Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-10
Mr.. Morse Talks to the Anti Saloon
League. ,
The FIGHT AGAINST LIQUOR
Fears the. Country Will Not See
Another Centennial.
O T H E r S P E A K E r S

Inc Ant1-SalOOn League Ieiu d mass
meeting at Ryland Chapel yesterday after
noon. The meeting was the first which
the league has held in South Washington.
1t was well attended and enthusiastically
addressed by Rev. Mr.. Hartsock, Repre-
sentative Morse of Massachusetts,, Mr.. Jas.
L. Ewing, president of the league, and
Mr.. M. G. Martin, superintendent OF Ky
land Chapel Sunday school.
The pulpit, which, as usual thing, is
severely plain, was embellished with pot
ted palms. and at the left hand of the
speakers fioated the blue banner Of the
Loyal Women's Legion. Although the day
was wet and murky, and the air was often
thick with the smoke of passing locomo-
tives, yet every now and then a ray Of
warm and cheering sunlight glinted in
through the stained glass memorial Win
dows.
President Ewing was in the chair, and
for the opening of the services announced
hymn No. 917.
Rev. MIR. Skellnger pastor of the Sixth
Presbyterian Church, delivered the prayer,
in which he asked Of God increased
strength to carry on the war which they
We're now waging against the saloon. He
prayed that the influence OF the meeting
might be conducive of great and lasting
good. The familiar strains of hymn No.
24S, "All Hail the Power of Jesus Name,
next rang through the church.
At this point Representative EHJah II.
Morse of Massachusetts, was called to a
seat on the platform.
FavOrs Prohibition.
Rev. Mr.. Hartsock, pastor Of the church,
made the speech of welcome. He stated
that he would not con. nit the error which
a Christian brother once had done in con-
Stunning forty-five minutes in welcoming
his guests, and thus shutting them off from
hearing anybody else. In defining his po-
sition on the liquor question, he said that
emphatfcally he was in favor of uncondi-
tional prohibition. In addition to this he
had always voted he had prayed, and
whenever election time rolled round in
Maryland, he put in prohibition ballot.
He referred handsomely to the record
which the Anti-saloon League had made
within the past few months, and said they
were thrice welcome. He trusted that
what had been accomplished in the past
was but preparatory OF what might be &C
complished in the future. He extended
to them a warm Methodistic welcome, and
hoped that the words soon to be spoken
would be productive OF renewed insplra-
ton.
League Work.
Edward NJ. Hall, leader of the Ryland
choir, accompanied by Miss Anna Stahl,
sang "Only Remember" with good effect.
Mrs. CLEARWATER, secretary of the Anti
had been accomplished by the league, and
rapidly sketched its history. She said that
she intended to explain what the league
was for, what it had done and what it
proposed to do. 1t had been organized
because Congress, i'll lS93 had refused to
pass adequate liquor law.
a meeting of those Interested in the
cause of temperance was soon after held
at Congre sational Church. where a senti-
ment developed which led to the
organization a little later, at Fletcher
Chapel. of the Anti-Saloon League. The
executive committee was then forme".
Spiritually, the league was strong
any body composed exclusively of Cod
fearing people They had shown the weak
ness of some people; they had unmasked
some alleged Christians, and for months
had been carrying on an aggressive war
fare against the liquor traffic in the Dis
trict. Not very many saloons had been
closed by the league, but large number
had been prevented She alluded to the
saloon "a pestilential-breeding den.'
The league had appealed 10 Congress and
IL had been recognized. They would push
legisla lion which would make saloons 1,0OJ
feet apart, which would keep their sons out
OF them till they Were tWenty-one years
old; which would require the renewal of
the entire number of signatures before
license renewal would be granted, and
which would secure the publication in the
press of the names of the signers Of all
liquor licenses.
They proposed to push their war to a
successful Issue, and to see that existing
laws, no matter how Inadequate, were en-
forced. They intended to make good their
motto: 'The saloon must 60" The men,
berShip of the league numbered betw
three and four hundred. 1T was loved,
feared and hated"
Post of Duty.