice. No
class of our people are free from it. 1t
is not only within the prison that its
victims are to be found. but also in the
highest grades of society. You ore not
scOurged with this plague as we are :;
but l bid You to work and show that as
you have crushed slavery, your people
shall not be enslaved by this vice. In
temperance undermineS all family life,
and, let it grow, it will bring your people
to the low level of some of the old coun-
tries and scourge you with pauperism,
ignorance and crime. The object of
this meeting is to crush intemperance.
and | trust you will not go away from
here tonight without determining to do
something to lessen this evil. Give up
liquor yourself and you will be an
active worker to repress this traffic"
IRELAND'S ADDRESS.
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''The position of the Catholic church on
temperance and other social questions
has been clearly stated i'm the Catholic
lay congress, held in Baltimore. The
corrupting influence of saloons in poll
tics, the crime and pauperiSm resulting
from excessive drinking, require legiS-
lative restriction. which we can aid in
procuring by joining our influence with
that of the other enemies of intemper-
ance. The Catholic church is absO-
lutelY and irTevoeably opposed to drunk
ennesS and misunderstanding. In vain
We profess to work for souls if we do
not labor to drive out an evil which is
daily begetting sins by the ten thousand
and peOpling he'll. In vain we boast of
civilization and liberty if we do not
labor to eXterminate intempPrance.
Education. the elevation of the masses.
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set at naught by this dreadful evil. The
individual conscience is the first arm in
opposing it. But the individual con-
science has to be strengthened and
supplemented by law. The claim of
saloon keepers to freedom in
their traffic. is the claim to
spre ad disease, sin, pauperism,
Friends of temperance, whatever be
their several theories, must be practical
and aim at what is nnder the cirrum-
stances the best that can be had. Your
movement for high taxation of the
traffic, with iudlciOus supplementary
clauses as to character of vendors of
liquor, and forfeiture in case of violation
of laws. deserves the support of all.
This will not do away with all evil; it
will reduce immensely the evil, and
its best results will be where it
is most needed-amOng the poor and
the laboring classes. A rich man can
afford better than the labOTer, to spend
money and lose reason at the shrine of
intemperauce. Sunday closing should
be enforced, no matter at what cost.
The Sunday saloon is blot on any city.
Baltimore is watched. 1t has been the
scene of great events. Honor yourselves.
Work. vote for the good laws; favor the
party that favOrs good temperance laws
and that knows how to enforce them.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
The Catholic clergy and laity of the city Of
Baltimore, in mass meeting assembled, under
the presidency of their diocesan head, keenly
alive to the gigantic evils of intemperanee in
the use of Intoxicating drinks. evils which
menace the dearest interests of religion and
thus imperil the vell-being and stability OF
the state and of society at large; justly
alarmed, moreover, at the fearful havoc
wrought in so many of their co-religionists
by this deadly vice, which thwarts the best
efforts of the church in their behalf and rem
ders fTuitless her nOblest influences; and
casting about for a means which will If not
at once and entirely cure, at least greatly
diminish the evil and thus pave the way 10 a
complete moral restoration, believe that they
see this remedy in what is known as the
high license movement.
If they have. up to the present time. been
backward in uniting in the well-meaning
efforts of so many of the most distinguished
and upright of their fellow citizens in this
holy cause, it has arisen certainly neither
from ignorance of the magnitude OF
the danger nor from an absence of
heartfelt interest in the work of
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