Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-10
Mr.. CUE FIRES BACK.
Hot Shot for the Liquor Dealers
Association.
A Vigorous Reply ut Harper's Thea.
tire 20 the Resolutions Recently
Adopted I'm Retaliation for HIS First
Utteranees on the saioon Traffic.

The announcement that Rev. CIV. Cue
would reply to the resolutions recently
adopted BY the Rock Island Liquor Deal
ers' association in reply to the rather
sensational sermon previously preached
by MIR. Cue with reference to the saloons
of the city, drew an immense audience
last evening at Harper's theatre. which
Mr.. Cue had especially engaged for the
purpose. The text for the discourse was
taken frem:
Ezekiel ss:5-"But he that taketh warning shall
deliver his soul"
MIR. Cue said:
am not here this evening to vindicate
myself or make an apology regarding the
sermon preached Sunday evening, Jan.
10Th, on the ''Saloon Scourge of Rock
Island" That sermon explains itself.
Regarding the liquor dealers resolu,
tons desire to say that they have not
disturbed me in the least. / am never
surprised at anything | see regarding
myself in the newspapers. For years |
have been accustomed to their compli-
ments sno criticisms; | feel myself in>
debted to hem for good share of nv
success in church work here and else.
where. As a general thing have found
and they deserve great credit for the way
in which they help TO regulate public
sentiment. Once in a while you will
find newspaper exceedingly unprinci-
pied, low, untruthful, a cowardly, SLAM
derous and most despicable sheet. but
they are tie exception, and it never pay
to notice them in anyway as the public
is prepared to set in Judgment upon
them. and fully vindicate and most
highly res pect those whom they attack.
! have hardly understood what motive
the liquor dealers had in passing their
resolutions. simply preached a gospel
sermon denouncing the saloon business
as every christian minister is expected to
do, and from the resolutions of the IL
qnor men have concluded that the SER
mon hit the mark. or else the feathers
would not have flown lam not sorry
that they passed and published their res
OlutiOns, ss they have done more to stir
the tempe -ance sentiment of this country
than anything they have done since the
liquor traffic
KILLED REV. HADDoCK
at Sioux City. Iowa. They have gone
all over the nation, and | have received
letters OF congratulation from every di-
rectiOn. Prominent temperance speakers
have offered their services 10 come here
aud begin prohibition campaign. Some
friends have suggested to me that the
resolutions were intended for scare, and
carefully reading them il looks little
that way. II that was their OF ject they
certainly made a mistake, for | assure
them that this is no. by any means the
first time have been sntagoDiZed by the
rum traffic; l am well acquainted with
their tactics.
As to the effect of such resolutions up
on the Methodist church in this city, |
have seen and heard nothing that indi
Gates that they are disturbed by them in
any way am sure the Methodist
church can get along without the rum
traffic as we'll as the liquor deslers-its
supporters and defenders-can pet along
without the Methodist church OF course
II would he strange if in so large a church
there were not some cOwardly good Lord
good-dev sort OF persons, who, fearing
the bread and butter question, or OF marr>
ing tht ir political prospects. or from some
other self SD motive, would cringe to hear
the truth spoken. But as yet / Lave
found no such one in my church. take
it for granted that | have their full en-.
dOrsemenJ aud that they think | am ca
pable of managing my own affairs.
would not have noticed these resolutions
if it was not that they afforded me anoth
er good opportunity to lift my voice
against the rum traffic. Regarding the
bitter dtnunciatiOn of the Methodist |
church in Rock Island by the liquor men |
| wish 10 say there will be one here and |
h0urishing when every rum seller is in |
his grave and his soul is standing before |
God in Judgment Did those gentlemen |
think tina the minister OF the gospel is to |
first find out where public sentiment is |
before he breaches his sermon? | read |
once of preacher of that kind in Iowa |
in an early day, when the people had no |
money, but had raised fine crop of rye |
He engaged to preach for a certain con-
gregation and take his pay in rye. He
preached several weeks. and no one said |
anything to him as to whether his preach |
ing pleased them or not One day he |
dShtu OUs Ol tuc III Ills
preaching was the kind they wanted; If
1t was not he wanted them to say so, and
he would try to give them the kind that
would please them, as the rye he must
have. There are a good many rye
preachers yet who say smooth things and
preach
THE PEOPLE INTO HE'LL
for fear they will not get the rye. l
wonder if the liquor dealers thought that
| was here to cry peace, peacel when
there is no peace. aOh no. they mistake
the calit g Of Gods minister; it is his bus
mess in the language of the prophet
Isaiah 30 cry aloud and spare not, lift
up thy voice like a trumpet and show to
my people their trsnsgressions." If l
am not 10 cry out against the evils of the
saloons and liquor traffic in this city. then
in Gods name tell me what evils am to
denOunoe, for they are doing more dam
ACE To the peOnlp than all other evils mt