The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-10-08


L. and are ashamed OF the temperance
cause Oh, women OF Maryland, speak
to tho women of Cecil county and tell
them to lead us on to a better day.
Welcome then your motto, "For God,
aud Home and Native Land From
every mill be it echoed back a thousand
fold
Welcome your gentle songs OF love
+ until every heart ba swept with pity for
the druHkard's fate, and he shall say
''the day OF my delverancy has come
Let the words of the convention be borne
by the Press to every hamlet and iiraside
within cur borders; then infants pratt
Ting lips ard mauhood's might and de
feuseess old age, shall not only bid you
welcome but say of you BLESSED forever
more"
Mr.. Blake was responded to Miss r..
B. Morey, of Baltimore, i'll felicitous
address. hiss M0rey said that it afforded
her great pleasure to see the Woman s
Christian Temperance Union greeted by
the mayor OF a city, rs generally when
invited to their conventions, the mayors
made it convenient TO 90 a fishing, OF
have pressing business ont OF tom. This
seemed generally the case ia Baltimore.
L. Marshall Haines, Esq, was then
introduced. Speaking on behalf of the
Bar Of Cecil county, he referred TO the
| TACT that for ten years our county hai q
prOhibitory law from which resulted
sobriety economy, peace and content
ment; hut that Tor two years past We
had suffered under q license law, from
| which flowed waste, suffering, heart
| aches ruin aid deSolation, and pledged
the invention that whom the battle of
| ballots opened on this question again, AS
| 1t would two years hence, the Bar would
line up practically solid with the Press
and the Pulpit, and would go over the
| entertainments OF the enemy at one
charge. He also assured the convention
of the full appreciation that the Bar
entertained of the valuable aud noble
work they were doing IN preparing the
way for a successful campaign in the
field against the common enemy of all.
Miss Mary Small, of Hagcrstown, Md,
responded ieelingly to the welcome as
sured the convention By Mr. Haines.
In behalf of the Press of Cecil county.
Mr.. II. II. Torbert of tho WING extended
d cordial greeting TO the Christian TEN.
perance women of Maryland, and said:
If iutemperance were new evil coming
IN upon US for the hrst time Ike p9ati!-
ence from some torei9n shore, laden with
its awful burden OF disease, of ptuperism
ana OF crime, with what apprehension
would we contemplate its approach. What
severity of laws, what stringenccs of quar-
| antine, what activity of resistanca woIld
| be generally aroused. But unfortunately
| ihtehfefance Is not new eVl!. 1t sur
| LouuuS us iiA' 'n 'b'uo'phote, ~ IL niH our
| iatntia' LII Perfo''S Judgments IL p"isonS
| haoitS' IL sway paSSlohS' u talnts churches
| anu SEARS cohScle'CeS' Ii seiZes the
| ehglaery OF cur legislatures, ana creates "a
| mora phenomenon OF perpetual motion
| MuIch nature uthte7 10 physics, Tor IL
| licenses ara empowers ltseli 10 beget in
| endless ROUNDS tE+ F9ry wrongs, Vices, and
| crimes Which civil society Is organized to
prevent
The Obligation OF the moment involves
on my part the very o:let CONSIDER alton of
| three agencies potenn"l IN comb tttlnG this
pro!lhc social EVIL, Two OF which agencies
| the Htie OF Your organization Suggests
| Chrlstanlty, auu CHRISTIAN women; the
| third, she NeS spaper fress.
| VI me l9OlI Ne"Sp 'pefS puulshed In
| the United States, i63 are religious news
| papers aiF ocailng temperance, Win 10
|
| total abstinence, while eight others are
| published by your organic alton, viz
| The Union Signal at Chicago the
| UerdM at Gainesville, MIrylaud the
| Whit Ribbon at PittsburS Pa, JTolaen'S
IehtP'uHc" hvI" III Ne" lork, me Hhdc
Hp0" Ile'0m' A'puty fark' me I"'c" StJ
id!, AT jes MONIES, me Telephone at Orange
Clty Fiorld;, anu me organizer, at ludlan
apolis | believe :. large majority, of the
secular Journals of the Country iuculcate
good morals because it is their interest to
do so, since there is growing feeling in
ever community against the Journals
that minister to perverted tastes The
clean newspaper is more i'll demand, and the
lest and pu-est author. are read more than
ever before. The 1S6 newspapers published
ia Maryland compare flvorably with those
of any other State, and of the nine Journals
in Cecil county, | am glad to say, there is
not one an open advocate of the license
system.
upon Christianity our social order depends
and on it rests the supeyatructura of civil
government. No less is It the Wit and
essential principle of all successful reforms
and to its teachings must perinrce look
for the final solution OF all problems per
tanning to the moral aud material imp prove
ment OF men. Oars Is pre-emiueutly an
age of humane helpfuIuess, ana he greatest
glory of Christianity is not more it's intel.
lcC;ual scheme OF salvation Tor men in :.
future life, chan its intense enthusiasm for
| humanity which seeks 10 save men IN the
| present life. This increasing regard for the
elevation OF men from poverty, intemper
| auce, ard the degrading influence of vicious
education, OF habit, and OF environment, is
| what we may term applied Christianity.
| 1t indicates not only the extension but the
acceptance of the truths of Revelation in
! the popular mind. 1t IS the pOpu lar recoZ.
| milton OF God, directing and overseeing the
affairs of men. Il is the instructive religion
of the heart, the innate spirit of worship of
| the Deity. IL is the sustaining lille. the