The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-07
ARRAY OF TALENT
At the Moundsville Prohibition AS
sembly Yesterday.
DISCOURSE BY DR.. HATTIE JONES
On Hcrcdity-.Physical Culture and
the Legal Aspect of 1ntemperance
The Topics of Other Eloquent Talks.
The Great Crime.

Yesterday was another fine day on
the Moundsville assembly grounds, n
little warmer than the day before, but
still almost perfect day.
The morning hour was under the
charge of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. Mrs. Jennie Sisson,
president of that organization, had
charge OF the meeting.
When the services opened not more
than fifty persons were in the hall, but
these were well paid by hearing the in
teresting lecture on "Heredity," deliver
cd by Dir. Hattie Il. Jones. The subject
was very well handled by Miss Jones.
She impressed her hearers with the i'm
portant fact that the character and con-
llition OF an individual is largely con-
trolled by the character and condition
of his ancestors. The mother Is the
greater factor in giving impress to the
character OF the child. Her thoughts,
her disposition and actions before the
birth Of the child stamps it with a fair
likeness OF herself in thought, DISPOSE
ton ind action.
The habit OF drink in father or
mother, she said, as rule, fixed the habit
upon their offspring. By the Chinese
crime was considered disease inner
tied, and the parents Of criminal were
executed with him.
The evil effects OF marriage between
relatives were forcibly presented. This,
she said, has been condemned from time
out OF mind. AS q rule, the children
begotten by such marriages are insane
or weak in mind and body.
Persons about to marry should take
into consideration the mental as well
as the physical condition of themselves
and those with whom they contemplate
marriage, and those OF scrofulous ma
ture should not marry at all.
After Miss Jones's talk Miss LYDIA ].
Newcomb lecturcd on physical Gull
turc."
This was part OF the programme OF
the w. G. T. us hour. In the after
noon Miss Newcomb had n class on the
stage and drilled them in gymnastics.
The exercises were entered into with
spirit byth class and were beneficial.
At II o'clock 2. A. Burdick again
talked on Temperance. Mr.. Burdiek is
always good and has always something
new.
In the afternoon Col. L. F. Copeland,
OF Pennsylvania, spoke on the legal
Phase OF Intemperance." Mr.. Cope
land is great speaker, and divides the
honor with Col. Balm. For two hours
and a half he held the three or four
hundred persons who listened to him
spell-bound, and all wanted more OF it.
Mr.. Copeland is lawyer, as are also
Col. Balm and Mr.. BurdiCk.
The speaker said that intemperanCe
was crime-the greatest crime in the
category OF crimes, and that every
drunkard was criminal; every man
who sold liquor was a criminal; every
man who voted for license was crimi-
nal every man who went on Il bond for
license was n criminal; every man who
rented his house for the saloon business
was criminal; every man who worked
for license was an accessory before the
fact and q criminal; and every man who
knew of liquor being sold and did not
try to stop it was nm accessory after the
fact and q criminal. To violate law
of nature is a crime; intemperance is
n violation OF law OF nature.
Intemperance is therefore a crime.
He did not rely SO much on moral
suasion as he did on the right to enforce
Temperance. He believed in prayer,
but he believed in doing something in
answer to ones own prayer.
George W. Balm, the great Kentucky
orator, spoke again last night to about
four hundred people. When the orator
would use the power of his eloquence
to move his hearers none could resist
him. He carried them with him
through the evils and degradations Of
drink; pointed out its woes and works
of destruction. 1t is a rare treat, in
decd, to hear such men as Balm, Cope
land, Hershey and Burdick.