The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-05-14
THE SALOONS.
Strong Speeches of Leading Methodist
Diyines on Prohibition.

ifti S." l''io'i' i'i It " nv w n III NV
was the mass temperance meet
ing last night in Exposition II Ill. 1t was
known that the famous DR.. LEONARD, the
candidate few years ago for governor Of
Ohio on the Prohibition ticket, would speak,
and it was supposed he would be free
lance and would strike at the political par
ties and at the liquor traffic in all direc
tions. Il was also kuown that DR.. y. j
X ynett would speak, aud il was supposed
would reply to DR.. LEONARD from the Re
publican standpoint A. both of these
gentlemen stand at the very top in the
public, the house was p cked. bishop
Warren presided, and the .amous Chaplain
McCabe, assisted 10y DR.. Hard, superin-
tended the singing. Bishop Warren re
IN 4rked before Introducing the speak ers,
that no church in ths whole Methodist
connection would receive Methodist
preas her who was not total atstainer.
The principle of the Methodist Discipline is
''total abstinence for the individual and
total prohibition for the state" With
this principle, we are free fighters under
the flag.
DIR. Leonard took his motto, or text, IA
sentence from the bishops address OF four
years ago, that che traffic in alcoholic
liquors can never be legllizsd without sim
Another keynote Is from the bishops ad.
dress at this General Conference: The
saloon is an unmixed evil, full of dia hois'r,
disgrace to Christian civiiz atom" DR..
Leonard said he would translate into plain
English the classic a langu &c of the bishops,
ami say, The saloon is full of the devil
The Methodist ship is built ont OF Prohibi
tion oak, although it seems to carry some
licensed cargo. He read also from the
general rules the Methodist Discipline,
especially the chapter on temperance, and
the law providing for expulsion OF those
who buy or sell liquors, or rent property
tor such purposes. The church does lot
Place restrictions ON the sale Of boots, gro
ceres, dry goods and musical ins rumentz,
but botn church aud State sing,e out this
one thing, the liquor traffic, to place re
strictons upon it. Nothing; however, will
accomplish the true result but the uprout-
ing and utter humiliation of the traffic
The saloon keepers ask TO have them
selves hedged about with restrictions. They
condemn themselves. they put :. lie at
the head OF every law, tor these very
restrictions are the source o. their power.
They are the revenues which entrench the
saloon in the intiunce of the state Re
move these restrictions and the community
will rise up and stamp out the whole pusi-
ness. Can a man be drink dealer and
Christian? Every day be lives he violates
the ten com mandments. Every saloon is Il
devils church. There is no worship ~ de
grading, there is nothing in beatneuism a.
degrading. One of the first commln,lme- Is
is, Chou shalt not take the name OF thy
Lord, God, in VAIN" but the saloon is tho
place which neutralizes all worship and
inspires profanity. There is more trouble
TO protect the Sabbath ag aims the lIwless-
ness of the sa,oou than to prott CT the Sab
bath from any other iufraction. Thou
Shalt not kill'' is one of the commandments,
but liquor dealers are PRISONERS generally
There was 3O4 900 deaths in the Union
army during the war, but there is bust
ness that kills at the rate of 100 0GO persons
a year. Three tourths of the impuriry of
the land is created by the saloon. They
are highway robbers; they are false wit
nesses; they bride judges, legislators and
juries; they are perjurers and makers OF
peUurers Can man, therefore, be "A
Christian and run, seller? Can he even
be a good citizens? More than fifty per
cent. of the inmates of lunatic asylums are
brought thitlec by liquor.
DR.. Kynett favored moral agency in
The overthrow OF the liquor traffic. The
Presbyterians, he said, are a little ahead OF
US. They have Il standing committee and
board, and invite the CO operation of all
Christian people The BIptists, the cold
water church, have given similar utterances
The Roman Catholics, who have the great
est central consolidation of influence and
power, are beginning to wake up, and
there Is really no body of people who
ought to be more interested th1n they in
opposing the saloon. Archbishop Ireland,
"a ~ ~ hC5'h't, IL . anus sue ny Slu6
with all Protestant citizens in this great
conflict. We need TO get down to hard,
solid, practical work that will accomplish
something. We are SO divided and frag.
mentary that we have been mere play
things. We must come together and ,iu
hands in pracic! II manner. L want the
General Conference to extend an invitation
to organic Christian temperance alliance
The General Assembly of the Presb teri Al
Church is soon to meet at Portland, Oregon
and the BIptists General Convention will
soon meet in Philadelphia Let us seek
unite with them in organizing comp tnies,
regiment army corps. until like the
mon sodlery of a!ocetime, we can say
I'VE are coming, Father Abraham, 800, 900,
'trcng." am sauguiue, and have good
reasons Tor it.
Ii one man like DR.. Parkhurst C an shake
he whole City OF New York and ate, why
cannot we shake the Whole nation? If You
out the Methodist and Btpaists and Pre5by |
;erians together, we will do it We ought |
o be ashamed of yourselves if we can't do |
t. | have worked in the cause of temper
lnce without seeking the overthrow of |
either of the greet political parties | |
believe in the Republic parry because of
what it did in the great crisis of our nation
or the liberty and acknowledgements of the
;olored man, and there are seven states in
he North in which The Republic N party,
1t the peril of its existence, has adhered to
/ tempe, ance plaJform-Iowa, Maine,
Kansas, the Dakotas, &c And may I also
ay, that | believe to :his extent in the
Democratic party; That there re fifteen
tates in the solid South which in ma iofiry
# their counties have local option or pro
libltion. Ii the Republican or Democratic
PARTIES will give US Temperance, well; if
lot, we warn them that the ti,ne is az
land for us to take care of oursel yes
We're not waiting for the bats nj m0Ies
nut for men and women who have eyes and
se them who have minds aud reason!
here's a new world for them suff-ring
nd sickly as they are "a new world ere ated
rom the brain of a skilIful physician-a
isccvery -the Golden Medical Discov-
ry."
Years ago DR.. Pierce found out that the
ecret of all scrofula, bronchia, throat and
rouble lay-in the beginning at least-in
impure blood ana the weak tone of the
ystem; that the way to cure these affections
vas to remove the cause, that human ma
ure being the same, the same results might
e looked for in nearly all cases SO CON
dent was he that the exceptions were I'm