The Somerset reporter., 1894-04-12

want To see the work OF education
carried on thoroughly until We will have
a vast majority on the side of the right,
and know thar the strongest forces are
the moral forces.
whom W. We're speaking of Mr., Dodge
very singular scene came up before me.
II WAS III Washington, when ! was there
in charge af the Freedman Bureau. and
Mr. Dodge a. a member of the House Of
Representatives. MAS invited to
speak. on sunday. in The grove near the
Capitol. aud SAW that Mr. Dodge was
10 be- there. thought if he would 20
on sunday never had gone to TEN
pcrHnec meeting on sunday that | knew
uf that would go: aud he ,lid IA saw
the tamr OF General Howard ~ one of
those WHO We're to be there, and he
thought If General Howard could 90
there on SUNDAY hc could. aud We met.
| remember. in speaking To the multi
tudc gathered there. | said "Pcrhap>
there j. some soldier here. somebody
who has been with me in battle, who has
hard work to get anything 10 do; and
some man who has only to sell liquor,
whiskex. TO make money, has employed
him. offered him employment. and he
has accepted il, perhap, there is some
such one here Who hears me, ! say, il
there il, let him think. Let him CON
slider What h. Is doing. As IA comrade.
| beg of hin. to do it no more" Per-
hapS he says ''Nhll was | to do, How
was | to support my WIFE and childrenY
said Lei him abandon it, and put his
trust in God. and God will never forsakc
him" When we got through that meet
ing man came up with the tears roll
ing down his cheeks, and he said ~
don't know Who YOU are, but you have
Just described my case. was soldier,
but accepted the position Just to get
bread for my children: butt he said,
''God helping me, will never sell wills
key any more.
II want to see II revival of temperance
if We can have it. and | believe that that
spirit of it will be better than the spirit
OF defiance and the spirit OF cursing. !
stopped in the other day into something
which Is not "A saloon, but IL is II half sa-
loon aud half restaurant. | saw very
handsome and Beautiful young man
there. who was rs gentle and polite AS
could be to me aud to others who came
around. We want to win such men and
we must win them. With snch "A public
sentiment as we have in New ork, it is
not NJ all stfauS" llial young llcn aIc
doing that. and Young women, too, in
some parts of the city. | go to some
beautiful public entertainments and
after what say may never be invited
again--but wine il there always, and "A
great many glasses are put to each plate
and one of our brethren asks how "A
temperance man should behave on pub
lie occasion of hat kind, where almost
everybody is drinking wine and strong
drink whether he should turn his
/ glasses down or what he should do with
/ them. Sometimes fill mine with wa
ter, and | think that is about AS good a
way AS to turn them down; for, If you
/ turn them over, wi hen the waiter comes
he will turn them back and fill them up.
/ But then that is Just the public scnti-
ment that young man has to meet in
the city of New York. Right or wrong,
there it is, and he has to encounter it.
Then | say we have to change this pub
lie sentiment; we have to have this prin-
ciple of laying hearts on the altar"
GEN. o. o. HOWARD,
In Nat. Temp. Advocate