Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-07

| Fifty-EiShth Birthday.
ELOQUENT SPEECHES MADE BY REPRESENTATIVE
DrSaLEY JOSEPH D. TAYLOR AND PicKLER, SEN
AroR coLouITr AND Ex-oov. PERHAM-sEcRE
rARY POWERS REPoRT-AaAINsr SIZZLING
| LIQUOR on THE FAIR eRouyDA
There we're very few unoccupied seats In thu
First Congregational Church last evening wheI
Prof. Bischoff, with the assistance OF the big
organ, commenced to celebrate the fifty eight
anniversary of the Congressional Temperance
Society. Ten minutes later every pew wal
filed; late corners had to stand up. Following
closely after the organist's sympathetic rendi'
ton Of abide With Me- was the singing by a
chorus of forty voices of "Come Unto Me.
Then the Rev. s. H. Newman, pastor of the
church. read the first psalm, and gave way to
the choir, which sang 20 Be Joyful in the
Lord, All Ye Lands" Mr.. Fred Grant doing
especially well in the tenor solo, DIR. Newman
prayed briefly and at the close Of his petition
came the offertory. good many people have
probably forgotten how much they contributed
| last night simply because they we're Nstening
| 30 intently to Miss Ruth Thompson. MISS
| Thompson sang Il Hear Thee Speak OF better
Land with wonderful skill.
MR.. pIxsLEYs OPENING REMARKS.
| Choir and congregation then joined in MY
Faith Looks Up to Thee" and when the last
verse was ended Representative Nelson Ding
| ley, jr., president Of the society," explained the
absence of one or two Of those who had been
invited to speak and then went on to comment
on the fact that the society had existed through
more than one-half the life of the const1tu-
| tional government of this country The So
ciety had endeayored to bear aloft the flag OF
temperance and il had been aided III us Work
" Of he American
| such celebrities AS Lewis Cass, Thomas Benton
| and Vice President Wilson having been active
members. We're there sufficient time at his
disposal he might recount the names OF those
public men who felt it an honor as Well as
| duty to labor for temperance through this
organization. 1t was eminenty proper ana
desirable that there should be such an asso-
citation at the national capital. bearing witness
that this was not only Christian nation. but
a nation which would In Gods own time be-
come nation of total abstainers. On ten an
niversary occasions, said Mr. DIngley, he mad
presided and it was extremely gratifying to
| note that the audience before him WAS larger
| than that on any of the previous anniversaries
| SENATOR coLQUITT.
Senator Colquitt started out jocularly. He
said he had been trapped He had come to the
meeting expecting only to decorate the occa-
| sion. for be had been told that others would do
all the talking. 1t seemed to him rather
strange that the first man called TO the front
| by the chairman should be one who was not in
| vited to participate. He never hesitated. how
| ever, to talk on the subject OF temperance.
| Some people thought it undignitied for Sena-
| tors and Representatives and cabinet officers to
| publicly advocate total abstinence, but he did
| not agree with such critics. Temperance folks
| were not fanatics and there was nothing in the
| doctrines of temperance for any man to be
| ashamed o. No Congressman, however timid,
| should hesitate to belong to society which
has on its rolls the names of Benton and Cass
and others almost, If not quite. as illustrious
After rdiculing the wine-drinking custom OF
| modern society the Senator said that he and
Mr. Dingley differed on many matters-frec
wool, for Instance-but the country would
not suffer from the difference, because
the subject was comparatively of minor
Importance. 1hey were agreed. though, on a
great fundamental and national necessity-the
preservation OF the home. If the husbands and
wives and sons and daughters we're preserved
pure and happy the country would be great and
glorious in spite OF superficial political differ
ences- The Senator said he felt safe and re-
| sponsible and very much at home in any meet
ing on which the blessing of God could be asked
No saloon meeting was ever opened with praykx-
No anti-temperance assembly ever had ID it
Cunning to the choir such an array of beauty
as he saw before him, or such sweet voices as
he had heard. He wondered what sort OF a
prayer o saloon keeper could make; the dealers
In liquor would probably petition the throne
of grace tina. water might be withheld from all
except themsely and that thirst should prevail
III order that their business might prosper. Sem
ator Colquitt dwelt at some length on home and
Its comforts and then pictured the agouies of the
homeless. He desired to be saved from acc uaint-
ance with any man who could hear the cry
OF oppressed womanhOod and starving children
without rushing to join hands with the advo-
Gates OF total abstinence in an effort to drive
the curse OF strong drink from the land. The
| sufferings of the offspring OF drunken parents
were shetched most alphabetically and the
4uently &pplauded address OF the Georgia
Senator comlnded with: Call me crank, call
| me fanatic, call me anything you will but so
| long as have heart shall raise my voice to
Its highest pitch IN the cause of temperance; to
protect the women and the children OF this
world from the deepest misery humanity knows
anything Of"
SECRETARY POWERS REPORT.
A review OF recent legislative work affecting
| temperance was read by the society secretary,
| the Rev. +. ID. Power Of the Garfield Memorial
| Church. 1t was the secretary regular report
| a most interesting document DIR. Power
| caustic comments seemed to indicate that but
| little was expected OF the present Congress.
Said the secretary: The Chilean situation, re-
| sulting from the abuse of few Of our sailors,
| the probabilities of trouble with England over
Boring sea because of few seals more or less
presidential election gossip, CT even the saving
| OF nickel on the District appropriations, are
all OF more apparent importance than the con-
l tinued existence of this monster who il con-
Stunning SlO0, OOO,O 900 Of the peoples substance
annually"
AGAINST SELLING LIQUOR AT THE FAIR.
| At the conclusion Of the reading of his re.
| port DIR. Tower offered TO the audience. fol-
| immediate action, a memorial to the worlds
fair commission calling upon that body to pre-
| vent the dispensing OF intoxicants within the
fair grounds
President Dingley put the motion, and almost
| every person IN the church arose IN the affirm
| alive. The vote was declared to be unanimous
| but Q tall, white-headed, white-bear,ied man
| arose and said he desired to be recorded in the
/ negative. He also desired 10 give his reasons
for 30 voting, but President DINGHY prevented
his achieving notoriety by declaring him out OF
order.
REPRESENTATIVE Jos. D. TAYLOR
Representative Jos. ID. TAYLOR of Ohio said he
| felt satisfied that money would be appropri
ated by Congress for the worlds fair unless the
bill had in il a section which declared that the
gates of the fair should be closed ON the Sab.
bath and that no intoxicating liquors should nj
any time be sold within the grounds Mr.. Tay.
| Tor related some Instances of wrecked lives due
| to drink, which had come under his own ewes
| He took slightly pessimistic view of the situa.
| ton and said that temperance was not making
as much progress as 1t ought to: something was
| wrong with the management The people
needed educating and until that had been done
| prohibition In the Constitution would no,
amount to much. Prohibition had not worked