Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-24
a srrRIN MILFORD.

Rev. W. HutchinsOn Makes an Ad.
dress ON Temperance which Creates
some warm Feeling-Nos a Prohibl-
tlonist Sympathizer.
MlLFoRD, Jan. 23.-Rsv. w. a. Hutch
inson, rector of st. Peters Episcopal
church, IL at odds with some Of his parish
toner's, and especially the prohibition ele-
ment of the town. A short time ago sew
eral members Of local temperance society
asked him to deliver lecture on temper
ance.
He said that he would not speak on total
abstinence but would speak on temperance.
Speaking about prohibitionists he said
that the other day the Roman Catholic
bishop of Northern Dakota said that they
were being made q laughing stock Of, for
since the prohibition party had come into
power there had been more drunkenness
and crime than at any previous time; on
the other hand, the prohibitionists of the
same state claimed that they were doing a
great good and less liquor was used.
"'We cannot drink a glass of cider,
hard or otherwise, without joining our
selves to the army of disreputables, and If
we should drink wine at q birthday party
We are drunksrds in embryo and shall not
| fetch up till We find ourselves In the slough
| of the gutter or amid the flames of the to-
| per's gehenns,' is what the extremists say
| of the moderate temperate man. Let me
tell you one thing more contemplate than
drunkenness-thsti is pharisaic intolerance
of it. We doubly outlaw the men who
sell these beverages, refusing them Chris
i and Ink Nth
picion upon all who use them, ready al
q moments call to place them IN
der our ban. We put these people
in an absolutely false position, and We
are unchristian bigots for doing 1t. Fur.
Their, we are making these men what We
call them. We tell the beer eeller that
his calling ia dishonorable one and he
believes 1t 90. We cay that all he is in the
business for il to make men drunk and
get rich, and he does both. We assert
that no decent, sslf-respscting man would
lowest classes doing it, give a dog bad
name then hang him. We have done the
fret, the latter ia a slower process. W.
of to-day are treating the drink question
and the sellers and users of the article
very much as our forefathers after thu
Puritan revival did the theater and its fire.
quenters."
"We must Christianizs our drink traffic
We must put church members into the ga
loonkeepers' chairs or make ssloonkeeperi
church members. Make the business al
honorable one by making 1t clean, honest
moderate. Then we shall have men prsc
ticing it, not cutthroats and robbers
Then you have in this an effectual stoI
upon drunkenness on the premises NOR
effectual and lasting than fine or imprison
ment.
"Further, by personal example help t.
moderate the appetite of those who ar
given to much wine.' Ssloonkeepers VIII
l will not sell to man to mske him DRUM
and men daily moderating their Appetite
in the matter of drink will in year or tw
throughout this land of ours make such
miracle of reform as not all the Main
liquor laws, high license and legal enact
ments could affect in any time.
'tIn regard to those who simply canno
control their appetites, of those who ar
keep drink away from them land there ar
numberless ways and means). Second
J keep them away from drink. Inebriat
homes, county residences and asylums or
} among the ways and means on this head.
He closed the discourse with thes
word: 'Now my brethren, a word of tw
calmly to you: What I have said this morn
ing hslisve every word of. 1 have nc
gone off at a tangent, but this is the re .u
{ | of my thought, reading and Observable
{ | for several years past. I preached muc
, | the same doctrine some years ago I
young parsons and professors and tt
result was dubious. In the past year or
of the most noted men in the America
9 church propounded similar views. Fro
one of my papers the other week I res
that this winter in New York city he VI
. put his plans into operation. In the
matter it Is always necessary that some OF
lead we will walt and follow"
The above was the major part of Il
sermon that has aroused the tempersn
y people.
:, or the total abstainers who we
Il aroused by the discourse are some of &
most Influential practitioners who call
Mr.. Hutchinson to the place.