The morning call., 1894-11-19
TURNED ON TAMMANY.
DR.. Bashford breaches to the
Christian Women.
His Interesting Annual Sermon
Takes a Rather Sensational
View of Affairs.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 1S-Business
was laid aside to-day by the delegates and
off ers of the National Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union convention. The
hours were devoted TO 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
3 o'clock in the afternoon. DR.. James W.
Bashford of Ohio Wesleyan University
was accorded the honor of delivering the
annual sermon. which Office had hereto
fore been filled by women. The preacher
took for his text Matthew vi:1-"Thy
kingdom come, thy will be done on earth
as it is IN heaven"
He said the aim of the w. G. T. u. was
to bring in the kingdom of heaven on
earth. He thought the subject for the con-
sideratlon of the hour should be "The
problem to be solved in bringing In the
kingdom, and the best solution of the
pro blems which confront our civilization"
One Of the problems he regarded to be-
the growth of the cities. With the in-
crease in population has also come an in
crease 10 the tax rate. In the early part
of his address DR.. Bashford turned to a
discussion of Tammany.
"We have all just Witnessed" said he,
''the humiliating revelation of municipal
corruption ia the chief city of the land. 1t
is estimated the Tweed ring. during the
entire period in which it controlled the
city of New ork. stole 100000 This
was the most enormous theft discovered
in municipal administration down to that
time. But it is now believed that Tam
many has been stealing $4,000 600 a year.
The question of municipal government is
national problem. If the corruption of
our cities grows with the cities growth
during the next half century, and if our
urban population becomes larger and
larger than the rural population, the re-
public is doomed. Do we not need to pray
earnestly to-day ''Thy kingdom come. thy
will be done on earth as it is in heaven ?''
World wide relations were next dis
cuSsed. I'VE are spiritually asleep" said
the preacher; dreaming the self same
dreams OF race supremacy that have
wrecked the greatest nations of the world.
Meanwhile Jehovah Is saying TO US, as he
said TO the Jews of old. Either serve the
world or perish America in the twen-
tieth century must say to all men, even to
the Lagos and TO the Guiteaus, to the
Lobengulas and the Calibans, we are
! BRETHREN and lift them up to angelhood,
or the Calibans will hoarsely hiss In our
ears. We are brethren and drag us down
| to beastlness."
The latter part of the sermon was an
| account of temperance movement in
| Washington's time. Washington, 1O(
! years ago, was characterized as temper.
ance reformer. Washington owned dis
tillery and sold whisky. His expense ac-
count in his own handwriting shows thai
he spent money freely for liquor when be
was a candidate for the House of Burghers
and yet one of the first temperance organ.
iZations 100 years ago took refuge under
his name and called itself the Washington
| Society. At the rate at which temper
reform had progressed since that time the
ultimate triumph of its principles would
| be seen In the twentieth century.
| After the sermon a rousing suffrage
meeting was held, presided over by Susan
3. Anthony, and this evening "Y's" were
held In different parts of the city. presided
over by secretaries of the organization:
| from different States.