The Irish standard., 1894-12-29
ALL FOR TEMPERANCE.

The platform temperance meeting
called by Father Cleary brought out
large audience Thursday night at Nor
mama hall. Owing to the cold weather
not many were present from distinct
parts of the city, but the South Town
people succeeded in nearly filling the
audienceroom. Father Cieary had in
vited clergymen of Protestant churches
to assist, and to make the gathering a
representative one. Two OF the three in
vited, Rev. Wells, of Plymouth Congre-
gational church, and Rev. Pleasant
Hunter of Westminster Presbyterian
church were present and addressed the
meeting, which was also honored by the
outgoing and incoming mayors upon the
platform.
Father Cleary, after calling the assem-
bly, to order, presented Mayor Eustis as
the chairman of the meeting. In open
ing the meeting, his honor called atten.
ton to the union of religious faiths for
the occasion in the cause of temperance,
and said that the study of how to pro-
,, mote the sobrietv of the people, and the
work of such mon as Father Cleary in
that direction, had been his daily bread
for the past two years
The first address Of the evening was
made by Father Cleary, who iced an
earnest appeal to the young men to fall
into line and Join the temperance hosts.
All denominations can and must unite
IN this, he said. Drinking is an unaec-
tartan vice, and attacks the hardshell
Baptist as we'll as the loyal Catholic
! He appealed to the young men to study
the career of our self made men, and
draw from their lives lessons Of temper
ance.
sThe temperance movement is no
longer joke he said; 'Sthere is nothing
ludicrous in the drunkard or in the
| drinking habit. Young men sometimes
| brag about their glorious sprees, when
they have simply been making asses OF
themselves. If they wish to succeed
they must lay aside the habit alto
gether."
| He advised young men to begin tenn
perate life in the heyday OF youth. 1t
was the only common serse life, leaving
| religious considerations entirely out OF
the question. Many young mon direct
their best energies to spending the few
dollars they may have earned ON the sa-
|.loonkeeper, and the latter is not to blame
so much as those are who tempt him to
continue the traffic.
Before introducing the next speaker,
Mayor Eustis improved the occasion
with short d1squisition or the reasons
why men are drunkards. He told an H.
stance of q man whom he had sent to
take the Keeley cure. The man was will
ling to go to che workhouse, and his wife
also consented to it. "Then kiss your
wife good bye,'' said his honor. "Now,
officer, arrest this man for disorderly
conduct for kissing his wife in the pres
ence Of the mayor" ''And now he con-
cluded, .sthe man will soon be ready to
begin life anew"
Mayor Eustis then presented "the next
mayor, the rising sun OF the city, Robert
Pratt"
81 came here tonight he said, "princi-
pally to learn from the setting sun Of the
city something about the liquor traffic,
and his views on the subject.
s.Nothing bears so heavily upon the
weaker half Of the community as the evil
of drink, and am heartily in favor OF
anything that will result in making bet.
tor men and women, better citizens, and
happier homes :
Father Hebron, the we'll known tenn
perence advocate Of Sc. Paul, was next
introduced.
He had not contemplated making 3
speech, he said, but was glad to have an
opportunity Of speaking before such e
magnificent audience. -
He expressed great pleasure in the
practical speech Of Mayor Eustis, which
he regarded in the right line. 1But there
| is some thing better than sending 9 man
to the workhouse for kissing his wife. and
then giving him the Kelley cure, and
that Is total abstinence." He hoped that
very many Of the rising generation would
be able tosay II future years, that they