The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-02
MAJOR sooTT's LECTURE.

Major Scott addressed an audience
last night that filled every inch of avail
able space, including the entire lecture
room, which was thrown open for the
occasion, of the capacious auditorium
of the Congregational church. He spoke
for full hour and held the undivided
attention and interest of the listeners
till the end. At times one could have
heard pin drop, it was SO still.
The singing by the choir was excellent.
After the devotional exercises were con-
cluded, participated in by the pastor of
the church and Rev. Mr.. Wheeler, of
Portland, Mrs. Lee, president of the
Womens Christian Temperance Union
of The Dalles, introduced Major Scott.
The lecture began with word paint
ing of the beautiful and picturesque
scenery of The Dalles as he saw it from
one of the bald bluffs overlooking our
city. Giving wings to imagination he
saw on gorgeous day in June the earth
covered with a carpet of emerald; the
foliage rich on every tree and twig; the
air melodious with the song of birds and
sweet with the perfume of bud and bios
som and from the banks of the noble
Columbia he saw temple not unlike
the magnificent temple of Diana of
Ephesus, with one of the columns sur
rounding it removed. Then the beauty
and symmetry of the whole became
marred and disfigured until the column
was replaced among it's fellows.
There is another temple, the human
temple, and God is its supreme architect.
Every human being is pillar in that
temple. If one falls by drunkenness or
auy other vice, then the beauty and
grandeur of Gods temple is marred and
defaced until he is reclaimed and set up
again among his fellows.
Tonight" the speaker said, 81 call
your attention to temple this nation
dedicated i'll 1876, temple that cost a
hundred years of toll, and much sacri-
fee and blood, temple dedicated to
human liberty, to human progress.
Every home in the land is a pillar in
that temple; in other words, this coun-
try is but an aggregation of homes. He
is not wise ruler or statesman who
fails to consider the claims of the hum
blest home in the administration of gov
ernmental affairs. A home is govern
ment in miniature. The lover of a
home makes a braver defender of his
country in its hour of danger. The man
who careth not for his home is worse
than an infidel and has denied the faith. -
The speaker then gave two splendid
illustrations showing the love for home
and native land.
Continuing Major Scott said: '"The
only guarantee of nations perpetuity
lies in the individual character of its
citizens. This character is largely to be
found at home. The little boy who lays
his weary head on his mothers knee
and listens to the grooming of her lullaby,
or kneels with father at the morning
altar whose pages like sweet incense
ascends to the throne of the eternal is
having character moulded, fashioned
and formed, that shall tell for time and
eternity. Out of this home must come
! the future ruler of the nation. So sacred
is home held in all lands that it is a
common law that man has an inalien-
able right to protect the home against a
| lawless intruder, and he who crosses its
threshold with foul or criminal intent
does SO at the risk of his life. l stand
here this night to solemnly declare that
the greatest enemy of the American
home is the American saloon.''
Then followed strong, forcible and
telling arguments in support of this
opinion.
The address abounded in well-received
points from the standpoint of the
speaker and he closed with a splendid
perroration.