The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-31

CATHOLIC I. 4. BIS MEET,
A Delegate Wants Priests to
Organize Only Temper
anCe Societies For
Young Men.
JUDGE KINNEY DEFEATs DIVISION
Father Hennessy Strongly Advo-
Gated the Motion-Next Con-
vention in This City.

the CaJnOllC IoCal ADsLiuence CuloH u
New Jersey took place at Institute Hall,
Paterson, Yesterday. Over one hundred
and fifty delegates FIR ON throughout the
State were present. Very Rev. Dean
McNulty, President of the Union, pre-
sided, while seated on the platform were
Father Hennessy OF st. Patrick's Church,
this city; Father Doyle of the Paulist
Fathers, New York; Father MacErlain
OF Brooklyn, Father Hall and Charles
Scott Butler of Hoboken. Ex-School
Director NJ. J.. Moran of st. Michael's
Society. this city. oficiated as Recording
ual director, Father Hennessy. the
Committees on Credentials. Resolu-
lions and Audit were appointed,
the Hudson county societies being
represented as follows:- resolutions
P. H O'Rafferty, st. Mary's. Hoboken;
Judge John Kenney. st. Michaels; and
j. j. Maddens st. Peters, this city.
Credentials James Mcmahon, st.
Mary's; H. F. Sones. st, MichaePs. and
T. Buckley. St. Peters. Audited. ).
Ryan, ST. Mary's. James f. Moran, 81.
Michael's; and Jonn +. Murphy, st.
Peters.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
The secretary's and treasurer's reports
showed the receipts OF the year TO De
5000 and expenditures $160.47, leaving a
balance on hand of S39.53.
THE POWER OF THE PRINTING PRESS.
Father Doyle, Of the Paulists, one OF
he most eloquent of these renowned
preachers, at this point addressed the
convention, at the request OF the
Rev. Dean McNulty. He was given a
warm reception. He said he thanked the
officers and delegates for according him
the privilege OF addressing them. and
said he esteemed 1t an honor. Il am
here,'' he continued, las manager OF the
publication bureau or our national union,
and snail speak to you ouly OF this branch
of our temperance Work, DrleHy anu
pointedly. As you all know the Publ
cation Bureau was established at the ln1
dianapolis Convention last year. because
every ardent temperance worker felt the
need of a good literary bureau to help
along the cause. One of the advanced
ways of fighting intemperance IS
the use OF the printing press.
This is a powerful means OF
disseminating our views. because every
one reads nowadays, and people act by
what they read, instead OF what they
near, Our motto is, the monarch OF the
world is proof; his sceptre the pen, his
throne the printing press, anu his en-
pire public opinion. Lee total a0Stln-
ence WELD the pen SO hat the monarch
will be able TO conquer. Let MIN wlsld
the power of public opinion into line Win
our cause. With pubic opinion our own,
no power can beat us. Since its estao-
llshment nine months ago. the bureau
has disseminated 4. 000, 900 pages or litera-
ture, aud the good resulting has been
felt throughout the Unlou. A So
ciety in Chicago, anu this proves
that Chicago may yet be re-
deemed. increased its membership from
forty 10 one hundred and thirty by the
use of this literature" Father Doyle
urged all the societies TO use this newest
department of the union. the dissemina-
ZION OF literature, for gaining new lnein-
bers and spreading the cause. Fathef
MERRIAM OF BROOKLYN also briefly adj
dressed the convention, after winch the
delegates adjourned to ST. johns Hall,
where an elaborate dinner was served.
HI RESOLUTIONS.
At two O'Clock the convention reas-
seui pled, and adopted the following feso-
/ buttons, reported oy the Resolution Com
tnittee. OF which Judge kenney was Chair
man:-
Whereas, The delegates of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union OF the State OF New Jersey,
in convention assembled, are called upon to
state their PRINCIPLES and methods of action.
They begin by reasserting the fact that iutem-
perance, the usual result of the moderate drink
luR udDll, Il llC III AjO S6aoS VI w WV
and crime, "a perpetual incentive TO sin, a
fruitful root OF evils, oringlng the families OF
the intemperate into the direct ruin, ana draw
ing numberless souls down to eternal per-
ditiou.
Whereas, This assertion is confirmed by the
utterances of our Holy Father the Pope, of holy
church assembled III council or emlLent teachers
Ut morals, OF msn distinguished IN social
sciences, of conferences OF charities and cor
r~ections, or distinguished statesmen, Judges and
labor leaders: and
IyJta.., II IL, ,,psyarcoIlv ooEuow1adpad and
confirmed by daily experiences. that the drinking
habits of society and the drink traffic as con-
Quoted at present, are largely responsible tor
wrecked individual lives, for family ties rudely
severed, for social discomfort, political corrup-
ton and the creation of a privileged class in this
free country whose rum power mas been used
in the legislature TO defeat the voice Of Justice as
contained in universal suffrage, and to propa-
gate crime, disease and death as ex-
Dressed in the driuk plague. and
Whereas. The esil.so stupendous and far-reach-
ing. is thus a constant meDace TO the best
interests of our beloved Republic, ever polluting
the fountain head-the source from which our
country seeks to draw it's religious, educational,
Intellectual, industrial, social and political life;
and
demands a statement of principles and meJhouS
for checking its rapid growth or at least imped-
ing the force of its onward and destructive
march; and
Whereas, The liquor traffic as at present con-
Quoted is q fruitful source of public disorder
dud 'SilAi0y
desecrate the Sunday, while respectable in
dustries are suspended; the right to make the
laws and to be the first TO break them; the ri ghr
to make universal suffrage a shame by VIII ole
sale corruption as practised on the saloon pi at
forms of the eastern rumridden cities of America
and finally the right to defraud a thoughtless
multitude by selling a poisonous drug for an
article that even genuine. is still to be used with
care; and
Whereas, AS loyal American citizens, we de-
sire to strengthen every bulwark of public
order, public morals and the public good; there
fore, be IL
Resolved, That our first principles are the
principles of religion as expressed in the doe
trine Of prayer, grace and the life
of the Catholic Church, by which we are aided
to advance our holy cause. and to sustain the
frequent attacks of those whose interest 1t is to
oppose u.s..
also be combated by political weapons as well
as moral agitation; by the help of the rress and
the Jealous cooperation of the platform. the
pulpit, by spreading broadcast temperance
literature sucn as the catechism of the Paulist
perance knowledge entitled WHITTIER Goest
Thou; or, Was Father Matthew Right. by
legislative enactments in the way of high
license, aud the. prevention OF loafing in and
around the sale o., by enforcing the existing
laws. aud by ell the other ways aud means
heroicaly inspired by, the high CHRISTIAN prin-
cipies of love OF God, the neighbor, hurchc
Second. Resolved, That among the other
heroic means are the untlriug efforts OF our
leaders and organizers. lay and clerical. fear
lessly agitating in season and out OF season, the
establishing of total abstinence society and the
confraternity OF thu Sacred Thirst, reading
rooms, halls and public rallies on lines that
admit no distinction OF creed, race or col or,
Fourth, Resolved, That sound public pc Icy