Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-06-05
TEMPERANCE FOLKS TO MEET.
June VIII Witness 4 Great Ah'->"i'"
convention.

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June VIII Witness 4 Great Ahh-N"i"""
Convention.
Anything like such gathering as
will crowd Staten Island i'll the week
beginning June , next, has probably
not vet been seen in this country. 1t
is convocation representing over =
100000 persons, all pledged to temper
ance. while the delegates include men
and women known all over the world.
Thus the participators, to name but
few. are Archbishop John Ireland OF
ST Paul. Mai-Gen. O. o. Howard, Uni
ted States army; Gen. Neal Dow, Dr.
C. ii. Parkhurst, Terence Y. Powderly,
United States Senator William p. Frye,
Bishop John II. Vincent and others
whose names are household words.
Thousands of persons take part. and
every temperance organization Ill TINS
country, Canada and Mexico, IS to be
represented. The American Temper
ance Union is preparing program OF
exercises. with the cooperation OF the
National Temperance Society, the In
dependent Order OF Good Templars,
the Womens Christian Temperance
Union. the Sunday Observance Society,
the Sons Of Temperance and some
dozen other orders with membership
well into the hundred thousands.
1t is hardly possible, therefore, that
any temperance assemblage yet held
can vie in magnitude and Importance
with this coming one.
The presiding officer is to be MAJ
Gen. Oliver O. Howard. The call will
give the University Temple at Prohi-
bition Park, Staten Island, as the meet
ing place, while, as Secretary Joseph
A. Bogardus of the committee of ar
rangements puts it, the object OF the
congress will be two-fold First, to
recognize the providence of God IN the
long life and manifold labors for tenn
perance of Gen. Neal Dow (whO Will be
a delegate). and, secondly, to review
fully and faithfully the entire field of
battle; to compare, in frank and friend
ly discussion, the conflicting views held
by the different divisions of the tenn
perance host: to come as nearly as pos
sible to an agreement, so that there
may be less waste of strength IN dis
putationS with one another, and that
our blows against the liquor evil may
be far more united and effective: to
unite upon carefully prepared ad-
dress to the people of the United
States and Canada, which will aim to
set forth precisely the grounds of our
opposition to the saloon, and the rea-
son it's overthrow should be striven for;
to take such steps as may be necessary
to place the teaching of temperance
hygiene in the public schools through
out the country on the basis OF fixed
study-the laws making its teachings
mandatory; to plan for the systematic
education of the masses i'll temperance
statistics, facts, arguments, principles,
and to take whatever other steps may
seem best to the delegates.
Here, it is evident, will be enough to
crowd many days meetings. The first
business after Gen. Howard has taken
the chair on the morning of June ),
will be formal organization, as the con
gress is to be strictly a representative
body, each organization to be entitled
to one voting delegate to each twenty
members. There will be at least sixty
delegates from Canada alone, dozens
from California, twelve from Mexico
and heavy compliments of representa-
tives from all the States and Terrltor-
les. Only the duly elected delegates
having certified credentials may vote.
The cooperation of all temperance
bodies OH new basis will be one OF
the chief points of interest to such
as Charles A. Everett,
of the Sons of Temperance, to Arch
bishop John Ireland and others who
wish action in unity. There will be a
delegation from the Ohio
temperance societies to this end, and
ex-Gov. John P. st. John heads body
of workers with the same object In
view. An evidence of the strength OF
this feeling is the cooperation of per-
sons so noted as Mrs. w. A. Manning,
President of st. Patrick's Ladies' Cath
olic Il. A. Society; Albert L. Whorton,
chief Justice of Kansas; Hon. George
f. Foster, Canadian minister of finance;
Frances Z. Willard, Bishop Cyrus ID.
Foss, Edward Everett Hale.
Another portion of the delegates,
such as DIR. Parkhurst of New York,
Theodore L. Cuyler of Brooklyn, bish-
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