St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-09
TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.
Catholic Total Abstainers Adopt
Ringing Address.

a Ringing Address.
The delegates from the various total
abstinence societies in the Fourth dis
trict or the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of tie Archdiocese of st. Paul
convened in Crusaders hall last night,
over 100 delegates and almost an equal
number of other active workers in the
cause being present. T. E. White read a
paper upon The Model Society,"" Miss
Mary l. Cramsie. one upon "Women's
Societies." j. +. Mcclure, upon ''Ral-
lies;" p. Nj. MorOney. upon Our Great
est Need" and A. w. Gutridge, upon
THE National Convention" All the
papers were fully discussed. The re-
ports from the societies showed the
work to be in very healthy state.
The following. In the form of an ad-
dress. was unanimously and enthusiasts
ticaIIy adopted:
We, the delegates from all the So
cieties in the Fourth district Of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of the
Archdiocese of st. Paul, in convention
assembled, respectfully uraw the attcn-
ton of our fellow citizens to the foil ow-
ing facts: The liquor traffic i'll the United
States was carried on last year at a
direct Cost to the CONSUMERS OF over
S1.E00, 10000; and an additional sum at
least equal i'll amount was spent in
taking care OF the effects of the liquor
drunk. The cJlnttr0Ilauc ing gain
against this enormous loss was in
tiniteSimal. A comparison Of the
amount thus wasted with some
of the large money items which
the American people are i'll the habit of
thinking about helps TO show still more
clearly now foolish the drink business
is. The loss of the value of all our ex-
ports or our imports or the gross re-
ceipts OF all our railroads or our wheat
crop or our corn crop for
any given time would be very
small compared with the sum worse
than wasted in liquor during the same
period. The reasons alone would seem
TO be sufficient to move people interest =
ed iii our country'S material welfare to
take sides in favor of temperance and
against the brewery, distlllery and
saloon. We approach our co-relg-
ionist with statement of the
fact that liquor drinking is the
cause Of greater loss in numbers in
the holy church and greater loss in
souls to God than any other device now
being employed by the author of vice to
mislead unthinking men. Should it
notthen receive greater portion of the
time OF those interested III the saving
OF souls than any other form of evil at
work amongst Us?
We urge the members of our union
to continue their warfare against rum
by building up their respective socie-
ties Here we wish to direct attention
10 the wisdom OF exhibiting 1.-The weak
ness i'll the position of the so-called
moderate" drinkers. 10 recommend
moderate drinking is the worst
advice possible to be given
on the temperance question :;
for If "immoderate" drinking were ad-
Nlsed practically none would follow it.
From this view of The case there are but
Two parties. the total abStainerS and the
moderate drinkers. Drinking To excess
has no champions. The example OF the
total aDstaintr is positively good, that
of the drunkard is negatively good
1t serves as a warning. The moderate
drinking class is the only one i'll the
community whose example is positively
bad. The custom of giving entertain
menfs, rollics, etc., Is good, and should
be vigorously kept up; but we
especially recommend personal So
licltaton as the most effective
method of making recruits, and it would
perhaps be most profitable TO give our
attention to that large class of people in
our midst who are pledged total all
stainers, but who have not yet allied
themselves with our union. Then,
II we nope to make our Work
permanent we must give more attention
to organization OF women and children.
We must labor TO remove the prejudice
against women's societies, and to expect
children to maintain associations with
out the aid OF adults is unreasonable.
Our members should strive by patient
study to lit themselves better and better
10 carry on the fight. LII this connec-
ton, we advise the continued distribu-
ton of temperance literature. We
also especially urge that our
societies send accounts of all
important doIngs to the secular
as well as the religious press. The great