New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-16
TO ABATE THE DRINK EVIL,
DIR. DEEMS AT CHAUTAUQUA URGES PRO-
HIBITION AS THE ONLY REMEDY.
mr. Ely REGRETS THE DIVORCE OF CHURCH
AND STATE-A GYMNASTIC EXHIBITION.
lnY IEIEGRAPH 10 TIE Tribune.

DR.. ELY REGRETS THE DIV OhOb VI Nh'hNa
AND sTATE-A GYMNAsTIC EXHIBITION.
(Br TELEGRAPH TO THE TKBUSEl
ChautauQua. n. V, Aug. 11.-As the emu OF INC
season approaches the Assembly programme becomes
more and more crowded with important appointments
and students and pleasure seekers nave haru "ofh
IN keen ND with them. Today's exercises began with
meeting Of The Womans Club at O'Clock this MORN
inc over which Mrs s. NJ. I. Henry presided. There
was a chorus rehearsal at 81, devotional service at
10 a lecture By Dr. H. l.. Wayland, OF Philadeipila'
AZ H. and another on 4" The Drlnk froDiem' DS d.
Charles F. Deems, Of New-fork, at halfpast :. At
half.past 3 there was lecture on the museum Coi
lectons and at had 10 choose between an
athletic exhibition by DR.. W. c. Anderson's pupils
in the amphtheatre an address on Church and state
nv Dr II. r. Elv OF Johns Hopkins, at the Hall of
philosophy and piano recital by William ii. sher-
wood of Chicago At 8 there round table at
: a band concert; at concert IN winch inc
schubert Quartet and Nine. Abbe Darlington look
mart Thomas Nelson Page. the Southern story
writer. who was to have given readings here at this
time. is now in Europe and II. II. Boyesen, the
novelist elcg1phcd from New York that illcath VIII
prevent his appearance tomorrow.
DR. Deems marshalled all imposing array of figures
IN show that only prohibition will abatc the drink
evil Think Of the money we spend on liquor every
wear, he said Joseph Nimmo, OF the Census
Bureau declared recently that 1t amounted TO
5000 100000 Another estimate makes the figures
nearly $500 100000. Now, for woollen and cotton
goods, boots shoes. molasses, sugar and similar
articles only S50s 900 900 is expended, so that drink
costs every year 7 900 900 more than all those things
put together We spend nine times as much for drink
as we do for all our publications Of every dcScrip
ton and six times as much for drink a. we 90 for
schools and colleges. II every church ana parsonage
in the country were burned we could replace them
for what we spend liquor In seven months thirty
three million dollars worth OF gram Is desuo5ou e'eS
year 10 make strong drink"
Here the Doctor began TO get angry, and launched
ont #, n TRADE against the New-York art gallery
saloons, denouncng them the worst grogshops IN
The countryp and avowing his willingness = stand
1be sut II the proprictors OF a certain Broadway
establishment objected TO his statements
DR.. Ely, in his concluding address on "Church and
state' spoke Of the illeffccts Of Their separation IN
this country.
HOur ancestors he said. regarded no sphere Of
life as out,de the Church They thought its dominion
eytended over private as well public He ana uIs
belief has led 10 the separation OF our Sechlar anu
religious life with this disadvantage, that where ono
begins the other stops. The established chn i
mirbt possibly still exist. II fathers lad taken a
broader view Of the subject Docs not the present
American principle you ASK satisfy az our nv W.
have not solved the problem our pIernt sy,,cii is
French and revolutionary IN It's orleln ahd - ics
N The hest spirit Of Amcricanism The ldca Oh nc
Secular State is bearing It's own fruit Fraud and
embczzlorncnt are common In commercial NE; anu IN
nIIticS the guiding idea is, To the vct1rs belong Inc
lFnoilsj Foreigners who have studied Us cItcl,e
~ and dissatisfaction with the materialsuc view OF
the state is spreading among our own clllea'; mna'
Inc growing democracy Of social ana economic sen,
mont will Do about Church and state nobody can tel
Their union has heretofore been IN the Interest Oh t
fc,r Vet IL Is conceivable that tho Democracy VIII
Insist upOn tie union Of religion with the coeroNc
never 81 the State for the benefit Of the many j
man,esty Impossible 10 r'csiablsh Stalc 'huton
among US: stll less National Church' YET we may may
find a solution Of the problem In tho conception ud'
Tho state is the real Church In which separate uc'
nominations may IL associated for religious worship;
II hi, Is true, the first pecessty VIII be chahse .,
View a, TO the relation between Church ana state ana
tis alone may accomplish tremendous practical ~
suits ,.,,. , ,,,,to
Al the fleet Illumination last night the CITY OF luua
took the first prize for large steamers, the 'orhci
that for yachts and the Daisy that Tor IpWbuaN.
Tho cottage holders have decided 10 form a mutual
insurance company yearly dividend 10 be declared on
tho unex pended funds. - -, III,
The gymnastic exhibition included fancy clubs"ing
ing by L. T.. Nclllgan. artistic symna.tlcs by Mss
Anna Bishop. broadsword exercise by Dr. ana UT
Anderson. and pantomme representations DS MIS-
J.. A. Sherwood. . 49,,
There have arrived George Dana. MtskeSon, Mlch.
C. 5. Kay. springfield OhiO and Mrs G. h. simpson
Of Scranton, Penn.