Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-21
LAW AND ORDER IN HAMDEN.
Another Spirited Meeting Held Ye'

Another Spirited Meeting Held Yes-
 terday in Centervfl1e.
 Another interesting law and order meet ing of the Law and Order league of Ham den was held in Centerville yesterday, the president of the league, Captain Crafts !. presiding. There was a.large attendance. Rev. MT. Greedy of Mt. Carmel offered a prayer. MT. Wilder of the New Haven Palladium made short and vigorous ad- dress, and spoke of the honorable history of Hamden, which in these later days was defaced by one blot whieh-it was the ob- ject and hope of this meeting to eradicate. He spoke of instances in history where the jealous efforts of united spirits resulted in signally beneficial reforms. In this con nection he cited the heroic John Hampden. After other pertinent remarks he appealed | to the meeting to continue zealously thelr | good work. This crusade is going on to | success, he said. Let all the church mem bers bear hand in it. Would you not look with contempt upon your pastor, MT. l Greedy, if he kept silence in such a cause | as thiss Should we care for the bodies or l the young and expose their souls to hela The speaker made an eloquent appeal for the clearing out of these cesspools of immortality and vice, of these purliens of Hamburg. A solo by Miss Lillian Cress- we'll was sung, and then Judge Pickett ad- l dressed the meeting. He said: ''I like to rest on Sundays, but if can do good on l Sundays I will do it." He instanced the case of man who said he had had an open well in his yard for ten years and I had lost two children in it. He then said that New Haven was responsible for much l nff fl,a vii 1oiI ot hQs sCDnrS of Hamdan- As an official he has had an ample evi- sdence of the evil done by the houses com' ! plained of. These were constant menaees | to sobriety.
 Judge Pickett, proceeding, said that the law can surely be enforced against the open and fragrant violations of law. Money
 lies at the failure to enforce it. The off
 cers of the law should be heartily encour
 aged and supported in their efforts to sup
 press vice. In suppressing it you may
 save your own child from ruin and degra
 dation, no matter how we'll instructed a
 home A doctor recently driving by {
 lake in Connecticut town saw 8 boy drowning. He sprang to the lads aid ane
 rescued him and had rescued his own son
 the idol of his heart. When you care fo
 children over the border you may be a
 the same time caring for your own. Thes' l whirlpools of vice may make shipwreck o
 your own kin and kith.
 The speaker instanced the case of on young man whose descent into visciou
 ways had cost New Haven $5, 800.
 Public sentiment in regard to intempe1
 ance had greatly changed in the last twen
 ty-fve years for the better, but sentimen
 has not changed approximately in regar to social evil, and it takes moral courage t combat it. I rejoice to see 80 many evi dences of awakening sentiment in thi community.
 ) Following few vigorous and pertinen , remarks by Captain Crafts, the meetin [ [ was closed with the benediction by th Rev. MT. Humphreys of the Episcopt , church of Centerville.
 ! A meeting of the executive committee ( | evening.