River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-15
TEnlPERElGE.
The International Law and Order
League.

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as the states of the Union. Space for
bids my giving the proceedings in or
der and Detail. but their relation tt
the sacred cause in which the w. c.
I. U. is engaged is so important that
the most noteworthy events of the
meeting must have place and COM
ment.
There were seven sessions during
the two days assigned for the conven
ton, commencing with meeting OF
the executive committee at $50 on
Thursday, Nov. &c, and ending with a
general public paating i'm the old City
Hall, on Friday evening following
The headquarters We're at the Seventh
Avenue Hotel, and the business meet.
ings were held in the chapel of the Y
M. O. A.
The work of the convention con.
sisted of reports of the progress of
the Law and Order movement in the
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son of methods and results, for the
purpose of increasing the efficiency of
the organization, and presentations to
the general public showing the i'm
portance of enforcing the laws and
maintaining their supremacy. The
greatest practical successes have been
achieved in Chicago, Philadelphia,
Boston, Toronto and Montreal.
The secretary reported that there
are about one thousand local Law and
Order Leagues and that the movement
is everywhere attracting more and
more attention, and making gratifying
progress. The only lack was of means
to prosecute the work, print and cir
culate documents, hold meetings, and
effect organizations as the public
needs require.
The report made by Mr.. Spence, in
his address or the condition of Law
and Order and Temperance in the Do
minion Of Canada, was remarkable for
its lucidity and omprehensiveness,
and the Importance of the facts it pre-
sented. DR.. Hale said it was worth a
journey from Boston to Pittsburgh to
hear. 1t is understood that this adj
dress will be printed for general dis
tributiop.
The meeting on Thursday evening
was at a public dinner given by the
Pittsburgh League to the International
body at the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
This banquet was decided success,
and the speeches were of high order.
There was an address of welcome by
Maj. w. b. Negley, president of the
Pittsburgh League, with responses for
the Dominion of Canada by Maj. Bond,
and for the United States by Presi-
dent Bonney, followed with admirable
speeches by DR.. Edward Everett Hale,
Mr.. Burton, Col. Dudley, Prof. Lang
ston and Horace Geizer. Many bril-
liant and eloquent sayings were ut
tered, including some very bright
things about reciprocity in morals, in
telligence, virtue and progress; and
some very caustic and heartily APP
plauded concentrations of corrupt
politics which would ignore the deca.
logue and the Golden Rule, as the
foundations of civil and religious lib
erty. The music, given by a glee
club, was unusually fine. "God Save
the Queen" was sung after Major
Bonds resi- onse, and "America," af-
ter that made by Pres. Bonney.
During the sessions formal messages
of greeting were received from the
w. @. L. u, the Western Pennsyl-
vania Sabbath Association. and other
organizations, to which appropriate
replies were returned. The Pitts
burgh press gave extended accounts
of the proceedings, with favorable
comments upon the nature of the Law
and Order movement, and the work
and character of its leaders.
The proceedings eliminated in the
public meeting of Friday evening,
which was we'll attended. the audi
ence was cultured and sympathetic
and the addresses were warmly ap-
plauded. DR.. Hale spoke with great
earnestness and power of the sover-
eighty of the people, and their right
to demand and require their servants,
the public officers, to enforce the laws,
and protect the interests entrusted to
their charge. Prof. Langston made
very eloquent appeal for universal
obedience of the constitution and the
laws, and closed with an impassioned
prophecy of ''the good time coming,
when equal rights shall everywhere
prevail. Col. Dudley gave a graphic
portrayal of the triumphs of Law and
Order in the state of Massachusetts,,
with illusions to his part in the organ
ization of the G.. A. R., years ago, In
the same ball where he WAS then
speaking. The annual address by
President Bonney, on ''The Executive
Power and the Enforcement of the
Laws" was a magnificent effort. L
have room for the closing paragraphs
only:
1.-THE commanding need of our time
is for executive officers who under
stand and will exercise the executive
power. The laws do, indeed, need
Improvement, and judicial proceed
ings, reform, but not as urgently as
existing laws need better enforce.
ment. In his most exalted character
of dignity and power the supreme ex-
ecutive is called the CHIEF MAGISTRATE.
In that character he organizes the adj
ministration of his department of the
government, under appropriate or
ders, rules and regulations, and carries
into effect with promptitude and eff
cheney that great body of the laws
which do not require any judicial in
terpretation or decision, but only ex-
ecutiye direction and application.
TINS Is GOVERNMENT. The legislative
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