St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-19
He LASHES TAMMANY
Dr.. Bashford Says the New
York Society Stole $15,-
100000 a Year.
MONSTER OF CORRUPTION
The Rule Of Cities One Of the
Problems OF the
Age.
THE REPUBLIC DOOMED
He Thinks, if Urban Popula.
ton Grows to Exceed
the Rural.

CLEVELAND, Nov. 1S.-Business wa.
laid aside today by the delegates and
officers of the National w. G. L. U. con.
vention. The hours were devoted ia
worship and rest. Many of the visitors
spoke in pulpits thrown open to them
by the city pastors. A mass meeting
was held in Music hail at 3 O'Clock IL
the afternoon. President James w.
BashfOrd, of Ohio Wesleyan university,
was accorded the honor of delivering
the annual sermon, which Office had
heretofore been filed by women. His
utterances were preceded by an intro
duction by Miss Willard, IN which she
called attention tO.the innovation. APP
plause was created by some of DR..
BaShfOrd'S sentences. The preacher
took for his text Matt. vi, 1-"Thy
kingdom come. Thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven" He said that
the intent Of the WOmen's Christian
Temperance union was to bring the
kingdom of heaven on earth. He
thought it applicable that the subject
for the consideration OF the hour should
be: 1.-THE problems to be solved IN
bringing in the kingdom" and 1.-The
best solution of the problems viii ch
confront our civilization" One of the
problems he regarded to be
The Growth of Cities.
With the increase in population had
also come an increase in the tax rate. In
the early part of his address DR.. Bash
ford turned to a discussion of Tam
many.
I'VE have all just witnessed" said he,
'the Illuminating revelation of munic.
ipal corruption in the chief city of the
land. 1t is estimated that the Tweed
ring during the entire period in which
it controlled the city of New York stole
S6,0OO000. This was the most ener-
nous theft discovered in municipal adj
ministrati0n down to that time. But il
is now established that Tammany has
been stealing $l5,000,000 a year The
question of municipal government is q
national problem. If the corruption OF
our cities grows with the cities growth
during the next half-century, and if ouE
urban population becomes larger than
the rural population, the republic is
doomed. Do we not need TO pray
earnestly today: Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as 1t is in
heaven?'"
DE. Bashford adverted to-tne distribu-
tiOn of wealth, commenting upon asser-
tions made by DIR. Strong in the New
Era, ard upon conclusions reached by
others III a study of the subject The
speaker held that inequalities existed
which, unless remedied, threatened the
civilization of today.
Individ uaI Freedom,
he said, was great boon, but individ-
ualiSm had been carried toe far. "Our
materialistic philosophy" he remarked.
"has cTystaliZed in the Satanic motto,
Every man for himself and the de vii
take the hindmOst.' URfortuna tely
even that motto is not true. Whenever
man is for himself Satan gets all OF us.''
Worldwide relations were next dis
cussed. I'VE are spiritually asleep"
said the preacher, "drCaming the self
same dreams of race supremacy that
have wrecked the greatest nations of
the world. America in the twentieth
century must say to all men, even to
the lagos aud to the Guileaus. 10 the
LobengulaS and the Calibans, we are
BRETHREN and lift them up TO angel
hood, OF the CaIibauS will hOarSely hiss
in our ears, we are brethren,' and Will
drag us down to beaStliness."
Then DR.. BaAlfOrd addressed himself
tO the Question of telr
"Our strange and violent political
changes" he said. "at least indicate the
strange unrest of the people. The Re-
publican party, after the passing of the
tariff bill, met with an Overwhelming
defeat, because the people did not find
in that measure the financial relief they
expected. The Democratic party met
with still more
Overwhelming Defeat
because the people have not found in II
the relief they are blindly seeking"
He held that the prohibition move-
ment would be the ultimate remedy,
and that this could he brought about
much quicker by placing the ballot in
the hands of women. He urged the
women to influence their husbands and
brothers to attend political caucuses
and put themselves on record as be-
ter part of the sermon was an
account of q temperance movement
in Washington's time. Washington,
hundred years ago. was characterized
as a temperance TefOrmer. Washington
owned distillery and sold whisky. His
expense account in his own handwrit-
inc shows that ne spent money freely
for liquor when he was candidate for
the house of burgeSSeS for the Virginia
legislature, and yet one of the first tens
perance organizations 100 years ago
took refuge under his name. and called
itself the Washing ION society. At the
rate at which temperance reform had
progressed since tbat time the ultimate
triumph or its principles would be seen
IN the twentieth century. After the
sermon q rousing suffrage meeting was
held, presided over by Susan b. An
thony, and this evening meetings of the
unions were held in different parts OF
the city, presided over by secretaries of
the organizations from different states.